Schwester Mckinzie Toma : Noticing more of the blessings and miracles in my life

Guten Morgen Everyone,

So this really was the week of great miracles for me. It is interesting because I have been thinking about how I can be a better missionary.. or a happier one and it dawned on me that I needed to notice more of the blessing and miracles in my life. As a missionary I think we start taking little things like that for granted. I started keeping a journal and I started noticing how much more grateful I was. Also I have been trying to serve a lot more this week! It really helps just like Moroni says, Charity is the Pure love of Christ.

First off I just want to say that Germany is beautiful! We were traveling out to an investigator the other day and it just really hit me how cool it is here! I am so blessed!

So I don't have much time to today however I would just like to share a few of my wonderful experiences this week.

a brook in Branilburg! So beautiful there!

One to start off we had a great family home evening last Monday with a less active. She invited everyone over to come and play a game and have a lesson. It was great. We invited Samuel. He is from Ghana, and the less active lady Schwester Agbohda is also from Ghana so it was perfect. We had a blast though and taught a little lessons about the 10 commandments. Then on the way home we ran into this little girl who was crying and running around. She was lost and everyone on the street was saying she had been running around for about 30 min. As sisters we can't pick up little kids however Samuel just ran over there picked her up and helped her find her way home it was so awesome. I am glad that we were there. Then another really cool experience this week was there was a lady, Frau Fritz that we met doing doors one day and she told us she didn't have time to meet but that we could come back in about three weeks. So we did come back and she was surprised to see us however she was happy to meet with us again and we made out an appointment for this week. It was awesome too when we showed up her son was also there. To start off as we started to get to know here she went into this story about how she knew who we were because a few year ago she was in America and she had visited temple square. She said that she just had this super great feeling there and that when we showed up to her door she just couldn't say no! WHAT? DREAM seriously.. here goes out to all those temple square sister missionaries for doing your job! Hopefully she wants to continue to learn. She is pretty cool and she loves to speak English with us.. like everyone in Germany.. lol. Seriously one of the highlights of my week was church. We had four investigators come to church! It was crazy but amazing and I just was so happy that they were there.. I know for all you South American missionaries that isn't that many but hey for us here out in Europe that is progress! lol however seriously what a blessing. Church is seriously so important and I just know that it really helps the testimony of these people grow so much faster!

The year old potatoes!

Okay here we go now for the funny story of the week!

Sister Blake and I were baking some food for some of our converts and as I was walking into the kitchen I noticed these little things poking out of the top of our cupboard. I had never noticed anything before so I climb up on a chair to see what it was. We found potatoes that seriously I think a year old! So GROSS however because we are both short we never noticed! here are a few pictures for all of you!

Well that is it for this week!