Guten Morgen Lieber Familie.
Well another week another Transfer. Can you believe it? This
weekend is transfer calls so who knows next week I could be writing from
another city. I don't think I will be though thank goodness. I love it here in
Onsabrück so much It will be really hard for me to leave it one day.
So I don't have a lot of good stuff this week sadly, and I
am writing from an Internet cafe this week so I can't send Pictures Leider..
However I will try to make this email as interesting as possible. :)
To start off sister Egbert and I are doing great. She is so
wonderful and teaches me so much. We have a goal in our mission to receive 125
baptism before the end of the year.. (that is a lot for Germany) that means
every companionship will have at least 1 baptism. I love that our mission made
that a goal!
Sister Egbert and I have been making little goals to help
contribute. I think this transfer will be great and we are hoping to see at
least 2 or 3 baptism here in Osnabrück as well.
This week we met with Francisco again that was a great
lesson. He really has a lot of questions and the best part is we teach him in
English.. Really it is so crazy how much more you can teach when you can speak
in your mother language. However I love German and I hope that one day I will
just be able to say everything that I want to in order to teach a lesson.
Francisco is pretty cool though. He came to our lesson with a little note book
and brought notes and questions from what he had read the week before. It was
so cool! Sister Egbert and I were just so excited.
Meeting with Migeul this week was also so cool. He is just
such an awesome person. It was the best because the first thing that he said to
us when we started the lesson was that he has been praying every morning and
night for the past week. That was such a miracle to me! He is also praying
about things that he said he would never pray about when we first started
meeting with him.
This weekend we were so blessed that so many of our
investigators and less active members showed up to church. It was pretty cool.
Such a blessing. So this last Sunday we showed the last 2 hours of General
Conference. It was great except for the part where they didn't provide the
English version this time around.. um ya 2 hours all in German (lets just say
that I had a great sleep last night) haha. However I just loved Elder Bednar's
talk. It was just so great and So many of our investigators really felt the Spirit
as well.. What a cool Experience. The one thing that just broke our hearts
later was come to find out one of our investigators just signed the papers to
move in with his Girl Friend.. AHH NOO. He just makes so much progress "5
steps forward and then takes 4 steps back" He is so great and we love him
and just pray that when we teach the Law of Chastity that all goes well.. haha.
One cool experience that we had this week, was that we were
invited to go to a Frau Versammelung (Women's Meeting) in Oldenburg on
Saturday. The Relief Society needed help in an activity that they were doing.
Our job was to be flight attendance. HAHA it was a hoot while I was reading the
Flight safety instructions and sister Egbert was trying to fallow a long having
no idea what I was saying but showing all the women how to use the oxygen mask
but really I was saying fasten your seat belts... All the women were laughing and
having a great time watching us two struggle. However the experience was great.
The whole point was being prepared and doing everything we can now so that one
day we will be ready to meet God.
So after we struggled giving instructions we took our seats
and the plane crashed.. Everyone died and then an angel came and told us that
we needed to prepare ourselves to be judged today? It just made me think am I
doing everything I can to stand before God and feel like I really strive to
live my life more like the savior? When you think about it there is always more
that we can do, more that we can work on. I really took it as a challenge to
study more from preach my gospel about the Christ Like attributes. I challenge
us all to do that. That is our goal here on earth to repent through Christ and
try to become more like him.
Well anyways yesterday was pretty funny when we went to
church the word had gotten around that we were the flight attendance for the
FHV Meeting. So everyone in the ward started calling us to help them with silly
things or would ask us silly air plane questions. it was funny.
Well I think that is all for this week. I love being a
missionary. Thank you all for your amazing examples. I hope you all have a
great week.
Große Liebe
Sister Toma
