Hello Family,
How is everyone doing? I sure do miss all of you, and I am
sure going to miss the yummy cinnamon rolls this coming General Conference.
Well sadly this week I don't remember anything we did ha ha.
I think all my days are starting to blur together and weeks and months; however,
we did something a little risky. . . all thanks to Dad's letter a few weeks
ago.
So to start off Monday was so much fun. We got to go to this castle in Badbentheim, a
little town on the border of the Netherlands. It was seriously beautiful and
don't worry I took lots of pictures, you know me. Then from there it all kind
of seemed like one day.
One thing that is kind of sad is we never got to meet with
Eve the investigator from Bulgaria. That was sad, however hopefully we get to
meet with her this week sometime. Also wish us luck it will be Sister Egberts
first austausch this week.
On Wednesday we went up to this little town on the out
skirts of Onsabrück called Hollage. There we were doing some doors when it
started to poor rain. Neither one of us had and umbrella so we decided to find
some shelter for a little while until we could go back out.. there was a little
ice cream shop down the street and sister Egbert and I hurried in. The lady was
so nice to us and just told us we could stay as long as we wanted because the rain outside. As soon as we
finished our ice cream we realized what a perfect opportunity it was to hand
out a book of Mormon. So I hurried and wrote down my testimony and then a few
scriptures that she could look up. I could tell family was important to her
since she had her children there and a few of her other relatives so I wrote
down scriptures that testified of eternal families. We then got up and she told
us to sit and stay a little longer, it had stopped raining though and we needed
to get back to work so we thanked her so much for her generosity to us and gave
her the Book of Mormon. It was really cool, I don't know how much interest she
has however she took it and seemed really thankful. 
We just had a lot of time this week to really talk to people
and bear our testimonies.
One thing that was so wonderful this week was our lesson
with Migeul. We went it planning to teach him about Prophets, however when we
got there it I just knew and felt that there was something deeper we needed to
find out. I am so thankful that I listened to that prompting. He finally came
to church for the first time too on Sunday which was amazing and he even said
that he received answers to his questions. YES!!
I have to say that I really enjoyed Hunter's email from last
week. It was so good. The last thing that just really stuck out to me was what
he said about how this is the Lords time.. It got me thinking about all the things
that I can do to see more miracles here. I know as missionaries there are
always ways to improve and always more that you can do in the service of God.
It just narrows down to again being diligent in all that we do. 
Today we spent the whole time helping Bruder Altmanns move.
It was hard work, I actually broke a sweat hahah.. however it just was so
rewarding. The biggest reason was
because I know Bruder Altmann doesn't have a lot of money, yet he gives and
gives and gives and gives. The man never rest. He is truly and example to me of
someone who has charity. He just does so much for us and yesterday as i was
contemplating spending my p day working I just couldn't get the thought out of
my head about how much he does for me and how I could make this little
sacrifice for him... He even brought us little sack lunches and everything. I
just love the people here in Germany and our ward and am so thankful. I really
am so blessed to be here in Osnabrück. 
I am so excited for General Conference as well. We get to
watch it however they are at funky times and we don't get to see the last
session till next Sunday.
My mission president and his wife are amazing. I love them
both so much. They teach me so much and I just know how much they care about me. However he really is such a great mission
president and just pushes us to do our best. Sister Kosak is so sweet and
really is just like a mom to all us little missionaries out here in Germany.
Haha my German. I have been told I have pretty good German,
however I don't know about that, I do try really hard to speak it every day 9
to 9. That is one thing that has helped me, as well as reading from my
scriptures everyday out loud in German. I write down words I don't know and
look them up later, and I also work from this little book called German and
Review sometimes. When I have the chance I also really like to listen to talks
in German, it helps me to understand things. I do have goals every week right
now we are working on learning scriptures from memory. I have 10 that I chose myself
that I am working on right now and then after that I need to learn the articles
of faith. It is pretty cool. I also really want to have the book of Mormon in
German finished by Christmas.
Well that is really all for this week, hope everyone has a
great week,
Große Liebe,
Sister Toma
