March 9, 2015
Well this week was full of
wonderful miracles.
We had a busy week full of
finding, doing doors and that normal missionary work stuff. It was great.
The other day we went out to contact
a referral when there was a man standing at the door. He got mad at us and told
us to go away, and the lady that had asked for the book of Mormon was standing
right there. She had this frightened look on her face and the man was being
extra mean to us, however finally he let us in and we gave the book of Mormon
to the lady. She was so scared and we felt so bad, the man was also saying
whoever asked for it was crazy so I think that also affected her. Ah it just
made our day so sad, but I hope she reads in the Book of Mormon.
On Wednesday we had a ward
activity and we got to watch MEET THE MORMONS. It was a really good film I
enjoyed it a lot. I cried a lot... man the Candy bomber... well you know it
just touches my heart now because of my love for Germany at its people.
We had a zone training meeting
this week. It was really good, president came and we had lots of talks about
just focusing on the important things of our mission. So many people get
focused on how to do it differently and more interesting, they forget the
basics of why we are here and what we are teaching. It is really sad how many
missionaries haven't even read the Book of Mormon yet. So we are focusing on
that and getting back down to the basics the next few months. I think it, is a
wonderful idea... plus I have just been getting the feeling the last few weeks
the best way I can improve my missionary skills my teaching skills and
confidence in the language is going back to preach my gospel.
Sometimes as missionaries we
just get comfortable with it, we have taught the lessons so much that we just
rely on what we already know. But I really think that preach my gospel is a lot
like the scriptures. It was written from the Apostles, and I know that it is
revelation from God for our day on how we can be missionaries and do missionary
work. In other words, we can always learn something new from preach my gospel.
So my new goal for the next few months is to really study it out and learn how
to become a better preach my gospel missionary, and I need your help to keep me
on track.
Well enough with the boring
stuff, I am sure all of you are wondering about our weekend and what happened
with Olga, so first off she got to be interviewed by our mission president,
just because he can speak Russian! That was so cool, now he is coming next week
to church to hear her play a musical number... did I tell you she is AMAZING at
the piano. Anyways it was so cool and she was just so happy to meet him. Then
he even gave us permission to teach her the new member lesson by Skye when she
goes home.
So I guess that gave it away... yes she got baptized
yesterday. It was seriously wonderful, the spirit was so strong and she was
crying the whole time!! The best part was is almost the whole ward showed up to
support her! That never happens here, but she is just loved so much by our ward
here, it will be really sad when she goes home everyone will miss her so much!
It was also so beautiful yesterday, spring is here in Germany it was almost 60
yesterday! So warm and the leaves and flowers are blooming everywhere. Sorry
for those of you that are still having bad weather back in VA!
Anar also received the
priesthood yesterday also was really cool, and everyone was crying... except
for Sister Wiborny and I... ha-ha I think it was just cause most of the people
just love him so much.
Well to be 100% honest nothing
else is really cool this week. I can just share a little bit about what I
studies this week in my personal study.
I was reading Mosiah 21 and
comparing it with Mosiah 24. Good stuff there... I just love these three things
that I learn from these chapters. When we exercise our faith, our patient, and
our obedient god will make our burdens lighter. There our times in our life
where we just feel like our enemies our coming in (Satan) and he keeps putting
everything bad in our path and so many other burdens and trials that we might
have come our way... then trust in the lord pray to him for help and exercise
these three things in your life and I know that our burdens and trails will
feel lighter because there is always someone there to help us carry them.. Maybe
they will not go away all at once or when we think, but we no and our promised
that we will be freed from them one day...
Well I guess I just leave you
all with that! I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!!
Liebe Grüße,
Sister Toma 