Guten Morgen, Liebe Grüße von Hannover :)
Wow I cannot believe I am here.
Well let me just start off by saying I do miss berlin, before I get into How
wonderful Hannover really is.
To start off my companion
Sister Walker is AMAZING!! I love her and am so excited to be able to work with
her and get to know her. She is really something else and we just want to work
hard and get things done here. We have some big goals for Hannover.
Kind of crazy but like 90% of
the people we teach here are from Ghana ha-ha, it makes for a good time though.
I love the Africans. They always give me a boost of Faith and boost of Energy.
They just love you and want you to spend time with them all the time. Not
really what I have been used to for the last year of my mission. Ha-ha. But It
is so great and I am enjoying every single minute of it and just enjoying the
blessing that are coming from this wonderful area.
So here is a little run down
from the week, We finally got to Skype with Olga this week, She is doing so
wonderfully and we are so excited to be able to have the experience :) She can't
go to the church in Azerbaijan however her faith is still strong and she reads
in the book of Mormon every single day. We miss her so much but it just warms
my heart to know that she is doing ok. Then after wards I traveled to Hannover
and met my new companion. And we hit it off right away... Later we met with an
investigator Juliet she is something else but we love her. It is just so much
fun to teach them. I really get to work on though refining my teaching skill
helping others understand the gospel and teaching simply. I really think that
is key when teaching. And they are just the perfect people to be able to do
that with and you already just gain such an amazing love for them in the 1st
five minutes.
The next day we just went from appointment to appointment and everyone was home. We taught and taught and taught and talked to people on the bahns and in the streets and they listened to us. Crazy. We have found so many new people this week it was so amazing. Then
we met with an investigator Emma who will be getting baptized this week. Please pray for her, However she is so golden. She has so much faith and knows that this church is true. I love meeting with her I can just feel the spirit so strong every time.
The next day we just went from appointment to appointment and everyone was home. We taught and taught and taught and talked to people on the bahns and in the streets and they listened to us. Crazy. We have found so many new people this week it was so amazing. Then
we met with an investigator Emma who will be getting baptized this week. Please pray for her, However she is so golden. She has so much faith and knows that this church is true. I love meeting with her I can just feel the spirit so strong every time.
Something else that is really
cool about Hannover is this is where I had my first exchanges. So I actually
knew a lot of the people we are teaching before... It is so much fun to go to
an appointment and just say, hey remember me and they just get so excited that
they can see a familiar face. I love it. :)
I also tried African food for
the first time this week. My one trial here. Ha-ha FUFU!! Actually Emma cooked
for us and it was pretty good. However I am just gearing up to prepare myself
for this adventure. We meet with Emma as well really early in the morning so we
got to eat the rice at 10:30 with some cold hot chocolate. Yummy. I love it
though they just find what ever they can stick it on a plate and put it in
front of you to eat. Their way of Germany manners. It is the best.
We just see so many miracles
here every day I can't even think of all of them.
The ward here is Amazing it is
huge, kind of makes me feel like I am back in America I like it. Our bishop is
so cool and Loves missionary work, I am so excited to be able to work with the
members here they are just so much more involved than any other area I have
been in.
Cool thing that happened was
that one of the YSA in my first area Osnabrück was in the Hannover ward this
week so I got to see her it was so amazing and brought back so many memories. I
can’t even say how blessed I am be back in the west. Berlin and the people
are still in my heart though and forever will be.
We got to see the last session
of general conference this week. It was so good. I just love general conference.
I just feel the spirit so strong and have really come to focus on these last 6
months and how I really just need to use them to my very best capability.
General conference helped me so much this week to be able to receive answers to
how I can do that.
Well that is really it for this week,
I love you all,
Sister Toma
I can't sent pictures, so next week sorry. =(
