Guten Morgen,
How is everyone doing?
Well l I am doing just fantastic. This week we had transfer calls...
anyone want to guess the verdict? ...................................
I guess you will just have to wait till the end to find out.
However I am excited for this transfer it will be amazing.
So yesterday we had two baptisms. Ophelya and Jacob. It
was such an amazing baptism. I just love them both so much and am so excited
that they have made this step in their life. They both were just so excited
yesterday and I could really tell that they have just been so prepared. I don't
know if I have already told you about them and their story, if I have sorry I
am going to just tell them really quick again.
So Ophelya is so cool. She is one of the friends of a
new member who was baptized back in December. The first Sunday that I arrived
here in Hannover Ophelya came to church and hasn't stop coming since. On
that first Sunday though she approached our bishop and said that she wanted to
be baptized. Since then we have been working with her. She is a wonderful
mother of 3 children, and is from Ghana with that, it has been a very
interesting experience to work with her. Her English is very limited and so we
have had to overcome some challenges with the language barrier. However when
they are prepared God will provide a way. It has been cool to see the gift of
tongues working as we teach her.
Jacob is also so amazing. He is from Liberia and we met him
through an investigator name Tony. Tony had invited us over a few times and
Jacob was there once. Tony really wasn't making too much progress, however
Jacob was pretty interested in learning more about the church. We started
meeting with Jacob more and only after a few lessons he said he really wanted to
be baptized. The one problem was at the time he wasn't sure if Joseph Smith and
the Book of Mormon were true. We talked all the time about prayer and
recognizing answers, finally we just asked him. "Jacob, do you feel as you
read in the Book of Mormon?" he said he felt good and we said, "Jacob
that is the Holy Ghost". After that he just said every time I pray
about anything I know that is true and from God when I feel good. In his
interview on Saturday he expressed how he knew this was his church. He said
that he has explored and searched many other churches. But that this was the
only one for him. Ah we just love Jacob he is really such a cool person. 
So here are some cool stories for the week. One of the
elders in a new area called Erfurt, called us this week and asked if we could
go and visit an investigator he had been teaching in Erfurt. Apparently he
needed a knee operation and so he was here in Hannover. His name is Eddie and
he is so cool. We got to teach him a few times this week, sadly he is going
back to Erfurt this week. But keep him in your prayers that his knee will
get better. It was fun though because both times we went and visited his
roommates were there and I don't know how much they could understand or how
much they listened but hey they got exposed to a little bit of a missionary
lesson.
So funny story of the week. On Saturday night we had our
nightly call-ins from our district leader. After about 5 minutes he was getting
another call on the other line from an unknown number. He called us back about
five minutes later and expressed how creepy and weird the phone call was. That
there was only weird noises and sounds in the back ground. It was kind of weird
but we didn't think too much about it after wards. Ten minutes after we got off
the phone with our District leader we received a phone call from an unknown
number as well. We answered it and there was a faint girl’s voice saying hello.
Then silence for a minute and a loud phone beep followed my creepy whispers. We
quickly hung up. We were a little freaked out but again didn't think too much
about it, until a few minutes later we started getting calls again from the
unknown number. Finally we were so scared that I went through the whole
apartment and locked all the windows and made sure the house was clear. We then
started to say a quick prayer when one of our Zone leaders started to call. We
answered told him what happened and he kind of laughed a little. We then maybe
figured that they could have been pulling pranks on us. We questioned them for
a little until finally we got it out of them. A bunch of the elders in our zone
were trying to pull pranks on everyone by connecting two calls together.
However I guess they were not trying to scare us but just trying to be funny. When
they found out how much they scared us they felt really really bad. Really what
a learned from this experience is that it was a good reminder that Elders are
still 19 year old boys... ha-ha It is really amazing to me how much they
do seem older here just because of the amazing abilities that we receive to
talk to people of all ages. It is really cool... but they still get
bored.
I just love this vs in Alma I want to share really quickly.
6 Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise
I
know that really and truly that these things are true, that through the small
things will great things come to pass.
I
love you and hope you have an amazing week,
Alles
Leibe,
Sister
Toma
