Dear Family and Friends,
How are you all doing? Well this week has been very long and
tiring, but so so so so good. I just love hitting the bed after a long hard day
of work. Hannover really is so wonderful, Miracle city.
Something really special about Hannover is that this is the
first area I went on exchanges to when I started my mission. So this week I got
to visit a new member named Kim. I taught her last August with Sister Lartey on
exchange before she was baptized. It was so cool to be able to see her again
and now get to teach her all the time. We went to a member’s home, the Knobe's
they invite us over every Thursday for food and let me tell you best experience
ever, :) I just feel so blessed on a mission.
You will be happy to know that Emma fed us a giant bowl of
oat mill again this week. Right before we had another eating appointment.
Luckily this time we came prepared and asked her if we could take some of it
home with us to eat later. After we went home we calculated that each bowl of
Oats were about 1 kilo gram each. YUMMY that is how much yogurt I can eat in
about a week... haha we just love Emma though she keeps ceasing to amaze us.
Along with Jacob. He is someone we are teaching and on Saturday we told him we
needed to meet him at the train station at 8:45 to pick him up for church,
however he heard us wrong and thought we meant 7:45 and called us to tell us he
was on his way. He told us he had woken up at 5:30 to get there on time and
everything. And for anyone who knows Africans that is some true dedication. the
best part is everyone asked him at church when he was getting baptized and he
was so excited to tell them that he was getting baptized on the 17th.. Why are
we so blessed... they really are the ones teaching us, not the other way
around. :)
This week we went on exchanges with the Stadt Hagen sisters.
I was with sister Medley she was so great. I just learn so much from exchanges.
Just so much about how I can really grow as a missionary. I learned this week
about how we really are chosen and called to not only serve in our specific
missions, but also in our specific areas. That we are really called through
revelation. We need the learning experiences and everyone needs to learn the
lessons on their mission differently. I am still figuring out though why God
has blessed me so much on my mission with the areas that I have had. Sometimes
I just don't feel like I deserve them, or that it is too good to be true, so
for that I am just truly grateful.
We had interviews with president Kosak this week, and they
were so so good. They were our last one before president goes home, so it was
sad as well. However, I would say that it was one of the best interviews that I
have had with him. He asked me a question in my interview this week that really
stuck with me. He asked, "How has your mission gone through you, rather
that you just going through your mission?" I would say that the answer
that I gave him was part of it, however this week as I have pondered more over
that question I have come to really realize what my mission has done for me. I
can't even say how much my mission has done for me. I can't even say how much
my mission has humbled me, through all the hard and the good times, naturally
but mostly it has shown me how little my knowledge of the gospel really is. And
how much more I need to learn. I have learned a lot on my mission, but that is
only a tiny portion of what our potential really is. We have the responsibility
and opportunity to really use this time we have on earth to learn about God,
and Christ. To continually study the words, pray, and go to church. I just love
2 Nephi 31:20 
20 Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastnessin Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a loveof God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall pressforward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure tothe end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternallife.
How true these words really are. We much press forward with
a steadfastness in Christ. Never give up on him. His hand is always stretched
out towards us. Use the atonement and rely on him. The price as already been paid.
We just need to accept it. Read in the scriptures and going to church and
praying. These I know are the basic primary answers, however they really are
the 3 most important steps or things that we can do it insure a strong
unwavering testimony in Christ and our Father in Heaven..
The learning and growing never ends. Never stops.
Thanks for all of your prayers I feel them every day here in
Germany. Please can you keep Martina, Joanna and Kim in your hearts and minds this
week?
I love you all so so much and am So grateful for your
support here
Happy Mother’s Day, 
