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hope you have had all had a good week :) this week was pretty good for me :) We
are finally starting to get summer weather rolling in. It has been so
amazing!!! And of course as always this week has been filled with miracles.
It
was pretty funny at church on Sunday, we had a new investigator there for his
first time. He is from South Sudan, and just a super energetic and happy man. Ha-ha
however as sacrament started he stood up during the announcements and started
to pray. I kind of just sat there and didn't really know what to say or do. I
looked back at sister walker for help but everything I tried didn't work he
just kept on praying for a good 3 mines. Finally he sat down, ha-ha but it was definitely
a new experience lol.
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| Hamburg Zone Meeting with Elder Adiler |
So
here is a cool story. A few weeks ago we went by on a new investigator, who
happened to be living with three other guys. We invited all of them to come to
church, to find out one of them was already a Member. So cool. And he said that
his family is members and are living in another city about an hour away, but
just wait it gets even better. A few days later we get a text from the zone
leaders about a baptism in this city that the elders will have there. When we
went back we talked to Emanuel and found out that is wife and children are this
family that will be baptized, but they are, moving here to Hannover before her
baptismal date so we will be able the teach them a little and see them be
baptized :) We haven't seen Emanuel at church ever and have invited him a few
times and the. Randomly this week he came with one of his friends and it was so
cool, we have been also teaching his friend Justice, and he decided he wanted
to be baptized on July 12 so we are so excited, please pray for him :)
On
Tuesday we went to go see Emma. She again decided to give us a huge plate of
food at 10 in the morning it was a huge plate of African rice. Mm. Yummy ha-ha
but it was good to see her, because right before we started the lesson she said
she had a friend coming. When her friend came we started talking to him, and it
seemed like he knew a lot about the church, after a few minutes of talking with
him I just got the feeling to ask him if he was already a baptized member of
the church. And he was!! Come to find out he was baptized in Italy a few years
ago. So we were really excited, and Emma totally threw down and told him he
needed to come back to church better than we ever could ha-ha.
On
Wednesday I got to go to Hamburg for my first time, it was really really cool.
We were there for our last zone conference with President Kosak. :( It was
really really sad but good at the same time. Elder Adiler came to be part of
it, and it was really cool to hear from a member of the seventy. I learned a
tough, and received a ton of answers to my prayers that I have been having of
how we can help more investigators and new members make better friends with the
ward. It was so awesome.
We
were asked to sing a song for the meeting too, so we decided to do a goodbye
song for the Kosaks it was so good. We decided to sing "God Be with You
Till We Meet Again" but in crescendo. It started off with just
sister walker and I and then in the 3rd vs we had all the missionaries start to
slowly join in, it turned out really cool. And president and sister Kosak
started crying. It might be on the blog but if not I can send you our practice
video.
On
Saturday it was sister walkers birthday. Yaya it was tons of fun I tried to
throw her a surprise party ha-ha however you know how that goes with having to
be together 24/7 and all. We still had a great day though. We got her
family to send her cute little birthday videos and a bunch of members came. We
went a visited out investigator Gaure right after, and she threw Sister Walker
a little birthday surprise as well, and invited some of her friends to come and
celebrate. It was so cute and so fun, also Gaure and Angela (she is a member)
gave sister Walker a little gift and hula danced for us :) it was so fun,
Birthdays
on missions are just the best, just so fun because you don’t even really think
once about what you want to do on your birthday, we are serving the Lord,
however people still think about you and love you, and what to do something
nice for you :) so cool.
So
this weeks I was studying a lot about marriage....
Ok
don't worry I am not getting trunky, I just started reading through all the
April General Conference talks. Even though most of them are about marriage, I
have been learning a ton. One of the most favorite things this weeks I learned
about was in the talk from Elder D Todd Christofferson.
Knowing
why we left the presence of our Heavenly Father and what it takes to return and
be exalted with Him, it becomes very clear that nothing relative to our time on
earth can be more important than physical birth and spiritual rebirth, the two
prerequisites of eternal life. This is, to use the words of Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, the “office” of marriage, the “post of responsibility towards …
mankind,” that this divine institution “from above, from God” occupies. It is
the “link in the chain of the generations” both here and hereafter--the order
of heaven.
Ok
here was my thoughts in it, I was thinking about the covenant of marriage how this
quote really helped me to understand why the covenant of marriage is so
important, ya it is nice have a spouse, but ultimately the purpose of marriage
is to be provided a safe spiritual environment for his spirit children, and
more but I won't go into that in my missionary email ha-ha.
Well
I will just wanted to say Dad and Mom you are amazing thanks for being so
spiritual and amazing, Dad you are so great it was so cool to see all your
amazing experience from EFY how cool, I am a little bit jealous hopefully I can
be a councilor next year at a session with you, Hunter too ha-ha :) that was
such a cool story about the young man you met on the plane. Truly inspired and
sister walker and I are both so stoked to meet him. :)
I
love you all,
Sister
Toma
