Dear Family and Friends.
Wow I hope all of you had a wonderful wonderful week!
We for sure did. It was filled with awesome exciting
adventures and lots of new people.
On Monday I went up to a little city called Halle. I have
heard so much about this city from Sister Blake, and Sister Egbert. It was fun
to finally experience all the wonders of the little city. I got to exchange
with a Sister Treadaway. She is so sweet and so cute, it just made my day to
get to spend time with her and get to know her.
Then I got to spend some time finally here in Chemnitz,
where we went on another exchange with the sisters from Hohenstein. They are
also amazing Sisters, and I got to spend some time with Sister Daniels. I also
enjoyed getting to know her. We had an adventurous exchange. We again traveled
to Sister Haertig's where this time she was in a fuss about making sure lunch
was cooked. She needed a lot done in the house, so she occupied out time with
little chores and task. The first task we had was to clean some lawn chairs.
After we spent about 30 minutes cleaning them off and drying them, she took us
to the back into this forest of a place, where there was a huge hole in the
back of her shed, filled with dirt and other random things. The she hasted her
self up on a little ledge as we handed her the chairs and she threw them into a
pile of dirt.. So much for cleaning them. haha On our way back to the house she
looked down at the grass and noticed all her walnuts fell to the ground. She
started whimpering around trying to pick them all up because it was raining out
side. We told her to go back in and finish lunch, and that we would pick them
up. Well one hour late and three buckets of walnuts, completely drenched from
head to toe we finished the job. Ha I just love service adventures. The things we
do on missions lol. Then we spent the rest of the time helping her pull a wagon
filled with random junk, like unopened calendars from 2006, strings, and mixed
up sheet music. To the top of this hill where her Bungalow was located. What I
have learned from this lesson, throw away stuff!! haha She is though the
sweetest hard working old lady I have ever met though, and she will always have
huge place in my heart.
We found a new investigator named Markus this week. Oh he
is so cool!
We taught him the first lesson, and with in second he
said, I know that is true. Then we talked about the holy ghost, how we can feel
him and what is role is. As we explained the feelings we feel, he expressed to
us he was feeling them right then. SO COOL!! We invited him to church, and he
showed up 30 minutes early haha. He loved the meeting and even told me he went
home and prayed about what we talked about, and that God did tell him it was
true. What a miracle in and of itself. We are meeting with him again today to
talk about the plan of salvation! :)
Ah Zhen Hao is also doing wonderful. We met with him this
morning, where we talked again about what he read in the Book of Mormon. We
talked about Captain Moroni and how much courage and faith he had. He loved
that. I then asked him, "Zhen Hao, lets just say that you didn't finish
the Book of Mormon before next weekend, would you still know that it is
true?" He responded YES!! Then went on to say, he still really has the
goal to try and finish it before next week, but even if he didn't he knows he
needs to be and wants to be baptized!!! Ah I love him, he is so good and has
made so much progress in the last 5 weeks. It just really bares whiteness from
what Preach my Gospel proclaims, that The Book of Mormon combined with the Spirit
are the two most powerful ways of conversation. Please continue to keep him in
your prayers these next two weeks as he continues to prepare for his baptism.
On Saturday we had my again very last Zone Training
Meeting. Ah it was so good. I just felt the spirit so strong. This zone
training meeting was focused really on the atonement. It was so needed. In the
past few months the missionaries have really been struggling and getting so
down, I am just grateful we had two wonderful zone leaders who were obedient
and enough in tune with the spirit to be able to know what these missionaries
need.
We had another meeting after for the leaders where we
instead of focusing on numbers and goals, we decided to just feel the spirit.
We each got to stand up and bare out testimony from one of out favorite songs,
where we then sang two verses from each. It brought the spirit into the room,
where each and everyone of us could feel the love of God surrounding us. It was
a great way to end my last Zone training meeting. I will for sure be missing
those.
Well, I hope this is enough, I can't believe this is the
2nd to last email you will be receiving from me. I will try my hardest to make
next weeks good. I still can't believe it, doesn't feel real. But, nah Ja don't
have to worry about that for another week or so.
I have you all love, and hope you have a wonderful
wonderful week.
Sister Toma
