This week I learned that what Sis. Knuston and I have been doing is miraculous. I just thought it was normal. We had our weekly call-ins with our District Leader last night and we talked about our goals and our numbers this week in comparison with our goals. Elder Hatch (the District Leader) said that he is super impressed with what we've been
able to accomplish amd how many people we've been able to teach in the last 3 weeks. He and Sis. Knuston agreed that it has been miraculous. So..... Now I'm left wondering what a regular week looks like? Because we've had a lot of days where we only teach one lesson a day. And that doesn't look like success to me. But, apparently it is for his area.
So yeah. That's been a thing.
Speaking of miracles, here's something that isn't. We had Stake Conference this weekend and our investigator, Elena said that she would totally come with us. Then we called her the morning of to double check what time we would meet at the church and she said that she had changed her mind. Yeah. That sucked. But! We met Maxine, one
of our other investigators, on the train over to Erlangen where the meeting was! We hadn't even gotten a yes or a no from her on whether she was going or not, so it was super exciting! Then she kind of fell asleep during the first hour of the meeting.... But she paid attention for the rest of it after I woke her up. Sis. Knuston and I are really hoping that she got something out of that meeting. Hopefully.
It was a really good week. We got a surprise lesson with Gabriella and her mom that we weren't expecting. But it was so good, and Sis. Teleraru said that she would be really busy for the next little while as they're moving, but that we should call and she will do her best to find times for us to meet. It was so good, and I actually understood her this time! Last time we meet I'd only been here for a few days and it was really hard. Now it's still kind of hard, but tons easier than it was.
The rule at Sis. Knuston and I have come up with is that if they speak German and I can understand them, we know that German is not their first language. But it's alright. I talked to this cool guy from Italy the other day. He asked me where I was from and how long I'd been learning German. I told him I'd been learning it for just over 7 weeks and he was super impressed. Elder Taylor was actually able to give him a Book of Mormon because of that, so it was super neat.
Street displays are tons of fun. Also, chalking. Which is exactly what it sounds like. We go out, find a nice spot and then draw the Plan of Salvation or a question that we're focusing on asking, or whatever on the sidewalk in chalk. It's a lot of fun, and it gets a lot of people to stop and look at what you're doing. Then another missionary comes in and asks them if they've heard of the plan of happiness and then they're hooked. It's a lot of fun. It's just getting too cold to go
out and do it. Next week is supposed to be really cold, so I'm excited. Elder Keck and I had a conversation at the street display two days ago when Sis. Knuston and I had to go buy her some tights because she was freezing. I was fine, and so was Elder Keck. We had a great discussion about winter camp outs gone awry and how much we love layering. I've discovered I can wear socks underneath my tights, so that's super helpful.
All-in-all, it feels like we haven't done much this week. I know that we're working, but it really doesn't feel like work. It just feels like Visiting Teaching on steroids. Which really isn't that hard. The only hard thing has been trying to figure out how to get Zeynep baptized. But we're going to have a lesson on temples and how we can't go to the temple until after we're baptized. So hopefully that will help.
I love you! Each and every one of you! You are all amazing, wonderful people. Never forget that you are doing better than you think you are.Because you are doing wonderfully well. Don't forget that.
Love Always,
Sis. John
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