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| Ice Cream - we shared |
This week we saw a lot of people playing Pokemon on their phones. It was really funny to see someone get on a bus and start going just so they could see more Pokemon. It was super funny to see someone get off a bus to make sure they got the Pokemon they wanted. People are funny.
Sunday was a great day, which was a nice change from last week where I had decided that I didn't want to be in Frankfurt anymore. It was not the best day. But this week, I really worked on changing my attitude about this city and I can honestly say that I now LOVE Frankfurt. It is a great place which TONS of prepared people. We go through lots of new investigator sheets, but we're going to find the ones who are ready to keep commitments and be baptized. It's only a matter of time. :)
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| w/ International Sisters |
As far as the week goes, it was great! We made a split with the International Sisters (Sister Jenkins and Sister Anderson) and it was a lot of fun. Sister Jenkins did dance for 16 years before her mission. We woke up at 5:55am so we could go over to get church and stretch out and do some dance stuff for our Morgensport. It was lovely, and we both had a lot of fun. We were very awkwardly sore afterwards because we haven't done anything like that for so long (her for three months, me for longer), but it was absolutely worth it. She is WAY better than I am, but we both had fun teaching each other and just messing round until we had to go back and get ready for the day.
After that, we went on a Power Split with the Friedrichsdorf Sisters! They decided last week that none of their investigators were progressing and they just needed to get new ones, so they Tschüßed all of their investigators and had scheduled six hours of finding every day. We asked if we could come and split with them for part of one day to try and break up their schedule a bit. We saw SO MANY miracles!!!!!
First of all, we meet up in Friedrichsdorf and then go to Bad Homburg (b-aw-d Hom-ber-g) to go finding, and we barely make it out the front doors when Sister Madsen and Sister Jameson start talking to someone. So then Sister Balls and I hop on a bus to go to the city center and once we're there, we pray about which bus to get on. While we were praying, a bus pulls up and is about to pull away when Sister Balls says, "Let's get on THAT bus." So we run and jump on, and end up having this super great conversation with this girl named Lisa. We talk with her until the bus gets to the end stop. Then we get on the next bus going back to the city center to find Sister Madsen and Sister Jameson, who had found three potential investigators while we were gone, and continue finding. Once there, we realize that our bus rides were longer than we thought they were and we actually need to head back to Frankfurt. So we go back to Bad Homburg Hbf and catch a train at literally the perfect time, and get back to Frankfurt just in time to meet up with the International Sisters and go get ice cream all together to end the power split. It was a VERY good day. :)
Interviews with President were this week. I love talking with President Stoddard. He is literally the best Mission President EVER (sorry if you're not serving in the Germany Frankfurt Mission! Pray REALL HARD at transfers and maybe it'll happen!). Really, I know that all mission presidents are amazing. But you can just feel the love emanating from President and Sister Stoddard and I really love that about them. The council that I get from talking with President is incredible, and I always come out feeling way more motivated than I was before. It's awesome. :)
We had dinner with two of the senior sister missionaries in our ward yesterday after church, and one of our investigators came along! It was so good, and the sisters did such a good job at helping her feel loved and appreciated. It was amazing, and the Spirit was super strong. Also, the food was delicious, and there was meat so I got my protein for the day. :)
I just want to say how much I love it here in Frankfurt. My district is super great. I am actually really sad that our district will probably be changing next transfer. Well, definitely changing. Elder DeMass is going home. But it will be okay. I love it here, and I have been privileged to serve with such amazing missionaries.
I KNOW that God sends us where we need to go. He is involved in EVERY detail of our lives. I have learned that so much more in this area than anywhere else. I love it. I love my Heavenly Father. I love my Savior. I love Frankfurt. I love being a missionary. I have no idea what will happen at the end of this transfer, but I am hoping that I don't get transferred. I love it here way too much. I love being able to work with the Sisters and all of the new missionaries and all of the leaving missionaries and it is just great. I love working with our investigators and going finding here is incredible because we don't see a lot of success in the day-to-day finding. But when we look back on the week, we can see all the blessings that we were given. Our lives are like that, too. I've been thinking a lot this week about what I believe about the Gospel, and what I know. It's been interesting. I can honestly say that I would not know or believe half of the things that I do without all the church leaders who have helped me get here. All the Young Women leaders who were probably worried about me and the kind of person I was growing up to be. All the times Brother Healey dropped by to give me a Mission Prep assignment that I didn't want or think I needed. All the sisters and brothers who were there when I didn't want anyone there. I would not be who I am today without them. Without their selfless examples and love, I would not have the testimony I have today.
So I want to say thank you.
Thank you for your work, and for teaching me how to do the same. I really appreciate it. And I know that one day, the people that I've taught there in Germany will tell you they appreciated it, too. Because the influence of your good works is felt everywhere I go because you took the time to love me and show me a better way.
Thank you for your examples. Thank you for your love. Thank you for your service.
I love you all! I'm sorry I've been so bad at writing personal emails lately. I really just have no desire to. I'm not super fatigued anymore, but we're working harder than ever so I'm still tired. But
it's a good tired this time. Hard working tired. The best kind of tired.
I love you! Have a fantastic day, and a fabelhaftig week!!!!
Liebe Grüße,
Sister John
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| District Mtg - so not on Sunday |
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| New pad cover |
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