Today we cleaned the apartment and I am very proud to say that the bathroom and kitchen are SPOTLESS. I cleaned the bathroom and Sister Jameson cleaned the kitchen. Thank you to both of our mothers for teaching us how to clean. It is a valuable skill I (and the Lord) appreciate.
I just learned that I forwarded last week's email on accident. It was because I was copying the emails because I just email on my iPad and I'm too lazy to enter them in every time. Please excuse my lack of Tech Savvy.
This week was really great with three splits with three amazing companionships! Sister Anderson from the Frankfurt 2 district came with me Monday and Tuesday, then Sister Spaeth and I took over Hanau Tuesday to Wednesday, and then Sister Kryzanski and I hung out in Frankfurt from Thursday to Friday. It was kind of a busy week, but I love working with the sisters. It makes me sad because transfer calls are on Saturday and we have a lot of sisters who will probably be leaving. But it will be okay because they will go where they are needed and where they will be able to learn and grow the most. So it will be sad to say good bye, but with the Gospel, we never have to say any permanent good byes! So that's cool. :)
We met with one of our Chinese investigators, Yi, after church on Sunday. She told us about some of the stuff that she'd read about the church on the Internet and wanted to know if it was true. It lead to a really great discussion about what we do believe and how you can't believe everything on the Internet. We were able to reassure her and let her know that if she ever reads something that she's not sure about it to please ask us and we can talk about it. It was a great teaching moment, and she was way open about it and the lesson we had accompanying it was really great. I love her a ton and she is way sweet and open. She also said that she wants to be baptized! But she wants to learn everything first, so we're going to be working on that. Also, we think it might be better if we go a little slower with her. Something about no previous religious background and wanting to make sure her conversion is strong and all that. But she's solid so I know she'll get there. :)
Cool moment of the week: SISTER JAMESON GOT HER VISA!!!!!!!!!!! We only had to wait at the Ausländersamt for like, 3 hours. By she got it! She is now legally in Germany!!!!! Hooray!!!!!!! As for my visa, we're still waiting on Nürnberg to send my papers up. But Frankfurt seems to be really good at sorting out problems, so I'm not too worried about it.
It's been a great week. Last Monday seems like FOREVER ago, but the week went by way fast. It's been great, and there have been a lot of blessings this week because of missionary service.
I've been thinking a lot about divine nature lately. I've had a lot of good studies about it and what it means that I am a woman and I have a part in the Plan of Salvation. It's been really cool to learn so much and be able to then use that to love our investigators and contacts more. I have so much divine potential to become a Being like GOD. And EVERYONE ELSE HAS THAT, TOO. That is a powerful fact, and I'm still working on understanding it completely. But it really has helped me be able to have so much more love for the people we get to work with. I am so grateful for everything that our loving Heavenly Father has given to us to help us come to know Him and His Son and our parts in the Plan of Salvation better. It is a great comfort and a strength to me, and I hope to be able to share that more with the people we teach.
I set some goals for qualities that I have developed/am working on developing that I want to keep for the rest of my life based on this knowledge. It has been a great learning experience, and I hope to someday accomplish these goals because they're really important to me because I set them with help from my Heavenly Father. It's not something that I have ever actually done before, but I want to do it more now. I feel so excited to work on these things and do my best because I know for sure that the powers of Heaven on aware my side. Or rather, I am working on the same side as the powers of Heaven. Which is even better.
It is a struggle to align my will completely with the will of God. It's something that I'm working on doing more every single day. But I have seen so many blessings that come when we follow God's will. It's a pattern that I want to follow for the rest of my life because I may not always understand why, but I know that if I do it and try it and do my best to figure out why God has made it so, I can find an answer. The Gospel never ends, and neither do improvement and progression. I am so grateful for these qualities that allow us to always get better and always try again. Because even though I'm a "Missionary" and I'm supposed to be "perfect," I'm not. I fail. I screw up. Sometimes I screw up the same thing twenty times in a row. But it's okay, because as long as I learn from it and try and do it better the next time, I know that the Atonement will help me out. I'm so grateful for that.
Sorry for the spiritual rant. Sometimes there's just a lot of time and things to ponder on a mission and it's never coherent on Monday when you're supposed to write them out to your friends and family.
I love you all! Have a fantastic day, and an absolutely incredible fall-filled week!
Liebe Grüße,
Sister John
P.S. Yes, I did notice my year mark was on Friday. No, I did not go get ice cream or celebrate formally because we didn't have time on our split. But it was a good day, and I got to pet a cat so I'll consider that a celebration. :)
Hanau split! Sister Spaeth and I got ice cream at the end but Sister Jameson is still goin strong on her no sugar goal. We're going to bake brownies and eat them with vanilla ice cream when the transfer ends.
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