February 3, 2014

Emailing a little later today because we already did the shopping and cleaning. On our way to Kaufland, the Walmart of Germany, we went a different way and found a zip line! So of course we had to jump on. Nothing like the Mexico ones, but still so fun! I'll take pictures next time we go there.
Well you were right about spring being right around the corner, ha it started yesterday and it still feels pretty good today. I hope it lasts, but everyone says that winter isn't over yet...

This week was pretty rough. Not exactly sure why, we're used to rejections, appointments falling out and slammed doors and cold weather. But it was just so wearing this week. One night we were on our way home and I just started crying while we were on the bahn. Wie peinlich! Sister Bradshaw was so great though. We got home, I started on dishes. I then was told not to leave the kitchen so I made cookies. When I was ''allowed'' to come out she had laid our blankets out on the floor, cut out paper stars and a moon and stuck them on the ceiling. Haha ''comp date night'' We looked at stars and ate cookies and ice cream. That weekend we did weekly planning and comp inventory. We talked about why things we so rough for us, we had so many great plans, but it seemed like everything had fallen out. But when we looked at our numbers at the end, we realized that we hadn't taught as many lessons, but the overall quality of our work improved. We hadn't reached our goals, but we are improving. We also ran into so many people on the street that we have been trying to get in touch with. It was awesome! We also worked harder than we ever had to get our investigators and less actives to church. We had 9 people committed to coming. We got up super early Sunday to pick up two families and they never got up. We got to church and had nothing to show for it. We were tired and trying to stay positive, but we were just so discouraged. What more could we do to get them to church? Where is the agency line? Did we hit it or is there more we could have done? We go to Relief Society and Sunday School and then we go into Sacrament meeting and one investigator came with her less active husband and their children!!!!!! We were ecstatic!!! How great will be your joy when one investigator comes to church!!!! We are trying not to get discouraged so easily so we are going to mix things up a little. We have set a lot of great goals to find people in different ways, hoping to find a variety of people and to help us have fun and enjoy it. I love the scripture in Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

I love how easy it is to get along with Sister Bradshaw, we take care of each other. We also actually work out which I have really needed and I didn't realize how much I needed it for my sanity til we started running again. Today we are going to take a ferry ride with the Elders and the Zone Leaders, pretty excited and then we are going to go finding focusing on FamilySearch as an intro. It's going to be good :)

Love you! Have a great week!

-Sister Turner