August 25, 2014

Dear Family,

Oh my goodness, has another week already gone by?!  This week has been so awesome!!!  Oh my goodness, we are seeing so many miracles!

We started out the week with tausch (exchanges) with our Sister Training Leaders in Chemnitz. Sister Miller and I worked down here and Sister Means was in Chemnitz with Sister Helzer.  

We have done a bit of driving lately.  Tuesday morning we helped get the Elders on their train to Berlin and now Sister Means and I are the only missionaries in our area, so weird.  We had a great tausch, but our last appointment went a little long.  We missed our train and ended up having to drive to Zwickau to exchange back.  All is well and we all made it safely to our areas.

We have been so busy with appointments this week that we were worried about not having so much time finding new people.  We had a few of our appointments fall out.  We went door to door and talked to people on the street.  Both times we were able to give about two Book of Mormons to awesome people who were so excited to read it and learn more.

This week I have also learned to follow my comps promptings, even when I don't want to.  The Spirit truly has lead and guided us.  We had an awesome joint teach.  I love the members here! They are so excited to help our investigators and help them come to church.  That has been one of the hardest things for us.  Our investigators are recognizing how important prayer and the Book of Mormon are, but we are struggling helping them understand how important church is. Please pray for them.

Also, we had multiple investigators bear their testimony of how the Book of Mormon has helped them!  So amazing!!  It is true!!!!!!  I know the Book of Mormon is true, it has changed my life and I see it changing others.  I know that God is our loving Heavenly Father.  I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and lives and loves us so much!!!!

One of our investigators lives on our street.  She often sees us out running early for sport.  This week she showed us a beautiful trail that Sister Means and I went running up this morning.  Oh my goodness, so beautiful!!!!  Now, I will finally call the Schwarzenberg hills ''mountains''.  

Also we had another fun little surprise.   So I have felt bad not taking Sister Means to a bakery often.  There were so many in Berlin and Hamburg and they were just so convenient.  There are not as many here and the closest one is at the very top of a big hill.  (They make us work for our pastries here.)  We have talked about it and laughed, it is a blessing that the bakeries are not so convenient.  Well....on Saturday morning after Comp Study we looked out the window and saw a bakery truck in front of our door.  So of course we had to get something and it was delicious!  Ha I thought these things were only true in fairytales.  Well, now I am a believer.  Along with the tooth fairy and Santa, bakery trucks are real!

Love you all!! Have a fantastic week!!!!!

-Sister Turner 
 

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