Dearest Family,
Haha, it has been a great week. Our car was in the workshop most of the
week so Sister Means and I had fun walking and biking. And I taught her how to work the trains
and buses. I think this might be
the only sisters area where we use all forms of transportation.
On
Tuesday we took the train down
to Johanngeorgenstadt to meet with an investigator. This area is the
southern most part of our area. If you take the train one more stop you
are in the Czech. So while we are
waiting for our bus we are working on some scripture memorization and we
look
up to see two people flash their ID’s at us and ask to see our
passports. We are told not to carry our actual
passports on us, but we give them the copies and other paperwork. They
were hesitant, but said ok and left
without stopping anyone else. Less
than 5 min later, two men who look like they just stepped out of a GIJoe
movie
walk right over to us. They showed
us their ID’s and wanted to see ours. We followed the same procedure; I
hadn't even put the papers
back in my bag. They were not ok
that we didn't have passports on us.
I explained everything. They
took our papers and made some phone calls and said we could go. Crazy,
huh? We're fine and we made it to appointment on time. It was a fun
little start to our week.
The next day we take the train the
other direction to visit a less active member. Afterward we had to run to catch our bus for our next
appointment. I kind of miss
running for buses, it reminds me of Hamburg and Berlin. Well, it ended up being the wrong bus
that dumped us in the middle of nowhere; we were seeing more cows and sheep
than people. The GPS said that we
would be just 20 min late, so we call our investigators to let them know and we
start walking. GPS recalculates
and we will actually be 90 minutes late....I'll have to admit, I was a little
like the servants of Lamoni from Alma 17:28,
murmuring a little and feeling
like this was my fault that everything was going wrong. It was my fault
that we were lost and
late. I am so grateful for
companionships, because my great little comp reacted like Ammon from
verse 29. She was stoked for this opportunity and
she helped me be courageous. I
have never before had a companion who laughs when we get lost, or have
cards
thrown back at us, or doors slammed in our faces. I am learning a lot
from her. She is teaching me to not just smile, but to really laugh. I
was thinking about the talk from Elder Wirthlin, Come What May and Love It.
Well, we still are not exactly
sure where we are, but we talk to everyone. No one wants to listen, except one woman. That one woman accepted a Book of Mormon
and said she would sit down right now and read it. We did not know where we were, but I testify that the Lord
does. He put us in an area we did
not know about to tell one of His daughters that she is loved. I love being a missionary and being able
to be apart of these experiences. I am learning that the Lord can truly make a lot more out of
our lives than we can if we turn our lives over to Him; Matthew 10:39.
On
Saturday when our plan A fell
through, we were going by on contacts, and then going door to door and
talking
to people on the street. We were
able to give out 2 Book of Mormons and will be following up next week.
And we found a new investigator who
already has a Book of Mormon and has been reading! We are so excited to
follow up on that this week. And we keep ''randomly'' running into
people we couldn't get in contact with and we just happened to be at the
right
place at the right time. There are
no coincidences; I know the Lord is directing us.
I'm
out of time. I love you all so much!!!! Thank you for the letters and
pictures! Oh and I forgot to thank Jack, Sam,
Snickers, Cade and JD (and Janae, Sha and Merri) for the poster! I love
it!!! I can't believe how big they are getting. Give the boys lots of
loves from me!
Snickers: Alles gute zum
Gerburtstag!!!! (Happy Birthday)
I love you!!!!!! Have a fantastic
week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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