"It's a beautiful day even though it's dark out
there !"🎶
Hello family and friends! It's another rainy and chilly
week in Deutschland! But it's also another wonderful week!! To start off my
email this week I would like to share an experience from Monday
morning:
So we have started trying to talk to more young people.
(As stated in last weeks email) and last week we talked to a man named
Benedict. He was super cool but we only had about four minutes to talk to him
and he wouldn't give us his phone number. But we left him with a pamphlet and
our phone number. Well Monday morning we were on a Bus in jeans because we were
going to go and help do some service at a ward members home. When we suddenly
see Benedict! We didn't know what to do and it was awkward because we were
debating if it was really him. And if it was him should we really talk to him
in jeans. Well Our bus stop approached and we had to get off and I was so mad
because I thought:
"man I should have just talked to him." But
then he got off the same bus stop as us! Yes it was INCREDIBLY awkward and yes
I'm pretty sure he didn't really want to talk to us. But he said he hadn't had
time to read the pamphlet we gave him. But hopefully he will remember and
actually read it again. Seeing people more than once in one week is not that
common here hahahaha.
This week we also met with Ebenezer and a member of the
bishopric to talk more about Priesthood! He should be having his interview this
week! I'm so excited for him and the progress he is making! We also talked more
about Joseph Smith and explained the doctrine and covenants. It's cool to see
him accepting and learning so quickly, because Joseph Smith was something that
was hard for him to come to know the truth of at first.
We were able to take Steffi to a members home for dinner
and a lesson last night and it went super well! I love having members there to
help bear testimony and also to let the investigators know how the spirit can
feel in a home when we keep the commandments and love one another.
The lesson went super well and she is so excited to be
baptized in two weeks! We also discovered that she has a terrible fear of all
animals this week though. That's a pretty sad life. Hahahaha.
This week I actually tried baking something for the first
time in a very long time, and it tasted good! A new convert gave us some
peaches that were pretty ripe and wouldn't last long so I decided I wanted to
make a cobbler or pie or some form of dessert with them. I didn't have any
recipes so just improvised and it ended up tasting really good! We took it to
district meeting and saved ourselves from getting fat by eating it alone.
Sunday was fast and testimony meeting. Our ward did an
amazing job this week of simply bearing testimony. There were no speeches or
long stories. Just testimonies. And I felt the spirit so strongly! We also had
a group of Old Canadians that were on vacation and they stayed for all three
hours. I'm so grateful I had the opportunity to do the translation for them and
help them to hear the words of the German people. I also have a funny story
along with that too. Normally we don't have anybody in relief society that
needs translation. But the Canadians stayed all three hours so I did
translation during the third hour as well. Hahahah well the teacher giving the
lesson was talking about how we think and our attitudes and changing our
thoughts to be more positive and happy. She wrote a word on the board that I
didn't really know. So I just guessed and the teacher asked : "Sister
Losee do you know what that means?" Me: "Not really..... hahah"
so then she replied "oh it means paradigm in English" me: "I
don't even know what that means in English!" #translationprobs
#notsmartenoughinenglishprobs
Well I have already written a ton today. So i would just
like to say:
it was a great week!!!!
Sister Losee
Pictures:
1) You know you are a missionary when you use your thirty
minute lunch time to lay down. And you know you're a missionary in Germany when
you are wearing a hoody in your apartment in the middle of August hahahahha
2) Steffi!
3) Coming Home to find pots of flowers left on your
doorstep by a Persian member named Akbar!
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