This week was really cool because I got to say hi to a
lot of old mission friends at a conference in Frankfurt. This week Elder
Ballard came and the whole mission came together for the conference! Sister
Catherall and I had to travel down Sunday afternoon and we overnighted at
another sisters apartment. We just happened to be staying with my trainee
Sister Hannig! After four hours of train rides it felt nice to stay with a
familiar face who was already prepared with my favorite foods for dinner! (And
breakfast) Then Monday we traveled early in the morning to Frankfurt and all
met familiar faces (like my MTC companion for the first time!!!) and I even saw
several members from the Frankfurt International ward because they work in the
church office buildings by the church.
Elder Ballard came and was so cute! He shook all of our
hands right at the beginning and asked me if I was happy. "You look
happy" he said hahahaha Then he talked a lot about contacting and talking
to people.
He also talked about the process of how preach my gospel
was made and about truly focusing all of our studies on the basic doctrines it
contains. Then we had a giant mission lunch of pizza and apples before heading
out for a five hour journey back to Duisburg. We got back to Duisburg at 6:30 at
night in time to teach our investigator Ali. We talked about the first points
of the First lesson again and it is so cool to see the power that comes simply
from talking about God as our loving Heavenly Father.
This week we also had two splits. We had a power split
and brought Sister Kux and Sister Knott to our area. Sister Knott and I had a
lot of fun together, she is brand new to the mission but has almost no fear and
she is from Australia, so I got to learn some Australian words. Then Sister
Houston and I had a split and got to
teach a new family that I contacted last week. They were so cool!! We
taught only the first couple points of the first lesson and gave an overview of
Gods plan and the spirit was soooo cool! They said they would come to church and
would love to learn more.
Sister Catherall and I also taught one of our
investigators at his house with his Mom. His Mom was so cute and made us a HUGE
Arabic dinner. She didn't speak very much German at all. But her love and
happiness just radiated. She also kept joking and pestering with her son (who
is 25) and it just made for a happy night. We also got to start teaching him
the plan of salvation. I just love the plan of salvation! That is one thing I
have been noticing the longer I am on my mission, I am just coming to love the
doctrine we teach more and more. Christs church and Doctrine is seriously the
truth.
We also had the crazy experience of a member inviting the
guy who tried to steal his bike to church. The guy said YES! And he came to
church and we gave him a Book of Mormon and will hopefully be meeting with him
again tonight. This will be exciting!! Hahaha he is Russian and looks exactly
like all of the Russians you see on TV as the bad guys. Its great.
We also had interviews this week and I just love how much
President Boyer is concerned about the people we teach and about how the work
is going.
I hope you all have a wonderful week!! Halloween is
coming up soon!
Love,
Sister Losee
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