The Skog Blog: The one with 《positivity》 with a hint of {mourning} 8/29/2017

Hey y'all,

This last week was sooo long but somehow it's a new one already? We had basically zero appointments all week so we just found all day every day. Annnnnnd we finally found some potentials, und wir freuen uns! So I'll talk about 2 of them.. We stopped this cute Ugandan mom and babe by the university and she told us that family is just so important to her, so we told her that our church is centered on families and that we believe families can be eternal, and she wanted to learn more! She'll be in Berlin for holiday for 2 weeks but when she gets back she wants to meet. Then on Thursday we went to this kind of far out dorf because we were going to drop by on some members and share a quick message but since we were traveling so far we wanted to spend a couple hours there... it was a small dorf and so there weren't really people out so we just doored, only one girl actually talked to us and watched our video but then she told us she didn't have interest, so we just kept going. There was an old guy outside doing yard work and I just felt like we needed to talk to him so we scudded over (well, I don't know if I would call it that as we didn't want to scare the poor old man, but we wanted to catch him while he was outside) and I just said "hello" and he just started talking and talking and talking...as old men who don't know you do... then when he noticed our name badges he started asking about it, when we said we were also known as Mormons and he was like "oh. Yeah I know about you Mormons. You're kind of weird people. What's the other name you go by?" After him just thinking and trying different things for a while he was like "oh Amish! You guys are those Amish people aren't you?" He continued to tell s he wasn't interested in that, but when we explained we weren't actually Amish he was like "ok cool, well do you have any materials on you?" Sister McAllister pulled out das Buch Mormon and he was so curious, she started to show him the pictures in the front and explain them but he took the book away and just read the descriptions about the pictures and HE WAS SO EXCITED. He saw the picture of Samuel the Lamanite and was like, "that's a lot like the world today". But he just was so excited and intrigued by the book. We told him he could have it and he just hugged it. Then I have him a card with the address to the church and our phone number, it was an 'ich bin Mormone' card and he read that, smiled and said, "not yet, I have to read this book first." Ahahaha I love old people.

.....And now we wait.

Today we went to the dachau concentration camp and I am speechless. Emotionally and mentally drained. I am astounded with the evil people are capable of. My heart is broken, and my heart goes out.

Hah, so anyhow, on that happy note we're going to go get to work and try to save the world.

From todays reading im Buch Mormon,

Alma 36:21 Es konnte nichts so außerordentlich und so bitter sein, wie meine Qualen es waren. Ja, und weiter sage ich dir, mein Sohn, andererseits kann nichts so außerordentlich und so süß sein, wie meine Freude es war.
I have always loved reading the book of Mormon, especially about Alma the younger and his conversion story, but theres something about reading in another language and really having to pay attention so you can understand. We truly can find so much joy and happiness through repentance and through Christ, just as Alma did. But like Alma, we must turn to the Lord, we must practice and use whatever amount of faith we have. Ahhh I love the book of mormon and the gospel and Jesus and our Father in Heaven!

I love you all, sorry I don't have time to email personally, we were at dachau for a couple hours longer than anticipated, leaving only the train ride for emails... also this email is being written during email time, I just don't know when it will send because of the lack of Wi-Fi.

Viel Spaß!

Liebe Grüße,

Sister Lundskog