Hey y'all,
Some quick thing from the last week or so...
-we've been working a lot in this cute dorf called Gempen. In order to get there we get to ride a bus through the mountains and forest and its just the most beautiful journey. And we've met some really incredible people. One of the first houses we doored was this man who received a book of Mormon from one of his friends a few years ago, and then was stopped by some elders in Basel just a few weeks ago. He invited us in and asked us to teach him more, but because of the rule we couldn't. But we'll hopefully get in contact with him again soon.
-we had an awesome lesson with Mihretab, our new friend, and he was so open! He had a lot of questions and we had a lot of language barriers (the lesson was taught in both English and German and neither are his native language) but he said he would study what we had taught him until he understood it. We taught in a restaurant and he had ordered a beer but then stopped, looked at us, and asked "am I allowed to drink beer?" We told him that he was allowed to make decisions for himself, but that we didn't drink, and so he ordered a hit chocolate instead saying he would start trying to live like we do.
-Sister Gach studied the map and thought she had found an "Innenstadt" in our area and she was excited to be able to actually do some street contacting... so we went...and there were about 2 people there. I couldn't stop laughing.
-while we were dooring we looked at the map and saw that we were near a part-member home, so we decided to go by on them and get to know them. And for the first time on my mission someone actually yelled at us and was angry at us for doing what we were doing! Hahahaha the husband is a member and the wife despises missionaries, so it was kind of exciting. Anyway turns out this member man is the same man that had given the man in gempen a book of Mormon! And the man who we found had talked to the member man about meeting us! Basically, it was just a cool experience talking to this member and realizing that he was the friend we had heard about.
-we worked in a dorf called Seewen on Saturday. We saw a woman struggling with her groceries so I asked her if she needed help, she explained that she couldn't speak German but that she was fine. We started speaking English to her and she started to cry she was so happy to finally hear American English again. She's from California and has been living in Germany and Switzerland for a really long time. She opened up to us and just told us that she needs help and that she's been really stressed. She really wants us to come again and teach her and her daughter. We also met a man who was outside working in his yard, he asked if someone had sent us to him and was very suspicious about our timing. We gave him a book of Mormon and he couldn't stop looking at it and flipping through pages as we talked to him. He was way cool. :)
-Sunday we had a Europe-wide broadcast with Elder Ballard. It was such an incredible meeting and the spirit was so strong. He spoke a lot about how we need to believe in miracles. We also need to take some time to ponder, and pray, and just have some quiet time.
-yesterday we had a quick zone training to prepare us for getting Facebook today.. yep. Our mission is getting Facebook for online proselyting. It's going to be interesting to see how it works but we are all excited to see the difference in our work.
-Oh and we have seen about 2,000 cats and counting. I've never seen so many cats in my life and I truly feel that God has been blessing us with cats. ♡
[As far as pictures go, just enjoy them, we didn't take any this week so it's just all from the glorious day today:)]
Something that Elder Ballard had said is that the greatest miracle we can bring to people is the miracle of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. Do you love the Lord? How much? The best way to show our love and commitment to the Lord is to share the gospel, and bring others to the truth.
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