This week went by waaaaaay too fast! But it was fantastic! So many things happened this week that I can't even think about what to say! But here's a [quick] rundown:
Wednesday we went to the Häners house for lunch and service. Sister Häner is probably the sweetest woman I have ever met and she grew up in what is now my homes backyard, we connected really fast my first Sunday here! She knows a lot of people from my homeward since it was her childhood ward! I love her lots, she's amazing!
We made about 200 more cat friends, but only took pictures with one of them so enjoy the pictures of our Sunday night pal.
On Friday all of the missionaries went to Munich for a conference with Elder Ballard and the area authorities, it was incredible! Words cannot even explain. The spirit was so strong and it was so powerful. I'm so grateful for that opportunity. Also Elder Ballard probably has the softest hands on this planet. And he's incredibly nice and funny.
It was so cool to have all of the missionaries from our mission in one place, and it was so fun to see so many old friends and mission buddies! (I got to ride on the bus from Zurich to Munich and back again Sister Hill and Sister Hunter and it was the absolute best, they are some of my bestfriends and I've missed them so much!)
Thursday night and Friday night we slept over in the Sisters apartment in Bern with 6 other sisters so that we wouldn't have to get up quite so early to go to Munich or get home quite so late.. We still had to get up at 2:30 Friday morning, so even though we were exhausted it was fun to spend time with the Sisters!
Yesterday we went finding in Basel (the elders area) just so we could finally do some street contacting and we met so many cool people! We also went dooring in our area and when we were headed to another area I felt like we needed to do one more house. The woman answered the door, we started our spiel, and she stopped us and said "where have you been? Why did you stop coming to me? We've been waiting." Confused, we were like "wie bitta?" She took that as us not understanding her German so she switched to English and repeated adding that she hasn't seen missionaries in years and that they had just stopped coming without saying anything. They met with missionaries for 50 years.. ahahaha. We told her we had absolutely no idea about that but that we are here now. She had just gotten out of the hospital so she wasn't ready for us to come in right then but we'll be hopefully seeing them again before they move in a few weeks. We went to another apartment in another area and the second door we knocked was this cute mom who let us right in, she had met with missionaries before as well! We talked with her for quite a while and she talked about her conversion to Christ and her life back in the dominican republic before she came to live in switzerland.. She was super cool!
Elder Ballard gave a challenge to the youth in Europe this week and I would like to extend it to all of you, because missionary work can be done all over the world! The challenge is for every person to find ONE person for the missionaries to teach before Christmas. Got it? Every one of you has until Christmas to find one person for the missionaries to teach! As we all do this we will see miracles and the church will grow, the knowledge of Christ and the restored gospel will be spread, and you will have a missionary experience in your pocket. The greatest miracle and the best gift you can give someone is knowledge of their Savior Jesus Christ, and the knowledge of the restored gospel that can do greatly bless and change their lives! Ready..set... GO!
Have a fantastic week everyone! I love you all ♡
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