My week…It was much much cooler!
Thank the heavens! It rained like almost every day. Fall is kind of starting to
come around. It's weird to be in one place as the seasons are changing. Maybe
I'll even be able to see winter here in Gera. (I’m crossing my fingers at
least!)
Montag: We went to the Meckels with
Lucy and had a JOINT TEACH! Lucy is a member now! So she can help us! The kids
love her and the whole family just connected with her. We were grateful for
that.
Dienstag: we taught Michael, nothing
new there and Frau Dhillion, also nothing really new. Had a "less active coordination
meeting" with the Elders. They were in Gera for a bit. Taught Lucy, or
rather she taught us the first lesson. Then we went by on a less active who
said she wasn't a member anymore. Sometimes I think it's funny that people
think they can just not come, and then they aren't a member! Ha!
Mittwoch: Taught Michael with Lucy
as a joint teach! She is wonderful! We had English and German class. Ali, our
favorite student, will be moving soon. We are sad about that. We also went to a
concert in Werdau! It was by 2 BYU students. One of them had served previously
in Werdau! They were really good and we brought a lot of investigators and less
actives and they brought their friends! So it was good!
Donnerstag: We got to go to Berlin!!
We had mission Tour with Elder Johnson. He just moved to Frankfurt 2 weeks ago
and is ein ziemlich neu (a fairly new) Area 70 for Europe! The AP's called me
on Monday and said that Elder Johnson wanted to interview me before our meeting
started. Uh...what?! So...before the meeting I had a little interview with an
Area 70. You said Stake Conference felt a little more official (with a visiting
authority)...try an interview! Just kidding! It was good and I think he just
wanted to get a real feel for how the mission really is. He talked about my
family, the language, what's hard, what I like about missionary work! It was
good! Then we had the meeting! Oh how I love meetings like this! My favorite
thing that we talked about was sports relating to the gospel. Like sports, we
need to "practice" the gospel. He also talked about us being the
gospel "coaches" for our investigators. It doesn't make sense to
teach someone basketball that we just go over to their house and talk about
basketball for an hour and then leave it be for a week. They need to practice
in order to make progress and become a better player! I love this analogy! We
also talked about getting our members involved. It's not just the missionary’s
work, but the members! It's OUR work! We NEED to do it together or it doesn't
work! It was a good meeting! And I love seeing other missionaries!
Freitag: We had a member appointment
with Sch. Dörlitz! We applied what we learned and guess what?! It worked! She
actually told us that we should come back next week to help her with something.
1. Sch. Dörlitz asking for help with anything is a miracle 2. Any German asking
for anything is a miracle! We just explained that we need the members and we
are here to help the members with what they need. Then Lucy helped us go by on a
few less actives that weren't home. Then we did weekly planning.
Sammstag: We taught Michael. Lucy
came with us to a first lesson with a 16 year old girl who really likes America.
Good thing we are American! Her mom really wants her to learn English too. So
luckily we have an in with that one! Then Lucy taught us the Plan of Salvation!
We love her!
Sonntag: Church! I love church! I've
never loved church so much as on my mission! It's just like all my stress goes
away! Oh I love church! After church, Bruder Kosak was talking to us and
randomly asked us where we were eating for lunch. Sch. Kretchmar is in the
hospital this week suddenly so she couldn't feed us like she was supposed to.
We told him that and he immediately asked his Frau if we could come over! She
said of course! So we went over! She made HOMEADE Klöße (dumplings)! SO
good! And little small miracle…she was going to invite 2 extra people over for
lunch, so Saturday night she prepared extra food. Then the people couldn't
come, but then she ended up feeding us! God looks out for his children! Even
with the little things!
Love you all so much! Have a great
week! Dad said you have fun things planned!
Liebe, Sister St. John
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