Familie! Schön euch wieder zu schreiben.
I feel weird that it is Monday again. It will be June at the end of this week. That just is crazy. I am just glad that things haven’t changed
much back home. Except for the whole
“Troy being married and talking about babies thing,” things seem good. Taryn and Matt are taking BEAUTIFUL selfies,
you are all playing Bananagrams, and then there is dad. I think that Dads letter was my favorite this
week. "I would actually like to leisurely ride
around and am even thinking about getting a roll-behind carrier for dogs so
that Sparky can join me. He doesn’t do
so well with long walks anymore, so this may indeed be a good solution. It just costs money. Oh well." Oh man, I died laughing when I read
that. The entire Internet cafe just
looked at me. I can just see dad with a
little carrier and sparky inside. Too
good.
Anyways. My week…
Monday,
we had Sport Night, after going on a hike for P-day. Damien brought his friend with him, which was
really great. His friend had come to
church a lot and is the one that I gave a Book of Mormon to about a month
ago. He lived in Dortmond, but he is
down here all of the time, so we thought, why not, let’s just try to start
teaching him. So we talked with him a
lot on Monday, and he showed a lot of interest.
But then he was suppose to come to Institute on Thursday with Damien,
and Damien told us that he ended up leaving to go back to Spain super sudden. Now he is gone. I was crushed, but hopefully he will find the
missionaries there and start to meet with them.
Tuesday
was a good day. Cathy and Michelle
finally found a new place to live, and they are so excited about it. That is a miracle if I have ever seen one. This week we have been helping them move and everything,
and then we teach Michelle. It’s been
great. Tuesday, we went to their new
place in Eberbach, and helped paint.
Cathy had another friend there helping, and we ended up talking with him
a lot. He isn’t a member and had a lot
of questions about why we are here and what we are doing, and we had a really
good conversation together. Afterwards,
we went back to town, and went and taught the Erbs with Sister Keil. We taught the Plan of Salvation, and it was a
great lesson. She had SO MANY questions,
and while we couldn’t answer all of them, we were able to definitely teach by
the spirit, and help her understand. It
is amazing how when I am teaching investigators, the language just seems to
flow. Frau Erb also read all of the chapters that we asked her to read in the
Book of Mormon. She also said that she
prayed but didn’t get an answer. Sister
Keil explained how she got hers and that it took time, and Frau Erb said that
she would continue to pray.
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Wednesday,
we met with the Onigkeits again. Afterwards, all of our appointments fell
through again. Surprise. We decided to go finding, because all of our
investigators seem promising, and then disappear off the face of the
earth. We decided to hop on this bus and
ride it until whenever. We sat down and
there was this Asian guy sitting right across from us. We had three different Books of Mormon in
Chinese so we thought, well, what the heck.
So we pulled out the books. They
were all different translations…and asked him which one made the most
sense. We were curious. He pointed to one, picked it up, and then
asked if he could have it. Uh, yes
please. He said that he really doesn’t
have any religious background. When I
asked him if he would be interested in meeting with us and learning more about
what we believe and about the Book of Mormon, he said yes. I was a little dumbfounded, because we never
really get that far. But we got his
number and he said to call him beginning of June when his finals are over. So we will do that.
The next
day, we met with Carla. She served a
mission in the Alpine, German speaking mission, and is living here for the
summer working. She told us a lot about
her mission, and gave us some ideas that were successful for her. So since our appointments fell through again,
we tried some of her suggestions. We were
able to give out a couple of Books of Mormon again, so that was cool.
Freitag
war erfolgreich. We went and met with
the Roses, a family in our ward. He is a
character. He reminds me a lot of
Grandpa Keyser. The only English that he
can really speak is what he learned from Romance and joke books. He likes to practice his English, and so what
he tells us is just hilarious. He told
us all of these jokes, and they were just awful. They were really long, and then there was no
punch line, but I just laughed because they were so bad. But Sister Rose was able to help me a
lot. I made this Plan of Salvation thing
in English, and the elders want me to make it in German, and so she helped me
translate some things. So now I am
almost done!
That
night, we got to go and see Frau Breitenhuber.
We brought a couple from the ward along, and taught the Restoration. After the lesson was over, we overheard her talking
to Schwester Vogt. She was saying how
since we came, she has noticed an inner difference in her life. Ah, she is so cute. I am so grateful für sie.
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Saturday
morning, we helped Cathy and Michelle move again. I was amazed at how much stuff could fit into
two rooms. But we got it all packed
up. They are all ready to move into the
new house!
Yesterday
at church, the Spanish bishop came up to me and said that the person that was
suppose to give a talk couldn’t and asked me to talk during sacrament. Uhhh....
It turned out surprisingly good, though.
The spirit definitely helped there.
Two weeks
ago, we challenged Sister Dabron to invite a friend over for our next
appointment with her. After church, we
went to the Dabrons, and her friend Haike was there. It was great! She has a ton of
potential. She lived in PA for 12 years,
and had a lot of Mormon friends there and went to church with them a couple of
times. She was sad when she had to move
back to Germany, and so one of her friends contacted our bishop and our bishop
invited her to an activity last summer.
Through that she became really good friends with some people in our
ward. Aren’t church connections great!
We got her number and are going to start meeting with her next week.
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Well,
thank you for all that you do, Family (and friends). Your letters always make me so happy. It is
always a good reminder of why I am here.
Ich habe euch Lieb!
And Troy...good luck on the
MCAT. I pray for you every night and
know you will do great.
Love,
Savannah
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