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| Our most successful display yet :) |
Anyways, let me tell you about one of the coolest weeks on my
mission.
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| Aiyana's fashion show |
So first, there’s Aiyana.
She is getting baptized this Saturday!
I literally cannot contain my excitement. Last P-Day, she wanted to go shopping with us
to try to find some modest skirts, because…well in Germany, that’s pretty dang
hard. So we went to just about every store possible,
and she either didn’t like them or they were a millions euros (okay, exaggerations,
but expensive). Finally, we told her to
go sit down, and Sister Heywood and I just went crazy and got every skirt in
the store and had her try them on for us in a little fashion show. FINALLY we found one that was just too cute. We ended up buying it for her, (It was only
10 Euro!) and telling her that she couldn’t wear it until her baptism. You should have seen her beam after that. We met with her again on Tuesday, finished
all of the lessons, and then went over the baptismal interview questions with
her, because she was way nervous. After
we were done, she was just like "Wait, is that all?" Yup! She is so ready. Her testimony is so strong, and she is just
bereit. She has her final interview
tomorrow with our district leader and then on Saturday, AIYANA IS GETTING
BAPTIZED. I couldn’t be more excited.
Second, Raphael finally came back! He was at church yesterday, and watching him
walk in in his fancy little suit just made me beam from ear to ear. He was just smiling and saying that he had
missed us and was happy to be here again.
Turns out his little trip was a job interview at a University down
somewhere, but he rejected it because he just started getting to know us and
the branch here and he didn’t want to leave it.
SERIOUSLY. How much cooler could
this guy get? And he wants to go to the
baptism on Saturday. I really hope he
can, because if he feels the spirit there, well then, fill that font back up
and let Raphael get in!
We also had a way fun FHE with Anna’s family. We played Bananagrams and did a mix of
English and German. Good stuff, and
yours truly won.
I love working with Sister Heywood. Days just seemed jammed packed with greatness. We had two street displays this week, and
through them, we were able to find a couple of potentials, and we were able to
give out 12 Books of Mormon this week. That’s
really good for us. We had a couple of
first appointments with a couple people, which sadly didn’t go anywhere, but we
also found this way awesome girl named Ola from Nigeria, who is amazed by the
three kingdoms and the Plan of Salvation.
We are meeting with a woman from Brazil tomorrow with the cutest little
boy ever. Yesterday, we were walking and
a guy from Nigeria came up to us, asked us if we were from the Church of Jesus
Christ and we said yes. He said he had
heard a lot about us from a friend of his that we talked to on the bus a few
weeks ago. He also said that his dad was
a member of our church in Nigeria for the past 15 years, and that he has been bugging
his son to find this church in Germany and join it. So we got his number and are meeting with him
this week! SICK. People just seem to be crawling out of the
cracks. It is great. We have a goal to find some Germans, though...because
for some reason, none of them are ha-ha.
But I think that the coolest story by far is from Elkin. So flash back to my email from August 18th... Over a month ago...
We had a really cool miracle this week.
So we were trying to find this potentia’ls house, and we just couldn’t
find it. Well, we didn’t want to just go
all the way out here, get frustrated that it wasn’t there and then give up and
leave, so we decided to go dooring in the area.
Well, like usual, nobody had interest, and it was getting late, so we
decided to head to the bus stop to go home.
At the bus stop, there was a guy, who kept looking at us, and he had way
broken German, but he kept saying awkward little comments to us, and smiling. We were a little weirded out, but felt like
we should talk with him. The bus came,
and so we got on, and he sat down across the isle, and didn’t really look at us. Well, behind us in the bus was this black
lady breast-feeding her baby, which was completely awkward, but then
the bus hit a bump and her stuff went everywhere. So Sister Heywood went and helped her, and
came back and sat closer to the guy. Then,
she just started talking to him. Within
a minute, we learn that he is from Spain, so I practically jump out of my seat,
and start speaking to him. Turns out he
is living here, but has seen our church everywhere in Spain, and wanted a Book
of Mormon. He told us all about his
life, and we ended up getting off the bus with him, taking him to the church,
and giving him a tour, and setting up an appointment for tomorrow night. Thank you, Sister Heywood. We now have a potential Spanish investigator,
and I am so excited!
Well, my letter the next week, I never told you what happened to this
guy, because I was just so disappointed.
That day that we were suppose to meet him, he gave us a call and asked
to reschedule the appointment for the next day.
Well, I missed the phone call, and for some dumb reason I had forgotten
to ask for his number that last week. When
he called, the number showed up as private, so we had no way to respond to him. I was crushed, and just prayed and prayed
that he would call back again, because I didn’t want him to think that we just
ignored him and didn’t care. Well, flash
forward to last Wednesday. Over a month
later. We were on our way to an
appointment, when all of a sudden, we were getting onto a bus about to leave
and Sister Heywood grabbed my elbow and pulled me out of my seat yelling,
"That’s Elkin!" We shouted to
the bus driver to let us out of the bus, ran out and jumped onto the bus that
he got on right before it left. Sister
Heywood ran up to Elkin screaming his name and I just laughed out of surprise. We talked to him and cleared up the issue of
the call. He said that he still wanted
to learn more and asked to meet the next day.
We met on Thursday and had the most amazing lesson ever. We introduced the Book of Mormon and he just
ate it up, sitting there asking what more we could tell him. We ended up meet with him Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, and we are meeting with him again tonight. I just love teaching Elkin, AND I teach him
in Spanish. Sister Heywood just tells me
what she wants to say, and I translate it.
It is amazing. And at the end of
every lesson, when we start to wrap it up, he just asks us, " I have 10
more minutes, what more do you have to tell me?" I still can’t believe our
luck. He is so prepared, and he loves
the Mormons. He always says that we have
this special glow to us, and he wants to know more about why we are so
different. He just asks us questions
about everything and eats it up. The
only sad part about it is that he is going back to Spain this week, and he
doesn’t know for how long. It could be a
week, or two or two months. He has no
idea. He has to get documentation stuff
cleared up for Germany, but Spain isn’t in the best spot right now. I am going to be crushed when he is gone. But until then, he is just soaking everything
up, and hopefully he can continue to meet with missionaries there and will be
back in a week! I have no idea though. All I know is that Elkin is awesome, and that
I am so glad that Sister Heywood say him on the bus last Wednesday.
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| Lucky took us out to a Chinese buffet. I think I ate enough for 10 people! |
There’s always so much more that happens, so many more miracles, but
right now, I am just counting my blessings.
Sister Heywood and I work awesome together, and we are just seeing
miracle after miracle up here in Münster.
I feel like I just crawl into bed at the end of every night. I honestly can’t remember the last time I
even stayed up till 10:30. We always
seem to crash after planning when we should be writing in our journals. But that’s just how I would have it.
It’s going to be another busy week, and definitely one that I will
remember. Get excited for pictures from
the baptism! Just 5 days!!!
I love you all. You’re all great. I hope that you have a fantastic week, and I
will see you around January 16th. Ahh,
weird. But until then...bis nächste
Woche!
Love you!
Savannah
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