Our other investigator is doing ok, we need to really work with her, but
we found out that she is only 24 and so that kind of explains the way
she has been acting. She hasn't quite figured out that she needs to rely on herself
and not just others. Lucky for her her husband takes good care of her.
But she really is amazing and we hope that this week we can set a
baptismal date for December. So keep her in your prayers.
Those
are really the only people we are working with right now. Our others
investigators have no time or dropped us. They won't answer their phone
or don't want any more contact. So we have been working with a lot of
the less actives in the ward this week. There are so many of them. We
are working really hard with Bishop to bring them back. It is really
sad and one of them we see every week. She promises us every week that
she will come, and then she is never there. It is really sad, cuz her
kids are learning from her that church isn't as important as it really
is. But we keep praying that she will come. This week when we visited,
we were really blunt with her. I just said, "you know church is
important. You have a strong testimony. Why don't you come?" Turns out
she has some issues with people in the ward, so that was some helpful
information. Hopefully we can fix that and get her to realize that
people aren't perfect and she needs to come to church for herself and to
come closer to God, not to worry about people. So we will see. It is
really sad how many less actives we have here. We are trying really
hard to get them to come back. It is just as important and new baptisms.
We
also visited this super cute older lady who is less active cuz she can't
really walk so well and can't get to church. She has a super strong
testimony though and she loves when we visit. She was talking to me and
she is kind of deaf so she shouts a lot. And so not only did I get
yelled at, but I didn't understand half of it. After she just smiled
at me and said " It will come one day." and then laughed. She totally
caught me that I didn't understand. but its great. She is awesome.
We
also went to Münchin this week to have Missionary Leadership
Conference, since we are sister training leaders. It was awesome.
There has been a strike on the trains and so we had to take the
ehepaar's car (the older couple missionaries car) with the zone
leaders. They are in a threesome and so there were 5 of us in the car.
Which wouldn't be that bad, but the cars here are miniature size. No
room. And we were like that for almost 4 hours there and 4 hours back.
And the elders drive crazy!! They haven't driven for so long, plus one
is used to driving on the left side of the road, so that was something
else as well. He would sometimes drift and we would remind him he was in
Germany, not England. But the conference was really good. It is so
awesome to be taught by the mission president and to see sister Kohler
as well. They are amazing. I always learn so much from them. Turns
out that we have to now teach our zone what we learned from President,
so that will be fun. That is on Tuesday. Then we also have our
interviews with him this coming week. I am really excited. Things are
going really well.
Church this week was awesome. The only surprise was the counselor came up to me and started talking in English
(unusual, cuz they usually talk German even if I don't understand
everything) and said he needed a favor. I asked what and he said he
needed a speaker for next week.... I asked if he needed me to find
someone for next week and that made him smile. So next week I have to
give a 5 minute talk in German, so prayers would be appreciated... I am
a little nervous already.
I
think that's all for this week. Things are going well here. It sounds
like things are going well there also. I miss you all a lot and I appreciate all the updates. Things are going good with my companion as
well. I think of you always and you are always in my prayers. Love
you!
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