Teaching the people here has really strengthened my faith though. I have really been able to see how happy people really are here with tremendous faith. The family we are teaching that are from Ghana moved here for a better life. They have already experienced so many miracles and amazing opportunities. I loved hearing their stories and hearing about how their faith has helped them. I really hope that they will continue to want to learn more.
Seriously, there are spiders all over the place here. But it leads to very interesting conversations in the apartment and experiences with our land lord. Her name is Frau Glinka. She lives underneath us and always comes outside laughing when we are trying to get our bikes. Our bikes are under the stairs that get to our apartment. They are in the wall in a hole that is infested with spiders. So everytime we have to get the bikes we scream. She just comes out laughing with a broom and sweeps them away. She is a really wonderful lady.
So, Sister Sanders and I experienced some really amazing miracles this week. I can really tell that this is the Lord's work. To begin, we got lost a few times this week. Once, about five minutes away from home, we decided to take a short cut through the woods to get to the bus stop. We totally got lost and SIster Sanders ended up losing her monthly bus pass. So we spent about 40 minutes looking for it. Haha! But, we found it, along with a ton of cuts and scratches from plants and a companion with sitinging nettle... But! plans changed and we ended up calling some investigators to make appointments. We ended up being able to reach people that we have been trying to contact for months. (or the sister before me have been trying to contact) It was really a miracle.
One of the members we were able to contact was a newly baptised member that disapeared a few months back. A few weeks after he was baptised, he stopped coming to church and no one could contact him. But, he ended up calling us and we met up with him at the church. He told us that he was suffering from some health problems and moved houses. He was so excited about the gospel and was really excited to bear testimony of the Savior and the Book of Mormon.
We also me with this cute family from Ghana. The happened to be by their apartment one day and stopped by. This lady has so much faith in God. I really admire her. And she is so sweet. She will do anything for her boy. She asked us if we would be willing to teach her son and take him to activities that we have at the church, so that was pretty cool. The missionaries in this area put on a soccer activity for anyone that wants to come on Saturday mornings. We also put on other activities like an english and a german class. We ended up taking her son to play soccer with some of the other kids. After soccer we took him back to the church building and gave him a tour while we talked about the Book of Mormon. He said that although he does not like to read, he feels like it is important to read scripture. So he was very excited to read the Book of Mormon. He was also very excited about baptism. I am really excited to teach and learn from this boy and his mother because they really have so much faith.
My companion and I had the opportunitz to teach the little kids in primary on sunday. We taught them about how forming a habit is like learning how to juggle. If you want to gain a new talent, you have to practice it. Haha! And after that we taught the youth. This was pretty cool because we had a lot of inactive youth come. The girl that was supposed to teach the class came up to us before it started and asked for help teaching because she was a native spanish speaker and didn't speak very much German. So, we pretty much just took over the lesson for her. It was about standards and how we need to keep our standards high and be a Christlike example to every one that we come in contact with. Sister Sander's came up with the idea of oragami. So, we each started to make oragami and each fold symbolized doing another standard like reading the scriptures, or praying, or listening to wholesome music... By the time we had finished, we had made paper frogs that would spring. We taught that when we do all of the things that we are supposed to, we will be able to accomplish more in our lives. It was pretty cool.
I apologize for the really long email, but I really learned a lot this week. I learned that this is not my work, it is my Heavenly Fathers work. He has a plan for all of his children. I learned to trust him and have faith that he will guide me in everything I need to do everyday. I also learned through the investigators we taught this week that faith in Jesus Christ really does bring peace and happiness. I am really grateful to be a missionary. I love you all and hope that you have an amazing week. :)
-Sister Reed
PICTURES!!!
1. Us playing soccer with some kids from the ward and some investigators
2. Sister Sanders and I lost in the woods... haha!
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