Peanut Butter

Moin, 

So many awesome things happened this week, I don't know where to start. I guess to begin, I'm gonna give a little shout out to my family. My grandparents sent me peanut butter and I am the happiest person in the world. :) Sister Sanders and I celebrated an awesome week last night by making chocolate chip pancakes and drinking American Cream soda that we found at our grocery store. 

This week was really great. One of our investigator always forgets when we have appointments planned because she can't read or write so we ended up going a full day early to make sure we would catch her at home :) we ended up teaching her and her son about our purpose her on earth and where we will go when we die. You could really tell during the lesson that she knew what we were saying was true. It was really cool.

Tuesday was pretty cool because a man in our ward met with us and discussed with us how to be an effective missionary. He spoke a lot about the atonement and that if we really have a firm understanding in the atonement and our Savior, we should be able to accomplish anything. Later that night, while my companion and I were teaching English Class, two women walked into the church. One of them was holding a baby and asked if she could use our bathroom. They ended up hanging around in the church for a bit just walking around. I ended up talking with them about the church and what we did in each room. One of the woman walked into our Chapel. She was speechless for a bit and finally said that she felt a comforting spirit there. We talked to her more about the church and about what we believe in and she said that she would come back the next week. I hope to see her tomorrow. :) It was a really cool experience because my companion was still teaching english and I was attempting to give a church tour all in German by myself. I was really able to see how much German I actually knew. It was really amazing. (Our Meetinghouse in Hamburg)

This past weekend, we had interviews with our mission president and stake conference. It was nice to meet with my mission president again because the last time I spoke with him I was really jet lagged. haha! I was also able so see my wonderful last companion Sister Moffet! We happen to be in the same stake. But stake conference is the first stake activity that we have been to so it was really cool to see her there. :) Stake conference was very spiritual. It was all auf Deutsch (in German) but I am amazed that I could really easily understand it. I am so blessed to have the opportunity to do the work of the Lord, because he helps me accomplish anything. :)

Sister Sanders and I have been doing a lot of dooring this week with not a ton of success. It is amazing to see how many people get so angry just by looking at our nametags. But we ended up going by a contact from a lady in our ward. We went to this womans house and discovered that she used to meet with the missionaries about 20 years ago!!! She was so excited to see us and invited us over to have tea next week. (yes tea... Germans drink a ton of tea. And we are allowed to drink pepperment tea. yumm...) I am so excited and hope she will be our little miracle.

My little spiritual thought for today:
     Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith. 

Make sure that you are doing the little things everyday to help strengthen your testimony and I promise life will not seem as hard. :) 

I hope yall have a lovely week!

Sister Reed