This week was really great. Sister
Garcia and I bought new backpacks at the beginning of the week. Our backs feel
sooo much better now.
We had Mission Tour this week where Elder Erich W. Kopischke, a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy came to speak to us. I learned so much from him I wish I could tell you all about it! But... there were a few major points that I would like to share with you that I learned. I learned that the more dedicated you are to something, the more joy you will find by doing it. I learned that we really have to have full knowledge of something before we can teach it. I need to really study and learn German before I can teach it, and I really have to make sure I know that this gospel is true before I testify to people that it is. Because if we know with complete certainty that something is true, we will be able to testify with the spirit. And I learned about how important it is to be truly converted in your heart and to really humble yourself to your Savior. When we submit our full will to him, he will be there to guide us on exactly the right path we are supposed to be on.
Sister Garcia and I learned some new ways to do dooring and finding. So when we go door to door and talk to people, normally they say that they have no interest or no time. So this week, we tried going to peoples doors and asking them if they would like to say a prayer with us. Many people were a little bit confused at the question which allowed us to explain a little bit more about who we are and what we do, and we actually ended up praying for a random family right at their front door. It was a really cool experience. We also tried a new approach for when we talk to people on the street. We approached this person on the street and asked him if he wanted to participate in an experiment. We then explained that this experiment would last about 5 weeks and that during this experiment, we would have to meet with them regularly and we would invite them to try a few things and tell us how they felt about it afterwards. We explained that we were from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and that this experiment changed our lives. We then went into discussing the first lesson. It was really cool to see the different reactions from people. We ended up talking to this man for about 45 minutes in the freezing rain! Sister Garcia and I decided to celebrate our new found way of finding with some sushi :)
The weather this past week has been absolutely crazy!!! A few of the trees in the woods by our house have fallen over. The wind has been blowing crazy hard and it has been hailing, sleeting, snowing and raining like crazy. Sister Garcia and I are wondering how we haven’t gotten sick yet.
This week, Sister Garcia and I did a ton of walking. We ended up walking to one of our members home. It took us about 2 hours in the rain. It was a very beautiful walk, we past a ton of fields and even a "Heathen" grave, or a Viking grave. It was super cool! The amount of history that lies in these lands is fantastic.
I love you all! I hope you have a lovely week! Go find something that you enjoy doing and go do it!
Sister Reed
We had Mission Tour this week where Elder Erich W. Kopischke, a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy came to speak to us. I learned so much from him I wish I could tell you all about it! But... there were a few major points that I would like to share with you that I learned. I learned that the more dedicated you are to something, the more joy you will find by doing it. I learned that we really have to have full knowledge of something before we can teach it. I need to really study and learn German before I can teach it, and I really have to make sure I know that this gospel is true before I testify to people that it is. Because if we know with complete certainty that something is true, we will be able to testify with the spirit. And I learned about how important it is to be truly converted in your heart and to really humble yourself to your Savior. When we submit our full will to him, he will be there to guide us on exactly the right path we are supposed to be on.
Sister Garcia and I learned some new ways to do dooring and finding. So when we go door to door and talk to people, normally they say that they have no interest or no time. So this week, we tried going to peoples doors and asking them if they would like to say a prayer with us. Many people were a little bit confused at the question which allowed us to explain a little bit more about who we are and what we do, and we actually ended up praying for a random family right at their front door. It was a really cool experience. We also tried a new approach for when we talk to people on the street. We approached this person on the street and asked him if he wanted to participate in an experiment. We then explained that this experiment would last about 5 weeks and that during this experiment, we would have to meet with them regularly and we would invite them to try a few things and tell us how they felt about it afterwards. We explained that we were from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and that this experiment changed our lives. We then went into discussing the first lesson. It was really cool to see the different reactions from people. We ended up talking to this man for about 45 minutes in the freezing rain! Sister Garcia and I decided to celebrate our new found way of finding with some sushi :)
The weather this past week has been absolutely crazy!!! A few of the trees in the woods by our house have fallen over. The wind has been blowing crazy hard and it has been hailing, sleeting, snowing and raining like crazy. Sister Garcia and I are wondering how we haven’t gotten sick yet.
This week, Sister Garcia and I did a ton of walking. We ended up walking to one of our members home. It took us about 2 hours in the rain. It was a very beautiful walk, we past a ton of fields and even a "Heathen" grave, or a Viking grave. It was super cool! The amount of history that lies in these lands is fantastic.
I love you all! I hope you have a lovely week! Go find something that you enjoy doing and go do it!
Sister Reed
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