O be wise....

The weeks fly by on a mission. They really do. Tuesday for English course, the Elders drew a map on the board with a theater, hotel, restaurant and all kinds of other things. We sat there in little groups and gave each other directions on how to get from one place to another. We have about 13 students that come to English course now. They are all so enthusiastic about the language. It is awesome!

We are still teaching Phillip, whose real name is Reza.  He is doing really great and is reading in the Book of Mormon. We can’t figure out yet why he isn’t coming to church. We have arraigned a joint teach set up that will be with our Zone leaders and a man from the Stake that is Persian so Reza will have someone to speak his own language with. Our investigator Phillip who is from Africa is also doing well, although he is just a little obsessed with money so we are trying

to work hard to work with him on humility. We are also trying to meet with some Spaniard friends that we met on the street a few weeks ago and that have been a lot of fun. Our sweet friends Elinda and Kevin are both doing well. Kevin couldn’t come to soccer or church this week because he got the flu. :(

We are still trying so hard to work with this branch. If you could please pray for them especially President Imbeck and Bruder (Brother) Winkler in specific, that would be really awesome :)

Sister Garcia and I have been looking for service opportunities to do around our area. But while we are looking, we decided to help a lady in our ward edit her thesis she is a native

Spanish speaker that has been living in Germany and writing a final thesis in English. I am so amazed with the people here.

We started up Fußball (soccer) again. This week we got to play because we didn't have any appointments at the time. We play with a bunch of kids from the ward and they bring some

friends from school, and some less active youth come as well. We play in a field by the church. Fußball is huge here! I am totally going to go home a huge fan. :)

We are reading the Book of Mormon as a mission right now and we read Jacob this week. One of my favorite scriptures in the Book of Mormon is in Jacob. He talks all about what we need to do to achieve salvation and that Heavenly Father is always right there to back us up. At the end he simply states "O be wise; what can I say more?" We all know what we should be doing. We know what is good and what is wrong, what we should be doing and what we shouldn't. I can

testify that when we really take the time to do the small simple things that we should be doing, we will find more joy day to day and we will find ourselves to be significantly less stressed out. :)

Have a lovely week! I love you all. Sister Reed