"Who do you play for?" From the movie 'Miracle'

Sorry that this letter is a little bit short. But, I have some good news! Transfer calls are in about a week and a half and President Kosak told me I will be transferred, so I would wait to send anything until I find out where I will be going.  I’m so excited!

This week has been amazing. I’ve been so lucky to email a friend from my high school about the Atonement.  She has been reading my letters while I am on my mission and in one of my emails I invited anyone who wanted to know more about the Atonement to ask me and she did!! Sister Garcia and I are also still teaching English classes up at the Church and we just started Saturday soccer again! Ya!!!  We are really trying to get weekly Young Women’s program on Wednesday nights started as well, and for fun we decorated the Young Women’s room with hearts for Valentines celebration!

And one of our investigators came to church this week and he was ready and everything as soon as we got there! WOOT!   

 
Last week we were able to make a trip to concentration camp with the youth and members of the Ward.  It was hard to see and it was interesting to talk with the members about it too.  In the museum, they had a drone voice recording that was reading all of the names of the people that were killed in that specific camp. It was hard, but I learned a lot about the Plan of Salvation and of the Atonement. President Kosak also showed us a video about Auschwitz this week as well and it was tough to see.
 
Last Wednesday I played violin for our Zone Training meeting. I played a combination of ‘I Know That My Redeemer Lives’, ‘Nearer My God to Thee’, and ‘Lead Kindly Light’.  I made it all up!  It went really well though, so President Kosak and Sister Kosak were able to hear me play as well as everyone in the Zone. I am now going down in the Berlin Mission as the sister that plays violin really well. My companion Sister Garcia is the Spanish speaking sister and together President calls us the "Dream Team"... haha! I love it!

I wanted to share a thought I had this week while reading in the Bible about David and Goliath. While I was reading this story in the scriptures; the movie ‘Miracle’ about the 1981 Gold Medal Olympic Hockey Team popped into my head. The coach in this movie constantly asks the players "Who do you play for?" eventually one of the teammates yells "THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!" I was thinking about what team do I play for? Who do we play for?

I am grateful to have the opportunity to serve the people here in Germany.

Never forget what is really important to you :) And never forget to have fun!

Sister Reed

*Here is a picture of the concentration camp that we visited.....