Plan of Salvation



ETERNAL FAMILIES!!!!



My family!

     This week, Sister Barlow and I had the opportunity to do some service on this older couples farm. This farm is about 400 years old and is still holding up. :) It is very beautiful. These investigators need help maintaining their garden because they are getting too old to do it themselves. But after we helped them, we had a typical German lunch (potatoes, rotkohl, and wurst), and talked a lot about some specific chapters in the Book of Mormon. We discussed the Plan of Salvation and what it really means to live with our families for eternity. That is one of my favorite things to teach about because it brings so many people so much hope. We really can return to live with our families again after we die.      We do get many, many, many door slams. Every morning we go for a run down to the city center and down to the Bahnhof. It is really a beautiful place. Driving a car is getting a little bit easier now that I understand the roads and stuff :) There are rarely any stop signs and I am pretty sure that Germany is the only place that has minimum speed limits and areas where it is illegal to stop... :) The houses here in Hohenstein are extremely old. I love it.
     Earlier in the week, we were able to meet with an investigator that we found while going door to door last week. He was very interested in how we treat the Sacrament differently in our church. We talked for a while about what the Sacrament is and how it can help us throughout the whole week. We talked about how the sacrament is a time for us to be able to reflect on the past week and to renew the covenants we made at baptism so that we can have a fresh start the next week to become more like Christ. While we were talking with him, he showed us his really old Bible that he has. It is from the year 1737. It was HUGE! And very beautiful. 
     The history here is really amazing. Sister Barlow and I get to work with not only people that don’t know about the gospel, but people that do. The members here are so welcoming and supportive of not only the missionaries, but also of the people seeking complete truth. 
     Thank you so much for the support that you give us. I have really learned a lot more about the Atonement this week because we have really incorporated it into a ton of our lessons. I am really grateful for the atonement and the healing power that it possesses.

In Romans 8: 38-39 it says,

38. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

I can testify that nothing can separate you from the love of God. I promise that he loves you no matter what and wants us to return to him one day. I love you all to and I hope you have a lovely week.

Sister Reed