Leipzig Week #1

Sister Summer Reed

Gerberstrasse 18 #916

04105 Leipzig

Germany 

 

Leipzig is super awesome, I love it!  My companion is Sister Mittleman and she’s from California.  She talks like a Valley girl and she is an amazing missionary.  It is going to be a blast to work with her and the people of Leipzig. I’m feeling the best that I ever have so far health wise, so yea!  There are soooooooo many people here in Leipzig, it’s BEAUTIFUL.  There is always something going on.  It’s crazy!  The University of Leipzig is right here and it’s such a cool building and the students are everywhere, I would totally consider studying here.

We are working with someone who may be ready for baptism soon and we’ll be working hard to build up more people to teach.  Our ward mission leader is kind and intense but he is good for us.  On Sunday I played my violin in church with some of the other missionaries who played and it was really fun.  Because there are so many people in the city of Leipzig, it’s fun to stop and talk about the church to anyone and everyone.  We ran into these cute girls the other day (in the picture I’m sending, girls with pink bows).  When a girl is about to get married, they take all of their girlfriends (or bro  date for guys..) and do a little raffle thing to raise money for the wedding.  We were able to talk to these girls a little bit about the church!

Love,

Sister Reed

Me on my last day 'dooring' in Hohenstein!

 

My Dist. Ldr attempting to play my violin! ;)

Me and Sister Hann

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Building

Leipzig University

 

Transfers! I'm off to Leipzig, Germany!!!

I am so excited to be able to serve now in Leipzig Germany.  It's a big city with a couple of wards and a lot of members.  I can't wait to get to know them and my new companion.

I'll have my address next week but I wanted to leave you all with a quote:

"Have faith. Faith in the Lord, faith in yourself and faith in the future."

President Hinckley

We have the capacity to move mountains with our faith. It doesn't mean that we can just walk up to it and push it, it means we will have to take a hammer and a chisel and go at it. If that is what the lord wants us to do, we can make it happen. As long as we have faith, we can trust that everything will be alright :)

Happy Birthday!!!

Hello,

On my birthday, president and sister kosak called and sang happy birthday to me :)

Sister Barlow made me a cake and we had ice cream and we went to work... haha! We actually got stuck in a city because we missed the last bus to come home. But a bus drove by going in the opposite direction and said that when he finished his shift he would come back and pick us up and take us back to Hohenstein. He was our little guardian angel for the day. :) 

 
Thank you all for the wonderful birthday wishes! A birthday on the mission is really something else. You work hard yet you still have more fun than you ever think you would have before. :)

This week I learned what it really means to trust in God. Trusting in God is one of those concepts that you always grow up hearing and learning about, but I think this week really helped me understand better what that really means. I know that sometimes in life, we don't do things because we "don't have time" or because "I don't feel like it" or even because "I can't". I know that God really is there to help push us like a coach. If we just trust Him and keep the commandments that he has set out for us, life becomes easier and more enjoyable. He, like a coach, knows what we need to do to be able to play our best game.

I know that Heavenly Father has a plan set out for each one of us individually. We each have a duty to fulfill. He wants each of us to return to him as his faithful sons and daughters. He gives us many opportunities in life to learn and grow to be amazing people. The more we fight these experiences and try not to change, the harder it gets. If we just put our faith and trust that God knows what is best for us and he really wants us to accomplish great things, he will take us by the hand and guide us on the path of life.

At the end of my mission, school and whatever else crosses my path in the future, I want to be able to say that I can keep the faith, fight the good fight, and finish my course with joy.  I can honestly say that when we try hard to keep the most important things in our life at the top of our to-do list, we will find that we can finish our course with joy.

You are all so wonderful and I am grateful for you all. I hope that you have a wonderful week! 

"Stay strong and Smile on"

Love;

Sister Reed

Bye Bye President Kosak!

Summer & President & Sister Kosak

 

 

 

Hello Everyone!

 

Sorry that I didn't write an email last week. I will be better and write a good one this week :)

Berlin!!! This week we were in Berlin. We had a huge meeting with half of the missionaries in the mission. Elder and Sister Adler came and spoke about remembering the important things in life. They talked about how when we really focus all of our efforts on what Heavenly Father wants from us, we can accomplish so many things. The end of the meeting was really hard though because it was the last time that we will see President Kosak. We will be getting a new mission President at the end of this month. I will miss him. But he spent so much time at the end of the meeting giving us hugs that Sister Barlow and I missed our train! OOPS! So we called our AP (assistant to the president) and asked what to do. He told us to say with the Sisters in Berlin and take a train the next morning. Guess who we stayed with? SISTER GARCIA! My trainee! It was so nice to see her again and to hear all of the updates from Bergedorf.

This week, Sister Barlow and I decided to do a little finding in a city called Glauchau. We spent some time walking through the city and talking to people. Eventually we came to some guys sitting on a bench. We started talking to them about the Book of Mormon. We showed them the film "He Lives" and talked about how much God loves us and really wants us to return to Him. They ended up taking one of the copies of the Book of Mormon with them to read later.

To end off the week strong, we attended a baptism from a boy in our ward that just turned eight. We have been teaching him the missionary lessons as well and it was cool to be able to watch him fulfill his first covenant with his Father in Heaven.

love you all and I hope that you have a lovely week :)

Sister Reed