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| The only way to cool off! |
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| View from our apartment in Leipzig |
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| The locals think I'm Italian!! Why? ;) |
I am sorry for slacking off the
past few weeks! I am in Leipzig! This place is so amazing and beautiful. I love
working in the city just as much as I love working in small towns. Sister
Mittleman and I get ourselves into the most interesting conversations. It is
cool to hear all of the different opinions that people have on religion here. A
popular question that we have been asking recently is "What motivated you
to wake up this morning?" It really sparks up some interesting
conversations. When I started asking this question so much, I realized that
every day, everyone has a cool reason to wake up in the mornings. There is
something special to be found in every day.
It is sooo crazy hot here. It was
almost 100 degrees the other day and it was crazy humid. Germans don’t believe
in air conditioning. There was absolutely no escape from the heat.... So that’s
a good reason to buy ice cream right? *see picture below
A small miracle that we saw
this week was on Friday. Sister Mittleman and I went to some student housing to
talk to the students about the Book of Mormon. We went from door to door
getting their opinions and insights on the book. After a while, the heat really
started getting to us, and we were thinking about going home early. One of the
students that we had talked to earlier that day ran down the stairs and brought
us some watermelon and told us that she thought what we were doing was really
great. We talked a little bit about life, and then she left to go study. But I
am grateful for her for bringing us some watermelon... cause it was crazy hot
and also for giving us the little boost of motivation to just keep going.
Friday afternoon, we went to a member’s
house that are from America. They decided to have a BBQ with all of their
neighbors and invite the missionaries. This was a really awesome experience for
us to be able to talk and get to know some people and just talk about what we
do in a more natural setting. We also got to eat some really awesome pulled
pork, American style. It was so good!
Saturday was really cool.
Sister Mittleman and I brought one of our investigators to a baptism that was
held in the church. The baptismal service was held in three different
languages! (French, English and German) It was really cool for us, but also our
investigator to see this man make his first covenant or promise to Heavenly
Father.
The week came to an end by
partaking of the sacrament on Sunday... It was literally so hot and because
Germany doesn’t have air conditioning, we only had one hour of church. Although
it was one hour, we were able to partake of the sacrament, and also listen to
many of the members bear their testimony of the doctrine of Christ. Some of the
members got up this week and talked about prayer and how powerful prayer can
really be when we are sincere and pray with our whole hearts. If we show God
that we are willing to trust him and show him what we are willing to do, he
will show us the way.
I wanted to end this email
today with a hymn that has really helped me get through my mission. This one
verse is my favorite
If we do what’s right, we have no
need to fear
For the Lord our helper will ever
be near
In the days of trial his Saints he
will cheer
And
prosper the cause of truth.
Fear not, though the enemy deride,
Courage for the Lord is on our
side.
We will head no what the wicked may
say,
But
the Lord alone we will obey.
He really is there to help each
of us take those small steps to becoming the best that we can be. We shouldn’t
ever have to fear for what is ahead of us. When we put our complete trust in
the Lord and follow the guidance that he provides us, he will always cheer us
on.
I love you all and I hope that
you have a lovely week!
Sister Reed
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| Leipzig LDS Meetinghouse |
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