Heeeeeeeeeyyyyyyy
Family!
Sister Blohm and I had
a much better week this week. Thanks for sending extra prayers our way. I'm
pretty sure somebody did some serious praying on Friday because it was a major
miracle day. I was seriously wondering who maybe went to the temple and put us on the prayer roll ( you can call the temple, or when you are there, add names to the "prayer roll" - which is a collection of names that are prayed about during a temple service). We left the house that
day with two extra Book of Mormons. One was in Italian and one was in French.
We had two potentials who we needed to deliver Book of Mormons to and they
spoke these languages. As we were going out the door Sister Blohm said, "I
hope we don't give out these Book of Mormons to someone else so that these
people can get them." And I said, "I hope we do! We can always visit
the other people another day." So together we made the goal that we would
go out to deliver these Book of Mormons to the people who had already requested
them, but we would do everything we could to find other people to give them to.
On the bus no one would talk to me but I heard a lady behind me speaking on the
phone in French. She and her boyfriend got off at the same bus stop that we
were already getting off at. I said, "Sister Blohm, I think they speak
French." And then we basically followed them ha ha. They were fast walkers
but we finally caught up with them and just street contacted them and
introduced them to the Book of Mormon, of which we just so happened to have a French
copy. So after we introduced the Book of Mormon the boyfriend said, "No,
we only believe in Jesus Christ." And then I explained again that this
Book was all about Jesus Christ. And I showed him how right on the cover it
says, "Another Testament of Jesus Christ." And he said, "But
look how much bigger Mormon is on the book than Jesus Christ." And then I
told him, "Look at my nametag. What name do you see there?" Then he
believed us that Jesus Christ really is the center of our church and he and his
girlfriend took the Book of Mormon and gave us their information so we can
contact them again. So then we set off to give the Italian Book of Mormon to
the woman who had requested it. Turns out she didn't really want it. So we left
her apartment determined to still give away this Italian Book of Mormon. We
spoke to everyone and knocked on some doors, specifically ones with an Italian
flag, but couldn't find someone who would want a copy of the Book of Mormon in Italian. After a while it
was time to go to our appointment with X (a less active). So we went and
visited her, and at the end of our discussion we asked her if there was
anything we could do for her. She said yes, that she has a friend who speaks
Portuguese who she wants to share the gospel with, so could we please bring her
a Portuguese Book of Mormon? So we said of course, and Sister Blohm said,
"Too bad right now we only have Book of Mormons in German and Italian with
us." And then X said, "Oh I could give the one in Italian to my
boss!" So then we talked about how she might go about doing that, and we
gave X the Italian Book of Mormon, to give away to her boss. And it was
the best lesson ever with X! So Friday was a really good day.
German slip ups . .
.
One time Sister
Lewis said fruchtbar (fertile) instead of furchtbar (terrible)
One time in GMK . .
.
Sister Blohm
(talking about an investigator . . . now former investigator . . . she is an
old woman and we got a really nasty phone call from someone who is responsible
for her.): She said "We met her in an emergancy (notfall)".
Everyone in the
meeting (the GML and the elders) perked up like, "Oh this is going to be a
good story."
Me to Sister Blohm:
Notfall means emergency.
Elder Kelly to
Sister Blohm: Oh, you meant zufall (coincidence).
Guess who got the
Aaronic Priesthood yesterday? G.. Our new wonderful convert. I’m so happy for him.
Me (meeting the new
golden on the phone): Do you speak German?
Elder Cottam: No,
not really.
Me: Good me either.
Elder Kelly's
golden is from Utah! And we have another golden in the district who is also
from America! That means Americans now have the majority in a district in
Switzerland. I think this is the first time that has happened since Americans
weren't allowed to serve here anymore.
Dienst (service).
This week we watered a family's plants while they were out of town (that worked
out because they live right next to the church a.k.a. right next to us). We
also got to work in a garden again pulling weeds. Yayyyyyyy!
Ch is
falling of the map. She never answers and her son claims her phone is not
working and every time we go by she is not home. Noooooo! Don't worry we'll
keep trying.
Ch and a few
other people we try to visit live in Balshal. I really like Balsthal. I have
this dream that one day there will be a branch in Balsthal. And then someday a
ward! I just really like it there. I think it is one of the most beautiful
parts of my area. It also takes a while to get there (we have to take two
different trains). But almost every time we go I see three castles (One of them
is a pretty ugly fortress castle but it still counts. And the other two are so
pretty).
We saw Michelle
again this week! She's super great and she has such great questions. She had
read the first two chapters of First Nephi on her own. And she came to church.
We also went
mini-golfing with the relief society plus Michelle came too because her mom
brought her. So that was some good bonding time with her. Mini-golf here was
weird it's not on grass and the ball rolls way more. I was terrible, and Sister
Blohm was worse. Ha ha I think the sisters in the ward must have been
impressed.
I'm watching the
America vs. Germany game on Thursday with my best friend Esther Jäger (the
innactive who is the bishop's sister. And she really is my best friend ha ha.).
Pray for a miracle a.k.a that America will win.
What else. Sorry I
never really tell you that much actually maybe. A lot more happens during the
week then I ever write down (I never claimed to be the world's best
journal-keeper or email-writer). But we work hard every day. One time you asked
for a typical day but there really is NO SUCH THING. Every day is different.
Some days go as planned, some don't. But the church is true, the book is blue,
and Jesus was a Mormon! Ha ha Kris Fredrickson told me Matt always says that in
his emails and I thought it was so cute. So I'm stealing it just for today.
Tell Grandma her
cards have been getting to me and I am thankful for them.
This week my
mission president will change. I'm so looking forward to meeting him and his family.
I hope you're all
doing well. Love you!!
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