love seeing miracles everywhere that just prove that God is looking
out for you. This week we got kicked out of the Uni by security
guards, got rained on, got some autographs from some famous police
officers, Skyped with an investigator in the alpine mission, got
rained on some more, ran into a protest, helped out freezing elders
and set a baptismal date! So much excitement and so many stories!
The security guards and the rain are pretty self explanatory. The
autographs came from an investigator. He likes sister Schuring. He is
also the chief Polizist in Bochum. Some of the officers under him do a
television show and are very famous apparently. He was so shocked that
we didn't know them. But he got us their autographs anyway. He is
pretty cool, but he also calls sister Schuring Lindsay so...... The
elders might end up with him.
The skype and the baptismal date go together. Did I tell you about Nan?
She lives in Bochum which is in our area. She went on vacation for
like 3 weeks somewhere in the alpine mission and met the missionaries.
She loved what she learned and set a baptismal date with them. But
then she had to come back to Bochum for work and school. She still has
the baptismal date for 28th November. It was awesome because president
called us and told us about her. Then the sisters called us and we set
up a Skype appointment. Then we Skyped with her to meet her and let
her get to know us. Then she showed up in Bochum on Saturday! We are
so excited for her. She is super nice and she has a baptismal date!
That was literally God handing us a baptism.
The protest and the freezing elders semi go together. Really the
protest was nothing big. It was funny timing. Friday night we had an
appointment with a member then German class where some potentials were
supposed to come to. During the appointment we got like a million
calls from the elders and some pretty good voice mails. Turns out they
left their key to the church at home and waited outside the church for
more than 2 hours in the cold until we showed up. The messages were
along the lines of, we are dying! Then the next day we were planning
on doing a finding activity in Bochum just before Nan was coming. We
got there and there were no elders. And there was a really big
protest. We called them and they didn't answers. So we did finding by
ourselves for a minute before trying to call them again. Later we got
a call from a random number that ended up being the elders using a pay
phone to find us. Turns out they accidentally locked themselves out of
he apartment with only €5 and their bus passes. Somehow we found them
and got them hot chocolate because they were sad. Then they used our
phone to call the zone leaders to get a spare key. They went to
Dortmund, still with only €5, and we spent time with Nan. Later we had
a voice mail from them using a pay phone in Dortmund telling us they
had just used the last of their money and were stranded in Dortmund.
We called the zone leaders and assumed they had made it back and
gotten to the church for their appointment, we went there and brought
apples for them. After their appointment we all went home. At like
10:15 we get a call from the elders. They had finally made it into the
apartment. Apparently the key didn't work and they had to wait for the
Hausmeister to get home. Poor elders. They are grateful for pdays.
Through all the craziness this week we did see lots of miracles. Today
I was reading president Uchtdorfs talk from women's session. Aunt Rose
says, "You see, everything else in the gospel--all the shoulds and the
musts and the thou shalts --lead to love" and I think that is so true.
Everything we are told not to do or to do, weather they be
commandments or the white handbook, are to help us love others
better. That better love helps us serve them more and bring them
closer to Christ. I thought that was really cool. I love how so much
of the gospel is love.
I hope you all have a good week! See miracles! Ich liebe euch!
Liebe
Sister Carroll
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| Dinner appointment at the Roths yesterday |
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