Mai!!!

This week was actually really good and just full of little miracles.

Not even like miracles that I can explain, just little ways I knew

that God was looking after me.

This week we had some more appointments! It wasn't all just finding!

Still not the amount of appointments I am used to from Bonn or Herne,

but still doing pretty good. We surprised our sister training leaders

with our numbers this week. That was a good feeling.

One cool miracle this week was a lesson. We met his week with a lady

named Gisela. She was meeting with the sisters before and actually had

a baptismal date, but struggles with smoking and some other things.

Our first lesson with her was really awkward because we didn't know

each other and she smoked like 5 times in the lesson. But when we met

this week she only smoked once and it was a super good lesson. We had

made the appointment after our comp study and forgot to plan something

until 2 seconds before walking in the door. As we stopped to plan, her

friend who is usually there with her saw us and invited us in. So we

went in with absolutely no plan. We talked and asked about the week,

how things were going, und so weiter. Then she said something and I

felt like we needed to show the Wille Gottes video about the current

bush. After the video we sat in silence for about 30 seconds. Then her

friend was like, now you probably are going to ask what we thought.

Then the words just came out of my mouth, "not what you thought, what

you felt". From there we were able to talk about gods love and the

atonement and keeping comandments. She really opened up to us and

brought us an addiction recovery book the sisters had given her

before. By the end of the lesson the spirit was so strong and she was

so grateful we came. It was so cool to see that the lord was giving

the lesson, not us.

Another cool thing this week was that one day we had nothing. Like

literally nothing. I mean normally we have nothing, but something

about this day made it seem less than nothing. And yet when we started

the day, I knew we would see miracles. As we went through the day

nothing super big happened. No one committed to be baptized. We didn't

end up with any new investigators. Nothing super special happened. And

yet at the end of the day I knew God had lead our day. At the very end

of our day we were walking home. We had gone to do a vorbei, and

didn't want to wait for the bus, so we walked. Walking wasn't faster,

but it wasn't really slower either :) at the very end of the walk this

man stops us. "Mormons! " he was from Brazil and knew the church

there. I was trying to get his contact information and he proceeded to

tell is his life story. Only I don't think he told it in German and I

don't think it was in Englisch either. And I don't know Portuguese,

but I get this feeling it wasn't Portuguese either. I think it was a

mixture of all three. Didn't understand anything he said. Then his

friend rode by in a bike and he said hi and he friend stopped and we

ended up with his number and he wants to come to church. Super cool.

This week we also learned that your body speaks to you if you hold

your arm up and ask yes or no questions. Aren't relief society

activities so much fun?!

One more quick miracle comes from yesterday. First, we had a member

invite us over for lunch after church. MIRACLE! Haha. But since the

food wouldn't be done for a while she sent us out to do something else

and come back later. So we went contacting with the 9 year old

daughter. That was an adventure. Then we had a lesson with two men who

have a Muslim background. When we contacted the one a few weeks ago,

he really did not seem interested.after rescheduling multiple times we

finally met yesterday. He walked up with his friend, and we honestly

thought they were there to argue with us, just by the way they looked.

Really bad judging the book by the cover, but we did. Then we sat down

and they were so respectful and willing to learn. Some of the nicest

Muslims ever! It was such a cool lesson! And one of them texted us

happy Easter today. That was nice of him. :)

Today I was studying the talk given this last general conference by

elder Renlund. It is called, that I might draw all men unto me. It was

super good and just talks about needed to strengthen our relationship

with Christ. I think my favorite quote was, "To draw closer to the

Savior, we must increase our faith in Him, make and keep covenants,

and have the Holy Ghost with us. We must also act in faith, responding

to the spiritual direction we receive. All of these elements come

together in the sacrament. Indeed, the best way I know of to draw

closer to God is to prepare conscientiously and partake worthily of

the sacrament each week." The sacrament is really something that is

such a wonderful opportunity for us when we use it as that. It is

really hard to do. Especially when the 9 yr old who went contacting

with us sits between us. It can be really hard to make the sacrament

something aufbauendes . But it is such a blessing when we let it clean

us and prepare us to be closer to Christ.

Ich liebe euch! Wir sehen uns Sonntag!

Liebe

Sister Carroll

The Veste at night

Being lost

Dooring

Castle from today. Unfortunately it was closed and we just walked around the outside.