Hello everybody!
This past week went by so fast! I
can hardly believe that it is Monday again!
We were able to meet with R and D
this past week, with members at both lessons! That was great. We made R a CD of
music from General Conference (you can download it for free!). We watched the
Restoration video with D; he has already read a little in the Book of
Mormon and to quote him "I think I fell in love with this book" :) He
didn't make it to church yesterday, but our hopes are still high for him. This
week we are going to teach him about the Plan of Salvation.
We also had lots of Zone
activities this past week. Zone P-day on Monday and Zone Training on
Tuesday. Want to know something funny? So I don't know who remembers, but
back when I served in Munich, I had a Swiss companion named Sister Roffler who
had to wait for her visa before serving her mission on Temple Square. Well, her
brother got his mission call to Brazil, but also doesn't have his visa yet, so
he is serving in Waiblingen, one of the others areas in the Stuttgart Zone! It
was so funny, we took a picture of him to send to Sister Roffler :)
Saturday we had a Finding Day
here in Goppingen, where the Elders from our district came and we all went out
together. We went to this Dorf about 15 minutes outside Göppingen. The weather
was a little crazy, it would rain and then be sunny, but we saw a lot of
success. Plus the German countryside is beautiful, so I can't really
complain.
The weather here in Germany has
finally warmed up. In fact, it got warm really, really fast. Yesterday we wore
jackets to church in the morning but then by the afternoon it was so warm we
didn't even need them anymore. Today is also sunny :) It is a good change of
pace.
Yesterday we visited Schwester D
in the hospital. She is an elderly member of the ward. She has trouble seeing
and hearing. Recently she fell and broke her leg, so she had to get surgery and
now she is in the hospital for a couple weeks. We went by and read her a
story out of the Relief Society manual. Then she prayed before we left and
in her prayer she said "Bless the missionaries that they can be cheerful
even though it is hard sometimes." The Spirit just filled up the room and
I got tears in my eyes. I have so much respect and love for her. The fact that
she prayed for us to be happy touched my heart. Here she is in the hospital
with a broken leg, with poor eyesight and vision (did I mention her arm is also
in a cast?) and she just radiates peace. She is a perfect example of how the
gospel can influence our lives and help us through hard times.
Ich weiß, dass Gott immer da ist.
Manchmal merken wir es nicht, weil wir einfach nicht zuhören. Wir müssen unser
Herzen öffnen, dann werden wir die Liebe Gottes spüren.
(I know that God is always there.
Sometimes we do not notice Him because we do not listen. We must open our
hearts then we will feel God’s love.)
Tschüss! Mach's gut! (Bye! Take
care!)
--Sister Stewart
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