Hi everybody!
I hope you all enjoyed General
Conference! Here in Germany we got to watch three of the four sessions, two of
them live! It was awesome and I enjoyed every minute. We even had one of our
investigators come! Our ward mission leader drove her in to Stuttgart and she
watched the Sunday Morning Session (broadcast on Sunday evening) with us!
So, we went to Stuttgart both
Saturday and Sunday for Conference, and we will be going again today for P-Day
and then on Tuesday for Zone Training. It's crazy, we get to see the other
missionaries in the Zone a lot!
This past week we had lots of
things fall through, which was unfortunate, but we also had some pretty awesome
days and miracles. One of the best days was Thursday, and so I will tell you
the story of Thursday.
So, we had an appointment set for
Thursday afternoon with J, but we hadn't been able to confirm with him and the
member that was going to be able to come couldn't do it until later anyway. We
woke up Thursday morning with that appointment completely up in the air. I
remember thinking in the shower "What in the world are we going to
do?" Of course, all normal people who aren't missionaries are at work
during the day, so it was super hard to get a hold of anyone. We planned our
day very tentatively (written in pencil) and decided to try our hardest to make
the appointment work. Around 12 we went out to take some Books of Mormon to
some people we had contacted last week in a little town about 20 minutes by bus
outside Göppingen. While there, we got a text from J saying he couldn't
meet, BUT THEN we got a phone call from one of our potential
investigators saying he had time to meet that evening! So we scrambled to pull
together a joint teaching appointment (the member who was going to come help
with J was able to meet with us at the church) and went about our way. We were
able to give a Book of Mormon in Albanian to this awesome family and hopefully
we can go by again this week and start teaching them! Then we went to a
different town and rang some doorbells and were able to give away another Book
of Mormon. Then we went home quickly so Sister Clark could use the bathroom (no
public restrooms in Germany) and guess what was in our mailbox! A media
referral from Mormon.org! We almost never get those! (It’s the third one I have
gotten on my whole mission)
Then Thursday evening we taught D,
the potential investigator who called us. He is from Nigeria. When we met him,
I asked him where he was from, and he told me to guess. I said
"Nigeria?" And he said "How did you know? Most African people
here aren't from Nigeria, they are from other places!" Which is funny, because
almost all the Africans I have met on my mission are from Nigeria :) Since
coming to Germany, he feels like he hasn't really found a church to worship in,
so he wants to come and see how we do it. He is a little apprehensive about
reading the Book of Mormon, but we just encouraged him to pray about it.
All in all, Thursday was great.
What I learned: sometimes, you try your hardest, but you still need a little
extra help. It was amazing how all the pieces seem to fall into place that day.
The timing of our appointment worked out perfectly. We were able to find buses
that left at good times (sometimes that can be a problem) and we were able to
reach lots of our goals for the day! I know it would not have been possible without
the Lord's help. I am not saying that every day is as awesome as Thursday
(because there are lots of days that are pretty discouraging, I am not going to
lie) but when a day like Thursday comes around you just have to treasure
it.
Ich liebe es, auf Mission zu
sein. Ich freue mich, meine Familie zu sehen, wenn ich nach Hause komme, aber
ich werde meine Mission vermissen. Ich bin gespannt zu sehen, was in den
nächsten Paar Monate passieren wird!
(I love being on a mission. I will
be happy to see my family when I get home, but I will miss my mission. I'm
curious to see what will happen in the next couple months!)
Lots of love,
Sister Stewart
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