(The subject line is in Swiss German,
translated it means "a little braid." Zopf is a type of Swiss bread
that looks like a braid. The diminutive form of words in Swiss German uses an
umlaut and then adds -li at the end. This ends my geeky language moment.)
Guten tag!!
Well on Tuesday it poured rain the
whole afternoon and I was NOT wearing the correct shoes. Poor things, they may
never be the same again.
Wednesday was the exciting day.
Sister Roffler got the petition approved for her visa! That means that now she
can go to Bern and apply for a real, live visa to enter the US. Unfortunately,
the visa didn't come in time for her to join her MTC group, so she will have to
stay a little longer with us :) She will enter the MTC at the end of June. Wednesday
afternoon we spent a good chunk of time in the mission office getting
everything sorted out, hopefully we didn't miss anything! After our afternoon
spent jumping through all sorts of bureaucratic hoops, we got to eat ice cream
at G's ice cream shop. He's been investigating the church for about 10
years now. He's Italian :) It was the perfect ending to the day.
Thursday afternoon I got to witness
a pretty cool miracle that actually started a couple weeks ago. Sister Roffler
has a goal to talk to someone in every train she is in. It's something I really
admire her for, because talking to people in trains is HARD. Any way, we were
in a pretty packed U-Bahn train the other day. There was a man standing there
that Sister Roffler thought she should talk to, but she didn't get up the
courage until we were getting out of the train, so she just handed him a card.
And then that evening, he called us! His name is V. We set up an appointment
to visit him on Thursday. On the phone before we came he told us "I have a
surprise for you"--- oookaaay. So we were a little apprehensive. We get to
his apartment and start talking to him and getting to know him. It was strange
because he would use words like "gospel" and "sacrifice"
and kept calling us "Schwester" (most people don't read our tags that
clearly). So as he was telling us about his life, he talked about how he grew
up in Berlin. He had a nephew who joined the church. Then he said "and
then my nephew baptized me" WHAT?!? Turns out he has been a member of the
church since he was 20. He has read the Book of Mormon twice (granted while he
was in prison, but that's a different story). He has had a really hard
life, and I think even a few months earlier he wouldn't have been willing to
start meeting with missionaries. I just can't believe that we actually found
him on the U-Bahn in Munich. I don't know how many thousands of trains run
throughout the city every day, every few minutes. And he happened to be in our
train. And Sister Roffler was trying her best to accomplish the goal she had
set. It's amazing how little the Lord needs to work with to produce great
miracles.
Saturday we had a
Straßenausstellung (Road Show---don't think they really do these in the U.S.)
Basically we just go to a square in Munich. We have a little display we set up
and then we spend four hours talking to people. It was really nice weather.
After wards we went to play soccer with the JAEs (another miracle-we found someone
to invite at the last minute because our investigator canceled on us, meaning
we couldn't go). I don't know how long it's been since I've played soccer. It
felt really good.
Ich bin so dankbar, auf Mission zu
sein. Es ist ein einzigartig Gelegenheit. Ich weiß, dass wenn wir den Herrn
folgen, wird er uns segnen.
(I am so thankful to be on a
mission. It is a special opportunity. I know that when we follow the Savior he
will bless us.)
Alles Gute! Tschüss!
--Sister Stewart
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