Hello everybody!
First a piece of news: we got our
transfer calls! Sister Ackerman is going to Graz and I am staying here and
training a brand new missionary! That means I will be here at least until May.
Who knows I may stay in Göppingen until I go home in July! It will be
interesting to see what happens as we get more and more new missionaries in the
coming months. Because there are so many new missionaries coming this transfer,
the mission home doesn't have space to host all the trainers, so we will just
be meeting the new missionaries in Stuttgart. So I don't get to go to Munich,
which is a little sad, but I am so excited to meet my new companion and to help
her get her mission started off right :)
Funny story: Sister Ackerman
LOVES German potato salad (Kartoffelsalat) with an undying, passionate love.
Since she is getting transferred, the members want to have here over to eat one
last time, and they asked her what she wanted to eat. She said: Kartoffelsalat!
So this week we are having Kartoffelsalat at least two days in a row. I am
sure it will make Sister Ackerman very, very happy.
Last week we had a little bit of
a rough time on Wednesday. For some reason or other we were just a little sad.
But then I remembered what my mission prep teacher taught us about overcoming
sadness. One of his tips: count your blessings! So while we were tracting, we
started playing the "Grateful Game" We took turns naming categories
and then the other person had to name 10 things in that category they were
grateful for. For example "Name 10 living people you are grateful
for" "Name 10 foods you are grateful for" "Name 10 prophets
you are grateful for" and one of my personal favorites "Name 10
smells you are grateful for." We hadn't been playing very long before we
were both smiling and laughing again. Try out the "Grateful Game!" It
will put a smile on your face, guaranteed.
We had lots of good lessons last
week. We met with J again. He hadn't had time to really read in the Book of
Mormon :( He still has lots of questions, though which we are looking forward
to answering. We also met with Frau S and talked a lot about love, which is
always one of my favorite things to talk about.
This past week we had some
training from our Zone Leaders, and one of the things they talked about was
Virtue. They made the analogy that we need to be like a river, not a pond. When
bad thoughts come, we need to just wash them out with good clean thoughts, like
a river, and not let them stagnate in icky water, like a pond. I liked that and
have been trying to keep good thoughts filtering through my mind all week,
hopefully they wash out some of the not so good thoughts.
Ich weiß, dass das Buch Mormon
wahr ist. Ich lese jeden Tag darin, und darin Tag lerne ich etwas neues. Es ist
für uns geschrieben, damit wir lernen können. Ich bin so dankbar, dass ich auf
Mission bin und dieses Buch mit anderen Menschen teilen darf.
( I know that the Book of
Mormon is true. I read it every day and every day I learn something new. It is
written for us, for us to learn. I am so thankful that I am on a mission and
can share this book with others.)
Ich hab euch liebe! Mach's gut!
(I love you! Take care!)
--Sister Stewart
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