Guten Tag!
I hope you all had a great week!
This past week I feel like I have learned a lot. I am so grateful for the
chance to be on a mission. As I have learned this week to put aside my pride
and fear and just go to work, I have found so much joy.
Sister Clark and I have
officially become the "Austauschers." As Sister Training Leaders we
go on three exchanges every transfer. We will be doing our last exchange for
this transfer tomorrow with the Sisters in Freiburg. They are a 4 hour
train ride away from us! We are meeting halfway at the Bahnhof in Karlsruhe.
Karlsruhe just happens to be in the Frankfurt mission. No worries, we cleared
it with President Miles. The train connections in this part of the mission just
use Karlsruhe as a big transfer point, it would add a couple more hours of
travel to avoid it. I am excited to work with a Sister I haven't even met
before. This is her first transfer here in Germany. Hopefully I don't corrupt
her too much.
This past week we did Austausch with
the sisters in Pforzheim. I got to work with Sister Holmstead! This is the
third Austausch I have done with her. We went to the MTC on the same day, but
since I was fast tracked I came to Germany before her, but we will be going
home on the same day! She is one of the best friends I have made on my mission.
It was a joy and a pleasure working with her for the day. We rang A LOT of
people's doorbells, and Sister Holmstead seized every opportunity to teach and
bear testimony. She is a big example to me. It was also nice to relate to
another missionary who is going home soon.
We continue to make slow but
steady progress on visiting every member on the ward list. The ward is also
trying to clean up the records and find out if people still actually live where
it says they do on the ward list, so we will be reporting back on our
efforts to the Branch President. Sister Clark and I have been working
lately on planning effectively, and it is amazing how many good things things
we find to do. The Lord has blessed us a lot. We have had new ideas come
to us of things to try and we have been able to get in contact with some people
that we weren't able to reach before.
Yesterday a family in the branch
invited us over for lunch after church. We drove home with them. There were 7
people (all of them adults or teenagers) and 5 seats in the car. It was a bit
of a tight squeeze; luckily they don't live too far away.
The weather is crazy, crazy right
now. We are wearing jackets and scarves, and it is almost June! The members say
that some parts of the area may be getting snow next week! Where is summer?!?
I want to say thank you for all
the prayers that have been/are being said on our behalf. Thank you, thank you,
thank you for your faith and for your good examples to me.
Ich weiß, dass Gott mich liebt.
Ich mache jeden Tag Fortschritt, um zurück zu ihm zu gehen. Ich weiß, dass wenn
wir gehorsam sind, segnet der Herr uns mit Frieden und Freude.
(I know that God loves me. I'm working
every day to go back to him. I know that when we are obedient, the Lord blesses
us with peace and joy.)
Ihr seid super! Bis bald! (Your
are the best! Take care!)
--Sister Stewart
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