Hello everybody!
This past week was great, we have
been kept hopping with all the things we have to do.
This week we did Austausch (exchange) with
the Sisters in Stuttgart! I went to Stuttgart to work with Sister Jencks. We
visited an older member who lives in a nursing home, and she gave us some bead
angels she had made. A funny story: one time I was on Austausch in Graz and one
of the members gave me a little angel! So this was the second time that I
received an angel on Austausch. They are both sitting on my desk. As I look at
them I just think about how much God loves us and how He will always send
people to help us. He sends angels, from both sides of the veil, to help us to
feel of his love. As Sister Jencks and I were visiting with this sister, I
couldn't help but feel how much God loves her and how precious she is in His
sight.
Working in the city was weird
because it was so familiar. I have spent so much of my mission in big cities
that I feel so at home there. It's funny because after serving in Munich and
Vienna for a while I just wanted to get out of the city, but now I miss it.
Don't get me wrong, I love serving in Göppingen, but I also miss the hustle and
bustle of the city and the smooth glide of the U-Bahn as opposed to the
bumpy buses we take all the time here. Sister Jencks and I had a good day,
we taught a less active member and we found a new investigator! The apartment
in Suttgart the sister missionaries live in has been redone (they replaced the Elders there, so there was a
lot of work to do :) ) but it is a lot smaller than the apartment here in
Göppingen. Stuttgart is a beautiful city, its set into some hills that are
covered with trees, and everything is green now that it is spring!
Thursday we watched the
Restoration DVD with one of our investigators. No matter how many times I watch
that movie, I always learn something new and feel the Spirit. That was really
nice. On Saturday we were in Ulm to help the Elders with a street
display. Basically we just went to downtown Ulm and talked to as many people as
we could about Jesus and the Book of Mormon. It was a long day, and we didn't see a whole
lot of success, but I still feel good about it. The morning was hard, but then
after lunch Sister Clark and I went down a quiet side street and prayed
and from then on I felt a lot better. I know that Heavenly Father is proud of
us, even when others use their agency not to listen.
Sister Clark and I have decided
that we really need to find new investigators. We are going to be focusing on that by visiting all the members on the ward list and former investigators and then
tracting around those addresses. I have found that finding works better when
you have a specific place in mind to go rather than when you just show up in a
neighborhood and start knocking doors. So our goal this week is to conquer the
ward list! There are lots of people on there I have never heard of/seen before,
so I am sure it will be an adventure!
Ich weiß, dass wenn wir zum
Himmlischen Vater beten, antwortet er uns. Er schickt uns die Frieden und
Trost, die wir brauchen. Ich habe gelernt, dass ich mehr oft beten soll. Er ist
immer bereit zu helfen, ich muss ihn nur bitten! Ich weiß, dass unser Himmlischer
Vater uns alle liebt. Er will, dass wir zu ihm zurückkehren.
(I know that when we pray to
Heavenly Father, He answers us. He sends us the peace and comfort that we need.
I've learned that I should pray more often. He is always willing to help; I
just need to ask him! I know that our Heavenly Father loves us all. He wants us
to return to Him.)
Ich hab euch leib! Mach's gut!
--Sister Stewart
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