As I mentioned last
week, on Monday we had interviews and then Tuesday we went on a hike.
After P-day our wonderful friend Marie came for a lesson and stayed for
Institute!! It was her first time, and I think she really enjoyed it!! She has
a baptismal date for August. Unfortunately
she is moving outside of the mission before then. On Friday we called
her new missionaries. The elders there are so funny. They are very excited to
welcome her!! I hope she fits in well
there.
On Wednesday we went finding for most of the day because two of our appointments
rescheduled. It is mentally really hard to know 6-7 hours of finding, but we
did it. We were about to take an ice cream break, and then my companion sees
someone she has talked to before, so we stop her and she gets ice cream with
us. We end up having a lesson about God, and she wants to meet again, so we have an
appointment for this Sunday!!
Thursday everything
fell out too, and it was a little awkward because we didn't know that they fell
out until the middle of the day and we didn't know if we had enough time, etc.,
but we ended up doing some planning and then we taught Jane!!! She is super
cute. We picked out songs for her baptism and taught her about enduring to the end!! She is so cute
and so ready!!
Friday we visited a
less-active and it was so funny because the first thing she said was "Why
are you here? I am a little confused". So we explained how we were
missionaries and we are trying to get to know the members and we wanted to
share a spiritual thought with her. Later in the day we had a lesson with Marie
(she has a baptismal date!) and we taught the guy who talked to us at the restaurant awhile back!! Both were
really good!!
Saturday we did
a service project for a less-active
who came to church the next day!!! That was so exciting!!! We painted and
cleared out her yard! We then went to the Ausstellung (street display) and the
missionaries had found two potentials for us and had given away six copies of
the Books of Mormon in one day!!! Crazy!!! After the Ausstellung, we had an
amazing lesson and one of the elders stayed in for it! It was so cool to
watch how he taught the principle of prayer. I learned so much about keeping it
simple and relating it to the person!
Sunday was crazy
busy; we had two investigators at church and we have a baptism next week so we
were trying to figure out the time. And Jane was sick so she wasn't there. It
was crazy but really good!! Both of our investigators really enjoyed church and
they both came with us to a member’s afterwards for lunch and really enjoyed it.
We played games and the elders were laughing so hard at one of our
investigators. He is so funny!! We ended the day though with a calm member
appointment with all the missionaries from our Distrikt!! It was fun!!
Yesterday we set
another baptismal
date!!! The guy who is super
funny came to church yesterday!! We taught him last night with Marie because they both speak French (he
is still learning English and German). Another member was there and shared his
conversion story. It was a really awesome night!! We asked if he would prepare
to be baptized on September 9th! Marie, our new baptismal date. Chris and we
stayed for the family home evening that night! So much fun!!
Miracle of the
mission: Saturday night!
We went to the park to
wait for another appointment. He did show up so we finished our dinner on a
bench and this guy came up and he looked at us as if he knew us and he looked a
little familiar. He sat down, and Sister H. asked if we knew him. We began
talking. Apparently he had heard us talking English to someone else (English is
often a good conversation starter because we start by asking where they are
from, etc.) and wanted to talk to us. Turns out he is a Christian but wants to
be a better Christian. We explain our purpose and ask if he has time for us
to teach a little
something! We teach the Restoration and then I feel like Sister H. is going
into explain the Book of Mormon. I
feel a little hesitant but instead she says our goal is to help people be baptized
by the proper authority and asks if he is willing to find out if this church is
true. He says yes then she looks at me and asks how long it would take. I say 6
weeks. Then she explains that we like to set goals with people so they have
something in mind, that we would want to meet with him once or twice a week and
if he would prepare for September 2nd!
WE SET A BAPTISMAL DATE IN THE FIRST CONTACT/LESSON!!!
I hope you all are
having a great week!!! Keeping studying the scriptures, keep praying. It's
gonna be a great week! Here are some pictures from the hamsters we
held on Sunday and Frozen auf Deutsch!
Please
pray for Jane. Her baptism is this Saturday at 11!!!!
Alles Liebe
Sister Anderson
Alpenländische Mission
Sister Anderson
Alpenländische Mission
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