Living the dream! ☄☁️

WOW! I love being a missionary!! It is amazing!! This week we saw two people enter the covenant of baptism!!! It was so cool to watch these two wonderful people follow their faith and make the steps to return to God!

We spent quite a bit of time this week "dropping" people who didn't have a ton of interest, so that we can work with people who have interest, are willing to change their lives, and come closer to Christ.

On Thursday we did a service project, painting a less-active member's house, and wow, her food was so good. She made us lunch afterwards and do Ukrainians know how to cook chicken or what? Ha ha. We of course got paint all over our closes, but we got to wear shorts! Bonus!!

Friday we had a lesson with our newest member, Jane!!!! We met with her and her new home teacher, who is our same age and is also a recent convert. We were planning on teaching the Restoration, but we got distracted thanks to the home teacher, ha ha. He told us all about the world politics and Germany and America. We were laughing so hard, we may not have taught much officially but we built relationships and they both shared their conversion stories!!

In the afternoon on Friday, we said goodbye to one of our investigators who is moving.

It was so sad but we will keep in contact! We talked about the importance of baptism and encouraged her to keep moving despite the change in missionaries!

Later in the evening on Friday we had a member appointment with an American family!!! They have the two cutest kids. We had so much fun and English is always fun too

. We talked about being missionaries and being a good example to their friends!! They were literally so cute!!

Saturday was the day we went to two baptisms!!! We went to a baptism for the International Sisters and that was so sweet. And then we were able to get a ride to go to Debbie's baptism. I don't know if I have talked much about her. She was investigating the Church when I was in Ulm!! She was unfortunately not well enough to meet with us when I was there, and so Sister Whiting and I sent her a spiritual thought every day, or at least we tried. I didn't know at the time, really who she was or anything, but we just tried to reach out and cheer her up a little each day. It was over 7 months later that she reached out to me via email. I had no idea how to contact her up to that point, but we have emailed back and forth every week since then! I am so proud of her, and the faith that she has to keep going despite the hardships, the setbacks, and fears! Last Saturday it was truly an honor to watch her be baptized and come up out of the water clean!! I am so grateful for the opportunity to go see that!!

We also had an amazing lesson with one of our investigators on Saturday night! He seems so ready; he asks such good questions, trying to understand everything we are explaining. He is reading and praying, looking for an answer!!

Sunday morning another investigator texted us back and said yes, I will meet you to go to church. We had texted a few of our investigators who we are trying to get to church, saying we could meet them in town before and go to church together. Wow!! It was really cool, I hope he enjoyed it. He was only able to stay for the first hour, but many people came over to talk to him and asked him who he was etc. It was great!!

Sunday afternoon we had a lesson with a member and it was so much fun to get to know them. The father served in the Zürich mission just a few years before my dad!! The Elders did a really good spiritual thought about our goals and fun things and asked about who we could help and who they can reach out to! Encouraging them to do missionary work!

Sunday evening and Monday was spent finding! Something we really need to do because we are running out of people to teach! It is amazing to see different people's responses! Lately we have been asking the question, "If you could ask God one question what would it be?" The great thing is it doesn't matter what the question is, the truth is that we CAN ask Him and we WILL get an answer because He loves us. He cares about us, just like a father on earth!

Alles Liebe
Sister Anderson