The elect don't wear name tags, but the Spirit knows

Hello family and friends,

 

Transfer calls on Saturday...... who knows?!?!?!

 

Bus Contacting – Sharon

So this week we were trying to figure out how to find new investigators because we seem to be running an all-time low of people to teach. As I was praying one night I got the distinct impression that the elect for us at this time, are on the buses and trains that we ride. Because of other appointments that we have, we don't have a ton of time to go dooring or streeting and therefore because of our other appointment we are on trains all of the time! The only problem is that I am awful at train and bus contacting – so the Lord said that's why you need to practice. 

So having not told my companion about my prayer, the next morning she was using German In Review (the German grammar book all missionaries have) to start conversations, and one girl starts helping her, and then they start talking, and by the end we have her number! We invited her to the Relief Society activity in the evening and she CAME!!! Please pray for Sharon!! *side note: Sharon thought I was a German when we first met, I was speaking to her in German and apparently I spoke so lightly and easily that she thought I was German. She was even explaining what she did as a job to me in German and then translated it for my companion (she knew my companion was learning German because of the book earlier). It wasn't until I brought up New York and said I was from there! 

 

God bless America!

So for P-day we went to the American base and played sports and ate at the food court!

#tacobell #speakingenglish It was really fun to be in America for a few hours! We played Ultimate frisbee (So fun!!! )

And then Sister C. taught us a BYU cheer and we learned how to cart-wheel.

We also got to help Sister S. with shopping at the Commissary (military grocery store). 

 

Family Home Evening! 

Last night we decided to text a bunch of people about Institute tonight, and one of the girls responded and said she could come tonight, but she couldn’t last night. So she came to FHE with her friend, and it was really fun to meet them and talk to them. We ate food and played games and talked about learning piano together!! We are excited to see them come to more activities like FHE and Institute!! 

Second talk in this ward! 

I gave a talk on Sunday. It was really spur of the moment (we found out Saturday night), but I felt like the Spirit really stepped in and helped me prepare something. The talk and words seemed to just flow together! I hope I got my message across—it was really cool! The email with my talk is coming soon, translated :) 

 

An add-on sent in a separate email:  On Saturday, I got to watch a friend from Salzburg get baptized.  She was a woman I helped teach. Sister McClellan and I were there when she first came to church and when we invited her to pray about a date to be baptized! It was amazing to watch her enter the waters of baptism (through Skype of course!) Congratulations Elena!!! 

 

Alles Liebe
Sister Anderson
Alpenländische Mission

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weekly Hello Starring Sister Anderson and Sister Woolsey

Due to the tiredness of missionary life, we are writing this email together! 

Saturday we had an amazing lesson with our main man Maxim. In this lesson we talked about the Plan of Salvation. He learned that families can and will be together forever when we follow God's plan!!!  God has given us two gifts, life and the ability to choose.
[2 Nephi 2:27] 

Interviews with President are always great and we are getting Facebook! 

Stake Conference was super uplifting; we had one girl who gave a talk solely using scriptures! President and Sister Brown spoke to us and were really inspiring as always. Our Stake President who was a German bashed all the Germans by saying they aren't willing to accept and we need to be more open and friendly towards others. We invite you to find some way this week to serve someone else. We will do it too! We would love to hear what you did, if you want to share! 

Pforzheim is a lot bigger than we thought it was! 

Women's night plus Max – Max came with us so he could translate for us into Russian, but it fell through because she wasn't "home," and we felt bad so we invited him to our girls’ dinner. It turned out to be fun, and we were able to share a spiritual thought with them all!! 

Also this week we prepared ourselves to be good wives by having Cooking lessons. We learned how to make Spätzle in 3 different ways and we learned how to make Chicken Marcela. 

Alles Liebe
Sister Anderson
Alpenländische Mission

Members are the Best!!!

Hello Freunde,

Double the Appointments – Tuesday night we were going to go to a member appointment but then a potential called us—one we thought we had lost because we forgot to save his number in time—and asked if we were going to Institute so then we were in a pickle. We can't be in two places at once, or can we? We got permission from our STL's and another set of sisters was willing, so we did SPLITS or a mini- exchange! Sister Woolsey stayed at Institute, and I went to the member appointment! It was so much fun. The members were so funny, and it was fun to talk to Sister Francino for a couple of hours.

"I can’t cook, but I guess I'll learn" – Today we went and visited a part member family. The wife really wants her daughter and husband to be baptized, so we went over to introduce ourselves to the daughter and to walk around with her and hopefully find some contacts (this is the same amazing member missionary from last week). We were walking home from her daughter's school and she runs into her friend. We start talking and the topic of Indian food comes up, and the member suggests that we all go over to her house and her friend can teach us how to cook it. She also suggested later that her Italian neighbor can teach us how to make real Italian pasta. We have a set appointment for this week for the Indian food and we are going to show how to make chocolate chip cookies (USA). That evening we had a member appointment and ate this amazing pumpkin soup (I don’t even like pumpkin things) and she gave us the recipe and some pumpkin!! Then from another member we got pumpkin bread and a chocolate chip cookie recipe!! 

Wir können nicht füßball spielen. So we thought it would be a good idea to invite K. to the soccer night so we put on workout clothes and went with him. Well we did not realize that the only people who showed up were basically professionals. So Sister Woolsey played for a little while, but I just watched and we cheered on the guys!

Moser – We also visited Moser again and the Elders came and gave her a blessing.

It was really sweet. She is really sick, but man she is a trooper! Keep praying for her!

ZONE CONFERENCE – Wow I learned so much. The focus was on member work and we have been trying to improve that so we learned some new ideas!! We also learned from President and Sister Brown about basic gospel principles and the spirit was so strong! I felt like we were all fully recharged with things we need to work on and areas where we are doing really well! 

Raining us out – We were going to go to Königstrasse and do our Ausstellung, but it was raining, so we decided to do some more planning for the Ausstellung and organize it better for future rainy days. We worked on our Member binder. We are making a binder of the members and their information and pictures so that future missionaries can get to know them better! 

Members! – So on Sunday we talked with a bunch of members and I was trying to say hi to them by their name and I even learned a few new names and we made some appointments with the members at church!! We also planned a day to go out to the far end of our area and visit the members there!! We are excited!!

For P-day we went back to Ulm. Wow the flashbacks, and I climbed the Munster – finally. And I got to see two members who are still there. I got to hear an update on the area and I ran into the elders! So much fun!!

Alles Liebe
Sister Anderson 
Alpenländische Mission

We are going places! 🎈

HELLO 

This week we had some amazing opportunities to meet new people; twice I just started talking to someone who was staring at us or our name tags, and then they came with us to an Institute or Family Home Evening. 

We also were able to organize a dinner appointment at one of our investigator’s house and have two members come!! It was a great fellowshipping opportunity, and we got to eat great Pakistani food. Yum!! 

We were also able to serve this week, some planned and some not.

Miracle story: This week we were doing our morning sport, working out to Insanity or T25 videos and our phone starts ringing. It is 7:15 or so in the morning. The phone says it's a member. I answer the phone, and she asks if we can come as soon as possible to help her out. So we quickly get ready and head out to her house. She picks us up from the train station and says she was asked by her neighbor to buy her water (People don't believe in tap water here, so you have to buy it in bottles), but she has a baby and no vehicle (families generally only have one vehicle, and her husband was away— the reason she called us). She said we could help her deliver the water and share a message (missionary work). Then she says another day she wants us to come back and visit a little old lady neighbor (missionary work). PLUS she has a plan to have her husband be baptized and then he baptize her daughter! Missionary work! She is our miracle member missionary!! 

We are seeing miracles by people we find and the members we are working with. This is the Lord's work!

I hope you all have a great week!! 

Picture of our stand and the food!

Alles Liebe
Sister Anderson
Alpenländische Mission