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| P-Day last week |
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| Ost Deutschland y'all |
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| Elder Fischer, the missionary who taught peggi in Munich was at stake conference this week because he just got home. So sister Fulton and I talked to him. Haha |
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| Sister Haynie and I emailing because we haven't taken any pics. |
Hello family,
This week was pretty good.. We spent the first part of the week getting Sister Wilson packed and ready to go. She goes home in 5 weeks, so that stinks that she had to pack up and leave. We had a lovely time chatting in English on Wednesday
morning until we went to Berlin hauptbahnhof and said goodbye/picked up
my new companion, Sister Haynie. Transfer day is always fun because you
get to see lots of missionaries. Sister Fingerle came for a while and
bought us all McDonald's. Also, our ZL's bag got stolen because someone
asked for directions and while the missionaries were helping, the guy's
friend stole his bag from the pile of luggage. People are dumb.
We
met with Kira again this week! She's so great. We talked about the
Atonement of Jesus Christ, because when we truly understand what Christ
did for us and what He means to us, then we naturally are more willing
to follow His example. Her faith is growing and it's awesome to see. I
love when people sincerely seek the truth.
We
also met with the Labib family, from Egypt. They. are. the. coolest.
family. We ate dinner with them and then taught them about Joseph Smith
and the Book of Mormon. They are probably some of the humblest, nicest
people I've ever met and their kids are So cute. They committed to read
the Book of Mormon together and pray.
This weekend was a little crazy. The elders called us friday
morning and told us about a 80th birthday party for an old schwester in
our ward. They told us that we should probably go to talk to all the
people who would be there. We ended up helping Schw. Rathe (the younger)
set up, and then came back with the elders for an hour. We ate some
cake and tried to talk to the people sitting next to us, which worked
until people started playing the piano for their grandma Rathke. It was
very nice and I had a conversation with the grandson's girlfriend, who
played an incredible piece. Talented people.
Saturday and Sunday
were basically spent at the stake center. We had our district meeting,
then went by on a less active lady in our area, then came back for the
evening session of stake conference. Elder Boom, from the Netherlands,
came and was the visiting authority. He was so cool and it was an
incredible meeting. We sang with the young adults on Saturday
night, and it was a miracle that it went so well. We sang the Mormon
Tabernacle Choir version of 'Let us all press on' (except auf deutsch)
from the last general conference, which is incredible and also hard,
especially with not so many people. We also got to sing on Sunday.
The choir was mostly made up of missionaries, but it is super fun and
brings the spirit. I love music. We sang a fancy (hard) version of 'Love
at Home' with the congregation and the organ and violin and it was
incredible. There is power and unity that comes from singing together
and I'm sure there were angels singing with us. After stake conference,
we had an eating appointment with our ward mission leader, who is a
super redneck German. He grilled up so much meat and it was so good.
Thankfully, there were a lot of people to eat it (3 people from our
ward, us, the elders, the APs because one of them served here, and the 4
Rathkes). We had our Gemiko meeting afterwards, then went back to the
stake center for Choir practice, because we are doing an Easter concert
as part of the 'Prince of Peace' Easter initiative. Lots of singing. Also,
the bahns by our house were down this weekend, so we had to ride a lot
of buses to get home.
One of the speakers at
stake conference talked about how our testimony is like a fire. Just
like a fire needs heat, oxygen and fuel to burn, we need to read in the
Book of Mormon, pray with real intent and go to church in order for our
testimonies to burn (or start burning). The thing I love about the
gospel is that someone can't really be convinced that it is true from
someone else. There's nothing in the Book of Mormon that will trick you
into believing it, but there is a power in that book. If you read it and
honestly want to know if it is true, you will be able to feel it. God
will answer our questions, but we have to ask them. If its really true,
it will start to burn. The speaker also said, that if we're already
doing those 3 things (reading BOM, praying, going to church), then we
need to make them more meaningful in order to build our testimony fire.
We claim to have the complete truth and to have a prophet of God on the
Earth. That's either true or not. I don't understand why more people
don't try to find out. Ask and ye shall receive.
I love the gospel. I love Marzahn. I love Sister Haynie. I love singing. I'm thankful to be here!
Love you!
Sister Simpson
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