The One with the Oranges

Surprise! 

I am popping my head in today because we have interviews this week so our P-day got changed! 

We met with a really cool girl this week named Ishel and I literally aspire to be like her! Her father is German and Catholic and her mother is Middle eastern and Muslim. She has grown up with both influences and she has dedicated her time and energy to getting to know people from all different faiths. She is so accepting and loving and tolerant. I think if everyone opened their eyes, minds, and hearts like her our world would be a much better place.

I loved church on Sunday because our Bishop taught the joint class for the ward. He started off the class by asking us "How do you prepare the best glass of fresh orange juice?" There were answers like:

- You buy the ORANGEST oranges you can from the store

- You roll them on the counter to get more juice out of them

- You use a machine or a hand squeezer to get all of the good stuff out.

Anyways, he went on to ask, "How can we prepare ourselves for General Conference so that we can squeeze out every last drop of sweet personal revelation and guidance that we can?" I loved that little analogy. The talks have already been prepared. The oranges are purchased and will be put before us. Now, we have to use our agency to prepare ourselves to get everything out of them as we can! If you want help figuring out how to do that, you should read President's talk on revelation from last conference. He gives very specific steps!

I cannot wait to be connected with you guys through General Conference. I know that Russell M Nelson is a prophet of God and I cannot wait to hear the words from god through him! 

Love you all!

Randoms:

- I translated church on Sunday and it was a train wreck! The speaker just read conference quotes super-fast and I was left silent! I know that it was not a failure, just a little motivator along the way to study as hard as I can.

- We went visit a lady that is less active because she is too old to come to church every couple of weeks and she is ADORABLE! Our lesson was focused around the Liahona and she had no idea what that was... we tried showing her the picture in the front of the book and she pulled out a 10-pound magnifying glass!

- Today we walked up to a little lookout of our beautiful town of Tubingen! I don’t think the random buildings and endless red roofs will ever get old

The One Where We Had to Start Wearing Tights Again

Hey guys!

This week was literally the blink of an eye!

We had like zero appointments because all of our investigators were out of town or sick so we a ton of time hit the streets finding! I was really grateful because this week autumn started... like no joke I hate tights and I am ready to put them on. THAT is how cold it already is!  It has been a BEAUTIFUL finding week and we more than DOUBLED our goal of finding people with interest this week. I know it was not because of what we were doing because we were finding just like normal, but God really blessed us. I found a woman named Anna-Lisa this week and I am stoked to set up a meeting with her. She already feels like my best friend, this is her third contact with missionaries, she is super faith filled, and she speaks English

It was especially fun to g finding during our ausstellung this week because the Zone Leaders and our whole district came too! So, we had 9 full time missionaries there!

Sometimes finding can be hard, but I just let my love for this gospel push me further, so I can share my joy with others.

I hope you have a great week and please spoil Chels for me! 

Randoms:

- We were not expecting Autumn to come so we went out finding in another cit without coats and we were FREEZING! Our super sweet Recent Convert named Zaki saw us on the street and she ran home and brought us each a coat! I Love her.

- That same Recent Convert showed us the smallest street in the world. Legit. It had a sign and everything. I love Europe 

- We had exchanges this week and Sister Jensen and I stayed in Tübingen with Sister Smith. We had so much fun and she and I had a really good conversation on doing our best and then turning the rest over to the lord. I love Tausch. We all accidentally wore striped shirts, so we took a picture!

- We all wore our Dirndls to Stake Conference!

This is the smallest street in the world!

The One With the Castle

Hey guys 

I am pretty short for time because we had district P-day today and we hiked up to a castle, but hopefully the pictures will make up for my lack!

Honestly, my highlight of this week was Zone Conference. It was AMAZING! (As always) We did something a little bit different this time. We had one break out session where President talked to the Elders and Sister Brown talked to the sisters. It was a big game changer for me. It was called "The loveliest of Women" based off of a conference talk. I came out of that room loving who I am. I know that I am a beautiful daughter of God. With that renewed testimony under my belt, I was able to start utilizing some of the things that President taught us to use in our areas.

Randoms:

- One of our main investigators (A 20-year-old girl from China named Yicci) dropped us this week and we were soooooo bummed. We grow to love these people so deeply, so quickly and it kills me when they choose a different path.

- I got my other birthday gift in the mail this week! A HUGE bag of trail mix! Honestly the best gift ever!!!

- We got to overnight with the Stuttgart Sisters for zone conference and that meant SLEEP OVER WITH SISTER GRUNDVIG! It was so great to see her!