Well, our little college town
is finally recovering from the holidays- SCORE!
Our mission has really
been focusing on helping our returning members and we had a couple of good
experiences this week!
We taught Badam (the
member from Mongolia that we found streeting) and that was so wonderful. It had
been the WORST morning! We had messed up on so many things and we were both
just a bit of a wreck. We wanted to throw in the towel, but we held onto the
fact that we would get to see our little ball of sunshine! Badam is the
sweetest human being and she tries SO HARD to speak German. We read the
sacrament prayers with her in German so as she attends sacrament she will be
able to start understanding that part (that helped me a lot when I first got to
Germany). Then we transitioned into temples and she LIT UP! Oh, my heart was so
happy. She wants to go to the temple so bad! We told her that we can help her
to prepare by helping her learn more about the commandments. It turned our
entire day around and we had some great experiences that day. In my prayer that
night I thanked God for the opposition because it helped me to feel gratitude
on a much deeper level.
On another day we took
a journey out to another returning members house. Her name is Silvana and her
husband and children are also members. It took approximately 2.5 hours EACH WAY
using a series of several busses and trains, but we knew it was important that
she receive contact. We got there, and it was dark and snowy, and no one was home. We
left a note in her mailbox and went Dooring for a couple of hours until our
returning bus came. We were a bit discouraged when we got home. Then Sunday we
got to church and as sacrament meeting was starting, the back doors opened, and
I saw Silvana walk in with three of her children. She sat in the first row and
even bore her testimony! MIRACLES!
In this ward they have
a calendar to invite missionaries over on Sundays. They just make a list of all
the Sundays in the month and then people can sign up in the hallway. We looked
at it for this past Sunday and you will never guess who was on it! EVELYN! She
wanted to feed us and the Elders. It was so much fun. Her boyfriend was
visiting and her daughter was home. They have the TINIEST apartment and there
were 6 adults and a child there! There was not enough room on their tiny table
so they decided to do a picnic in their living room! It was the cutest thing
ever. I could see the love in her eyes as she had a proper "Family Sunday
dinner". I know her heart just yearns to have a strong happy family and
the the gospel is a tool that will help her create that.
Randoms
- While Dooring Sister
Magleby saw a house COVERD in Christmas lights (they don't really decorate the
outsides of houses here) and she said, "We have to do that house! Someone
very happy has to live there!" An old man in a red onesie jumpsuit
answered and he was probably one of the meanest people we have talked to here
in Tübingen. It was one of those conversations where you just start saying,
"Tschüß" really loud and start walking away even though they are
still yelling. as we were walking away I said, "He's an angry
little elf".
- Sister Magleby
started a snowball fight one night and I tried warning her, but she didn't
listen! Let's just say the score was Reay-5 Magleby-0 and she kept coming back
for more!
- Sister Magleby feels
like a little sister to me. I am so sorry what you had to put up with
Chelsea...
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