The One with the Spiritual Deja Vu

Hey Leute! 

Well, I will probs skype again, so I will keep this kind of short!

Cool experience from this week: We are teaching a SUPER adorable girl named Yan-Rong. She moved here from Taiwann to do her studies! We have a member family from the Phillipines and when Yan-Rong came to a Ward Fasching Party, the family threw their hands around her and said, "Hey! We are neighbors!" It was so cute. She had so much fun at the party and getting to know the members. We stepped out of the party for a little bit to give her a church tour and, of course, we showed her the baptismal font. We taught her about baptism and we could see that she was really deep in thought. She asked a lot of really good questions and then we moved on! We had a lesson with her a couple of days later and we followed up with her from thoughts that she had at the part. She said, "When you talked about baptism, I felt something really funny in my chest. It was like deja vu. It was a really good feeling and it was just very happy!" We asked her to describe it further and she said, "It was like something was telling me, 'Now is your time to learn about this'". Well that was a miracle. Yan-Rog has always been very intrigued by the Christian faith, although she has little to no background with it. What she was explaining was the Holy Ghost. 

Sometimes we promise people that if they will pray about the Book of Mormon, they will receive an answer and they try it, and NOTHING HAPPENS. Sometimes atheist say things on the street that cut so deeply. Even religious people who I connected with have ended our beautiful conversation with spite in their voices as they said the words, "I don't need your book OR your prophets." I have never doubted, but it was AMAZING to feel all the negative experiences that have piled up over the months to just disappear as I saw a young girl, who doesn’t know God and who cannot wrap her mind around the idea of the Holy Ghost, receive a witness from on high that this is her time to learn about the sacred ordinance of baptism.

The Church is true, and our testimony will strengthen as we see it work wonders in the lives of those around us! 

Love ya fam! Talk to you soon!

Randoms:

- My crazy District Family

- At the Missionary Leadership Council this week, we took a picture of some Alumni Tubingen Missionaries. We sent it to the Relief Society group chat and they all flipped! 

- Sister Magleby got a concussion this week because of a crazy Bus Driver soooo that is fun! She has to take it a bit slow for a couple of weeks, so we are doing our best! 

- We heard the best BYU devotional ever. Imagine the Sunscreen Song times 10! It is called "Unleashing the Dormant Spirit" by Elder F. Enzio Busche. My favorite quote from it was, "When you cannot love someone, look them in the eyes long enough to find the hidden rudiments of the child of god within him". WATCH IT!