Guten Tag!

Guten Tag Meine Familie!

Let me start off by telling yall about the wonderful morning I had. It was 4:00am in the morning and my roommates and I were sleeping so serenely. We were dreaming of the most amazing things and then BAM! At 4:10am the fire alarm went off. IT WAS SOO SCARY! We all popped out of our bed and evacuated into the gym and stayed there for the next hour. They are doing construction on our building and one of the sprinklers malfunctioned and set it off. Finally around 5:15 they let us back to our dorms. It was a crazy morning. We decided that everyone of our P-Days are crazy. First we had Christmas, then the plague of sickness, then a fire alarm. Crazy huh?

Luckily last week I didn't get the stomach virus that was going around. It was crazy how the MTC was quarantined. So many people were sick. Our zone was really lucky because out of the 21 of us only 5 got sick. I heard from one of the counselors in the branch presidency on Sunday that the MTC had made it on the news because everyone was sick. I thought that was funny.

The MTC is great as always. I wish I could remember everything that has happened in the week. So much goes on that it is hard to remember it all. We kind of had a not so good teaching experience this week. We went in to teach our teacher who was playing our investigator Viorel. As soon as we sat down and started asking him some follow up questions our he started laughing, then Sister Bauer and I started laughing, and none of us could stop. We all were laughing so hard that we were almost crying. Then our teacher asked us if we could teach him another time because none of us could get it under control. I don't know why, but Sister Bauer and I laugh so easily, and I think we just make Brother Mower laugh really easy as well. Whoops:) Our next lesson went way better with Viorel and we committed him to baptism on January 20!! It is so cool to see how much you love and care for your investigators. You just want them to accept the gospel so badly because you know how happy it will make them!! The gospel is seriously such a blessing, and all of us should feel so lucky that we have it in our lives!! We should also share it to EVERYONE because EVERYONE needs this gospel in their lives.

I know I have already said this so much, but I just love the Book of Mormon. I can not even begin to describe what an amazing blessing it has been in my life. While reading this week, Enos chapter 1 really stuck out to me. Enos has such strong faith!! He had ZERO doubt, he completely trusted in the Lord, and through his faith he was made whole. How amazing is that??? Enos is my role model. It is my goal to strive to have faith just like him. Do you know why I love the Book of Mormon so much?? It is because there are so many people in it that can be such great examples to us. Nephi, Enos, Moroni, Alma, Amulek, they are all soo AMAZING!! Everytime I read I just want to be better and be more like them. What amazing examples and missionaries they are to us.

German is coming a long. I am not amazing, but little by little I am getting better. My district and I are really working hard to SYL (Speak your Language). We try and go without speaking any English and just German. When we first made the goal we did really well and talked mostly German alll day, but now we are kind of struggling....haha We will get it though. Learning a language is not easy at all, it is hard! One of my teachers told me that we are so blessed because we get a learn a language. He said because we get to learn a language, we really learn how to rely on the Lord, because without the Lord, there is not way we would be learning the language so quickly. I thought that was an awesome thought.

Sister Bauer and I's teaching is getting better. We were able to have a teacher sit in on one of our lessons and he told us ways we could improve our teachings and what we did well. It was just what we needed. Being a good teacher of the Gospel all comes down to one thing: Whether you let the Spirit teach through you or not. We cannot be the ones that convince people to accept the gospel, it must be the Spirit who convinces them! 

Well time is short and my district and I are headed to the Temple for the first time since we have been here! Wahoo!! We are excited.

I LOVE YALL SO MUCH AND I PRAY FOR YALL DAILY.

Thanks for the letters. I really have the greatest family in the world!!!!

Sister Elysse Allman:) 

Me and Sister Bauer.

Elder Anyanwu and all his letters from my friends and family:)  Thanks to all who wrote him and sent him packages.  He was so excited.