Week of Miracles

June 10, 2013

O what a week it has been. It has been a week full of miracles and I am just so grateful. Well here is a little recap...

So start off with...

Miracle#1- Monday night we were doing our nightly planning and setting goals for the next day. We knew that we wouldn´t have any other lessons, or any new investigators, but we both felt like we should set a goal for one other lesson and one new investigator. Well the next day we headed to district meeting. As soon as district meeting began this cute little Spanish lady walked into the church and said she was looking for Herr Anderson. She told us he was a missionary a year ago and she wanted to be taught again by the missionaries. She happened to belong to our ward and so we were able to teach her right on the spot, make another lesson appt. with her, and BOOM! Right then we had gotten one other lesson and one new investigator. At that moment I KNEW that Heavenly Father had helped us set that goal. I knew that it was a little miracle/tender mercy from the Lord.

Miracle #2- Also, we set a goal for last week to only speak German to each other. Well Monday afternoon we got a call from President, saying that one of the sisters serving in Switzerland was going to work with us until Thursday. Sister Szabo is from Hungary and she knows a little bit of English, but can mostly only speak German. So we worked with her until Thursday and had to speak German! It was wonderful. Another miracle from the Lord!

Miracle #3- As you know, it is so hard for me to not eat gluten, especially being here in Germany. Well I have been praying so hard for some divine help to help me get off gluten. I finally got some wonderful help on Wednesday night. Wednesday night we had an appoinment with Marja. We were going to talk more about the Plan of Salvation. That morning I studied the Plan of Salvation but I also studied The Word of Wisdom for myself. Well during the lesson the topic ended up completely changing and we started to talk about the word of wisdom with Marja. She was having a really hard time not drinking coffee and tea. We committed her to live the Word of Wisdom for 1 month. As soon as I committed her to do that I then promised her that I would do it with her, but with Gluten. She loved that idea. After I promised that I kind of began to freak out, because I know how hard it is for me to stay of gluten. I then realized that it wasn´t me that made that promise, it was the Lord, because he knows how hard it is for me to do that.  It has been so awesome because Marja and I have been both working together to live our own word of wisdom. It was truely a miracle.

Miracle #4- Saturday night we met with die Familie Böhlke´s, a less active family. After the appointment with them they took us to the S bahn station were we sat and talked for about 5 minutes. We then said our goodbyes and Sister Smith and I headed into the S bahn. We had about 10 minutes before it was going to leave. Well all of the sudden Sister Böhlke came running torwards us with this guy, telling us that he wanted to learn more about the gospel. Well, his name is Ishmael, and we ended up teaching him a lesson on the Ubahn because we were on it for about 40 minutes. He was so open and receptive!! He wanted to learn more so we invited him to the special meeting on Sunday with Elder Nelson. He agreed to come and said he would meet us the next morning at 9 at hauptbahnhof. Well the next morning we go and he is at Hauptbahnhof waiting for us to go the meeting. He comes to the meeting with us, really enjoyed it, then we met up with him again that night to give him a church tour. It was so awesome and really a miracle. We have another lesson with him tonight. He has really been prepared.

Miracle #5- As we were at the church yesterday doing our studies after the special meeting with Elder Nelson, a man named Tai walked into the church. He had just moved to Munich from Zurich and was taught by the missionaries there. He found the church and was able to spend time with alot of the YSA´s who were there. We found out he lives in our ward boundary, learned about everything he had been taught before, and commitments he was trying to keep, set up an appointment for Wednesday, and now he is a new investigator. Miracle I tell you.

There were even more miracles but the list is so long. We have truely been blessed by the Lord. Seriously, we have just been in the right place at the right time and the Lord has blessed us. Everything that has happened has been because of Him, and we are so grateful.

Also, I am not transfered!! I get another 6 weeks in Munich and I couldn´t be more happy! The work is really hastening. and I absolutely love our investigators and our ward. Ahh so many miracles. We were so blessed this week because we were able to find 5 new investigators, and the mission average is .7 new investigators every week... so we feel so blessed.

Then tomorrow we have the huge meeting with the missionaries and Elder Nelson. I am so excited. Yesterdays conference with him was so great, and now I can´t wait to hear from him again!!!! It was so cute, because yesterday after he spoke, he bore his testimony for all the people in German. O everyone was so touched.

sorry this letter is scattered, but Saturday all the missionaries in our district headed to Rosenheim to do a service project for all the flooding that happened. It was crazy all the damage that had happened. People´s basements were full to the ceiling and so much was destroyed. It was sad. It was such a blast being able to help the people clean up. We met some really incredible people. The pictures of us are attached. We are going again this coming Saturday to Passau, Germany which was really damaged and affected by the floods, and helping there. I am excited.

Well I love you all!!

Sister Allman