Mein Hut, Mein Hut der hat drei ecke

September 23, 2013

Today Schwester Voigt, a lady from our branch took us on a bike ride to Raldofzell a beautiful lake town and then took us out to lunch. It was so much fun and it made me think of our times in Hilton Head. But it also made me fall in love with Germany even more. Seriously I feel so lucky that I get to serve here. Southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland are seriously magical!! Sometimes you just feel like you are in a fairytale. I love it so much! Schwester Voigt is this cute 72 year old lady who is super fit. She told us that she doesn't want us calling her Schwester Voigt, only Oma. hahaha So cute.

This week was such a fun one. We had lots of oppurtunites to work with the members and it was great! I really love the branch here. Everyone is so strong!! On saturday we headed to Zurich, Switzerland for a sisters conference for the relief society and that was so fun to be able to see the other sister missionaries in our mission and spend time with the wonderful ladies in our ward! After the conference Schwester Stemmer (who was driving us) stopped at Rhein Falls because she wanted to show us it. We had such a great time!

We had a wonderful lesson with a potential investigator last week. Her name is Frau Moridian and she is from Iran, but she has always been Christian. She was met by Sister Freimann and Sister Lohmann while I was in Switzerland for an austauch. She was saying that there has been so many times where people have tried to stop her on the street and she always tells them she has no time. Well this time when Sister Lohmann stopped and talked to her, she said that her heart was pulling her and telling her to stay. Sister Lohmann told her all about the book of mormon and she said she felt this strong feeling in her heart and she knew she needed this book. Then she told us that after her conversation with Sister Lohmann she went home and cried. She knew she needed to meet with us and learn more. HOW COOL IS THAT???? So we gave her a book of mormon and she wanted another one so she cool share it with her friend. Miracles I tell ya, miracles! Hopefully we will meet with her this week.

We haven't been able to meet with Simplice this week sadly, he was sick and has been super busy with work, but hopefully this week.

Fall is finally here and I love it so much!!! O my goodness. The next 4 months are going to be amazing because it is fall, thanksgiving, then Christmas!! I am so excited. Sister and Freimann are sooo excited for Christmas. Every dinner break or lunch break we watch the lds "Joy to the World" video in German just so we can hear christmas music. hahahha Fall and Christmas are so magical here and I am so excited to be here for it!!!!!!!

I can't believe yall are all moved out of the house, but I am happy yall are staying in Georgia and that dad got a full time job as a professor!! That is so awesome. I am also happy I get to go back to my home ward.

Well Sister Freimann and I are working our little tails off but making sure to have fun too. After contacting all day we make sure to play on a playground for a few minutes, or grab icecream or something. We are really do our best at finding joy in the journey.

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