It has been another wonderful week! A little slower this week...a lot of people are on vacation for the next month, and probably due as well to my lack of experience :) I feel very very inadequate to do this job for the Lord, but I am learning every day and Sister Peltier is a wonderful example to me! I know I can learn and do better with the help of the Lord. Even though it was a little slower (meaning mostly that a lot of Termine fell out), we still saw many many miracles! In our mission we have four main points of concentration for our work they are find, teach, baptize, and keep. So I think what I want to start doing is writing a little bit about each of those every week. So first Finding! This week was a good finding week...in that the people were finding us :) we were walking down the street to visit an investigator and we saw a man outside of his shop across the street. We waved and said hello and he waved back. Our investigator wasn't there so we went to visit someone else and came back about an hour later to see if she was home. We saw the man again and he came to us to talk to us! He asked us about what we were doing and he wanted to know more! So he asked if he could meet with us at our church on wednesday :) of course we agreed!!! Another time we had a Termin but our investigator wasn't at home, so we were waiting outside of the door to see if she would come a little late. As we were waiting someone opened up the bottom door of the apartment so we could come in. We went in and saw a man and started to talk to him. He had interest in learning about the church and we made out a Termin! We didn't even have to ring the doorbell! We just started laughing after that :) the Lord is so funny in how He blesses us sometimes, it is just too easy! Now for teaching! We didn't have as many Termine as planned this week but we did have some awesome ones! The young man who came to church last week was able to meet with us again during the week. We taught him about the restoration of the gospel and told him that he needed to pray for himself to know if it was true. So he said to us, "ok so this week I need to pray to know three things! If the Book of Mormon is true, if Joseph Smith was a prophet, and if President Monson is the prophet today!" WOW WOW WOW! So of course we said yes :) and promised him that he would know for himself if he asked in faith! He was really excited to find out! Now for Baptizing! We made out another baptismal date this week!!! Elder Caussè challenged us to challenge everyone at every lesson to baptism and we have seen a very rapid growth in the number of baptisms in the mission! This week we challenged an investigator who has been investigating the church off and on for 3 years. She just got back from traveling and we were able to meet with her. We challenged her to follow the example of Christ and be baptized through the Power of the Priesthood and she said yes!! She is going out of town again but we were able to set a date for Nov. 13th. The members have been wonderful to her as well! We had a member pick her up to bring her to church and bring her home and another member invited her over for lunch this week :) members are wonderful! So she is being taken care of! We are also getting excited for a baptism in three weeks! It is looking like he is going to schaff(accomplish) it! And now keeping! Keeping means strengthening the new members or bringing less active members back, and this week we did both at the same time. The newest member in this ward was called as a ward missionary and we were able to take her to visit one of her friends that is less active. We had a wonderful time and they were both more excited about the gospel by the end of our time together :) So even though our numbers this week weren't what we wanted them to be, we still consider it a very successful week! We also had Zone Conference this week and it was absolutely amazing! We have wonderful leaders in this mission and we are really excited for the new things that President Pimentel has in store for us! I know he is called of God to lead and guide the missionaries in this mission. This is truly the work of our Heavenly Father. He is leading more and more people to this gospel every day and His work is going forth! I am so grateful that He has called me to be a missionary here in Germany. This church is his church and the key to building Zion here on the Earth and to gain exhaltation in the life to come. I am so grateful for my wonderful family with whom I can spend all of eternity with! Thank you for all of your love and support! I hope you are all safe, happy, and healthy! The church is true :) now we just need to tell others about it!
Have a wonderful week!
Liebe Grüße,
Sister Smith
And from the Germany Berlin Website
Zone Conference Week in Summary
President Pimentel taught about the "Vision of our Mission." He quoted President Monson, "Vision with out effort is daydreaming; effort without vision is drudgery; but vision, coupled with effort, will win the prize." We were challenged as a mission to raise our vision. New standards of excellence were introduced and the missionaries are excited.
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