After much complaining about all the rain and cold, Germany has decided to show us up by boiling us alive. It has been SOOO hot lately. Soooooo hot. It's supposed to be in the mid-90s today, and on top of that it's a holiday, so all of Germany is shut down. So either we hide in our stuffy, hot apartments (because Germany does not believe in Air conditioning) or get baked in the sun. We'll see what we end up doing today, haha. Supposed to be just as hot the rest of the week. I hope I survive!
We have transfer calls this Saturday. So crazy! I hope Sister Lehman stays. She hopes she does too. That's a lot to say for comps who have been together six months, haha. But really, it would only be like six more weeks together, and it would be really fun. We have Zone Training on Wednesday, and then afterward I'll be heading up to Darmstadt for a split, which means I'm going to miss a HUGE finding activity for half of the Zone in Speyer, but oh well...I like Darmstadt! Also for the holiday this week half of the ward is gone, so we'll see what we can do this week as well.
BUT we have had MIRACLES happen this last week. Get ready for me to list them all. So for the ward hike a couple weeks ago, we felt that maybe we had stayed out too long at that we should just take half a PDay last week. We were bummed of course, but yeah anyway. We had lunch with our district, but we took too long with lunch, and we really wanted to go to the Speyer Dom, but we felt that it would probably be better if we headed back to Mannheim. So we did, and then about thirty minutes later our investigator (we'll call her...Sue?) calls us and asks if we could meet NOW because she was feeling really bad and needed help. So we were able to meet with her then! If we had gone to Speyer it would have taken probably an hour and half to get back and get to the church to meet her. So we were able to see her, and because the Elders here in Mannheim had done the same thing, we were able to call them and ask them to come, because Sue wanted a blessing. It was soooo cool because at first she had been a little skeptical of the laying on of hands; she's been to other churches and has seen some sketchy things with that. But she got a blessing and said she knew it was from God because no two 19 year-old boys could have done and said those things! That was soooo cool. Then we were able to meet with our other investigator afterward and have a way good lesson with her and another member. It was soooo cool.
But THEN it gets even better. The next morning we were heading off to see Sue again, and she lives waaaay far away. Sadly, no members were able to drive us and come teach with us that morning, so we set off waaay early to take the train and the bus all the way out there. But as were on our way, Sue called us. We were really nervous that she wanted to cancel our appointment, and we had been planning to challenge her to baptism, but the conversation was basically like, 'Heyy Sisters, how's it going? Yeah I'm good...So I was thinking this morning, could you two prepare a lesson about baptism? I'd really like to get baptized.' WHAT?? We were like...'Uhhh yeahh uhhhh sure we could do that...' So we talked to her about baptism and she was soooo solid and excited and she said she wanted to get baptized ASAP. We initially set the date for the 14 of June, but then a couple days later realized that might have been a little tooooo soon. We talked to her about it, and we prayed about it as well, so now we're doing it on the 28th of June!! Miracles??? Oh yeahhhhh Miracle Mannheim!! So awesome.
BUT we have had MIRACLES happen this last week. Get ready for me to list them all. So for the ward hike a couple weeks ago, we felt that maybe we had stayed out too long at that we should just take half a PDay last week. We were bummed of course, but yeah anyway. We had lunch with our district, but we took too long with lunch, and we really wanted to go to the Speyer Dom, but we felt that it would probably be better if we headed back to Mannheim. So we did, and then about thirty minutes later our investigator (we'll call her...Sue?) calls us and asks if we could meet NOW because she was feeling really bad and needed help. So we were able to meet with her then! If we had gone to Speyer it would have taken probably an hour and half to get back and get to the church to meet her. So we were able to see her, and because the Elders here in Mannheim had done the same thing, we were able to call them and ask them to come, because Sue wanted a blessing. It was soooo cool because at first she had been a little skeptical of the laying on of hands; she's been to other churches and has seen some sketchy things with that. But she got a blessing and said she knew it was from God because no two 19 year-old boys could have done and said those things! That was soooo cool. Then we were able to meet with our other investigator afterward and have a way good lesson with her and another member. It was soooo cool.
But THEN it gets even better. The next morning we were heading off to see Sue again, and she lives waaaay far away. Sadly, no members were able to drive us and come teach with us that morning, so we set off waaay early to take the train and the bus all the way out there. But as were on our way, Sue called us. We were really nervous that she wanted to cancel our appointment, and we had been planning to challenge her to baptism, but the conversation was basically like, 'Heyy Sisters, how's it going? Yeah I'm good...So I was thinking this morning, could you two prepare a lesson about baptism? I'd really like to get baptized.' WHAT?? We were like...'Uhhh yeahh uhhhh sure we could do that...' So we talked to her about baptism and she was soooo solid and excited and she said she wanted to get baptized ASAP. We initially set the date for the 14 of June, but then a couple days later realized that might have been a little tooooo soon. We talked to her about it, and we prayed about it as well, so now we're doing it on the 28th of June!! Miracles??? Oh yeahhhhh Miracle Mannheim!! So awesome.
Our other investigator left today for a vacation to the US, and Sister Lehman is way sad because she might get transferred and never see them again! But they said goodbye last night (like hopefully not goodbye but just in case goodbyes, haha). I can't believe I only have one transfer left! I have to buy a Kinder Egg tomorrow. My last real one! So crazy. This is President Schwartz's last transfer. :( Next transfer we'll have a new mission president.
But...yeah. It's been a pretty good week, you could say, haha. The Church is really true!!
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