We were told that wise knowlege at zone konferenz this past week from a Senir Elder who was going home. Its such great advice. We need to keep the gospel of Jesus Christ as the main thing, and that is the most important thing we can do. It was so great to have zonekonferenz this past week. Sister Forsyth and I gave a workshop on WEEKLY PLANNING and how to prepare people for the baptismal interview. It was a neat opprotunity to share our story of Frau Zimmer and motivate our fellow missionaries to go 'find em and teach em and baptize em and keep em.' (haha, how präsident says it anyway)
If you didnt know, on Fridays we have a 2-3 hour weekly planning session and we pray for each investigator and their needs and we plan specifically for each of them and how we can bring them closer to baptism. Its always nice to have the additions of our scented candle and fruit tea and LOADS OF THE SPIRIT to keep ourselves focused and excited about the work. It was neat to share the spiritual miracles we have seen with our zone and to realize that its true, we just fly on miracles as we plan our very best to use our time how the Lord would have us use it and then he just places people in our path. We also made cookies for the zone and that seemed to motivate people to plan better as well :)
It was a really great week running from appointment to appointment and sometimes not having time for lunch, there is nothing like being so busy and knowing the people we are meeting are making real progress, really changing and coming closer to christ. We have some really incredible investigators, and taught the restoration a lot this week. We watched the restoration video a couple times, and we read through JSH with Schwester Zimmer and I felt the spirit so strong as we read about Christ and Heavenly Father appearing to Joseph Smith, to bear testimony of that incredible event and to promise people the blessings of knowing that that happened, to know that the Lord talks to us today and gives us guidance, its such an incredible experience. Its especially touching to me to do it in German and know that the Lord is really testifying through me, because it is such a miracle these people can understand me! Bah! The lord is blessing us so much! Ah Sister Forsyth and I talked to this guy last week pretty late at night about the purpose of life and he was at first a little offish (clearly) but then said he would be interested in our perspective and we set up an appointment for this last Thursday. . . as we showed up he was really cool, had a clean apt, is a hard worker and loves his family, we taught him the plan of salvation and he said the closing prayer! I dont know the last time this man Christian said a prayer but to keep witnessing the Lord touching these peoples lives is such a miracle, in his prayer he said 'Im grateful these sisters are here and that I can come closer to you, please help me to do that even if its hard at the beginning.' Wow, its just incredible to me being able to invite people t change and seeing them do it and watching the lord work in their lives. SO BLESSED!
I may or may not have spent most of my email time writing single emails to the family, so this email isnt as long, and probabay not as exciting, as normal, but Im feeling so blessed and love the branch here. Its hilarious running to catch bahns and trains and doing all of that in skirts and tights, luckily its feeling very much like home being in a skirt, wierd to see Sister Roberts Jones, who is now just Rebekah who came back to visit wearing pants!! I couldnt get over the fact she was a normal cute person, thatll be a weird day that Im grateful is in a long time from now, but Sister RJ makes it look good ;) I sure hope you all have a great week and remember the main thing is to keep the main thing as the main thing.
happy monday!
sister Rasmussen
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