We got to see another baptism this last Sunday of a man named Uwe Bernt, so cool, its so fun serving in the same city as ourdistrict because we get to motivate each other to do our best and also get to help each others investigators. So we saw one set of Elder's baptism last Sunday and then Sister Faerber and I have 2 baptisms this up coming Sunday!! Wahooo! Burcan and Michael are excited and ready to schließ ein Bund mit den Himmlischen Vater und sich taufen lassen! They are ready and excited to become members of the church and are living all the commandments and seeing the blessings so obviously that are coming from that lifestyle. We taught Michael about tithing and fasting this past week as well as Christ and the revelation we get through the holy scriptures. They were such awesome lessons and the spirit was strong. It was interesting to teach someone our age about tithing and money is a little tight but to teach that its just another way to show our love to the Lord as well as giving him another opprotunity to bless us. I learned a lot as well realizing every commandment we have is really just a roundabout way to ask for more blessings. I used the example of my mission, apparently its this huge sacrifice and I thought I would try and 'pay back' the Lord for all the blessings he has already given me, but as ive served Ive not only NOT been able to pay the Lord back but he is blessing me and my family even more!! and thats the same with every 'sacrifice' we have, we are just blessed 100 times more then the little sacrifice of paying tithing or fasting on fast Sunday. What a great secret, or trick or beautiful lesson of life to finally understand.
It was also a tender mercy last night as we were Oyming (opening our mouths aka street contacting) we talked to a billion people and talked to one lady who was deaf, but as we showed her our tags and gave us our card she got across that she was catholic and reads in the bible and we pulled out the Book of Mormon and handed it to her and she was SO EXCITED!! I havent seen someone react with such excitment and gratitude as we explained it was a gift and she could have it. She was so happy and I felt the Joy that the gospel brings a little bit stronger.
We are also teaching a gay Frenchman named Simon and set a baptismal date with him for December 4. He is great and has strong faith, is was catholic but knew that people had changed the word of Christ and something is missing from his church. He loves reading in the Book of Mormon and totally understood the plan of salvation and said he had never seen it layed out like that but that is what he believes and knows that its through the restored gospel that we have more details to the plan of why we are here. He said he believes God and Christ appeared to Joseph Smith and im excited to see where we go with Simon...
We have some cool people we made out first appointments with coming up in this next week, 2 of them being acouple from Hungry who have 4 children, the youngest is 2 years old, and they have nothing. They have to beg to get money to try and get a job to get money to send home to the grandma who is taking care of the kids. They are such a humble couple, and were so excited to get the Book of Mormon in Hungarian. We are going to teach them the gospel and see if they are willing to live the gospel and are interested in taking upon them the name of Christ and the church can help them. It was so humbling for me to see the situation they are in and then realizing when everyone lived the commandments and is apart of the Church everyone is taken care of, and that is the celestial plan, so we shall see if we can help them, and count our own blessings.
I love this work and I am so excited for Michael and Burcan, they wanted the same person to baptize them so Irakli will just stay in the water and wow it will definitely be a white day. The Church is true and brings so much joy and happiness, tell someone about it, youll make them happy and yourself tooooo!
Generalkonferenz is coming up!!! Cant wait!!!
Have a great week! and I will too.
Liebe grüße, Sister Rasmussen
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