Will you follow the example of Jesus Christ? That is really what we are trying to teach people here; who he is, what he did, how much he loves us, that he lives today, and how to follow his example. It's such an unforgettable experience when people hear it, understand it, and feel the love of the Lord in our lessons and alone at home.
A huge blessing right now is what is going on with Christiana. She came to church yesterday in my skirt again and looked great! We have a new aufbau class with our new ward mission leader who is an awesome teacher. We talked about Heavenly Father and his attributes. It was so great because it was a small group and Christiana added to the discussion and clearly learned a lot. That is really our purpose - to help her build her relationship with her Heavenly Father and with Christ. It was also great because more people in the ward are noticing her and helping her feel welcome. She has come with us the past two Sundays to our eating appointments with members and you can see that her hopes for a future family and her thoughts about her decisions now are changing for the better. We had an awesome lesson about chastity and it was so cool to talk about our respect for ourselves and our future relationship, as well as our respect for the Lord and what is best for us. She is doing great and is inviting her friends to come to activities already as well...yeah!
We also went and saw Olga at her house and her husband was there! He is athiest and isn't a big fan of religion. He was born and raised athiest, but he was there and was so friendly. He and Olga are the cutest couple ever and they are so in love. We talked to them about life and family and got to know him a little better and they showed us their wedding pictures....cute but so...hmm anticlimatic? Just pictures of some guy by a desk in the city hall and them signing some paper and drinking champange afterwards... Sister Faerber and I were excited to see them but it also showed me wow what a huge drastic difference there is with a marriage in the world and marriage in the temple. Not even comparable. We asked if we could show them an awesome 5 minute dvd we have called finding happiness which is good when just wanting to start the conversation about the purpose of life. It shows beautiful landscapes and families and people working here in Europe and asks the questions like, "What if there was a big plan for us?" and "Who is the creator?" and "What if we could find out this purpose and live in unity with it?" " What if you could communicate with this creator, our Heavenly Father?" ...etc, and the spirit comes pretty quickly. We showed them the video. Olga loved it! And the man was well, you could tell he was affected by it, but he wasn't interested. He said, "I know Olga likes meeting with you and that's great, but Im not interested." It was weird to hear that response after just bearing testimony of the joy that comes when knowing a marriage can be together forever! What a happy thought! Oh well. He will come around. We can just invite right? Either way we laughed with them a lot and we brought the spirit into their home. Mal sehen.
We had an awesome Sunday yesterday. Sister Faerber plays this gorgeous 'erstaunt und bewundert' arrangement (I stand all amazed) arrangement and the spirit is so strong! It brings people to tears and oh I just love it, I tend to ask all of our investigators if they have an extra 5 minutes at the end of our lesson to hear her song. It's a good thing she loves me and loves playing the song or else someone could get really annoyed me always asking to hear it... :)
It was pretty chilly a couple nights this past week. We were on the gleises talking to people pretty late and were just freezing, but it was exciting and we found some cool people.... like GEORGE AND RACHEL!
They came up to us and asked us what our shields are! Oh I mean tags, haha. And they said they were looking for a bible study but it had fallen out! So we said, WELL, can we show you our institute in the city and we talked about there being a living prophet on the earth today....and then about the book of mormon and George freaked when we told him we had it in Hungarian! He was so excited!!! We had an awesome lesson with them and gave them both books of Mormon. Rachel is from Germany and George is from Romania but they are 20 and 24 years old and are awesome. Hopefully we will see them this week... I LOVE IT!
Being a missionary is the greatest life ever, just getting to study the gospel, feel the spirit, find others who want to learn and be a tool in the Lords hands....just hearing what a life is like in the real world....bleah i want to do this forever :) Okay? okay.
I hope you are happy and healthy and feeling the love from me through this email but more importantly the love of my and your Heavenly Father in your whole heart and soul. There's no better more fulfilling feeling than feeling his love and guidance! I recommend it.
Have a great OKTOBER week!
Love, Sister Rasmussen.
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