Sister Rasmussen.: Come ye children of the Lord...

We had a beatiful taufgottesdienst...baptismal service yesterday for Christiane. I am feeling so blessed to have the knowledge of this gospel and get to share it. Christiane was nervous but excited and we woke up at 5:15 and she woke up even earlier to get there an hour before it started and we helped her look all purdy and set up the programs with roses etc. We also got her a picture of Christ and had the people that came to the baptism sign the matting. It was a beautiful service, but more beautiful was the spirit that was there as a couple members gave talks about baptism and the Holy Ghost. We asked people to speak who have met Christiane but who also havent been toooo involved in the missionary work and they brought their families and we had many many people from the ward young and old come an hour earlier to church to watch our Christiane make a covenant with the Lord through baptism...with the priesthood of God.

She was nervous at the beginning then seemed to be quite humbled at the turn out to her baptism. Shew as beaming after it hapened and was happy and offering to read scriptures in our gospel principles class. She has already invited many people to come to family to home evening and also invited a lot to her baptism...shes already a missionary. Also in the blessing she got when she received the gift of the Holy Ghost spoke of missionary work as well. I just love her and am so stoked for her because she is also going to the temple this Saturday with the ward to do baptisms! She wants to do the temple work for her parents who passed away 6 years ago...and we as the missionaries are excited for her because its said those new converts who get to the temple in the first 6 months of being in the church stay stronger in the gospel. Yay! We are excited to go and Bürcan is coming as well! We taught him about baptism with Mike and Irakli there as well and it was neat to teach them about the power that God is giving them to build his kingdom to bless their families and perform holy ordiniances. It was cool to read about the powerful men in the Book of Mormon....for example like this scripture . . .

17 Yea, verily, verily I say unto you, if all men had been, and were, and ever would be, like unto Moroni, behold, the very powers of hell would have been shaken forever; yea, the devil would never have power over the hearts of the children of men.

So true. Can you imagine if all the men in the church were like Moroni? What if all the woman treated their husbands and fathers and brothers, friends as priesthood holders of the Lord. The devil wouldnt have power over the hearts of the children of men. . . that would be great. Anyway we are feeling so blessed with the progress and joy Christiane and Bürcan are having. We also have a new GOLDEN investigator named Gonzales....

yep theyre just walking around outside looking at the tables haha, we were street contacting in the city and the people were particularly mean that morning (this was 3 days ago) and we were headed back to the institute center when we saw Gonzales looking at the tables in front of a restaurant. We talked to him about the ´Book of Mormon and found out that he is from Peru and is getting his Ph.D here in Chemistry and he will be here for the next 2 years. He said he had lots of collegues back home who were members of the church and one of his friends gave him a Book of Mormon back in Peru (wahoo, good member missionary work) and he said he would love another one. We gave him one and set up a return appointment for the next day...yesterday and it was AWESOME! One of the best lessons of my mission. Irakli was there, helped a lot because of his spanish, yeah he baptized Christiane ýesterday morning and then helped us teach last night, he is always with the missionaries, switching between lessons with us and the elders, all members should take after his example :) anyway Gonzales was telling US the prophecies of the apostacy in the bible and said he totally agreed with the concept of the great apostacy and said of course Joseph Smith could have seen the Father and the Son, he said he would of course be baptized when he found out for himself that the Book of Mormon is true, so hopefully we will set a date with him our next appointment! woot!

I love it here in Leipzig and yes we had transfer calls and Sister Faerber and I are staying together! Im so excited for the miracles coming our way with Olga, Mascha, Bianka, Christiane, Bürcan, Ines, Maria....bah theres so many, just waiting to come closer to Christ, isnt the gospel true?? Yes. Yes it is.

Have a happy Monday and know how important it is to pray... really pray, with your whole heart. Then you can repent and feel the love of our eternal, allmighty creator, and our perfect father. He is just waiting to bless you, just ask him for the blessings, and follow his guidance...then the miracles come! I promise you that.

Love you!

Sister Rasmussen

Christiane was baptized! It was a beautiful taufgottesdienst.

1.All the girls