2-8-16

That's got to be crazy for Dad.  And you.  You're in my prayers.

Everything that happened this week feels like it happened forever ago.  

One highlight though is Monia.  She's a recent convert from Italy that we meet with every week to help her learn German and English.  While we can communicate with her, it's a little hard sometimes.  Italians speak way fast no matter which language they speak.  Anyway, this week she asked us to help her write down her testimony so that she could say it on Sunday.

Along comes Sunday, and she needs a little push, so Sister Bray goes up first.  Then she goes up and speaks in the best German I've ever heard her speak.  It was simple and sweet.

She came back down and was worried she did a terrible job.  Then the Relief Society president gets up and compliments her.  You should of seen Monia's face when we translated that for her. (She speaks better English than German)

Oh, another quick story.  We had a goal to get double digit less active appointments.  Because less actives are brilliant.  We were sitting at nine through very little effort of our own.  So, we decided to go by on some people we don't know.  While doing that, we had a few tell us to never come back or close the door before we even said a single word.

We picked another person, but called the Elders first because they've meet with the family before.  They said that the ward has asked us to not go by on them for a bit.  So we go somewhere else, and get let in by a sweet lady who invited us to come back.  

We called the Elders afterwards (we wanted to share our joy of not getting the door slammed in our face and reaching our goal) and they said that they'd said a pray for us after we'd hung up.

Gotta love the power of prayer

A bunch of other stuff happened too.  And Carnival started, so we're not allowed to go by Dortmund Hauptbahnhof or anything.  Poor Elders had to make sure their ties weren't cut off. (On the first day of carnival, girls cut of guys ties then kiss them)

Love you lots and I hope all goes well with the new ward.

Love,

Rachel