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On My Own Pretending hes beside me....

On My Own Pretending hes beside me.... Oh Wait he is... He is the spirit and I have him with me where ever I go... SIGN ME UP!!!!!! CAN I GET AN AMEN! AMEN!!!!!!!!!!

 

What a great week I have been having and what a great time I have had at the MTC. Yes, It has been "magical" and I am sad it is going to end in just one week. I LEAVE APRIL 30th!Yep, Next tuesday. CAn you even believe that I have already been out for a month. Man time flys when you are having FUN!

SABI!! I am so proud of you!!! Livin up to the FAMILY NAME!!! You are a talented Genius! JAKE! You are that smart! bahaha! Loved it. Why brother Why are you so talented....can you teach me when I get home?? Kates. You are the best. Like really. I adore you. Ems-worlds greatest right here! I love you all so much!!! SHOUT OUT TO E-TRAIN!!!! You are in a play buddy!!! I am so proud of you!! I love you so much!!!The BYU men's Chorus performed for us on Sunday-Zach Sundwall was there and as I was fighting through the crowds to go see him he simply just left! RUDE! haha.Thanks grandma for the Packages!!! MY DISTRICT LOVES YOU!!!! Keep em comin... haha

So my district/Zone is the BEST!!!!! The sad part about it is that a lot of the Elders that I have to come to know and Love are in other missions... But ALL 15 Girls are going to BERLIN! And they are the ones that really matter... haha I seriously have made 15 new BEST friends. These girls are incredible. LIKE INCREDIBLE! Watch out Germany... Saw Rach Stapp. That was the best moment of my life. Almost started crying...

 

Okay so for this week I dont really have much to say... I am sick of my clothes, suprise surprise...

 

SOOOO! On Tuesday we got to hear from the one and only Richard G Scott! He was fabulous! What an incredible opportunity it was Listening to him. The choir got to sing "Nearer my God to thee" and I was singing in it! People told me they did a close up of sister pickett and I... eek!  

He talked about prayer. He said what an incredible blessing it was that God, the creator of the universe, the creator of Billions of earths, people, wants us to talk to him. About anything and everything. He said that sometimes we need to say a vocal prayer-ALOUD! He talked about how we all go through challenges, but how these challenges give us opportunity to learn and grow. We have the ability to learn about ourselves and discover who we are. So really God never gives us challenges or Trials, just blessings and learning opportunities! :) How great is that! Great right! Well it got even better! At the end of his talk he gave us an Apostolic (Okay I have no idea what the real name of it is) Blessing... he gave us a blessing and in the Blessing he blessed us with peace that through hard and challenging "Blessings" we would feel the Saviors love and peace. Then he told the Sister that he promised this Mission would bless us into the Eternities. He said, We will never cease to see the reward a mission will bring in our lives! (Can you say BEST DAY!) But the blessing/promise that was incredible and an answer to so many prayers. He said, All you missionaries that are learning a language, I bless you with the Gift of tongues. I Bless you that you will not only Learn the language, but you will MASTER it. For whom the Lord god calls, he Qualifies and you my dear friends you will be able to speak the language flawlessly. I get emotional even writing it. You dont know how many prayers were answered with that statement. All of the sisters have been praying and fasting and it was a direct answer. After he was done we sang the closing song and right before the Prayer, Richard G. Scott stands up again and comes to the pulpit and said, God wants me to tell you all one more time, "Your calls are from him. Remember you have been called and he will fit the task to your capabilities. God will not abandon you, he is with you always. He loves his missionaries. I know your callings are from god and you all will see that nothing can bring you more happiness than a mission at this moment."

HOLY COW. Pretty sure everyone was balling and the God was speaking directly through him to me. God is sooooo aware of us. Please Please PLEASE never forget that. God loves each of us so much and wants us so badly to return to him. And really it is pretty easy, All we got to do is choose to follow god. There is only one decision we have to make in this life, "Will I follow Jesus Christ or not"Once we have answered that question than no longer do we have a religion, we have a lifestyle. Being a part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is a lifestyle and it is the Best lifestyle. It makes us the happiest we can be. Never have I been happier and Never have I been more thankful for a prophet of God, who can touch the lives of so many.

Be careful what you do with the Agency god has given you. What if Jesus Christ would not have gone through with the atonement, what if nephi would not have made a record of his people, what if Joseph Smith would not have asked god which church to join, what if I would have chosen to do an MDT program... We all have our Agency in this life and when the moment comes when we have to make the decision, we will know what to do because deep down the answer is already there-because we chose to follow Jesus Christ. I know that if I would have done MDT there is no way I would be on a mission right now, Meeting so many incredible people, and learning so much. Really it is the most incredible thing looking back at my life and seeing how god has been apart of it all. Ah. What a beautiful thought, The God of the Universe, that is all powerful, is directing my life. He is telling me which path to take and has promised the Holy Ghost to be with me ALWAYS-as long as I keep my end of the Bargain. We must remember that the Holy Ghost is a Part of the God Head. He is all powerful too. And we can have him with us ALWAYS. He is inside us right now trying to refine us and help us become the person that God knows we can become. 

Oh how glorious is this gospel. Oh how Blessed we are to know the truthfulness! Oh what an Incredible GOD we have, who loves us and cares so much for us. Ah. My Love for the Lord and the Savior has exploded out of my heart, I love them so much.The Time is NOW. These are the Last days and God needs us all to be our very best so that we can help him. He does everything for us, the Least we could so is be an EXAMPLE!!!!! The Atonement is real. Use it. Jesus Christ chose to do this for us. He had agency too, and when he was suffering and said, "Lord let this cup pass from me," he could have stood up and walked out of the Garden, but because he loves us-each of us-so much he stayed. He finished the Atonement and gave us all the Ability to have Eternal Life. Eternal Life-With our families and love one. Who wouldn't want that!

I WILL SCREAM IT TO THE TOP OF THE HILLS THIS IS THE ONLY TRUE GOSPEL ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH! Through this gospel we have the ability to be so happy in this life and the life hereafter! We need THIS gospel. THIS GOSPEL. THIS is GODS true church upon the earth right now, today, now and forever. We have his authority. We have a prophet. Go is the same yesterday, Today, and forever. I love this gospel. I love love love love love being a missionary and can not believe how much I have learned. I have been on my mission for 4 weeks and feel like I am a completely different person. I Love this gospel-read the book of Mormon. It can answer ANY question if you really ponder it. Study the scripture, pray to the lord. He wants to hear from you. You all know I will be doing the same. I love you my dear sweet family. I miss you all, and am so grateful that I get to be with you all for Eternity! Remember the family motto: No Weirdies! hehe. I love you all so much! Don't let ANYTHING distract you from the lord! He is the ONLY way! I love him and through him we can have Eternal Life.

EVERYONE SERVE MISSIONS! :) I am now the biggest advocate... You thought Katie was bad... you all Better Buckle up!!!! JAKE, JAMES, MAC- You guys are the next to go! You better be preparing! :) haha. Love you all so much!!! 

MMMUUUAAHHH!!!!!

 

 

lOVE

mE. Sister Nilson

What is this feeling... so sudden and new!!!

WICKED!!!! WICKED! This is the Musical of the Week. BoO yAH! Not because I have had it playing in my mind all week but because of a certain story that i will get to later on in my email.

FIRST off!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to GRANDMA, KY my dear, SETH-bud, I just adore you, Megan Mower, and Others... eek.

Well I hope you all had splendid days and that you are all living the dream because I SURE AMMMM!!!!! YAYAY!!!!

I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!!!!! Each week just gets better and better. I think to myself, how am I so lucky? HOW DID I GET SO LUCKY! I adore German, already. My companion Sister Pickett is the best gem since sliced bread-no seriously guys. We work sooo well together!!!!!

 I Love HER!

All right are you all ready for the story of a life time.... bucket up because this rocks!!!

So as you know we teach "investigators" in the MTC and yes, I love all of them. Mark is the name of a man we are teaching right now. When we met him he introduced himself and his two kids, but never mentioned his wife. We thought that was odd, but had no idea how to ask him in German so we thought we would get to that next time... haha. Well on our third lesson we had prepared something and when we got in there he was so excited and said, "I watched general conference! I read the Book of Mormon! I love everything! And then he proceeded to ask us different things about the book of Mormon. Well when he was asking all these questions I had a distinct impression to talk about baptism... I thought "Absolutely not! It is waaaayyyyy too soon." But again the feeling persisted and so I mentioned that the book of Mormon testifies of Christ and as we come to know him... yadadayadda ydada by his example he set we know we should get baptized... I said the word taufen (the German word for baptize)... very slowly and softly hoping he would not hear, he did. Bummer. But he was very interested and we asked him when he gains a testimony will he follow Christ's example and be baptized, without hesitation he said, Yes. I can do that. I was Astonished- and quite frankly did not believe it. Then as we left we got out of the room and Sister Pickett was like- NICE way to follow the spirit! I was excited as well, yes for mark to be baptized but also excited that I had actually followed a prompting and that the spirit was present in our lesson!!  

Our next lesson we prepared for Mark was all about baptism and we had planned this beautiful spiritual lesson... ha. We go knock on the door, Mark comes and we ask him how he is, how the book of Mormon reading was. He said he stopped reading it- we were shocked and I explained to him the importance of the Book of Mormon and then had him read the last paragraph of the introduction, that says if you know the Book of Mormon is true then everything else is true. As he was reading it, it mentioned Joseph Smith and he looked up to us and said, "Who is Joseph Smith, what are prophets, what is this even saying..." literally my heart sank to the floor, here we were ready to talk about baptism and Mark has completely forgotten everything.

Okay Break from the story-you have to realize that up till now Sister Pickett and I have always had our lesson plans written out. We have phrases in German and basically create a script for ourselves. Thank goodness for theatre, I usually memorize mine, and then Sister Pickett memorizes/reads hers. That is how we have done it.

Back to the story….We had nothing for Mark. His questions were such a surprise and we had not even bothered to write any German down for those questions. After he says this-We both look at each other and are really horrified. Not only can we not speak German, but also our investigator has completely lost everything that we had taught him. This was our fourth time meeting with him! He had learned- the entire first lesson!!! I looked at Sister Pickett and she just looked at me-like what do we do. All the sudden I just opened my mouth and started talking and talking and talking. I told him if he remember watching general Conference-those were prophets-I asked him if he remembered our lesson on the Restoration, I clarified the book of Mormon and compared Moses to Nephi- I answered all his questions and asked if he better understood. I pleaded with him to continue to read the BOM-that through doing that everything else would make better sense. I told him to pray to know--Reminded him to pray to know--recommitted him, Sister Pickett asked him to come to church, and we testified of the truthfulness of the gospel, and then we left. I got outside and Sister Pickett just looked at me and was like, "wow, your German is good." WHAT THE MONGREL!!!! HAD I REALLY JUST SAID ALL THAT IN GERMAN!!!!

"Had that really just happened? Have I actually understood..." –

WICKED song-the wizard and I

Literally those were the exact words that went through my head!

GOD IS SO GREAT! He is so mighty, he is so powerful, and at the very second, he will put the words into your mouth that you need in the VERY moment! Guys, I spoke German. Best DAY EVER!!!!  After the lesson my teacher (who plays the investigator Mark) came up to me and said, "Sister Nilson your German is so good. Wow. I was so surprised. YOU can speak GERMAN!!! Way to go!" BAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA!!!! Happiness FLOWED THROUGH EVERY PART OF MY BODY!!!! I was so happy!!! And although I have such a long way to go and am nowhere NEAR fluent, I do know the gospel and I can form simple sentences to testify of the truthfulness of the gospel. It was such a special moment for me. 

Well we had another lesson with Mark and Sister Pickett thought that the Atonement would be a good lesson to plan and bring families into our plan because he has his two sweet daughters. I thought it was great so we prepared a lesson. When we got in we asked him about church and he said he loved it. He said he had met so many good people and he had a great time. We then asked him about the book of Mormon and he said he was still having a hard time-he said he had read it but was still unsure- Sister Pickett the little genius had prepared this brilliant comparison btw the Book of Mormon and the Bible (Mark LOVES the bible). She took him to different scriptures and showed him that both books testify of one another. Then he said he felt peace when reading both books! BRILLIANT! I jumped in and gave a whole little spiel on how the peace he feels is the Holy Ghost! Then the magic began- we asked him what he learned at church and he said, "they taught about the atonement of Christ" WHAT!!! BRILLIANCE! THAT WAS OUR Lesson WE HAD PLANNED! So we just went right off that. I started with telling him about how god sent us down in families and how central families were to Gods plan-then again I had a prompting, ask him if he has a wife- and the German works came into my head. I was like NO. You can’t just ask someone, "Hey do you have a wife" that is rude... so I didn't ask him. Then as Sister Pickett began talking about the atonement we had him read something and he talked about his family and said something about his FRAU-which is his wife in German. Well seeing as we don't understand German I looked at Sis. Pickett and said, did she die- She was like, "I think?" Again I had the prompting "Ask about his wife." I did not want to and it was Sister Pickett's turn anyways. Sister Pickett then went on to tell him through the atonement we can live with our families again and that he would be able to live with his wife and daughters again. I thought great. She did die we know what happened. Then as strong as ever the prompting came-"ASK HIM ABOUT HIS WIFE!" So I said this, Mark you talked about your wife, can we know the story about what happened?" And he just sat there. I was horrified.!!!! I was like NOOOO!!! I just lost him!!! Why did I do that! and then he said yea, he then proceeded to tell us that about his wife-and that they we divorced. Sister Pickett looked so embarrassed. We finished our lesson and went out. She was like oh my gosh! Why did I just assume that she had died? Why didn’t we ask for clarification earlier....I felt terrible. God had TOLD ME to ask earlier, and I had not listened. No nothing tragic happened. No one died, but because I did not listen to the Spirit the first time, My companion said something that I could have prevented. She got over it fast and it was completely fine-No BIG Deal AT All. Those things happen especially when trying to understand a different language-but if it was a lesson that I had to learn. It was a lesson that God needed to teach me. I am glad he taught it to me in the MTC with Mark instead of out in the Field.

We often ask ourselves if it is me or is it the Lord- Elder Bednar said-it does not matter. If you are obeying God’s commandment and are being a good girl and good boy God will use you how he wants. So don't worry about it.

Trust in the Lord- Be aware of the spirit and ALWAYS act on promptings you have.

I love this gospel and am so thankful for the experiences I have had this week! I adore my Mission!! I am so grateful that I have this opportunity! I love everything and miss you all. This letter is so scatter brained because I have NOOOO time! Sorry!! Love you!

I love being a missionary and Love the Lord!

Josie

AND WE FINALLY GOT PICTURES!!!!!!!!!! 

I was a boy...

I WAS A BOY... NOW I'M A MAN!!!!! Okay not really... but this is the song that has been playing through my mind all week. I thought i would remind you all that the Christmas season is right around the corner and I hear Chirstmas in GERMANY IS THE BOMB!!!!! So I will have to let you know how it is in 8 months... hehe.

JACOB NILSON!!!! THIS IS YOUR LONG LOST SISTER SPEAKING WRITE ME BOY!!!

 

Alright-First and Foremost-Sister Pickett ROCKS!!! And she most deinitley knows the WESTCOTTS! What a small world. We ranted about them for hours, "they are the best, so talented, WE LOVE THEM!" On and on! :) Sister Pickett is seriously the best companion I could ever ask for. She is from St. George and is always HAPPY! It is wonderful to have a compaion that you can count on at all times. She knew a little german before hand so she has really been able to help me! Its been great.

 

This week has been incredible! I adore the MTC and am finally starting to get into the swing of things! I have felt the Lords love and spirit wrap around me this week as I have focused on feeling the spirit. One thing that stood out to me is when one of our teachers was talking about the word "Fail/Failure" He told us boldly and bluntly that no Missionary can fail if they have the Holy Ghost with them-and each of us do. He said that the Holy Ghost wants more than anything to be in our lessons and hearts always. If we are obediant-he will be with us. Missionaries can not fail, if they did that would mean the Lord failed, and the Lords work DOES NOT FAIL. I loved when he was talking to us about this concept. As a missionary all you can do is try your absolute best and put forth all your effort. Serve God with all your Heart, Might, Mind, and strength and then whatever happens, happens. If we give god our whole hearts, repenting in that which we stand in need of, then he will help us with anything and EVERYTHING. He is with us always.

I am so gratful for a loving Heavenly Father who has showed me multiple times each day how much he loves me. I am so greatful for the Lord and for his gospel.

On Tuesday night,sitting in the devotional, it really hit me- I am a missioary! Everyone here in the MTC is. We are all here with one purpose. To Invite others to come unto christ. God has called us all to do his great and divine work, whether that be in broken German,Spanish,French, or English. By the Power and Authority of God we can and will be able to invite others to come unto Christ. This message has helped me this week not focus on the German I can not speak, but focus on everything I can speak. I know that the Gift of Tongues has been with me. It is incredible how much German I have learned and how much German I can understand in just a few short weeks. I know that it is all thanks to the Lord. I can not begin to express the gratitude I have for my Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ. As I have talked to the Lord this week and had questions-every single Question was answered through pondering over the scriptures or through someone else sharing an experience. I know that the lord has heard and answered my prayers and will continue to answer all of them.

We continue to teach our Investigators almost everyday and it truly is wonderful. We spend a lot of time translating our lessons from english to German-I look forward to the day when I can write german sentences without any help :)- but until then I just ask sister Pickett and she ALWAYS helps! She rocks. I love being able to share the gospel! I LOVE IT! When you share something that means so much to you with someone who does not have it, the Holy Ghost testifies of truth and it builds your testimony even more. We had pour first experience with TRC this week! I was so stressed cause sister pickett and I had THREE lessons in one day and we were trying to prepare them all and I was a little overwhelmed-but we just thought, "hey we will pray and testify of truth. We know how to do that much in German." So that is what we did. The first Girl we taught Sister Pickett actually knew. OH sidenote- The TRC is when members come in and we teach them. They are not acting as a character or anything- So we taught her, it was really fun for sister pickett to see this girl. Then after we went into this room and taught this old man. WE asked him what he liked to do and he said he adored Music. Instantly I feel in love with him and for ten minutes he told me all about his music experiences. His wife and him composed music in Germany and toured all over the WORLD! WAS!!!! So cool. But we talked about the restoration and asked him how the Restoration has helped him in his life. His eyes teared up and he shared with us his conversion story, ending with the Restoration means everything to me. As I listened I just watched the spirit flow out of him and touch my soul. Then I thought, "wait a second... I just understood that WHOLE story..." BEST DAY! Even though I can not speak I am getting a lot better at understanding. I know that god is helping me everyday!

I love being a missionary. This week was incredible and then to end it we got to listen to conference. Was not not incredible or what. Everytime Missionaries were mentioned everyone smiled and frantically wrote and Cheered!! haha. it was so cool watching it in a room with 3,227 missionaries. That was the count as of last week but it has gotten a lot higher. And on top of that the cafetiria is SOOOOOOOOOOO PACKED!!! Like you can not even move half the time... It is great.

I know my savior Lives. I testify of the truthfullness of this gospel and thank the Lord for calling me to the Berlin, Germany mission. I love learning German and seeing the gospel through another light. I love my savior and can not wait to start another week and see all that he has in store for me!!

Love you ALLL!!!! Thank you for all your sweet letters! They really lighted MY WHOLE LIFE!!!! Keep em' coming.

Beac-really dude you rock my world and I miss you more than anything. I wear my 24601 shirt everynight in bed and fall asleep to you singing bring him home in my head. I love you so much and hope you had the best time in Cali! I wish you all the best for this upcoming week!!! MMMUUUAAHHH!!!!! You go be the next Peter LAMBERT! Love you!

Love you all and miss you so much. I love it here and know this is where I am supposed to be!! LOVE YOU!

Soooo, Das MTC

Soooo, Das MTC. Need I say more. Never in my life have I felt so many emotions. This  past week has flown by, but has also felt so slow. So much has happened so I got to hurry cause my time is clicking down.

Lets start on a High NOTE!!! Sister Pickett is by far the best companion in all the world!!!! We are perfect for each other. I adore adore adore her!!!! This past weekend after three lessons we committed our investigator, Fabian, to BAPTISM!!! (okay, I know that it is fake, but seriously we both could not stop smiling!!) we left and just fell to our knees laughing and thanking the lord for our success. It was awesome. Well what we didnt know is that Fabian later became one of our new teachers!!! When he talked to us about our lessons he said they were incredible. I looked at sister pickett and said, "What lesson was he in?" bahaha! One thing he said that we did so well was apply it to our lives. He said that when we brought in personal examples it helped him see how the gospel could help him. I thought to myself well thats good cause the only thing I can say is, "I liebe meine familie." bahaha!!! Seriously. and I dont even think that is right,.... OH WELL!

Next Item of businesss is the SHOUT OUT SECTION!!!!

Shout out to Romy- OUr investigator/teacher knows you!!! Bother Jammine???-I have no clue how to even spell that- FABIAN! haha

Shout out to Jake and Emma for completing the play and for rocking it every night-so i heard!!! Jake and ems I am soooooo PROUD OF YOU!!!!!

Shout out to sabrina for writing me the funniest best letters!!!! AND FOR MAKING PRODUCTIONS!!!! AYYAYAYYAYAYAYYAYAYYAYAY!!!!! SO PROUD!!!!

Shout out to Kate's.... you know why.

Shout out to my family for giving me the best easter in a box EVER!!!!!!!

So as I said before this week has been a serious roller coaster and I don't even know where to begin,I guess I will start with German. I don't understand it and I cant speak it- AT ALL!!! It is hard when a lot of people in my district are seriously basically fluent and they say, "Its all the gift of tongues" Blast. I thought I had that too... haha. But then I pray to my dear dear savior and he talks me through it. He tells me it is all going to be okay, that it will come, and focus on serving the people around me and him. Ah isn't it great to always have someone we can talk to 24/7. Haha. I think God probably has to put me on hold sometimes because I am calling him so much!! It is hilarious!!!! But then I remember, oh yea-there are a gaaaazzzzziiiiilllliiiioooonnn telephone lines in heaven! BEST DAY EVER!!!! Never have I ever prayed more than I have in the past two weeks. I adore praying. All y'alls PRAY! If it is one thing that keeps me going here in this crazy place is knowing that my heavenly father knows exactly where I am and what I am thinking at all times. He knows when I am struggling and sends a comforting angel ( a sister, teacher, friend) to say the exact thing that I need to hear. He knows us so personally it is crazy sauce!!! The funny thing is that the challenges that I have been facing are challenges that not all, but some sisters have been facing as well. So when I go around to their rooms every night and talk to them I can say, "I have felt that way too sister, we can get through this together." What a blessing. This week a lot of Sisters have been struggling and I have been able to be right there with them

It has been great. I love how the lord knows exactly what we need to make us feel better. I love listening to people. I love hearing their stories and what is going on. So through this calling I have been able to really focus on the sisters and it has brought me so much JOY!!!

For easter sunday we had sacrament meeting with ALL the missionaries. There are 3,227 right now and more coming in tomorrow! Isn't that insane. It is so exciting to be in the MTC right now. We had the presiding Bishop come talk to us- Bishop Causse? spelling? He is from France. He was fabulous! His message was all about how everything we do as missionaries needs to be focused on Christ. AND GUESS WHAT ELSE HE SAID!!!!! As I was sitting there listening to his message all the sudden he says, One of my favorite quotes about love is from the book... wait for it........ LES MIS!!! I had a smile from ear to ear! To LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TOO SEE THE FACE OF GOD!!!!- okay so that was not the exact quote, but it just made me think home. It was so beautiful. That was my little tender mercy for the day. Then, that night for devotional we had Sherri Dew come and speak to us. WOW! What a powerful lady. She said this, "Jesus Christ is not the way, he is the ONLY way" (Okay so really she said something a lot more profound than that, but i do not have my notebook with me right now so I can not do a direct quote. But you get the jist. The savior atoned for our sins. Through him we can be saved. In the garden he sat and suffered for each one of us- My BOM teacher explained it like this. As Christ suffered in the Garden pictures of each person flashed in his mind. It was so personal. He saw you when we atoned for you. that is Incredible. As missionaries we have to spread the gospel through our love of Jesus Christ. I am so thankful for Easter Sunday! Thank you to everyone who contributed with my easter basket!!! More letters are coming your way. I love you all so much!!!!! I am off to devotional right now. i am in the choir!! This was my first time going and guess what song they are singing?! I feel my Saviors Love. The exact arrangement Jen, Jon, Jake, and I sang for katies Homecoming. TENDER MERCY!!!! I love the Lord so much. I love this gospel. I love being a missionary and having the lord know exactly where I am all the time. I know this church is true. Oh man! I had a really cool story about our testimony meeting on sunday. You had to bare your testimony in German and i did not want to do it. Well it was nearing the end and there was a pause. well i was just like no, i can bare my testimony in german later... well the spirit did NOT like that answer. i literally heard the Words of God say, " How do you expect me to help you with the language if you don't open your mouth!?!" i jumped up! and RAN TO THE PULPIT! I was shaking so hard because the spirit was soooo strong. I have never felt anything like it. My companion asked me if i was okay after because i could not stop shaking. It was incredible! The church is true and i have to go! LOVE YOU!

Josie