Bring on the Germans!

This week has been simply wonderful... even down to the 5 eating appointments we had... YEP! Count them. 5!! GERMANS!!!! But this is sooo great for us! WE started out with NONE! THE WARD ACTUALLY LIKES US!! Yesterday the Bishop came up to Sister Cluff and I and asked if we were staying another transfer! Hehe... BEST DAY! If you remember our ward was not too big of fans of missionaries... Since Sister Cluff rocks my socks and theirs the ward likes us now... we think... if anything they are interested in what two girls who can't speak German are going to be able to do. (Through the lord of course :) ). 

This week has been magical! It started off with the Familie Mansour. This is the part member family. The mom is a member and her two boys have a baptismal date... they have for like the past six months. They keep moving it back farther and farther. Well when we went over on Monday we talked to them and they said they wanted to move it back again (it is set for July 7th). We told them nope :). We asked them why they wanted to get baptized and what their concerns were. Well come to find out... they have NO concerns, but their mother does. So we talked to her and then them altogether and told them the love we have for them and their potential and they decided to stick to the DATE! And on top of that they have committed to meeting with us twice a week!! That is a big BIG deal. So we are excited.

On Wednesday we had ZONE CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT! IT WAS THE BESTTTTTT!!!! Ah. President Kosak is so inspired. He talked about being Good Listeners but not just good listeners, He said, we need to be Empathetic Listeners. Empathy is when you place yourself in other people’s shoes. You are able to look at something from their prospective. This is good for missionaries, so that we can help our investigators, members, and companions. But it is NOT just for missionaries. If we can learn to be Empathetic Listeners in our everyday lives, we will be able to help and understand so many people and it will bless our lives. I am so happy you had the Missionaries over. That is so incredible. I bet they were FREAKING OUT! "The stake pres..." bahaha! I know I would be!!! Keep it up. Keep doing missionary work!!! MEMBERS ARE SOOO IMPORTANT!!! and you better think of a referral to give those missionaries! 

Oh quick side notes... we went to a members house for an Eating appt. this week and I am pretty sure he was Mr. Weasley!!! He looked like him AND he was obsessed with America!! You know how Mr. Weasley is obsessed with Muggles... yep... it was Americans for him. We had Tacos for lunch! And they were sooo good! They love America. They were asking us all these questions and trying to speak in English- and they watch KID HISTORY on YouTube. Talk about the typical mormon! haha! LOVE IT. So I met Mr. Weasley! Simply Brilliant! 

My Last story I have for you today is about an investigator of ours named Herr Sultani. He is from Iran, does not like that he is muslim, and wants to be Christian more than anything. We had our second lesson with him this week, (it was my first time meeting him) and we did the First lesson. The spirit was so strong. We went through each point very slowly and at the end we extended the baptismal commitment! And when we asked him it he would get baptized (we were actually in the room with the baptism font, we pointed to it) he FLIPPED OUT! He jumped out of his seat and said YES!!! I have never seen someone so happy before in all my life. He then proceeded to tell us that he had tried so many Christian churches because he just wanted to be Christian soooo bad, and this one just felt right. I love love LOVE the Holy Ghost. So we set up the baptismal date for June 23rd! I couldn't be happier!! It was incredible to hear his testimony about how he knows that God loves him and how he is so grateful to God for giving him this gospel. He had been prepared. I know that there are so many people that the Lord is preparing to hear his gospel. There are so many people that want to know about this gospel and we need to find them. That is our job as missionaries and MEMBERS! To find those who are prepared!! Our commitment we have been giving the members is, we invited them to pray about a street that we can door. We have done that and have got a lot of referrals this week! So we will see how this week goes! 

I am so grateful for my mission and for everything that the Lord has taught me. I have learned so much about this gospel and am so thankful to be here! I know this gospel is true. I know that Jesus Christ is my savior. I know that we have a heavenly Father who loves us so much. He gave us this gospel so that we could return to him. And I have the opportunity to share it with people! WOW. I am so blessed! I love being a missionary! I know that this gospel is the ONLY WAY! And how marvelous that we have this gospel. It is simply Brilliant! I love my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I know that through them I WILL be able to learn German, and find the people they need me to find. I am so grateful to be a missionary. Everyone choose now to be a missionary NOW, forever and Always.

So Yep. This week rocked. I love being a missionary and cannot believe that I am already down to 16 months! Yep. I have hit my two month mark! WHAT THE! Time Flies when you are serving the Lord! 

Thank you so much for all your love and support. I feel your prayers and am so thankful for you all. I love you guys sooo much you don’t even know. I have the bestest family. SHOUT OUT TO SETH!!! I am so glad you are home safe and sound! I LOVE the pictures that I GOT! You are incredible! I am so proud of you! You make me want to go out and work harder as a missionary! Thanks for being such an incredible example to me!! 

I love you all!!! Sister Nilson