HELLO MY SWEET FAMILY!!!!!! How are you!!! Okay.Jacob is coming to GERMANY!!! I am still freaking out about that!!! I am soo pleased you will be joinging me here. COME READY TO WORK! Every day is a journey here. A mission is HArd Work, but is ALWAYS WORTH IT. WEll as many of you probably know... last week was a bust of a week for me. It was pretty terrible... haha. Not going to lie. I tried to smile, but it was just sooo hard!!! A lot of different things happened and NOTHING seemed to be going right. We were being 100% obedient and everything went wrong. It is in these moments you just stop and pray. As a missionary sometimes these moments happen. Sometimes you are told how silly you are. Sometimes you get yelled at. Spit upon. Laughed at. Some days you simply just ask the question,"WHAT IN THE WORLD AM I DOING HERE!!!" Yep, I asked that question a lot last week.I really began to ponder why I am here? What am I even doing? Am I really fulfilling my purpose as a missionary? Inviting others to come unto christ?
WEll let me tell you all something really wonderful. God Works. in the mitts of all these thoughts I turned to my best friend Nephi. He is the best. I read about him and his family. about everything that they went through.(As a mission we are starting the BOM over again and finishing it Christmas day. WE are reading it with a focus centered around the Atonement of Jesus Christ. And let me tell you it has helped me so much. My mission president is truly inspired). If Nephi could build a ship, make a bow, put up with crazies (aka LAMAN AND LEMUEL!), and still praise god all the day long, SO CAN I!!!!!! Yes, we do have to do hard things. Yes, we even question ourselves and realize that we are SO FAR FROM PERFECT (2 nephi 4), But at the end of the day as we get down on our knees we know that God is there. We know that even if the whole world turned againsst us that day, that we have someone who did not. Someone that stood by us when we were crying, feeling alone, sad, happy. EVERYTHING!! GOD is there. He is there. And if we give him our full heart and work side by side with him then he will make us into the person we are meant to be. Guys. I am telling you. God Works. He is the best. And he sends us little miracles each day to see that he is watching us, our every move. Recently a Miracle in my life has been a ward member. Her name is Mirja and she has become one of my best friends. She is HILARIOUS and LOVES the Polynesian culture! Can you say match made in heaven. I told her my love for them and we planned a trip to go there after my mission, (you all are invited!) But she has really helped me to laugh again. To remember that I am here in Germany for a reason and that some Germans actually do love us! haha. It has been great having her. See little miracles. Little Miracles. Sister Shelley and I are so great. She is AMAZING! I am pretty sure she is training me. She is so wonderful. We get along great and she is so cute!! We have some wonderful adventures together!!This week has been such an amazing week for Sister Shelley and I. We have been able to work a lot with ward members this week. Have constant contact with them and it really helped us have a lot to do this week. We were able to contact three referrals this week. And 2 of them, W.A., came to church on SUNDAY! It was wonderful. On Thursday an appointment that we had fell out. We were very sad and called up a member of the Bishopric and asked him for any WA members we could visit. He gave us two names and we were off. The first lady that we went to has not been to church in years. No one from the ward has had any contact with her. So we went by and to our surprise she was HOME! We went in and talked to her. She was thrilled to see us. She said that she had tried calling the missionaries for the last couple of months but no one ever called her back. We looked and saw that she had a false number for us! We know that God helped us contact her. She came to church on Sunday and the ward was SO WELCOMING! She had someone to sit next to and she had an incredible experience. It was such a miracle!
Then we had a lesson this week with an investigator. We had been planning to teach about the plan of salvation, and he comes in and was a little sad. We asked him what was wrong and he told us that his life was very busy right now. He proceeded to tell us that even though he had a hard day it was okay, because he had god. And through god he finds true JOY! WE were astounded. JOY!!! THat was exactly what we wanted to talk to him about. We told him about gods plan for us and how we know exactly what our purpose is, where we came from, and where we are going. WE were able to talk about Jesus Christ and bear our testimony of JEsus Chirst. Our Lord and savior. As we did that the spirit filled the room. He told us that he knew what we said was true. Then we asked him to be baptized and he said yes! We have a specific date and everything! So we are praying that it is gods will he meets the baptismal date. We know that with the support of the ward, bishop, and the missionaries he will be able to get baptized and confirmed and remain active in the church!!!
Hey yall. THe gospel is true. It is really what brings true happiness. It is like Eric said, Even when we have a bad day we know in our hearts that god is there. He is directing our lives and we have him forever!!! I love you my sweet family. I love being a missionary and LOVE LOVE LOVE LIFE!!!
Sister Nilson
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