Hello FAMILY!! I love you all so so much!!!
Sister Brown and I are doing well as always. We are loving being here in Leipzig together.
This week we had so many little success stories...
First, we have this Wonderful friend who we have helped for the last two weeks clean her apartment. SHE IS CRAZY- I attached a photo of her apartment... it is NASTY! Mom, if you ever ythink your house is dirty think again! We meet with her once a week for about an hour and a half and help her clean her apartment. She said she was in the middle of a move... but we found out that it is really just a move of stuff from on bedroom to another room. We love being with her. She is very sweet loving grandma! The other day when we went over Sister Brown and I had decieded that we were going to ask her if she would like to meet with us for actual missionary lessons. We were not sure if she knew our purpose as missionaries and thought we would tell her. We prayed that the time would present itself when we could sit down with her and talk about it, and IT DID! When we were helping her we started talking more about the chruch. We finally just asked her if everytime we came over if we could do a lesson and then clean, or clean and then a lesson and she said, "yes, I really think I would like that. You just have to make sure that you tell me to sit down and LISTEN!" She told us that she met missionaries about 3 years ago but did not let them in. Since then she has been thinking about the church. She said that she has been going back adn forth-should I find them... or not... and then BOOM! We came back. As missionaries maybe we dont always see the fruits of our labors, but as we plant the seeds then they will gorw and eventually be reaped. It is so wonderful!
The next little success we had was with our english class this week. We had prepared a spiritual thought from the book of mormon and as we opened to the page number, one of our students (who was a previous investigator) said wait! she then pulled out her Book of Mormon and turned to the page with us! It was so fun to see that she had brought her Book of Mormon. We then had a great class full of laughter and FUN!
We did the funnest activity at english class. I brought my ukelele with me and then while we were there (we were talking about rhyming words) we asked them for lines and then made up songs. Then I would play a tune and we would sing it! It was so fun! Well, we had started writing a song that went a little something like this...
I really really like food.
It puts me in a good mood
Then we asked the next girl her name is Mai Hai, she is about 25 and is from Vietnam, to give us another sentance...
Well she said.... "I like cooking in the Nude..." Sister Brown and i just LOST IT! Sister brown was writing everything up on the board and said, "okay, well Mai hai that is nice..." BAHAHAHHA! We were dying. But once it was written up on the Board Mai Hia started laughing so hard!!!!! and said no sister i mean this word, She wrote the word NOODLES up on the board to replace it. He accent is so strong that when she said noodles it DID NOT SOUND like that!!!!! we had a good laugh about it. We literally were laughing for the rest of the night.
The next little miracle was with a Lady names Frau Hoffman. The elders found her and told ehr a little bit about Genelology. She was interested and told them to come back. Well they gave her to us since they have to have another male to go into her apartment, so Sister Brown and I went and talked to her this week. The cool thing was when we started talking to her-she really was not too interested in Geneology- but when we mentioned the Book of Mormon she flipped! She was like- I HAVE TO HAVE THIS BOOK!!! She was so excited and is so ready for the gospel! She only has one leg and was telling us that she had to go get the other one checked by the doctor and they might have to cut it off too... she was like if that happens I am just going to leave this world... then she looked at us adn said, but first I need to learn more about this book!! haha.
She is the cutest little old cat lady. Germans and their animals.
I know that heavenly father is really here with us missionaries. He helps us everyday. This is his work and I am so gratful for that. I have been thinking a lot about the language lately and wondering why it has been so hard for me. I have been thinking that God has needed me to learn to trust in him and his timing. To learn patience-with myself, others, and most of all God and him timing. It is not our timing that matters, it is his.
Thank you president for everything!
Sister NIlson
The Pictures are of the house... and then the other day we walked into our apartment for lunch adn sister borwn and I jumped as we walked into my room because we toally thought someone was in my bed! haha So i had to take a picture :)
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