Well folks, the sun is shining and I am finally zufrieden. To give you a little taste of German weather, a member just told us yesterday that there was a total of 5 hours of sunlight in the month of January. 5 HOURS. That is why all the Germans are so grumpy.
Also let me tell you something else about German culture. The old people here are SO FIT. They ride their bikes everywhere and go for jogs when they're bored and eat bio (organic) products and put us to shame. They always seem to live on the top floor of every apartment building with no elevators and pounce up those stairs like it was stepping out of bed, whereas my comp and I are gasping for air and calling to Mother Nature to save us by the time we get to their door. And they usually do it with bags of groceries (which they picked up from the market on their bike)! Ridiculous, I tell you. Ridiculous.
I digress.
Thank the heavens that this week was 10,000 times better than all the past 4 weeks combined. A lot of our lessons went through and we even had some unplanned opportunities to share the great message! An old investigator wanted to meet with us again, our one progressing investigator is committing to finding out of Thomas Monson is a prophet of God, a less active couple is preparing to go through the temple, and we had a miracle at church yesterday!! Life is hopefully going to be looking up the next couple of weeks. Halleluja.
Speaking of the church miracle, it goes a little something like this:
So a member comes up to us after Relief Society (the first hour) and explains that this guy just walked into church today and has a really interesting story. So we introduce ourselves and WOAH this man's story is crazy! His name is Andrew and he's originally from Scotland (I think) but has been in Germany for a long time. Because of recent events in his life he decided to read the Bible and became convinced of it's truthfulness. But not long after he came across a copy of another Bible which was a completely different translation, which he thought was really confusing. He ended up reading 9 different translations of the Bible and felt that the Bible lost so much of it's credibility and truthfulness because of the differing opinions and translations. At some point during this time of trying to make a logical picture of it all, he found a Book of Mormon in a flea market, bought it, read it, and knew it was true. In his words, "The Book of Mormon is true. I know it's true, and it helps me to understand the Bible so much better because I know the Bible isn't complete." When the ministers of the church he was attending found out he was reading this book, they told him he wasn't welcome anymore. He eventually found the address for our church on the website and just showed up yesterday! It was crazy!!!! And cool. So now we're meeting with him. Yay yay yay.
Miracles happen. The church is true. Bless you all.
Love,
Sister Young
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