Thanks for all of your lovely emails and letters. I really really do enjoy hearing from you all.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TYLER. Youre getting old. Before you know it youll be out here too. Love you. Do fun things.
To answer dads question.. on June 21st here in France is the Festival of Music. Everyone puts on concerts all over France and everyone like concert hops. Its a huge deal. So the Relief Society president asked me and Soeur Hilton to play the violin for the concert that they are going to put on that the members can invite their friends to. Of course I said yes but I was thinking that it would be like a song or too and wed just practice with the choir like a week or two before for a couple hours and call it good... but no. There are like infinite songs and they have practices all the time and I have the hardest time saying no because we really cant spend three hours a week practicing with the choir.... oh well. I try my hardest to decide how my time is okay to spend with them. It will be over in a few weeks thank goodness.
My companion plugged in my toothbrush to the wrong voltage.. blew that out... I think I might buy a base here for my birthday.. ha awesome birthday present right?
Well GUESS WHAT???
President came to our district meeting this week and he really told us that we need to be bold. Not just to be bold in the way that we go up and talk to random people, but bold in following the spirit. He related us to Lehi and his dream how he saw an angel and was asked to follow him and then he was in darkness and eventually saw the "vision" of the tree of life and the field. We missionaries are spiritually edified in the morning with our studies and we follow the spirit by leaving the apartment and then we are out in the dark and we need to pray and keep working until we find the "vision."
Anyways I really took that to heart this week. We have been teaching Lucy, a peruvian, for like a year or so now. And she told me that she was thinking about baptism but that SHED tell us when she was ready. I kept having the idea come into my head about commiting her to a baptismal date, but shes told me everytime I ask her that its too early and that shell tell me. but the spirit kept telling me to pick a date. So we did. It was really cool as we were praying for a date, we both just felt wrong about it. Then we like LANDED on the right date. 27th of July. We both felt good about it. So we were bold in the spirit and asked her to be baptized. ha of course she said yes.. I dont know why I was worried, but the funny thing was, was that she was totally out of town on the 27th but that shed like to do it on the 20th. I have no idea why the spirit told us that date, but he did and we did exactly what he told us to do even though it didnt work out like we thought it would. Maybe if we would have said the 20th, like we had originally planned, she would have said no.... who knows.
But then we also set a baptismal date with MANDAL. Tugsuu's friend from the hospital. Its just like my first transfer. About this same time we had a baptismal date with raymonde who knew the church for about a year and Tugsuu, a mongolian that just found the church! Ha its so perfrect and were so excited.
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| Family Home Evening |
Speaking of Tugsuu.. I was just kinda down this week. I think I was just tired or something but I realized that I wasn't smiling and that I was being super serious and that it was rubbing off on Tugsuu. She actually almost got kicked out of her home and that is a story in itself... ha me trying to find a place for her to live in France... just try to imagine my panic and the broken phone calls I made... luckily she worked things out with her brother... but she was all down and I had decided to be happy for her and I told her to go home and just read the BOM.... and she did!! She called me and she said... SISTER KOHLERT. I KNOW ITS TRUE. All of the sudden I am happy. All of a sudden I feel this joy. I am never going to be sad again. THANK YOU SISTER KOHLERT for giving me this mormon book. Thank you for teaching me. I don't know where I'd be if I hadn't found you. Thank you.....
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| Marie's Birthday Party....hoping to get new contacts. |
That phone call right there made my mission worth it. I also got to explain to her that she IS going to be sad again because that is just life, but that she can always find joy in reading the Book of Mormon. It was probably the best ewperience to date of my mission.
Well I love you all! Stay awesome and work hard. I love you.
Sœur Kohlert
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