Hello family and friends:)
Thanks so so much for the birthday package. I just loved it. Unfortunately the DVD didn't work in our player even though it is american.. Im really bummed... maybe in our next area it will work.
How was dropping Nicole off at the MTC? Did you go through the temple with Naomi? Will you please send me Nicoles farewell talk??
So I just love my companion. Im just so grateful for her and I just had to tell everyone that really quick ha!
Okay, but the week started off sooo great. We set another baptismal date for July 20th. Her name is Gladys. She is a 22 year old from Congo. She has no idea where her family is right now and she came here because of her ex-husband that was like evil and she was forced to marry him in the first place. She is so awesome, she just believes everything that we say. Its so cool. And she was like.. uh, ya sure, I'll be baptized. Ha, she even came to church regardless of the CRAZY amount of time it took her to get there with the annoying sunday bus schedule. I love her. So pray for Lucy, Mandal, and Gladys and their baptisms on July 20th.
The rest of the week was kinda disappointing... we had lots of lots of lessons where the people didn't show.... oh well, we still had a great week. OKAY TWO STORIES.....
Some background, my companion is like super healthy and only eats vegetables and cant handle very much food. She cried when she realiwed how much we had to eat when we went to a members house for her first time. So On Wednesday we went to lunch at a members house. They were so kind but of course they fed us a pretty hefty meal. We were careful not to eat slowly because we after we were going to go help another member pack to move and she was going to feed us dinner. but of course we were WAY full after lunch... we each ate like a quarter of a pie and two scoops of ice cream after eating a 3 course lunch. So we get to the next members house and she had decided that we were going to eat FIRST....BEFORE we packed... HAHAH the table was set and everything. She had made stuffed turkey and potoatoes, bacon and salad, bread and cheese of course. So we tried our best and be polite and of course she served us seconds. My companion was litterally dying. She got up to go to the bathroom in the middle.. later on I had found out that she had thrown up. THEN they brought out the strawberry cake and told us we had to eat it all. I convinced them that we would eat more cake after we packed because we seriously couldnt eat anymore right now.
Ha, so that's what we did. Soeur Hilton took the SMALLEST peice of cake I have ever seen. Then we went to another members house to help her son prepare for the music party the ward is putting on the Friday. he is going to play the violin and they asked us to help him.... not happy about that because helping him isn't really adding to our key indicators.. But we did it to show our support for the ward and their missionary efforts. Anyways we get there and desite the fact that I told her we were ONLY going to help him, she had made us dinner......... ya, our third huge meal of the day. I had told her we just ate like 30 min ago, but she didn't care. She fed us galettes with cheese and egg ham and onions. my comp didn't finish hers so the host ate it for her... AND THEN she brought out the crepes with bananas and honey. While she wasnt looking I took my comps crepe off her plate and ate it for her. HAAHHAHA, oh my gosh we were dying. litterally. Then we had to RUN for the bus to get home on time with our violins and our sacks in our skirts with stomachs so full that we can't think... it was ridiculous. Soeur Hilton threw up again when we got home and I just laid on the ground for like an hour. I got up and I weighed myself.. I had gained 6.6 pounds... I didnt eat anything the next day. haha.
Now for the spiritual side of the week. On my birthday we ate lunch with a member and her nonmember friend. It didn't go very well despite my best efforts and so when we got on the bus to get home I wasn't in the mood to talk to people and so I just tried to stick a smile on my face till we got home. But guess what??? People came up to us!!!!! Ya we were traveling for 45 min and 15 people talked to US and I only talked to one. It was ridiculous. At one point I was talking to a family of 4 and Soeur Hilton was talking to a family of 3 simultaniously.... and they came up to us. They were so interested...they like swarmed us. Then we get to the next bus stop and Soeur Hilton said, lets just sit on this bus stop. I think people will come to us...AND THEY DID. like 9 people. THEY TALKED TO US FIRST. We gave away a book of mormon to a man who said he would read it and was really impressed by us and the title of the church. It was AMAZING. Never have I have gotten so many contacts of people who are so sincerely interested. I was shocked.
God blesses us with many many miracles. Sometimes, I simply just don't know why. I think its because He loves His children and He prompted them to talk to us.
I LOVE YOU. I hope the summer is so fun for yall. Were starting to see bits of sun here and there :)
Sœur Kohlert
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