Week 26: Eight Lessons in One Day...Too many Miracles to Count...and One Exhausted Sister

Hey family,

DON'T SEND ANYTHING TO THE LUXEMBOURG ADDRESSES. The landlord just "stopped by" on Friday and is kicking us out. He wants us out by the end of the week but the Pres is trying to get him to let us stay till the end of the month. Send anything to the mission office.

This keyboard is different again... ha grrrr.

Tomorrow is my six-month-anniversary... ha how cool is that?  I'm definitely celebrating because it sure is an accomplishment as anyone who has served understands.

Our mission has a goal to get 100 baptisms before the coming of Elder Oaks in like the middle of September... we started this goal in like the beginning of June or something... I know that many of these miracles have to do with that!!

So this week was just pure insanity. The elders were at the church one day teaching a lesson when the phone rang... it was Fatima, a woman that went to Portugal to visit her uncle and has lots of problems but said that she found the peace and joy she was looking for there. I'm so so glad that the elders were there because normally no one is at the church to answer the phone. We had a rendezvous with her, and boy has she been prepared by the Lord. She lives pretty far away but she was just dying to come to church. She had to be picked up by a member an hour and a half before church even started to get there. She brought her 12-year old daughter and just thanked us the whole entire time for welcoming her and helping her find this peace in her life. Shes had a rough one and she impressed me so much at church! She acted like a member! I love her so much, and I cant wait for her baptism. I hope that everything goes well. She lives so far away that it might be hard to get her to church... but she REALLY REALLY wants to be there.

Friday was insane. We had 7 lessons planned and we LITERALLY running to and from trains to get to all of our appointments. We had everything scheduled down to the very minute we would have to end every lesson and when we need to be at what train station to catch what train. We ended up setting two more baptismal dates to total our dates to four. We also hope to set one with Fatima's daughter this week to get five. It was insane day. We left early from the apartment and didn't get home till after curfew... you'll know why in a second. So we also ran into like three non-actives and made appointments with them... Two of our rendezvous fell through, but don't worry... ha we ended up doing some street contacting and had two more lessons in the street. we didn't have time to eat so we just ate on the trains. After our last rendezvous we were walking back to the train station completely exhausted, but we saw an old lady sitting on her porch and ended up having a lesson with her to total 8 lessons in one day. We then SPRINTED to the train station and missed it by no joke ten seconds... Ha, if we had time to actually exercise and weren't wearing skirts or flats, I think we would have made it. It was an amazing day but boy did it take a toll on me. We were so so so so so so so so tired but the lessons all went really well.

Exhausted at the end of our miracle day!

So on like Wednesday we got a call from our Zone Leaders (ZLs) telling us that they were going to move district meeting from Thursday to Friday for some reason that didn't really make sense to me. I was not happy because we had all those rendezvous scheduled and we'd have to miss them. Not to mention they were ruining ten other missionaries weeks just for them. I told them i didn't agree but that if that's what they thought we needed to do, we'd do it. So we got home and Soeur Smith and I were really troubled, we didn't want to move all of these rendezvous that we had just confirmed and we debated just skipping district meeting... so we decided to pray to know what to do and after the prayer we decided that we needed to just follow our leaders and that everything would work out. The moment we said "amen", the phone rang and it was the ZLs saying that they had been in a stupor of thought for the past few hours and that they weren't going to move the meeting and we wouldn't have to miss all our appointments. Turns out that they had prayed to and had gotten the feeling to re-look at some train times even tho they had like a gazillion times. So they did and there was a train time that was there that wasn't before and they didn't have to move the meeting! I'm glad they didn't because we wouldn't have had our miracle day¨!

Well, I hope this all makes sense. I better go, ha, my hands are killing me.

 I LOVE YOU and miss you!

I'll let you know how everything goes with the apartment!

Soeur Kohlert