Week 31: A Wonderful Baptism to Start off the Transfer

Dear Family and Friends,

So we had a BEAUtiful baptism yesterday. Miriam was just beaming. But Satan worked hard on her before... so the night before her son got really sick and he had to go to the hospital. Apparently he has had this sickness before and was there for over three days. But after a few days at the hospital he got feeling better and the doctor said that they could go home and she was then able to go to her baptism!! Wonderful! She shared her testimony and it was so strong. Almost the whole room was in tears. She is just simply amazing and the trials she went through up and to this point were just insane. She said she is ready and willing to take the new steps to go to the temple. I am excited to work with her.

Miriam's Baptism

On the other hand the baptism was craziness. It was so stressful trying to find everyone rides to drive the 20 minutes to get to the pool in Schifflange since we don't have a font here. We need a new building. The chapel is way too full and its only going to grow.

Saying Goodbye to Souer Smith

So my new companion is Sister Denning. She just turned 20 but speaks pretty well! Its such a different experience doing missionary work with two semi-experienced missionaries. Its so much easier. I love it. We're having fun. Its supposed to warm up this week so I think i can hold off for a couple more weeks till I have to buy a huge coat thing. Sister Denning is from Centerville, Utah and did a year of nursing at USU before she went to cosmetology school. Shes going to fix my hair that I let Sister Hilton cut. I really like her though, and were having fun. We're not working as much as we used to, but I think once we get more comfortable well find a balance that works for us.

We went down to Paris to swap companions and President wouldn't let us go to the church there so we had to all find ourselves and switch at all the major train stations in Paris. It was ridiculous and so hard cause our phone doesn't work in France. I ended up sitting at the train station for over four hours and was almost left all alone....but it worked out.

Other than that we're just doing missionary work. My favorite non active made us so much food. We've been eating coconut chicken all week and we have maybe only eaten half of it... great ha.

So I've been really wanting to find a family... and we ported into an Italian one the other night so I hope this week that all works out... Well see.

General conference is too soon and i cant wait!

Thanks again for all the emails i just love them and you so much!

LOVE S KOHLERT