First of all thanks for the amazing package! Its funny how much things from home gets a missionary so giddy and excited! Thanks for all of the time and effort that all of you put in to that!!
CONGRATS TO MORGAN (my cousin)!! WOOT! WOOT! She'll kill it out there in the Dominican Republic
So I just loved being a missionary this week. It was amazing... and I guess that I'll just have to tell you why! There were nine big miracles weaved in with few other smaller ones that just made me want to be a missionary forever.
On Saturday I got sick AGAIN..... We went in early Friday night and we were in all Saturday. I had food poisoning and it was a blast... good news is that we had another vacation and I feel super skinny and I have no desire to eat. I had like a hand full of spinach and an orange for food today and I have very little desire to eat more. Unfortunately I know my appetite will come back soon ha....
But here are some miracles that Heavenly Father blessed us with this week:
- The week started off Monday night when we went to a family's house who recently moved here from Spain. The dad is not a member but the mom has Family Home Evening over Skype with her family in Spain every week! It was extremely cool to be a part of that, they think of ways to be better together each week... ha i wish we could have Skype FHEs every Monday!
- Adelia is a non active that we have been visiting since like the first week I got here... she had a friend move in with her and so we started teaching her friend. She came to church like the 2nd week I got here, but we haven't gotten her to come again yet. Well, I was shocked on Tuesday when during our lesson to her friend Fatima (who is progressing very well and reading daily even tho its hard for her, I'm so blessed that i can read.. and in 2 languages) she told us that they were coming to church on Sunday!!!!!! YAY I was so shocked! and they came! she has such a strong testimony and teaches her friend very well with us.. lots of times we just let her teach! but then on Friday we had lunch with her nonmember husband (the lunch that made me sick) and we talked to him a bit and after we left he told her that she needs to invite us over for lunch more often!! :) its a start! FAMILIES
- Miriam has been looking for apartment closer to Luxembourg City center so she doesn't have to commute so far and can be on time to church and things. She's been living in a home with her youngest son and her other son has been living with a ward member. She moved to the home to leave her boyfriend so that she could get baptized.... well this week the Lord blessed her with an apartment five minutes from down town and a cheap baby care next door. We didn't get to help her move in because I was sick, but she said in church that she was so unhappy with her boyfriend and all of her worldly riches that he gave her, but last night was the first time that her sons and her slept together. She said they had no furniture and they have absolutely nothing, but she had never been so happy in her life! she is such an example. Don't worry tho... the ward is going to help her get some necessities.
- On Tuesday night we got a call from the elders saying that our sister training leaders were at the train station waiting for us... ha we never got their text but apparently we were supposed to have exchanges that day. So, impromtu exchanges! Ha sister Denning and her comp had to run and catch a train and she accidentally took the keys and the phone with her... so me and Soeur Garret had to go to a members to use their phone and bathroom. at first it was a bummer cause we had to wait in the freezing cold for the other sisters to get home but it was a blessing because at that members house we found out some vital information that is helping us help this amazing sister in the ward. Also, the Paris sisters didn't realize how much colder it was up here and didn't bring heavy clothes. Sister Garret pleaded for warm weather; and sure enough, the next day was clear skies and sun. The nicest day we've had since August. The Lord answers prayers. We also got to go on like a 45 minute run in the morning with them to a castle. I was happy!
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| Soeur Garret and I on our Exchange |
- We got an awesome package from our families thanks to mom and a ward member. that was a blessing
- Sister denning on the exchange went to see our investigator Sofia, whose husband sat in and listened to the lesson for the first time. FAMILIES
- Tuesday night we saw our investigator Jennifer who FINALLY started to read the Book of Mormon, and boy oh boy could you see a change. Shes really starting to get it and she said that she has started to feel her burdens being lifted. She hasn't prayed about it yet because she wants to read the whole thing first.. but don't worry, we changed her mind on that one.
- Lena, the Russian girl had an awesome restoration lesson with us at a members over tea and cookies, sugar free of course... duh. ha and she accepted like everything we said and even a baptismal date for December 8!!
-We have to push Adele's date one week later because we didn't have time to teach her the law of chastity nor tithing. I was nervous that she wouldn't accept them, and so I have been unsuccessfully trying to find a strong member to teach with us....but we found out the she ended up eating dinner with the member that took her home.. and guess what the topic of the dinner was? Yup, you guessed it.... tithing and chastity, and they said that they bore great testimony to her and that they think shell accept them!
- The kiddie pool baptism was a disaster..... well, till it got canceled Saturday night at like 10:00 p.m.. The dead Elder Dicatoldo came down for it too. We just got a text saying that it was canceled and not saying why. I was nervous that it was Ahmed who had canceled... but no....sure enough, he walked into church late with a new hair cut and a bright shining smile. Because of complications with the kiddie pool, we are moving it to Wednesday where we can use a bigger kiddie pool ha. It'll be fun. I'll send pictures.
- Quite a while ago I told you guys about this lady that came up to US on the bus...... well guess what? She came to church! She actually missed the bus but she wanted to be on time, so she called a taxi. And she just loved church. She cried the whole time and took pages of notes and asked tons of questions. We had an awesome rendezvous with her after and I have never explained the plan of salvation in such detail so fast in my life. She knows her catholic religion well and loves how Gods plan revealed to his modern prophets just makes sense. She loved it and was happy to hear that we can only have one husband ha! She can't see us for a few more weeks but she already is planning to come to church in two weeks and the visiting teaching conference in a week and a half... We didn't even invite her to it, she just heard the announcement at church and said she was coming ha!
- We played the musical number in church, I played the violin and sister Denning accompanied me. Sacrament meeting was so loud, then when we played everything was silent. Everyone had tears and everyone said that it was so powerful. A girl in the Young Women's group came up to me after and said that she quit the violin not too long ago because she was frustrated. She said she'd been playing for six years. She said she is going to start again cause she wants to be like me. I told her that if she keeps going she can play like me... ha I told her not to give up because I've been playing for 16... ha she said woa... I guess I need to keep playing for 10 more years.
Well I love being a missionary. Ha... this week was wonderful. I hope we can keep up the awesomeness and I am so grateful that the Lord has blessed us. I love Him. He must love me! And he will do anything for me, just like mom and dad.
love you guys!!!
Soeur Kohlert
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