Week 64: I guess God prepares His missionaries

Hello family!! 

Its a beautiful day here in France! Like gorgeous. And Im excited to tell you about the wonderful week that I had!

Do you remember Sidonie? Marie's student? Well we were able to teach her again this week and it was again an incredible lesson! She remembered everything that we had taught her about the Plan of Salvation and she brought two of her friends! They are also Marie's students and they are twins. Normally that struggle sitting and listening and school.. but for the whole 45 minutes they were with us they were still and understood everything! They were loving it and they seem interested as well! Sidonie also come to church and brought her 12 year old sister who wants to "learn more about Jesus". We talked to them about baptism and they said that they would do it before the end of the summer! They even started to plan who they would invite! Miracles happening in St. Quentin!!

We taught Alphonsine 2x this week and it was incredible! We decided to go Extremely slowly throught the Plan of Salvation. We talked about each sentence in the brochure through the Fall. It was incredible. We found bible and BOM scriptures to go with each sentence. Her questions were so great and I learned while teaching HER! Her testimony is coming!

I am not sure if I told you, but I have an investigator that was raped earlier this year. In the coming days she has to talk about it in a room with only the violator and the police. Her parents are not allowed to be there at all to support her. She breaks down frequently because she doesn't think that she will be able to do it on her own. Normally, because im a fairly cold hearted person as those who know me know, I would probably be very unsympathetic. Im sure in my head i would be sying things like "just suck it up and tell what happened, you have to do it so just deal with it." Well I had an experince before my mission that softed me enough to be able to really sympathize with Jenny...

I was trying to sell my BYU housing contract so that I could leave on a mission. I had found a UVU student who was willing to buy it and I was so excited.. especially because of the age change, there were tons of girls selling their contracts. Well, even though I had boughten my contract from a UVU student, my landlord would not let me sell it to her because she did not go to BYU. I of course decided to take it to BYU mediation. I was to work the problem out with the Landlord (he would be speaking over the phone). Throughout the mediation I felt completely attacked by my landlord with so many lies. I found my self completely overwhelmed and sobbing to the point where it was difficult for me to think let alone talk! The landlord forbade my parents to speak so that sat at my sides passing me notes of what to say. It was one of the most stressful and painful experiences of my life. I remember saying a prayer with my parents during a 10 minute break.... 

And now, I can only think of my poor investigator. My mediation was over money.. and hers is over something much more precious... And she has to be in the same room as the man that stole this precious thing from her and she CANT have her parents at her side. I cant imagine and I feel so much for her. I pray so strongly that she will be able to find the strength that she needs in order to face what she needs to face. Of course, we told her to pray. Please keep her in your prayers even though I cant tell you her name!!!

Ah well there are so many more miracles from the week! The parents of a non active named Olivia moved in this week. The mom is a member and the dad is not! I dont have time to tell you what happened, but hopefully next week ill be able to tell you! We definitely think he will be baptized with in the next few months! Im just so sad that I won't be here to see all of this!!

This is an elder from Guatamala who was in my old Lux district at Zone Conference

Transfers are next week and I am pretty sure ill be moving. So if you send anything send it to the mission home and not to ST Q!

I love you all,

Sister Kohlert