A busy week!

This week was kinda crazy. It all took off when PDay was over. We had an awesome lesson with a family who has a daughter and son that don't really have testimonies of the Gospel, so it felt good to really bear testimony and as I talked with the girl, her eyes met mine and I knew that she was feeling what I was feeling = Love :) It was awesome. And she came to church on Sunday and I hadn't seen her at church before! It was really great. Then the next couple days we were gone out of the apartment before 10am. It reminded me of the days in Dortmund being so busy. It was good to get out and about after being so cooped up in the apartment for two days. And we were able to meet one our new families we found!! The one with the little Bridger dog! The woman was so nice to us and let us right in. Her daughter was there and she wants to learn English so we taught her what we believe all in English and she wants us to come back!! She is so cute too. She is 18 and has the best questions concerning where we were before this life and what happens to us after we die. I love answering these questions because I know personally what happens to us. I have prayed about it, read about it, and felt that what we share has the answer to these deep, self-reflecting questions. I believe the Lord blessed us because I was so sick Saturday and Sunday because we found 4 new people to teach! Another one person we are teaching came from a person we are already teaching. Her friend is from Mexico!! Who knew how fast spanish speakers speak?!? I didn't!! And now I know because she speaks the same tempo, but in German with a heavy spanish accent!! I felt like I was brand new in the field again trying to understand what she was saying. But I fell in love with her hospitality and patience. And the other we found is a fairy tale, but at the same time 100% true! We went and took the long journey to a beautiful little city named Königstein, to contact someone who was in San Diego, California and gave her information to the missionaries there and so then we got the info to go. The address was wrong, with half of the last name. Sister Kreth and the other sisters before I came tried to find her and the house but it didn't work. Well we tried again!! And it took a lot of klingeling, knocking, and asking. We heard a lot of "neins." Actually, all we heard was no, so for me personally it was really hard to keep going. I started to lose hope, but the last house, in the dark, at the end of the street came up. I stood outside the door after I knocked and I prayed to Heavenly Father in my heart, "Please let them be home and want to hear what we share. They need Your love Heavenly Father please...." and right then a man opened up the door and so I asked if Justine was there. Not knowing if he understood because he was Chinese, and he said, "ya hold on." He left the door and I looked back to both of my companions and had a look of relief, excitement, and surprise on my face. We found her I lipped the words!! And long story short, she loved what we had to say. We are so excited to meet with her again, and to teach her the plan Heavenly Father created for us. I love it!!! We are going to leave a Book of Mormon with her today so she can read it. She already knows what we want, and knows that we pray in the beginning and at the end of our appointments, and she already prayed with us when she doesn't even believe in God. We are so excited to meet these people again and invite them to baptism :) From this experience, it really opened up my eyes to how hard thing can get before the break of the storm comes. I was losing faith, I was getting discouraged, but the whole time Heavenly Father wanted me to hold strong, because he knew we would find her. I love this work!! We also were able to go on some splits this week!! We were with the Düsseldorf sisters and it went so good! Sister Smith is from Nebraska and let me tell you, girls from Wyoming and Nebraska must be a different brand of folk :) She is legit! I was able to go out with her and I learned so much. She is so hard working and ready to do what it takes to bring people closer to Christ. I love her excitment and determination. And one family we by on, I feel like we really helped them, and can continue to help them as we go back. Their daughter, the 16 year old, was the sweetest thing ever, and absorbed everything we had to say. Sister Smith knows what scriptures to use, even though she made me read them because she doesn't trust her pronounciation haha, and she doesn't fear that her German isn't good enough. She talks, no matter how bad it sounds, she still talks and bears strong testimony. I wish I could have been that bold and brave when I was 2 months here in Germany. It is really inspiring to see and I am really excited to see all the sisters coming here in a month. If they are as tough and gung ho about the work like Sister Smith is, the mission is in good hands and the whole country will be baptized soon :) And we also went on some amazing runs when we were together and I hadn't breathed that hard and sweat that much in a long time :) I love this work!! Schöne Woche!! Liebe, Sister Tuschling