Talked with 5 different nationalities!!

As you know we went shopping last week and it was so fun! There is a store here, and I am not sure if America has it, I can't remember but it is called Primark. It is from England and basically it is like 3 stories high of just clothes for people of all ages. Mostly it is for dressing up, but its a fun store and its cheap! I wasn't on planning on finding too much but when I got there, I just saw a wall of scarves and I was a goner!! And to go along with that, as I was looking for a white sweater an elderly man came about 8 inches away from my name tag approximately and just stared at it and then finally talked to me about the same distance away from my face. He started talking about our church, America, and France. It was the randomest thing I have ever encountered while trying to shop. The best part about it was that he was in a hip hop store with tons of young people, why was he in that store haha?? He was like 80 years old! And not to mention that he was a "spitter" when he talked so I no longer needed a shower for the rest of the day as well. He gave us advice on that we need to have more bells at our church. "The Germans need bells! Huge bells!! If you guys had bells, the Germans would come to your church. You should really talk to your Apostles to do that." Thanks for the tip mister :) We'll get right on that! I love random moments that don't really matter, but yet they do at the same time. I will always remember this old man staring at me and my name tag in a crazy teenager shopping store. It was fun :) From 10am to 6pm on Tuesday we were in a meeting with tons of missionaries learning about how to be trainers, and what we need to do in order to prepare for it. Since every sister in the next couple weeks will be training, EVERY sister was there!!! So you know what that means!! Sister Sprouse was in Frankfurt!! Sister Heindel and I were at the church early to do some paperwork before the meeting started and so we were by the computers. I looked out in the hallway and I saw Elder Penfold from Dortmund and my heart rejoiced!! It was so good to see him, I hadn't seem him since I left in January. And then the next thing I knew I saw a blonde pop her head into the room and she came running to me, which was only about 5 feet away and just laid a huge hug on me. It was so good to see her and to see that she was well. I was also able to bear my testimony at the end of the Trainer/Golden Meeting and it was special for me to express my love for the gospel and I hope that someone needed to hear it. I couldn't help but doing it without any tears, they were definitely rolling down the cheeks, but the difference now is that they are tears of gratitude and joy rather than frustration or sadness. After District Meeting on Thursday we all went out for just ONE hour to try and talk and find people to need to hear the word of the Lord. Usually I do not like finding days, but since it was just one hour and the fact that we were all doing it together, I was game. We walk up to a lady on a bench because she was reading a book and she wouldn't even saw two words to her and she shewed us off. I look to Sister Heindel and say, "Welp this is going to be a fun hour" and we laughed walking away. I am so grateful that we get to laugh little things like that off, because I have had companions in the past where we don't laugh it off and the "no" hurts more than you would imagine. So Sister Heindel is amazing in that aspect as well. She helps me keep going :) Then we get on campus, and we talk to a sweet couple from India, and they took a Book of Mormon and they were very curious on what is was and wanted to read it. Sadly for us they were flying back to Paris that night, but now they have a book that will change their lives forever. And a lot of missionary work is just planted seeds. We never really know what we do until way later in life, or even at all. Then right after that awesome couple, we met a man from Turkey. I can't promise you that he understood us, and I can't promise that we understood him, but all I know is that we pointed to the sky multiple times and motioned on smiling with our fingers :) And as we walked away I did it again to always smiled and he shook his head smiling to himself. Again like I said, planting seeds and making people's days :) We then moved on, we ended up forcing a college student agreeing to letting us help him carry his white board, projector, and roller cart. He just kept on looking back at us and we just smiled and he probably thought we were ridiculous and we probably were but it felt good to help him. Again, making someone smile and laugh is good enough for me. We then talked with an African who was a member of Jehovah's Witness and got lectured about how we are not Christian. Usually I would have gotten flustered but for some reason every time I would look over to Sister Heindel she was be intently listening and then she would just bear testimony about the Savior and I would then back her up and express to this man that He is my Savior and I couldn't my life without Him now. After he listened to that, he had nothing to say so he randomly just walked away. And Sister Heindel and I looked at each other and smiled and laughed again. Then we met a man from China. He was very interesting to talk to because he had no idea who God is or who Jesus Christ is. We ended up bearing testimony about Them again and he left with a puzzled face and a card in his hand to call us. I have faith he will, but then again planting seeds is always an act of hope and faith. You never know if it is going to come out of the ground, you never know if they will call, but that faith and hope will always be there. In just an hour, we talked with 5 different nationalities, but we talked about one God. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is for everyone, because we are all children of our One Father in Heaven. It really opened my eyes to truly that we all are God's children and they all need the love, trust, and comfort that He provides, and how wonderful it is in this time in our lives to share that :) I love this work and the Gospel!!! Liebe, Sister Tuschling