The calm before the storm...

 The calm always comes after the storm and it is so true. After being cancelled on like 8 times this week, we finally saw the fruits! You just always have to press onward!! Friday, Saturday, and Sunday were the fruits of this "durch einander" week!. They were so good!!!! We were able to teach David from Ghana, Africa with a missionary couple from Lyman, Wyoming and we set a baptismal date with him for the 20th of July! And then we just had the hand of the Lord watching over us because everyone we went by on were home and they want us to come back :) And Justine (our cute pregnant Chinese woman that we are teaching) and her husband listened to what we had to say and that was the first time that he even sat in and listened!! And they are coming to church next week! And CHURCH!!! Oh don't even get me started on church!! The Spirit was so strong and I absolutely just adored the testimonies that were born. One very special testimony that was born was my dear friend, Alejandra. She is from Peru and is 24 and was baptized in November. Before, I recalled talking with her and she committed to bear her testimony in church before I leave and so I reminded her :) Missionaries never forget! She was so nervous, and she was worried that she didn't have a testimony or a "cool" story to tell. Which you don't need a cool story. All you do is go up in front of everyone and you tell them how you have seen God lately, or how you feel about him. Well since it was my last fasting testimony meeting I got up and bore my testimony. The entire time I had the feeling to read from Doctrine and Covenants 46:13-14. It talks about the gifts of the Spirit, and I tried to push that thought away because I didn't know how to tie that in on what I was going to say, but I followed the prompting anyways. After I get done, Alejandra got up!! This was her first time ever to bear her testimony in church!! Which is a big deal. And she goes up there and explains that she is doing it because she promised me, and that she dedicated it to me. She had already started crying before she got up there, and I tell you what, her tears were matched with mine. She said that after she was baptized in November, she always hoped and wished that Heavenly Father would send someone her age, because the missionaries are usually 18-21, and she being 24 needed someone to relate with. Then, she continued that she wished that she could talk to a convert too about her doubts, fears, and problems because all the other missionaries had grown up in the church. And even though she never really prayed for it, she had always hoped and wished for someone to come. Then she said, "He sent Sister Tuschling to me...." And then she was gone... and then I was gone... She told of all the similiarities that we both had, and then she added that just the night before she had been reading in Doctrine and Covenants 46 about the gifts of the Spirit too.. She thanked me, told me how much she is going to miss me, and how much I have helped her along this path... I felt so loved and needed at the moment and I know that Heavenly Father has a plan for us all. The whole time in Frankfurt I have wondered, "What am I doing?? Why was I in Friedrichsdorf for so short of a time of only 6 weeks, and why have I had different companions every transfer here? Who am I helping?" Alejandra. I have been here for her and I have needed her too. He does truly know us. And I am so deeply touched and grateful for that knowledge. Liebe, Sister Tuschling