Faith, trust, and pixie dust

 Yo yo it's lunch time!! 

I miss high school musical haha. Transfer news cane in and sister cooley and i are staying together in friedrichsdorf!! I'm so excited and am ready to see a lot of miracles happen in this area. I also found out that i am a grandma of 2 new greenies (the 2 people i trained are now also training someone else). I guess i officially count as old on the mission haha. 
This week has taught me a lot about faith and following the spirit. Finding new people to teach has been kind of a struggle. I just want to find people and be able to share my testimony with them. We've had some great conversations on the street, but the people usually don't want to meet up again or have any interest. It's hard for me to see the wheels turning in their head and truly listening to what we have to say, but then thinking it's enough. But I've come to realize that the lord puts those people into my path for a reason, they needed to hear about the gospel. Maybe they aren't ready now, but they'll be able to remember the conversation we had and the feelings they felt. He's been teaching me patience and how to rely on his timing. 
A crazy experience was yesterday, we were on our way to district counsel when this woman ahead of us asks if we're the missionaries. She's a newly baptized member of 2 years from "The Ohio." She is in Germany for a work Trip and traveled all the way to friedrichsdorf alone instead of going to Heidelberg with her group just so she could see the temple. She didn't realize that the temple has weird hours and was closed. She about burst into tears. She was cold, wet from the rain, exhausted from jet lag, and now realized that the travel was all for not. Sister Cooley and I just felt for her and so we invited her to our district counsel where she could dry off, get warm, and have some food. She gave us great advice from her own conversion story, which was to let the investigator teach you when you go back to Review. She's an awesome missionary and showed me that I can be a missionary without a name tag which was an answer to my prayers. After we gave her a tour of the temple. The temple worker were so nice and were willing to pull strings for her to have her appointment in the temple. She was too exhausted so instead we helped put her on a train and got her back to Heidelberg. As she pulled away I felt like a mom seeing my oldest off to college, man parenting is hard. Is was such a wonderful time and I saw so many little miracles and how God lined our paths perfectly with each other. 
During this time we could've been grinding the streets but God cares about the one. Sister Cooley reminded me of President Monson and how he was always willing to be a messenger for the lord. I Fully believe that we were the Lord's messenger for this lady. It taught me a lot about being in the perfect place at the perfect time and ministering to the one. 
Today for pday we went to the temple again which is always a blessing. I love the temple and there's just something different about listening to it in German. I always learn something new every time. Then we went to the christmas markets in Frankfurt which are to Die for. Germany truly knows how to celebrate Christmas and I'm not complaining one bit. I love you all so much and please let me know if there's anything I have to bring back from Germany! 
Love Sister Nielsen 
- pretty sunset
- a member made us a cute Advents calendar ♡
- finally finished my rapunzel puzzle
- we love Sister Wilhelm 
- Christmas market fun
- The Ohio Lady 





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Happy birthday dad 🥳

Image
  This week was a little bit of a Rollercoaster. I had to give my farewell talk in the branch due to the fact that we have stake conference, fast and testimony meeting, and general conference. I shared the spiritual defining moments from my mission. If you want the talk I will be happy to send it to you. It was a great opportunity for me to look back on my mission and remember the great experiences that I have had.  We had a great lesson with Ali, he is making so much progress. He knows a lot about Christianity and just soaks everything up. My German grandpa is the one that helps bring him to church and lessons and he always brings so much food for us to eat. This week he made us chocolate milk, cake, and Brötchen with cheese. He also wants Ali to be baptized as soon as possible so that I can be here. But Ali's soul means a lot more to me than being there and helping a baptismal count. I want him to wait until he feels absolutely ready and understands the huge promise he would...
Read more

Apparently I'm Ms. Darbus

Image
  There's not a whole lot to report from this last week. The past few days I was sick and not feeling very well so we tried to keep low for a while. We met with a member and he bought us ice cream. I got through about 5 bites and couldn't eat anymore. He looked at me in the nicest way possible and told me that I looked dumbfounded, bored, and sick. It was quite the roast, but he's super precious so it was okay.  Ali is progressing really well. All of the ward members love him and are always eager to help. He started smoking again recently due to all the stress that he's been dealing with. Our member who picks him up from church taught him about the word of wisdom in his limited English. He decided then that he was going to stop smoking. He prayed that night to have the strength to stop smoking. The next morning he couldn't find his pack of cigarettes. He took it as a sign that he needed to stop smoking and that god answered his prayer. He hasn't smoked since the...
Read more

Wunder Zeit

Image
  This was a quick week so I'm not sure if I'll have a lot to report, buttt! We still had so many miracles.  Ali, who we found a couple weeks ago on the street came to church for the first time this week. I was a bit nervous, because he doesn't speak German and no one in the ward speaks Persian. The ward was so good with him and just welcomed him with open arms. During elders Quorum, they translated the talk into Persian so that he could read along. The lesson ended a bit early and so they had him tell his story. Ali used Google translate and told them about his sad past leaving Iran and Ukraine. He explained how we met and knew that if he would've been on a different side of the street, that we never would've met him. He knows that God led him to us. He texted us after and told us that it was the best day of his life. He loved church and had a feeling that he already knew all of the people there. During sacrament, I passed him the gospel art book. I thought if anyo...
Read more