Monday, August 11, 2014

Family!!
Here is an update on our miracles in Leipzig:

This week we met with a new investigator named B.  She is a student from China.  She is studying biology and we have a lot in common.  She is so ready for the gospel.  We met with her and gave her a book of mormon.  She told us that she has read the bible and prays often, but just doesn't know what religion is true.  She isn't too familiar with organized religion.  She prayed with us and then later we taught her the restoration.  She loved the DVD and was touched by the Spirit.  She asked if there was any way for her to become a "real" christian. We talked about baptism and invited her to be baptized on the 6 of september and she happily agreed.

She has since shared the gospel with  SO many people.  She has talked with her roommates and set up a meeting next week for us and some of her school friends.  We met her at bahnhof yesterday and she had already shared the gospel with the man sitting on the bench next to her.  When we showed up she was so excited and introduced us and asked if we had a book for him too. 

We also met with U.  She is an investigator that I started teaching way back in January.  Then she moved  and so now she is in the sisters 1 program.  When I was meeting with her she told us she could never join a church and that she didn't see herself ever visiting our services.  It was so cool to see how far she has come in the past  months.  This visit she had read in the book of mormon and we had a wonderful uplifting discussion abut the plan of salvation.  She is going on vacation for two weeks, but told us she plans to be on church the sunday she gets back!  She also talked about baptism and told us that she hasn't gotten an answer yet that it is a bad thing and that she could see herself making that step.

There is also an american couple here for the next month in Leipzig.  They prayed at the start of their time here and asked heavenly Father who they  could share the gospel with.  The face of a waitress at the restaurant they had eaten at came to both of their minds.  They didn't know how they would ever find her again, but then they discovered that she lives in the building they are staying in!  They have been working with her to invite her to hear the message of the restoration.

M passed the sacrament this week and it was a cool reminder of the progress he has made as well.  When the sisters found him on the street he didn't even believe in God.

I also heard from G, the convert we had who moved back to Rwanda, last week.  He told me that he has gotten the preisthood and a calling and is giving talks in sacrament meeting.   He is loving living the gospel and is so happy.  He is strengthening the growing church in Rwanda.  

We also just found out about a friend of a member here who just got back from an exchange student program in Nevada.  She stayed with a mormon family and has gained a testimony of the church.  We are meeting with both of them tomorrow.  

I had to abmeld this week, which basically means I had to go to the city hall place and tell them that I am leaving Germany.  Anyway they have a "take a number system" and it looked like it would take hours to wait.  We didn't have hours.  We needed to go teach the gospel.  Just as we were deciding what we should do, a man stormed out completely out of patience.  He threw his number at us as he stomped out.  His number was a lot sooner than the one we had just pulled.  We ran to an appointment and then came back JUST in time to hear our number called.  The abmelding process took all of 5 minutes and then we ran off to our next appoitnment.  It worked out perfectly.

We also had a musical number in 1 ward this week.  The other sisters played violins and I was the accompanist.  This is a new thing for me, but we all made it through.  Yet another miracle.  

I have never seen so many miracles!
I love and pray for you all.  

Love
Sister Brown 



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