This week was crazy wonderful! 6 new investigators!! We prayed so hard for that. 4 of them came in one day through an interesting experience that made us grateful we were obedient. As the Missionary Handbook states, we are not to meet with men alone. We had an appointment with two men that we had met on the street. They are from Kurdiskan. We thought they would have a woman there, but when we arrived, it was just the two of them. We explained the situation, which really confused them and then prayed. We went door to door in their building and found a woman willing to come with us for the appointment. Her name is Layla. She is from Iraq and did a lot of translating into Arabisch for us. After the appointment, she told us she liked us and invited us over for dinner (she was cooking it when we interrupted). We met her daughter (14) Caroline, her husband Samir and son Marvin. We also met her mother, but she did not speak any German. Sister Anderson and I were surprised when we walked into the home after our first appointment to find a huge painting of Christ leading his disciples through a field in their main room. We asked about it and found out that they are in Germany because they were kicked out of Iraq for being Christian. They are very strong Christians and really enjoyed our message. We have met 3 times now with Layla and she very close to making progress. We will meet with the whole family again on Tuesday and (finally) will be able to bring them a Book of Mormon in Arabisch. What a blessing!
We also met with Natascha from Russia. We decided to watch the Restoration DVD with her. Her 2-year-old son recognized the sweet Spirit from the film and stopped what he was doing and quietly watched when the first vision was explained. Her whole family is wonderful. We found out she is actually more German than Russian, but really enjoyed speaking Russian with our joint teach, Schwester Maier from Russia. We have a fabulous Gemeinde. We had some hard moments this week and we had some really, really fulfilling ones. Amazing how the good ones so strongly outweigh the hard times. I love Pforzheim though everyone tells me it is ugly (it just does not have all the old churches like other cities because Pforzheim was bombed in 1945). I love it here and I LOVE going out to the little dorfs and seeing the beautiful, beautiful green. I sometimes wish I could just stay here forever.
Sister Anderson and I are working so hard that we realized we need to play really hard today so we need to get to our plans! We also dyed her hair braun this morning. That was fun.
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Sister Carla June Carroll
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