Liebe Familie,
This week has just been wonderful. Sister Anderson and I have been trying to get investigators to attend the ward's family home evening on Monday nights and Natascha, her husband and 2-year-old came! They had a great time and felt the Spirit. We hiked the mountain from Bad Liebenzell to Monakam to get the Edina's and had a great lesson then ran back to get to "Little Texas"--an American resturaunt in Pforzheim. We had a great time with the Rudloffs, Kämmerlings, Br. Armbruster and Eve came, too! The food was a little different than what I would call American food, but good and large portions. We rushed off the Matthäus and Senada and taught the gospel of Jesus Christ. We invited them to be baptized on 17. September 2011 and they accepted! We went home, went to bed and got up at 4:30 am to get to München in time so I could attend a training meeting.
The training meeting was great! President Miles had us stand and introduce our area and talk about one investigator we are teaching then he told us which one we will train! I went last, so I knew which one was mine--Sister Taysom! She is from Rockland, ID (tiny dorf in the area of Pokatello) and did not have any German before her mission. She studied Civil Engineering at BYU and loves volleyball. She is just a bundle of sunshine and a joy to be around and a blessing to all around her. She will work wonders on her mission. They started a new program at the MTC called the Pilot Program where the teachers only speak German with the students from day 1 and the teach in German day 3. I think that helped the shock of the field a LOT. She is just ready to go and excited to learn more and more.
We met with a family called Familie Jung. Their daughter/sister became a member in the last 10 years and served a mission in Hungary. They love missionaries and had not had any contact from the church in the last 4 years (found their name in an area book and called them up). They called their daughter while we were there and I talked with her on the phone. She is really nice and we are excited to keep meeting with the family.
Above all we are excited for Matthäus and Senada. We started the stop smoking program with him on Saturday and so far so good!! They are excited to prepare for their baptism. I just love being a missionary in Pforheim. I know that this gospel is truly available to all and will help every person's life if they will accept it in their life.
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Sister Carla June Carroll
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Versetzungen!! August 15
Liebe Familie,
This week was pretty crazy, but wonderful! We did another exchange with the Missionaries in Ulm. Sister Dietz came to me and Sister Anderson joined Sister McBride in Ulm. Sister Dietz has been in Ulm for a long time and has not even left the city for 5 months. (exept a quick visit to Stuttgart for a training meeting). She thoroughly enjoyed the different scenery. We called a lot of former investigators and reached a couple of people still interested in meeting with missionaries. I am exicted to see what happens of that this week in our appointments with them.
We are so excited for Matthäus and Senada, who have been progressing for 2 weeks now. They have not been able to come to church yet, but we are hoping to help them with that this week. Matthäus especially just loves talking about the gospel and learning. He had never prayed before our first appointment (where he prayed at the end) and yesterday said before saying the closing prayer that he is going to be a Pro at praying. :) Exactly. Their baby chimed in this week when we taught the Plan of Salvation. It was a really spiritual lesson. Each time we talked about the Premortal Life, Even (5 mo. old) would respond as if he was saying, "I was just there! Accept it mom and dad, accept it!" I love this family so so much.
We also taught Natascha. I had a really great experience with one lesson with her in that we just listened when we followed up at the beginning. She had prayed to know if Joseph Smith was a prophet and got no answer. That allowed us to ask more questions and clarify some important points like what "heilige Handlungen" means (in english it is holy ordinances but it german it kind of means holy workings or dealings and could sound like magic ... abstractness). She better understood what a prophet was and prayed at the end which she had never done before. She is going to join our Branch Family Home Evening group tonight--we are excited.
Friday morning as we were praying for companionship study, the phone rang and we knew who it would be. It was President Miles. Sister Anderson is leaving me to go to München to work in one of my former (and beloved) areas--München I. I am really excited for her and really sad to see her go. Our time together was too short. I really love her. I will be training a new missionary and have no information of who she is yet--I think that will be decided on Wednesday. I will go to München to train a little with my new companion there and then go back to Pforzheim.
Oh! On Saturday we had another Ausstellung (see picture--which is one that was in Pforzheim) in Heilbronn. The Police came after an hour and told us someone had reported us for agression (yikes!) so he said we could not stand in people's way for our Ausstellung. We all prayed and still had several people stop and ask us about the display. I also got to see acres and acres of vineyards. It was great to see immediately after reading Jakob 5.
OH OH! Do you remember Parviz who I talked to on the Bahn in Wien and committed to be baptized? He got baptized on Saturday! Miracles!
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Sister Carla June Carroll
This week was pretty crazy, but wonderful! We did another exchange with the Missionaries in Ulm. Sister Dietz came to me and Sister Anderson joined Sister McBride in Ulm. Sister Dietz has been in Ulm for a long time and has not even left the city for 5 months. (exept a quick visit to Stuttgart for a training meeting). She thoroughly enjoyed the different scenery. We called a lot of former investigators and reached a couple of people still interested in meeting with missionaries. I am exicted to see what happens of that this week in our appointments with them.
We are so excited for Matthäus and Senada, who have been progressing for 2 weeks now. They have not been able to come to church yet, but we are hoping to help them with that this week. Matthäus especially just loves talking about the gospel and learning. He had never prayed before our first appointment (where he prayed at the end) and yesterday said before saying the closing prayer that he is going to be a Pro at praying. :) Exactly. Their baby chimed in this week when we taught the Plan of Salvation. It was a really spiritual lesson. Each time we talked about the Premortal Life, Even (5 mo. old) would respond as if he was saying, "I was just there! Accept it mom and dad, accept it!" I love this family so so much.
We also taught Natascha. I had a really great experience with one lesson with her in that we just listened when we followed up at the beginning. She had prayed to know if Joseph Smith was a prophet and got no answer. That allowed us to ask more questions and clarify some important points like what "heilige Handlungen" means (in english it is holy ordinances but it german it kind of means holy workings or dealings and could sound like magic ... abstractness). She better understood what a prophet was and prayed at the end which she had never done before. She is going to join our Branch Family Home Evening group tonight--we are excited.
Friday morning as we were praying for companionship study, the phone rang and we knew who it would be. It was President Miles. Sister Anderson is leaving me to go to München to work in one of my former (and beloved) areas--München I. I am really excited for her and really sad to see her go. Our time together was too short. I really love her. I will be training a new missionary and have no information of who she is yet--I think that will be decided on Wednesday. I will go to München to train a little with my new companion there and then go back to Pforzheim.
Oh! On Saturday we had another Ausstellung (see picture--which is one that was in Pforzheim) in Heilbronn. The Police came after an hour and told us someone had reported us for agression (yikes!) so he said we could not stand in people's way for our Ausstellung. We all prayed and still had several people stop and ask us about the display. I also got to see acres and acres of vineyards. It was great to see immediately after reading Jakob 5.
OH OH! Do you remember Parviz who I talked to on the Bahn in Wien and committed to be baptized? He got baptized on Saturday! Miracles!
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Sister Carla June Carroll
Monday, August 8, 2011
Whoa
Liebe Familie,
I only have FIVE minutes to email put I KNOW that this work is the work of the Lord and I LOVE doing it. We were able to meet with some great peoepl and were let into a few homes while dooring this week that built my testimony. I am so grateful to serve here with such a great branch! I am so excited for the coming week and the opportunity I have to do the Lords work even more! I was able to do an exchange this week with Sister McBride from that one place Mom and Dad were planning on moving to in Utah. She is great and has been here for 3 weeks. It was fun!
Oh, and my release date has been changed to 17.November 2011 due to weird transfer times.
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Sister Carla June Carroll
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
AWESOME
Liebe Familie,
This week was full of goodness! We climbed a mountain last Monday and I learned a little more of the history of Pforzheim and pictures of before, immediately after and much after the bombing of 1945. We would have stayed longer, but we must have both killed a bee on the way up or something because the whole clan was swarming us ... once we left the summit they left us alone. We also had the best GMK (uh ... ward/branch missionary correlation?) ever Monday just before Family Home Evening. Br. Kämmerling is a great Ward Mission Leader. We have some great members. For example, we took the bus with Schwester Milicic for a little while after our Yoga class. She knows everyone in Pforzheim somehow and everyone she saw that she knew she immediately introduced us and told them we will all three come and visit them and tell them about the gospel. Needless to say, we are excited for our appointments next week. We also met one of her friends earlier in the week when an appointment fell through and Sr. Milicic came with us. She had her friend pick her up and we came along and told her a little about the gospel. :)
Layla is making some great progress. We finally got her a Book of Mormon in Arabisch and she reads it every day and loves it. She has many deep questions of the soul. We had some great lessons and were also privileged to have a couple members come to our lesson yesterday. She had more conviction to attend our church after meeting them. We also hiked a mountain for 1.5 hours to get to Edina. That was awesome. It sure made the appointment more worth it and I found some stuff to put on the blisters afterwards. :) Edina came to church and made some great comments. She is married to a member who has not come in a while. I actually have not met him yet. Hopefully soon!
We had an amazing Straßenausstellung (Street Display) on Saturday. We were a little nervous at first because at the starting time it was just the two of us (Br Kämmerling was not even there with the display yet) and there was a booth for Islam and Zeugen Jehovas (Jehovas Witnesses) very near where we were setting up. We felt good about continuing on and saw miracles. We met many people we would not have met otherwise and made out some exciting appointments. One man stopped and listened to us singing hymns, clapped and told us we did a great job with the alto then ran away! We actually saw him a few hours after the Ausstellung some where else and he asked us for a DVD. We will meet Friday. Right after the Ausstellung God blessed us grately in our next appointment. We met with Senada, whom we had met a few days earlire on the street and her mann joined in. They are just golden and are willing to just try this experiment. We set out all three appointments for this week and he prayed at the end of the lesson though he had never done that before. I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!!! The Spirit was strong and this week was amazing.
This week was full of goodness! We climbed a mountain last Monday and I learned a little more of the history of Pforzheim and pictures of before, immediately after and much after the bombing of 1945. We would have stayed longer, but we must have both killed a bee on the way up or something because the whole clan was swarming us ... once we left the summit they left us alone. We also had the best GMK (uh ... ward/branch missionary correlation?) ever Monday just before Family Home Evening. Br. Kämmerling is a great Ward Mission Leader. We have some great members. For example, we took the bus with Schwester Milicic for a little while after our Yoga class. She knows everyone in Pforzheim somehow and everyone she saw that she knew she immediately introduced us and told them we will all three come and visit them and tell them about the gospel. Needless to say, we are excited for our appointments next week. We also met one of her friends earlier in the week when an appointment fell through and Sr. Milicic came with us. She had her friend pick her up and we came along and told her a little about the gospel. :)
Layla is making some great progress. We finally got her a Book of Mormon in Arabisch and she reads it every day and loves it. She has many deep questions of the soul. We had some great lessons and were also privileged to have a couple members come to our lesson yesterday. She had more conviction to attend our church after meeting them. We also hiked a mountain for 1.5 hours to get to Edina. That was awesome. It sure made the appointment more worth it and I found some stuff to put on the blisters afterwards. :) Edina came to church and made some great comments. She is married to a member who has not come in a while. I actually have not met him yet. Hopefully soon!
We had an amazing Straßenausstellung (Street Display) on Saturday. We were a little nervous at first because at the starting time it was just the two of us (Br Kämmerling was not even there with the display yet) and there was a booth for Islam and Zeugen Jehovas (Jehovas Witnesses) very near where we were setting up. We felt good about continuing on and saw miracles. We met many people we would not have met otherwise and made out some exciting appointments. One man stopped and listened to us singing hymns, clapped and told us we did a great job with the alto then ran away! We actually saw him a few hours after the Ausstellung some where else and he asked us for a DVD. We will meet Friday. Right after the Ausstellung God blessed us grately in our next appointment. We met with Senada, whom we had met a few days earlire on the street and her mann joined in. They are just golden and are willing to just try this experiment. We set out all three appointments for this week and he prayed at the end of the lesson though he had never done that before. I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!!! The Spirit was strong and this week was amazing.
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