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.