This week was definitely the rainbow after the rainstorm (although I do love a good rainstorm).
It started on Tuesday. We were walking along down the street to look for some contacts, when we see this man walking towards us, a little scruffy and wearing all black. Normally I wouldn't talk to this kind of person, but we both had the feeling that we needed to speak with him. We asked him what makes him happy. We got talking, and it turns out his dad died at a young age and no one (including the doctors) knows why, and that's bothered him for quite some time. Sister Meyer and I testified about the Plan of Salvation, and how his dad will be resurrected and he will be able to see him again. We both felt the Spirit testifying strongly through us. We gave him a Book of Mormon, and I chose a scripture to give him about the Resurrection. Alma 40:23. He was so surprised and said that his birthday was on the 23rd of this month... He said it was no coincidence. This was the best street contact either Sister Meyer or I have had. We are just waiting for his work to calm down before we can really start teaching him! MIRACLE!
The second big miracle of this week came on Saturday. We have an investigator named "B", a sassy 70 year old German, who has come to church a few times and feels so good there that she wants to be a member, she just wants to know how. Unfortunately she has a lot of doctors' appointments so we haven't actually taught her anything yet. There was a baptism at our church on Saturday and she came to see it. After it was done, we walked her home and she invited us upstairs, where we ate tea and cookies and ice cream and taught her about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We told her what it means to be baptized into our church, and we asked her if she wanted to be baptized on the 6th of September... She said that she feels good about it and that something inside her is saying yes! WHOOT!!! We came home walking on air that night.
THEN SUNDAY. Holy cow, Sunday was one of the best days on my mission! We show up to church, still super happy about what had happened with "B", but nothing was out of the ordinary. After Relief Society, we came out, and one of the members says, "'M' is here!" ......what?! Now let me tell you a little bit about "M"... He's from Cameroon and has been on baptismal date twice already. Right before I came here, he just didn't show up to his baptism interview. Totally fell off the face of the earth. Gone. We had called him almost every day trying to reach him but just couldn't. All of a sudden, we call, he answers, says to call back, we call back, no answer. Gone. Until he just randomly shows up to church! We met with him during church and asked if he wanted to be baptized today, because technically he could be baptized any time as long as he passes the interview. He said he didn't come to church prepared for that so we're shooting for next Sunday for him to be baptized.
All of a sudden, after two weeks of seemingly no success, we have two people being baptized.
Things are going really well.
In other news, we sang and played piano at an old folks home, saw some crazy road rage between a guy on a motorcycle and a guy in a van, I saw Bruder Renneke from Hildesheim, which totally made my WHOLE WEEK I can't even tell you, got word that "R" from Hildesheim is preparing himself to be baptized in the next few weeks, and met two Utahns who are studying abroad and came to church yesterday. One of them was born in American Fork and lived by the high school! SUCH a small, wonderful world.
Ah, I love this work. I love studying in my scriptures every day, I love speaking German, I love meeting new people and getting to know them, I love living in Berlin and all of the crazy things that happen here, I love seeing so many little and big miracles in my life. I am truly so, so blessed.
Tomorrow I will have been a missionary for 6 months. They have been the hardest, most humbling, most rewarding, most precious 6 months. They have been 6 months of refining. But these 6 months have been the best 6 months of my whole life. Serving a mission is the best thing I have ever done. And I still have another whole year to go.
Here's to the next 12 months.
Sister Seamons
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