Staircase to Heaven

My "Golden" is Sister Kate Hadfield and she is from Brigham City, Utah! She is a peach. hehe JK

 

I could not have been given a cooler, sweeter, more hard-working, inspired, or dedicated Golden. Golden power is real! I feel like I am not the Trainer, but that we are equal missionaries, working our feet into blisters trying to prune our part of the vineyard.

 

It's awesome.

 

We have also done a lot of running. Hence, the blisters.

 

So we had made a goal on Saturday to give out x number of pass-a-long cards, and one Book of Mormon. By the end of the day, we had totally exceeded our goal for cards, but had not yet "placed" a Book of Mormon. We were literally standing on our doorstep, about to call it a day, when Sister Hadfield was like

"Oh, hey we need to fulfill our goal."

So I turned around and saw this man walking right by our door, and I stopped him and asked him if we could talk. It turns out he was Turkish, and couldn't speak German, but he was super sweet and we said good-bye. We went inside, climbed all four flights of stairs up to our apartment, and started to unload all of our bags. I was still thinking about this guy, so I went over to our Book of Mormon "stash" and looked through the languages. There were TWO in Turkish. I grabbed one, turned to Sister Hadfield and said

"We should run back down and see if he is still nearby."

We leapt out of the door, clattering, yelling, laughing, down the staris, with the grace of a herd or Rhinos, and burst out onto the street. We ran up a block and then came to a street corner, looking up and down all of the streets. About a block down we saw a man that sort of matched the description of the man we were looking for.

"Is that him?"

"I don't know, it looks like it could be"

"He was wearing brown, right?"

So we ran down the block and up to this man, all out of breath. To our relief, it was the right man, and we gave him the Turkish Book of Mormon.

 

That sort of situation has happened more than once this week. We sure have climbed a lot of stairs! Morgen Sport: Check!! :)

 

One of my favorite "pick-up-lines" that we used this week was when we saw this man looking through some books at this outdoor library box that is near our apartment. I went up to him and was like

"Looking for something interesting to read? You should try the Book of Mormon! Here is a copy for you." He didn't take it, but we chatted for a bit about God, and that was nice.

 

Alma 34 is my reading challenge to you all for the week. I found Alma 34:16 really interesting. I want to try this this week. The idea of mercy satisfying justice I find totally wonderful. So the next time we are in a Situation where we feel justified in being angry or something, remember that mercy satisfies more than judgement ever will. :)

 

Alles gute!

 

Sister Roderer