The Spider and the King

*A member in our ward talked about how her testimony of the power of prayer was strengthened as, after seven years of praying, the Berlin Wall came down. She recounted that prayers were said on both sides of the wall, and it came down. And it was then that she began to understand the power of prayer.
*I gave a talk at our baptism this week, and it was being translated into three different languages. It was weird to hear my words immediately repeated and translated into German, Arabic, and Twi.
*Our "Spider" was baptized and confirmed in Twi, his mother tongue, which was INCREDIBLE!
*I am getting a SWISS companion!!
*We got to go to a castle on Monday!!!


World-o-meter:
*Germany
*Bangladesh
*England
*Syria
*Turkey
*India
*Ghana
*Egypt
*Romania








Deutsch:
The word for trying something new out like "I tried a new dance move today" is "Versucht", which is very close to the German word "Suchen" which means "search". I love the idea of "searching out" new skills and experiences. I think this also applies to our agency, which is the conscious choice to search out God in whatever aspect of our lives that we are currently facing. Next time you're asked to do something new and possibly scary, see it as a "search for something new" rather than a potential catastrophe. :)

Eep! Where to start?
I'm going to miss Sister Terry and Sister Johnson more than I can say!
They have had such an influence on my life, and they're going to go change the world.







Two quick miracles:

We were printing out programs for the baptism, and the printer cartridge was printing out this super gross line across the program.
Ok,
It was like pencil thin, but it still shriveled my heart. It kept printing out like that, and it was driving me crazy.
I remember looking up at heaven and saying
 "Could you fix that?"
And then I went back to something else I was doing. When I cam back to the printer, I pulled out the programs
And they were perfect.
Flawless
Line-less
This heat grabbed my heart in its fist, and I teared up. I didn't know the love of God would LITERALLY come
line upon line.

We have this member in our ward who is from Ghana and speaks Twi, just like Spider does, and on top of that, he is a tribal king in Ghana.
Yes, you did read that right.
We have an African King in our ward.
We involved this member a lot in the teaching and such of Spider. He was supposed to be in Ghana the day of the baptism, but we prayed and he stayed, and so...
The king baptized the spider.


So, I guess what I'm really trying to say is...
Don't forget to pray!

Love always,

Sister Roderer