#areyoumyinvestigator?

Highlights:

*Stake Conference was this weekend and the Spider came with us. All of the people who talked to him knew his story, and they were really happy to talk to him! It made my heart so warm to see that!!!!!!

*We were able to explore places in Duisburg that I have never been before...that was an adventure!

*Some former investigators showed up again, and we are excited to teach them!!

*We were dooring by a referral, and Sister Markl felt like we needed to have a theme. So then we both prayed and felt that it should be "peace". So we went to the next door, and klingeld.

No one answered.

I almost walked away, but Sister Markl tried again.

A lady opened and we were able to have a great conversation about the Restoration.

She shut the door, and I mentioned that I wished we had had a Book of Mormon with us to show her as evidence, because she wanted to know what evidence we had about Joseph Smith. Sister Markl said she had one with her.

So what do we do?

We turn around and knock again.

She was surprised to see us again.

We offered her the Book, which she didn't take, but we walked away knowing we had done our part.

*You know the book "Are You My Mother?"

Well, we played "Are You My Investigator?" this week.

We were going to an appointment with someone who had been taught by Sister Terry and Sister Johnson, so I didn't know what he looked like. I only had a few defining features about his family, so on our way to his apartment, I stopped EVERYONE who looked like they could match the description and asked them

"Are you K?"

"Is your husband K?"

There was one family who were really confused when we asked them. When we realized that they weren't "K", we asked them if they wanted to learn more about Christ anyway.

They did.

World-o-meter:

Bangladesh

India

Pakistan

Syria

Ghana

Gambia

Nigeria

Germany

Turkey

and some I can't spell

We had an incredible member missionary moment this week. In our last member appointment, we challenged them to write their testimony in a copy of the Book of Mormon, and we would pray over it, and then give it out to someone, and then we would report back on the story.

So...

We were on the U79 (again) and I talked to this lady who was telling me about her "return to faith" and then I started talking to her about the Book of Mormon. She was super interested, and she wanted a copy. I didn't have one on me, but we made an appointment out for later that week. I also got her number so I could confirm the appointment.

I was packing for the day of the appointment, and I felt sure that this specific Book of Mormon was the one that was supposed to go to her.

When I went to confirm the appointment, I realized that the number didn't work. We were not sure if the appointment would go through, and it was really far away, and we knew when we got there that we wouldn't know where to go to meet with her, so we decided to stay and meet with another investigator that was leaving the next day to move to Poland.

I felt really bad about missing that opportunity, even though there was not much that we could have done.

In comp the next morning, I said a prayer, and apologized for my weakness, and the possibility that I had written the number down incorrectly, and prayed for another chance to see her and give her the Book of Mormon.

Due to a few fallen out appointments, our day put us back on the U79 at a different time than originally scheduled. As the Bahn pulled up, to my shock, there was the lady!! She saw me, and I saw her and I immediately sat down and started talking to her. I gave her that copy of the Book of Mormon (which I still had in my bag) and was able to recount the story of the Restoration.

When I called the members back to tell them this story, they were so excited.

I am so grateful that the Lord's mercy covers our failures, and that He is at the helm of this work.

"The Atonement is real, and it works". It cleanses us, purifies us, empowers us, heals us, and motivates us. It makes change possible. It brings hope. And it is all through the matchless gift of Our Father, even that He sent His Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ.

I love Jesus Christ.

John Donne said once: “We ask our daily bread, and God never says, ‘You should have come yesterday.’ … [No, he says,] ‘Today if you will hear [my] voice, today I will hear yours.’ … If thou hast been benighted till now, wintered and frozen, clouded and eclipsed, damp and benumbed, smothered and stupefied till now, God yet comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, … but as the sun at [full] noon, to banish all shadows” (Collected Sermons).

Love Always,

Sister Roderer