Be Still and Know

Hallo!!

Wow, it has been a long and short, and wonderful week!So many things happened!

Highlights:

*We finally are officially living in Duisburg (we got Anmelded, thanks to the genius of Elder Kress)

*We had some incredible appointments with our investigators from Iran. They are so cool! We have been using Skype to translate, which has made things super fun!

*We had MLC this week, where we gave a musical number AND a thema!

*I got to go to ALDI! I love Aldi...almost as much as I love Trader Joe's

The Offenbach Dragon

As usual, there is never quite enough time to write about all of the wonderful things that happened in a week.

I just wanted to say that I know God lives.

It's been a turbulent few weeks for me, with joy, and sorrow, comfort and frustration, all mixed into one big ball, and I have felt weighed down by it all.

But

We had this incredible experience today. We were headed back from a pday Easter Monday brunch, and we had four minutes before our bus came. We decided to walk zum Fuß, and took a super cool picture. Then I turned around, and there was this guy there, so I just offered him a card. He said no, and that he was atheist. He was walking away, so I called out after him (in this empty, echo-y cobble-stone street)

"If you pray to God tonight, and ask Him if He is there, He will answer you...Have a nice day!"

And then we headed back to the bus stop.

He came around the corner as well, and I was like

oohh...awkward....yup, we're still here

And then he comes up to us, and is like

"Ok. I want to take the two of you out of coffee, and you have until 17:30 to try to convert me."

We were shocked.

Well, in a nutshell, three hours later (only possible because it was a pday) we had talked about God, energy, light, the earth "rolling together as a scroll", church, faith, and a host of other things. We left him with a Book of Mormon, which he said he would read. He is convinced by his current belief, and has no desire in changing, but we have hope.

Anyway, during this conversation, it really hit me how perfect the plan is. I was filled with this inner peace that was truly wonderful, and it made me realize, that sometimes we just need to take a moment to be still and know that God is God. Just to listen to what He has to say.

He lives!!

Hallelujah!

love always,

Sister Roderer

Playing Football with most of the Duisburg District