Acting on a Hope

3.5 Swiss People....all in the Swiss Missionaries are serving in the same zone

• We had Dortmund Zone Training, which was focused on stress relief, which means we threw  spaghetti at an Elder wrapped in Saran Wrap. 
• Taught the Ten Commandments to our Iranian friends, and they surprised us by asking what our favorite commandments were. I didn't know how to answer! One of their favorite ones fit perfectly with the next part of our lesson...Law of Chastity. It is so wonderful to hear them talk about how sacred and beautiful marriage and family are! They are so fantastic!!
• A former member showed up to church with his wife a couple of weeks ago, and they both want to be baptized! They are so incredible, no email would do them or their story justice!
• We found out the character differences between our companionship when we found an invasion of squiggles on our balcony: 

Sister Markl: Let's pool our resources and find the best, most sanitary solution.

Sister Roderer: We can wash our hands when we are done.

I also learned that Sister Markl does not like bugs, and if you want to make her scream, bugs are the best way to go. Hehe






I studied one of my favorite verses this morning, which I see as the companion scripture to Ether 12:27.  It's in Jacob, who is simply brilliant with his word choice. :)  Jacob 4:6-7

From my study I learned something beautiful about hope, which changed the way I see faith.

Hope means you acquire the grounds or justification
for acting on the words of Christ.
Faith means you have enough hope to act; it means your heart is soft enough to change.
You can gain hope through studying the experiences of others, and by making
your own experiences.
Miracles and mountain-moving-faith comes from the experience of having completed the process of acting on hope and faith.

So, faith is acting on the grounds that something will happen. Hope is the initial thrust that  provides the desire to change. Faith is the act of changing or acting, which activates the power of miracles.

Dortmund in Spring

It's really the small things that make
the biggest difference! God's plan is really perfect.
God lives.
He's really there.
Jesus Christ is His Son, and our Savior.
What you do matters.
You matter!

All my love,

Sister Roderer