Heavenly Blessings

SPRING!!

Highlights:

*We got to take part in a lot of District Meetings this week, so we could be there for their goal setting, and understand where they were coming from, and what we could do to help. That was fun, and we got to use Skype!

*In Germany they watch the last session of General Conference as part of church, which we did yesterday. We had the session in German, English, Persian, and Chinese!


*Everything is blooming, and I got a sunburn last Monday, which was a beautiful feeling.

"That one time when..."

*you try to talk to your Iranian investigator with google translate, and he slaps his hand on your iPad and says:
"Nein! Translate schlecht. Nur Deutsch sprechen!"
We put the iPad away.

Sunday Linger Longer

*you are at a member's house, and leave the appointment before your investigators do, because they are watching soccer on the big screen with the members.

*you are in a Bahn, and lose your balance, so you go to grab the pole that should be there, but instead you grab a person instead, then suddenly realize what you are doing and snap your hand back like it's been burned.

*you watch "A Shower of Heavenly Blessings" with a family, then write down your blessings on a blue piece of paper, the crumple them into "raindrops" and play a version of umbrella dodgeball for Family Home Evening.

Making a wish

I have been rather excited about the new Mormon Message that just came out last month. It's called "A Shower of Heavenly Blessings". I'm not sure why I like it so much, but I have literally come up with reasons to show it to people.

It has made me think a lot about patience, faith, blessings, joy, etc. I read a quote this week that hit me really hard, and I wanted to share it with you all.

"Patience is a willingness, in a sense, to watch the unfolding purposes of God with a sense of wonder and awe, rather than pacing up and down within the cell of our circumstance. Put another way, too much anxious opening of the oven door and the cake falls instead of rising. So it is with us. If we are always selfishly taking our temperature to see if we are happy, we will not be.” Elder Maxwell

Well, as usual, there is no time to say what I want to say, but be patient, and the blessings will flow.

Christ lives.

He is our Savior.
I testify of Him!

Love always,

Sister Roderer