Week 51: Happy Valentine's Day!

Servus!

Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you all had a good week, and you ate a lot of chocolate today! I certainly will!

Last Tuesday, to celebrate our year mark, Sister Tripp and I made enchiladas and went to this giant thrift store/warehouse. It was fun to look around because they had so much stuff there. I can't say any of it was good, but some of it gave us a good laugh. We did end up finding some wedding dresses though, so we tried them on lol.

We had an amazing lesson this week with a new friend! For some background, she texted us out of the blue last week and asked us how she can be baptized. We had no idea who this person was, but we had her contact saved in our phone. We explained that we teach 5 lessons and if she keeps the commitments we give her, then she can be baptized. She said that she wants to do that, so we set up an appointment and met up with her. As we're getting to know her, we ask her why she wants to get baptized into this church. She explained that she was reading in Acts one day, and she realized that baptism should be done by immersion. She was raised Catholic, so she was baptized as a baby with only a sprinkle of water. She researched different churches that perform baptism by immersion, and none of them really felt right to her— except one. She had seen a baptism at our church once, and this memory of it kept coming to her mind. She had come to know the church through a member she met on Facebook. She did some Bible study classes with this member and the missionaries, and she came to church the same day as a baptism. At that point in time, she wasn't ready to commit to the lessons, so she lost contact with the missionaries but the Spirit was working on her this entire time. Sister Tripp and I are so excited to begin teaching her! She had such a genuine desire to know the truth.

This email is already pretty long, but since it's Valentine's Day, I want to share a quote about love from Elder Uchtdorf:

"When we meet the Savior at the judgment bar, we will account for how we lived the two great commandments.  

Did we truly seek God and love Him?

Did we love our families, friends, and neighbors? 

Love God, love others. This is the bullseye of the gospel of Jesus Christ."

This is a gospel of love. Our Heavenly Parents love us. Jesus Christ loves us, and we're here to learn to love others as They do.

I hope you all have a wonderful week!

Liebe Grüße,

Sister Gladwell

1-2. Jean couch

4. Ausstellung in Rosenheim

5-6. Visiting a referral. There was a little  machine for one of these sticky horse things, so Sister Tripp bought me ones.