Sister Downing Does Deutschland

Ich habe nie geplant, eine Mission zu dienen. Um ganz offen zu sein, habe ich sogar nie geplant, in der Kirche zu bleiben. Ich bin als ein Mitglied der Kirche aufgewachsen, aber ich habe nie gefühlt, dass sie für mich wahr ist. Ich habe nicht gedacht, dass Gott mich lieben könnte, so wie ich bin, oder dass ich in seiner Kirche gehören würde. Die Sister Missionarinnen, die in meiner Gemeinde gedient haben, haben mich eingeladen, im Buch Mormon zu lesen. Sie haben mir erzählt, dass ich persönliche Fragen stellen muss, während ich lese. Die größte Frage, die ich hatte, war "ist das der ort wo ich sein soll?" Als ich im 1 Nephi 11 gelesen habe, hat mich der 17 vers sehr beeindruckt. "Ich weiß, dass er seine Kinder liebt; aber die Bedeutung von allem weiß ich nicht." Dieser Vers wurde zu meinem Fundament meines Zeugnisses. Ich habe noch keine Antworten für all meine Fragen bekommen, aber ich weiß, ohne Zweifel, dass Gott mich liebt. Er liebt alles an mir, schon die ganz...

Howdy friends! 🤠 Last week we spent our pday with the district and it was pretty hype! We played soccer, ultimate frisbee, basketball, volleyball, and chair soccer. And let me tell ya we went hard! Every muscle in my body was sore for a couple days, plus I bruised my hip after I totally ate it during soccer on the mossy turf haha. I've missed playing sports so much and even being sore felt so nice!! As always we had lessons with friends this week and it's so awesome seeing them progress. Our friends are pretty amazing! For example, our car wouldn't start so we said a prayer asking for guidance and help as to what we needed to do. After the prayer we decided to call our friend who is a mechanic. He recommended a bunch of things to try and finally the car started! So yeah basically our friends are all miracles Other than that, this week was basically just a lot of driving and dress wearing. We had stake conference this weekend, zone conference on Tuesday, and interviews with...

Wow I can't believe it's already pday again! Time really flies when you're grinding for God lol This week we had some pretty good lessons with our friends. One of them ended with the member who drives our friend mentioning a Taufdatum 😯 but we're taking our time because this friend is completely new to Christianity and we want to make sure he understands the gospel more fully. But we love members who are hyper involved in the missionary work! We got to see the Bonn Sisters lots this week which is always a party. Last pday we went shopping together and then got fries and some fire matching fits 🍔 Then we overnighted and carpool karaoke-d our way to district council with our fantabulous covers of some Disney bops. They also ended up joining one of our lessons this week and we helped them with a youth activity they put on We went klingeling and had a couple pretty cool conversations. We met one guy towards the beginning, around the tenth door, and we'll be going back...

Hey hey party people!! This week was a little funky but we survived and now you get to hear a little bit about it We went on Austausch this week and I stayed in Euskirchen with Sister Mackey. She's been my STL every transfer so far which is kinda nice since we already know each other. Makes it a little less stressful. But what was stressful though was being in Euskirchen and having to know where I'm going. Apparently I rely on Sister Nielsen a little too much haha This week we had a couple lessons with friends. Some of them went really well, others not so much lol. None were horrible tho so dubs. We also visited some members. My two favorite visits were having lunch with the branch president's family, especially his little kiddos, and making brownies with an inactive family We had a district finding activity in Bonn which was pretty fun. I got to explore a little bit, win the district finding challenge with Sister Cook, and talk to people about Jesus! Pretty fire day! But t...

It's only been a couple days and not a whole lot has happened but here we go. Also I couldn't think of an interesting subject line so sorry On Sunday I got to introduce myself in sacrament meeting and meet the branch I'm serving in now. It's a pretty small one but filled with some pretty cool people! We had a couple appointments with members this week and went to the Jungen Damen Aktivität. Everyone has been so awesome and I can't wait to get to know them all better! Since we don't have too too many contacts in our phone, we decided to text all of them and see who would be interested in meeting. We got about halfway through when we realized we had way more than we thought! So we're taking a break from that and focusing on the people we did text cause we actually had quite a few people respond and say they were interested! Hopefully we'll be able to meet with them and maybe make some new friends! Today we spent the day in Köln and it was pretty epic! We v...