June 8, 2015

Hallo meine Lieben!!

Happy Summer everyone!!

First off, Happy Happy Anniversary to my lovely parents!! I love you dearly!!

This last week was... Crazy, to say the least. We were pulled to our

limits emotionally, physically and mentally. Ha, but let's start out

with the best of the best- 2 weeks ago one of my previous

investigators in Spandau got baptized!! What up!! I was ecstatic to

hear that! It's Virginia, she's 14, and the cutest German girl ever!

Love being a missionary!

We had Zo-Co on Wednesday and had our last goodbyes to President! We

had a wonderful talk by Elder Atler in a quorum of the 70's, and

something that stuck out to me was talking about our callings. "Do we

view our callings now as a position of privilege?" Applying that to

however we serve, inside the church and in our homes. What ever we are

given, do we see it as a privilege? A really humbling thought for me.

Love it!

And Cami is doing well, she needs a lot of encouragement to stop

smoking, and we are putting in all our efforts to keep her going!! She

is getting closer though!  We brought the elders again, and it helped

Cami tons.

And we had lots of contact with less actives and I know the Lord is

looking out for each one of them!

One night, we are sitting planning, and we hear, " good morning star

shine" outside our window- Sister Davis screams, and I turn to see an

old drunk dude, knocking on our window. Haha, the beauties of living

on the ground floor! He is actually our neighbor, so we don't know

exactly what to do with him yet. Haha

Freitag was our day for the unbelievable- wrestled our bikes onto a

train to Rendsburg and then couldn't get off our train with our bikes

because the door was blocked with people... Then we wrestle our way

off at the next train station and wait an hour for a train to take us

back in the opposite direction. We get back to Rendsburg, bike all the

way to our beloved Ukaj family, and they are weirdly not home!

Frustrated beyond belief, we try by some contacts there, and went home

by train. Later, Sister Davis got into a bike wreck, and I'm drained

of all energy. After an appointment with Cami, and playing soccer that

night, sister Davis found a stinging nettle plant and we missed our

bus stop. Solid day.

But despite all the craziness this last week, I can't complain, the

Lord still sees ways to bless us every day!

Also, fun fact, I am over my half way mark!!! Weirdy weirdy, I don't

know how that already happened. Seriously went by in the blink of an

eye!

Well, I wanted to share some things I've learned in these last awesome

9 months, as a little "Wisdom I just barely learned that everyone else

already knew about", haha.

The biggest thing is that life is ALL about the small moments!! Those

times where I've decided to be kind rather than snappy, laugh instead

of cry, ask about someone else's day rather than speak about myself,

strike a conversation with a stranger, etc. When I look back on the

whole, I am so grateful for the small decisions I've made in those

moments that were the hardest. And it makes the biggest difference in

those you are surrounded by!!

Love you all!! Have a wonderful week! Thanks for your emails and fun pictures!!

Liebe Immer-

Sister Titensor