Feeling the Love of God

(August 8, 2016)

This week was a good week! Until I got a scary email from dad on

Sunday, but I'm glad to hear everything is ok :) Thank goodness.

But yeah, Monday was the 1st of August which is Switzerland's national

holiday so that was fun! We went to the Matterhorn as a district and

our investigator Leah. It was fun! Also kind of sad cause when we

first got there, it was foggy, like incredibly foggy, but then

miraculously our fervant prayers were answered and it cleared up!

There was no point when the matterhorn was really clear, but we saw

bits and pieces of it so we were happy! Then that evening, we went to

a members house who was having a party. It was great! They were all

about 3 times our age, but it was fun spending the 1st of August with

some proud Swiss citizens.

Then the rest of the week was a miracle week. Caution, this may be a long email.

We had exchanges with the Sisters in Reinarch and that was super

great. One of their investigators was actually an investigator in

Solothurn before but she moved to Reinarch at the beginning of last

transfer and now she's getting baptized!! I think I actually wrote

about her. Her names Linda, she's from the Congo and I got to teach

her once while she was in Solothurn cause she only speaks French! And

then on Tausch, exchanges, they had a lesson planned with her and I

got to see her again. So incredible to see. She really has a testimony

of the Restoration and simply cannot wait to be baptised. I was having

to translate, asking details about the baptism, when it should be and

who should baptize her, and she kind of waved off the details and was

like, I don't really care, I just want to be baptised already! So

great. She also has an incredibley sad story. She's a refugee here,

she has 3 kids still in the Congo, one with her here, and she has no

idea where her husband is, they were accidentily split up in Russia

and she hasn't seen him in a year. She has no idea if he's even still

alive. She really had given up all hope until one day the missionaries

came and invited her to come to church. She went and just cried and

cried the entire time becasue she felt God's love so so strong. Isn't

that incredible? That's the Sunday I got to teach her, and then I was

transfered, so didn't hear anything else about her, but then this

week, I got to see her again, still in an incredibly difficult life

situation, but with a real light and hope in her eyes that wasn't

there before. She was practically giving the lesson as she bore

testimony of the reality of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, and of the

truthfullness of the Book of Mormon and this church. So incredible.

Then that leads to Linda's roommate while living in Solothurn, Joy.

She's from Nigeria. She is also going through an incredibly difficult

time. A couple months ago, she was also really struggling, she's all

alone here, only 25, and has a baby who has been getting sick quite a

bit. Well she was praying and praying, saying, "God I need a church. I

need to you to lead me to a church where I can feel your help and

strength and where I can pray to you." And then one day she saw the

missionaries with a ward member and ran down to them. Turns out they

were picking some other people up for church that day, and she asked

if she could come along. She went to church and loved it. She had

missed it so much, and she said that she had really felt God's

presence there. So so cool. For some reason she wasn't taught right

after that but when Sister Eden and I came, a ward member told us

about her and we called her up and now she's an investigator and

coming to church. So so cool. She also, just like Joy, already has an

incredible testimony of Jesus Christ, his Atonement, and the power of

prayer.

Well, those are just two of the many many miracles we saw this week. I

wish I could write them all. But yeah, the work here is soaring.

Sister Eden and I have had so many oppurtunites to teach. We have

found so many new investigators here it's really incredible. And guess

what, yesterday, 4 investigators came to church! Haha we were

hyperventilating a bit I think. So yeah. The work is good. The church

is true.

Sometimes Sister Eden and I get so sucked into the work and get really

hard on ourselves but then we remind ourselves, hey! We are two little

19/20 year olds in this big world, sort of on our own here, but we are

relying on the help from heaven! We are FAR from  perfect, but we are

trying! And if there's one lesson that we see over and over again in

the Book of Mormon, is that those that try their best to do what God

would have them do, miracles happen. Miracles always happen.

Have a wonderful week!

-Sister Lehmann

Our view of the Matterhorn

Us and Leah

District picture, Elder Stahle, Elder Cornetta, me, Elder Ashcroft, Sister Eden, Leah, and Elder Kilgore taking the picture

What the view should have looked like

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Sunday lunch at the Pangs. She made her secret invention, avocado icecream. She just blends avocados and icecream together, it is SO GOOD.

Sister Eden straightened my hair

The process of straightening... It took a long time.

And then the next day it rained. Hahahaha