Hallo zusammen!

Hallo zusammen! (very Swiss German way of saying it)

Alles läuft super hier in Solothurn😊

Had a great zone training to start off the week. It's funny, I'm one

of the oldest ones in Bern zone at this point. Not the oldest

missionary, but one of the missionaries that's been here the longest.

We had exchanges that day too and that was great! I went back to

Burgdorf for the day and Sister Jones stayed in Solothurn. Haha it was

wonderful, I got a really nice break from always taking the lead and

knowing where things are. Honestly, exchanges are the best thing for a

new missionary, 'cause it helps them realize how much of the area they

actually know and how they really don't need their trainer to get

around!

So funny coming back from Burgdorf to my comp and her just going on

this long stressed rant about this person she called, and that train

connection she looked up, and this or that appointment that got

cancelled....we very much switched roles haha.

But seriously I love exchanges. For whatever reason, I'm always just a

bit apprehensive beforehand, but afterwards, I LOVE it. Miracles

always happen. Like Burgdorf hadn't been able to find anyone in the

last 2 weeks and suddenly in the hour Sister Fairbanks and I had to do

finding, we found someone, gave out a Book of Mormon to someone else,

and discovered where this long lost less active lady lived, who Sister

Tauche and I had looked for so long while I was there in June. Hahaha

Other highlights this week would have to be Bruder Jäggi's baptismal

interview going super well (seriously we went over the questions so

many times, but he did good. Incredible to see the change in his heart

over these last 6 months of teaching him.)

Then Saturday was dumb 'cause we were looking for this address forever

of a new lady in our ward, but no one knows her name and she lives in

an apartment building, so we literally had to ring everyone and ask

them if they happen to be a member of our church and just moved in

there. Haha they all thought we were pretty dumb. And the best part is

that she wasn't even home. And by this time we both really had to pee

and so I found the nearest McDonald's but we still had to walk a bit

and as you can imagine, it just felt like the biggest waste of an

afternoon. But, at McDonald's, we quickly said a prayer that with this

last hour of finding before we had to go home,  He would somehow help

us achieve our goal of finding 2 new people. And we did!!

One was a very very Muslim guy, but he said we could bring him a Book

of Mormon in Arabic. And then a really really cool guy. We were

walking down the street and he was raking his sidewalk. We went up to

talk to him and he was telling us that he already knew us and stuff,

but turns out he was talking about another church. We talked to him

for a bit about what we do and the Book of Mormon and I told him that

we share a message and invite people to pray about it and ask God if

it's true. Haha for whatever reason he got a real kick out of that

one. He said he wanted to see what his son had to say about that, and

that his son would decide if we could come in or not. So out comes his

6 six year old son. I ask him if he believes in God and he says yes.

And I ask them if they pray, and he said yes. And pretty much I told

him what I told his dad. I asked him if he understood what I was

saying and he said yes. Then his dad asks him, so what do you think

Ezra? Do we let them in? And he said we could! Thanks Ezra 😊 you're

the best.

Highlight of the week was when the bishop and a member of our ward

came over to give Karyna a priesthood blessing. The spirit was so

strong, it was SO STRONG. I seriously have never felt the spirit so

strong on my mission, maybe ever in my life. Everyone, especially

Karyna was glowing at the end.

I know for a fact God answers prayers and fasts. He answered so many

of my prayers this week, so so many. We just have to be a little

patient sometimes :)

Have a wonderful week!

-Sister Lehmann

Pday with the Zollikoven Sisters in Basel. Man I love this city, I can't believe I've waited so long to go! They have the greatest old town.

Sister Selph found this schnitzel on Donald Trumps face rather comical. No quite sure what that advertisements even for.

On our way to our ward missionary council, had to take a pic.

And last but not least, Sister Lehmann made some lentil soup. It was super good. Thanks for the recipe mom :)