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"Jena. Miracles are here"
Servus Familie und Freunde,
What a week. You might be noticing
that this week’s emails are coming in a little bit later than usual this time.
That’s because we just got back from a service project. One of our members said
that they would contact the city offices to see if there was any service that
we could do for them. We were notified a couple of days ago that there was an
opportunity for us to go to a Sprache Schule " Language School " for
little kids and move some stuff around for them.
We met our member Ralph (who is the
coolest) and drove on over to the school. After which we spent our morning and
early afternoon just helping them move all of their desks and cabinets
upstairs. It was a really great work out. I got a little sweaty. And since we
just came from there, I am sitting here typing you a letter in my sweat
clothes. yum. Haha.
It was great, we moved all the stuff
upstairs and then they made us some lunch and what not. It was so sweet of them!
Towards the end they wanted us to see
if we could move a giant safe upstairs. Oh my goodness. That was crazy. It was
a safe about 4 feet high and it weighed what felt like 1,000,000 pounds. So,
imagine 7 guys just grunting and screaming trying to get this safe up 2 sets of
stairs. Hahahaha.
Good times.
We also met a bunch of really cool
people there today. There was a big group of kids about our age that showed up
to help as well. So we got in touch with some of them. We shall see what happens.
They were really good people!
Through out the rest of the week we
saw a ton of other miracles. We have seen a ton of success with our English
class. We have been able to continually have new people show up to that. And
since it is in the church, we are able to easily talk about the church and the
gospel with out making them feel uncomfortable.
This last week our good friend, Farooq,
became an investigator and we found him by inviting him to English class! Super
cool, right? He is from Pakistan and is really interested with what we believe
in. Pray for him. He is a really good man.
Also during this week, we were able to
meet with our buddy Gustavo! It was his birthday. So we thought we would take
him out to get some nice Mexican food (he is from Colombia). We got there and
the place was all full and you needed reservations. Then we tried 3 other restaurants
and all of them had the exact same story! Aghhhhh. So, good thing Gustavo is a
trooper because after walking around for an hour trying to find a place to
accommodate us, we ended up getting him some McDonald's! Hahahahahah, Happy
Birthday.
Wow great week. We haven’t had people
show up to church yet, but we sure are trying! Keep us in the prayers. Elder
Kenley is doing great and we are having a grand time here in good ole Jena! We
should go to Alaska some day. He has a bunch of pics and it looks beautiful!
I just wanted to share real quick something
that I have learned the last little bit. And that is that god is there and he
is always aware of you and will help you when you need it. And sometimes he
teaches you things through ways you were not expecting to be taught. But these
last few weeks in Jena have really shown me that god loves me and that as we
pray to him he will listen. When looking for answers, we need to keep our eyes,
hearts and souls open. Because we wont always get the answer in the places we
looking for them.
Well, shoot, I gotta get heading! But I love you guys so much! Hopefully it
gets warm before I get home .. You know how I like my warm. :) haha
Love you,
Elder Nikora Anderson
Ps. 5 weeks and 4 days. But who is
counting ! ;)
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