Selfie with the Am Europakanal in the back

Cool things that happened this week:

- we set 2 baptismal dates!

- next week our entire mission is headed to Frankfurt (we will leave Sunday evening) to hear from Elder Ballard

- we will be using Facebook soon! 

So our baptismal dates are with Walter and Linh! Walter is a miracle because he’s been reading in the Book of Mormon everyday BEFORE he met the missionaries. Linh belongs to a part member family and is sooooo sweet. We’ve become homies with her 13 year old brother Ton. He’s been teaching us some Fränkisch slang. 

This week we’ve had quite a bit of fallen out appointments. At district meeting we talked about being more prayerful during our finding. On Tuesday after our 2nd appointment fell out we decided to say a prayer together and individually. We both felt that we should go by on this one woman who had met the missionaries last year. So we walked over and klingled her and she was home! She’s half german and has 5 kids. We didn’t really know what to say except hey are you still interested? She was so excited that we came and said that we could come back tomorrow. Yay! 

Another cool moment happened yesterday, we talked to a rough looking guy on the street. He said he was atheist and didn’t like the idea that there’s a heaven and hell. He said that if he were to believe in God that he thinks God shouldn’t be so black and white. We got to testify about the plan of Salvation and how God is no respecter of persons. I even got to explain about the 3 kingdoms and how God gives us agency so we can learn to make our own decisions. God is not black and white, he wants us to be happy and to be with Him again. But He wants us to choose to be happy and choose to live with Him. We were on the busiest street in Erlangen, but the Spirit was so strong. He wasn’t interested in meeting with us in person, but he said he wanted to learn more so we hooked him up with mormon.org!

Romans 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.

We are children of God it’s so cool you guys!

Liebe Grüße 

Sister Luymes

Fall is here, cool weather returns
and so do my coat and leggings.

Cool ancient clock tower.