Raiding the American Elder's apartment.
Meet Sister Tait from the UK, she's just as wacky as I am.

We got our transfer call on Saturday and we're both very sure that we were safe. Which we were, but now we have a 3rd companion Sister Tait aus England! From the crazy 4 weeks with the Mainz sister living with us, God seemed to like the idea of having more than just me and Sister Peck in our apartment. So now we're a dritt. I must say when I found out I wasn't super excited, especially because I'm still training and that's just weird to have a third wheel. BUT it's been super fun and we've all gotten really close really fast. It's definitely a good thing throwing Sister Tait into the mix.

In other news they closed down the American Wiesbaden Elders and made us and the German elders responsible for the German and American wards. We have a lot of coordinating meetings this coming weekend to figure out just HOW we do that. This means that we're about to have a lot more eating appointments coming up. We've already raided the American elder's apartment for all their American foods, DVD player, and fand (here you get 25 cents back when you recycle bottles). In the words of my new English companion-- we had GREAT fun.

As for the work here we are slowly but surely moving forward. Salman had surgery on Sunday and then found out he'd have to be on bed rest for the next week. Sooooo we have to push his date back. He's still reading and praying and doing good though.

We got to meet with Lorena again and Skype using the Heidelberg Spanish Elders. It was good and we got to talk with her afterwards and have a really good moment together. Totally worth getting spit on by her 2 year old.

Bright is doing ok. He's working right now so he can't come to church. But he uses his break to meet with us and read in the Book of Mormon. Poor guy is in a tight spot and the ward is doing their best to work it out. Faith and patience are required. 

Liliana is now back from all her vacations and actually came to church! Her second time ever since she got to Germany in April. It was not the most ideal situation (we were totally missing the third hour of church), but she really started opening up to us about some of her fears and struggles. She said she wanted to meet with us a lot more regularly and wanted to come to church regularly.

Something that someone shared with me this week was this: direction is more important than speed. Sometimes I want things to happen NOW. I want all our people to be members and active in the church NOW. I want to be perfect at missionary work or speaking German, or whatever it is that I desire. NOW. But sometimes God's timing is different than ours. All we have to really worry about is if we/they are headed in the right direction. Repentance takes time, faith, and patience. So does over coming our fears and learning something new. So my dear friends and family I say the same thing to you -- direction is more important than speed. As long as you're going in the right direction, no matter how long you take, you'll get to the same destination.

Ich habe euch lieb!
Sister Luymes

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