Wow, this week has been the same yet as unique as every week! I don't know exactly what that means, but really. Not much happens here, yet everything happens, but I do not have enough time to write it all out or explain it to y'all. Well these past 7 days have been a lot of work and plenty of fun! The Sisters in my district decorated our classroom like Christmas, hanging a paper tree and ornaments on the wall, a handshake mistletoe, and giving all the Elders in our district candy/food! It made my day and seemed like so much fun to celebrate the 4th of July last week, and Christmas this week! Christmas and in the middle of July! Look Kay! An indoor blizzard!:) We sang Christmas hymns all day and really had a great time. Let's see what else happened this week? Easter bunny perhaps?!? Haha!
We taught several lessons and I am starting to understand more, and speak a little more in our lessons so I am so grateful to Heavenly Father for that! This week Elder Hunt and I taught the Plan of Salvation to Robert. The lesson went sooo well, we helped him with his questions, taught him, and when we had some extra time we told some jokes and left. It was the greatest lesson we have ever taught...... We also taught Dani, about the Restoration of the Gospel along with answering some of his questions. We are planning on asking him to be baptised next time so I am really excited, because I think he is ready....German is coming along, but I am a little nervous to get out into that field and realized "this isn't the language that taught me in the MTC!" I really am excited to leave in two weeks and we will have one more group of English speaking missionaries. This group plus us, German speakers, will make about 90 missionaries, which is a huge number here in the England MTC! That's almost double our first group! So now our meal times are switched around and there are two lunches... You guys probably don't care, but over here its a huge deal and our only bit of drama.. haha!
This week we had someone from the quorum of the 70 come and talk to us, President Donaldson (?) Donaldsen(?)DonaldDuck(?) Anyways, he gave an amazing talk to all of us on personal prayer, and more specifically personal revelation. His words confirmed in my mind that missionary work is only possible through personal revelation. We cannot function, work, teach unless we have the Spirit... This doesn't only apply to us missionaries... All of you can recieve it for yourselves, why not try it? In the scriptures, specifically the Book of Mormon, it talks about faith being as a seed, and to experiment upon the words. The scripture doesn't say we have to try it, but I am urging you to all try this experiment. Why not? What is there to lose? A few minutes on bended knee, then be blessed with an anwser, a feeling or a direction to move forward! Ich weiß dass wenn sie beten und lesen in die Schriften können sie ein Antwort empfangen! I'm sure my spelling and German grammar is awful, but one day, I might understand all the German language:) We also watched a devotional by Neil A. Anderson. He talked about how things unseen by the world are eternal... I found that to be an interesting phrase... People may say well, Jesus Christ never came to Earth, Joseph Smith may not have seen the First Vision, but that's what the world says. They don't see as we see. For the way we see is not through seeing at all. We see through all of our senses, we feel the Holy Ghost, we hear the words of Truth, we can feast on the word of Christ and so on. We see, becasue we have felt. Faith is something hoped for, but not seen. Faith is something felt and known but not seen.
Anyways, I cannot remember if I told all of you last week, but my good friend Brandon Whitehead was in the England MTC and today he left for the real world experience:) Also I met an elder..... Elder Hanson from Zürich, Switzerland, that said he knows Wendy! So that was really fun to talk to him and get to know him better.... I have talked to several return missionaries and I keep thinking, that I will be in Switzerland for most, if not all of my mission, but we'll see^^ I sure hope I get to go there and serve where our family is from... Well I wish I had more to say or report, but I don't. Just know I miss you all dearly...
I love you all and wish you the best! I pray for all of you, Jessica, Jeremy, Ashley, Mom and Dad, I love you and hope to hear from you soon.
Love,
Elder Annen
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