We saw a lot of miracles this week both on square and online. Lately, Sister Brinkmeier and I have been trying this thing where when we are just proselyting on the square, we offer to talk to people on tours. We call tours "walking lessons" because that is what we are doing. We are teaching them a lesson mixed in with some history as we all walk around Temple Square! Anyways, we have had some really cool experiences with these random tours we talk people on and we have even gotten the contact information from some! Fingers crossed that some of them will turn into new people we can teach.
This week I took my first German motorcoach! A motorcoach is a group tour of more than 15 people. Mine had 30 people. When they called me and asked me to take it, I said what I always say, "my German isn't good enough to take that big of a tour" but I was literally the only person that could take it so I just accepted my fate and started praying like my life depended on it. It was pretty cool because as I was giving this tour and translating what Sister Brinkmeier said and everything, I could really feel that God was there helping me remember certain words and speak more confidently. What a blessing. I for sure know that God knows us and is aware of our struggles no matter how small and will help us with everything that we go through.
I hope that everyone has an awesome week!
Sister Moran
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Okay, welcome to my week! We have deep cleaning inspections going on and we for reals cleaned for close to four hours straight this morning. I scrubbed ALL of the walls and the baseboards and I got ALL of the random blackish mold stuff out of our shower. Afterward, I just felt so tired and dirty though. But I will say that it is nice to have a spotless apartment.
This week was seriously so full of German people. So many Germans. I took two large German tours in one day and my German literally sucks. Like so hard. But God was with me for sure. Some of the things that I said and the way that I explained things I had never done so well before! The things I said made sense and I could speak with clarity and without stumbling over my words. It was such a huge blessing because the whole day before the planned large tour (the other large tour was last minute and they needed me to do it) I was just so nervous and I was doing my best to role play and google translate words and phrases as I went so that way I would hopefully remember everything when it came time to do the tour. We actually almost didn't give the tour because they were 20 minutes late and as we were about to leave to take an English tour, I hear this German-accented voice behind me asking if we were the tour. I was so sad that we had to take the German tour after all but I know that God was with me and carrying me through the tour and made it so it wasn't a complete failure. I also took another scheduled tour for two Germans yesterday and they took my contact information at the end! Last but not least, we have ANOTHER German motorcoach tomorrow which will be interesting for sure. I hope that the gift of tongues is as real tomorrow as it was the other day.
This week Sister Brinkmeier and I did MTC contacting. MTC contacting is when, every Saturday, all of the Sisters from the MTC that are going to a VC for their mission, come to Temple Square for the day and they go around with a leader from Temple Square and learn and see and experience the VC life for a day. I contacted this nice girl, Sister Mahan, from Idaho. She is going to the St. Geroge VC. We took a tour (with her knowing absolutely nothing lol) and it actually didn't go half bad! She asked me tons of questions on the best way to call local missionaries and how to do phone calls and how a tour is supposed to work and everything. It reminded me of training again! I forgot how it feels to have a companion that knows literally nothing. I'm grateful that MTC contacting is only for one day and not for 12 weeks like training. Also, the day of MTC contacting, Sister Brinkmeier had her bday party and we had to go on exchanges so she could go to her party and I could contact a German motorcoach. Not going to lie to you, that rubbed me the wrong way because her priorities aren't quite correct in my opinion but I can understand her wanting to go to her party. Contacting the German motorcoach was a disaster anyways. I'm still glad that I did it though because I would've felt guilty if I went to her party instead.
I went on my first exchange as a District Leader yesterday! I went with Sister Johnson (you know, the one I was companions with for all of three weeks). At first, it was nice to be with her, and then she started talking and I got very grateful for Sister Brinkmeier because we can at least be friends. Not that Sister Johnson and I weren't friends or aren't friends, but it just is different because she is different. I think it was good for her because she could tell me all of the stuff and struggles from after our split last transfer. Long story short, her companion for the other three weeks wasn't very nice to her and that kind of broke my heart. Something funny that happened on our exchange was that some guy almost made it to the organ during our Tabernacle shift! I saw him taking pictures and selfies past the red rope right by the stage while I was trying to explain something to some guests. I quickly excused myself to go ask him to leave. As I was walking up there, I realized that homeboy was not right in the head. Like at all. For a second there I almost turned around and called security but then I was just like whatever and I went and asked him to leave and this man had the AUDACITY to ignore me. So, I tapped him on his shoulder and told him he couldn't be behind the rope, etc. and he was really nice. But also really crazy. He literally danced his way out of the tabernacle. What a time it was in that shift. I also met this other crazy dude that spouted some random crazy things about the Bible and I straight laughed at him and then he laughed at me. It was weird.
Well, I love you both and I miss you a lot but I know that this is the best place that I could possibly be right now. I'm praying for you every day.
Love
Em
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