222 Hours! Not that I am counting!

Moin Family!

 

Thank you for all the e-mails this week. I love hearing from you and seeing how you are doing. I am getting more and more excited to come back and jump on 1 couch with ya'll!

 

Mom. Dad did respond to that

 

As to the meal on Sunday. If you want German we can do Abendbrod. It is super simple; open faced bread with butter, chess OR meat-for sure not both, Germans.. sometimes I still don't understand. Potato salad. Cucumber Salad. und Jogurt als Nachtisch. We can cut up vegetables, if we want. Or if you want warm, statt the bread you do wurst with rolls. I am really good with anything. I am just excited to see you all again. 

 

Thanks you so much for doing the FAFSA application. I took comfort in your e-mail last week when you said that the Lord will bless his missionaries who finish strong, and that I should not worry to much about home. But there is one thing you can help me with when I get back. Let me know how I can help you, the family, the ward, the stake. I am going to have so open time and I want to be as useful as possible.   

 

As for the food I would love to do a detox program. There is a very big part of me that wants to go vegetarian again, I know that could be the case after serving in Germany. But a good Green smoothie with more then just spinach sounds great. Sister Kriser and I have been eating this Mexican salad that I have also really been enjoying. We may just have to go run some errands together when I get home.

 

As for the work here in Marzahn. Hr Bohne is doing so well!!!!!!! We are now teaching him with the Elders here in Marzahn. We decided that a little double team teaching would do him some good. Yesterday as we were walking to church we saw the bus pull away that the elders took. Behind the bud stood the two Elders, one of their investigators who has been coming a lot, and a man we had never before seen before. He looked super sharp! After looking at him for a moment we realized that it was Hr Bohne! He looked so nice! It was a proud mother moment for Sister Kriser and me. He truly is starting to change from the inside out. We have a baptism date with him, sadly after I am back home, but one that he really can hit. It is cool to see the change the gospel brings in to the lives of those who accept it.

 

Eric is also doing really well. He is attending another ward where they have translation into English. 

 

Schw Kremer is also doing well. We were able to have dinner yesterday with her and our ward missionaryleader and wife yesterday. She is just wonderful. I hope you all get to meet her one day. She has promised to write me letters when I go home. 

 

Mom, Thanks for sharing that experience you had the other night. I as well have been thinking a alot about and praying a lot for Jesse. I know one day he will been doing ''baking'' and he will come out and be the person he truly is. This week the Lord has been reminding me of the dream that I had back in Langenhorn about Jesse. I know that as we stay strong in this gospel, slowly we will have ALL of our family back together. God keeps His promises. We will have a (complete) eternal family. 

 

I found a scripture in 2 Nephi 22:2 

 

2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will ^atrust, and not be afraid; for the Lord ^bJehovah is my ^cstrength and my ^dsong; he also has become my salvation. 

 

In German it says that, ''he also has become my savior'' instead of salvation. Taking upon the name of Christ is a process. He becomes our savior as we learn to trust in him. Some have a talent for being able to trust in him, others must learn. It takes them a little longer, but I believe that they will eventually reach the point where the understand his love, and through his love they will accept him as their Savior.

 

Jess will come back. I love him so much.  I will make sure that he knows how great he is, so that as his testimony of self incresses, his testimony of the Savior will also be able to grow. Mom we will keep praying for him. ''aren't we all a little like Alma the younger at times in our lives. Yet the Lord loves us and wants us back!!!''

 

I love you all so much! I can't wait to see you.

 

Love,

 

Sister Kimberly Bohne

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16 Days

Dear Family,

 

Wow what a week. Just when I think I am going to hit it hard, I am brought to me knees. LoL I just love life :) 

 

3 of the 4 sisters here in Marzahn have been sick the last few days with flu like symptoms. Thankfully Sister Kriser, the 'Beast' as she is so lovingly called, has been staying strong. We have been able to rearrange our schedules enough that two of us will stay home and sleep while Sister Kriser takes who ever is feeling the best, and they go out work until they are so tired they come and switch out. It has been working really well. Because of the sickness it has been a relatively relaxing week. I have slept...drank tea....slept....drank tea...und nachmal und nachmal... I am feeling better and better each day. I am just so thankful that Sister Kriser has been able to pick up the ball and keep the program running. After this week I have no fear about leaving Marzahn and those we are working with. Sister Kriser is going to go GREAT.

 

On Friday we had an awesome ward YSA grill that we helped organize. We had approximately 30 people who showed up, among them were Hr. Bohne and Douglas, a new man we are now teaching. We had some awesome food. The elders brought the guitar. We were able to build some relationships between members and investigators, over all a very productive evening.

 

I am sorry I don't have very much to say this week. I hope all is going well at home. I am so stocked to see you in just a few days! It is still super unreal. I feel as if I have been in Germany so long my time here will never end.

 

I was thinking about it....Dad is there a rule that we have to be in an office when you release me? I was thinking it would be really awesome if we could have a family BBQ up in the mountains. You and I can then go for a walk and either sit in front of a lake or go to the peak as I tell you about my mission? Let me know if that is even an option....because I think that would be great...but that is just me... ARROO :()

 

Well I love you all so much.

 

-Sister Kimberly G. Bohne

 

P:S

 

Dad- WOOT WOOT!!!! You finally broke. I thought you would never enter into the ''Hot Room''. I hear that you don't want to do it again, but I am so proud of you for trying. How are you feeling? Did you pull any muscles that you did not even know existed?

 

Mom- Concerning Jesse: Is there anything I can do to help? I know there is not much any of us can do. I have been praying and will continue to pray to know how I can best help him. I love that kid so much. It is crazy, I see him every where I look. Every skinny white Young 25 year old who sees like he just needs a little love, I immediately think of him...there are a lot of those people here. Do you know if there is anything I can do to get him up to Salt Lake, or should I just plan on going down to Moab to go and look for him once I get back? 

 

 

 

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The USA is young!

Dear Family,

 

This week, both Sister Kriser and I went and Tausched with Rostock. We were able to work with Sister Cluff and Sister Stuart, they are great missionaries! Sister Cluff was just in Longenhorn, so it was fun getting updates on everyone. Sister Stuart has just started her mission here in Germany, but is a spiritual giant. Every time I go and work with younger missionaries, I often feel I am the one who learns, instead of the one teaching. It is funny how on a mission, and I am guessing in life, the more experience you have, the more you realize you simply don't know...LOL...Life, is it not great! But really, these two sisters are going to change Rostock through their simple faith! 

 

Rostock is so pretty. The town is settled on the Baltic sea cost line. It is super old, and basically all the church we went into were older then the United States. It put our church history into perspective for me. The story of Jospeh Smith did not happen that long ago. For goodness sakes most of the streets I walked on, in Rostock where there even before Joseph Smith was able to read a bible, or work on his Fathers farm.

 

Needless to say when we had to head back to Marzahn it was a bitter sweet moment. I really hope that I am able to go up there again sometime in my life. But coming home is always GREAT.

Marzahn is doing so good. After President Kosak split our Training Program in half, we have had a lot more time to be developing those that we are working with in Marzahn. It is great because I am able to feel like a normal missionary again. Working hard, talking to people on the street. Watching peoples light up when you tell them that there is a God. All stuff that we were unable to do as much of as I normally would like because of all the traveling we were doing last transfer.  It feels so good, to be once again Finding, teaching, baptizing, and keeping, in Marzahn!

 

Sister Kremer is doing wonderful. I hope ya'll get to meet her one day! She is coming with us in the next few days to do some visits on older members of our ward. She is always willing to serve, and a great example to me of putting others before yourself. We have made it kind of a tradition, to go on walks together right after church as we are waiting for Choir to end. It is one of the best parts of my week. Our church is located close to some wild land. So on our walks we go and gather wild berries and fruit and eat them as we talk about the gospel. You would be surprised to see just how much wild fruit is here. Basically every where we go we can find plums, black berries, or apples! YUM!  

 

I am doing great this week. I just love being here in Germany. This morning I woke up at about 3 am with clips of my time here in Germany running through my head. They started in Eisenhüttenstand and highlighted all the main events of my time here.I have experience a lot! I then started thinking about what it would be like to be home in just a few short weeks. I got so excited I could not go back to bed until about 6am. As I looked at the pictures mom had sent me today I realized it has been a long time since we girls have had an ''Ou ou ah ah''. Emily you are so pretty and grown up I hardly recognized you! I can not wait to get home and see you all!

 

But before I come home I just want to be consistent, to learn to be " steadfast and immovable, always abounding in good works" - Mosiah 5:15. I want to be working hard and developing a deeper internal commitment that I will always be found laboring alongside the latter days saints. Showing my love for those around me as I lead/live the way Christ led/lived. Always steady and constant. Never pushing nor sprinting but also never relaxed nor slacked. I want to be a steady well disciplined leader. As constant as the north star.´

 

I have a testimony that the Lord is in this work. That He leads and guides all those who are willing to humble themselves and come unto Him. I am grateful to be here, to be able to work with so many of the Sisters, to be taught every week by their simple faith and determination. God lives. Chris is our Savior, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is led and guided by a prophet of God. I am grateful for the atonement that allows us to be reborn, in the name of Christ. I know baptism, through proper authority, is the only way back to God. I love the change and the hope that this gospel brings into the lives of those who live it. I am thankful to be here and for your support and love!

 

-Sister Kimberly Bohne

  

 

-Sister Kimberly Bohne

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