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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