Wow, what an amazing weekend! It was so amazing to hear all of the
talks. Because Germany is ahead 8 hours, we watched conference at weird
times here ... We watched the Relief Society broadcast at 2 pm and then the Saturday morning session live Saturday night at 6pm. Sunday we watched the Saturday evening session at 2pm and then the Sunday morning session 6pm. I have not yet seen the Sunday evening session, though, so NO SPOILERS! We will watch the final session next Sunday. It
was amazing to listen to the conference talks and not only find things
to help myself, but I found so many talks on what my investigators had
questions on and I can't wait to talk with them about it! Lucky
for me most of the sessions I was able to watch were in English. One I
watched in German and Mensch (man!), I had a nice big head ache from
concentrating so hard afterwards, but it was fantastic! I
could probably go on and on about what I learned in General Conference,
but hopefully you all have watched it already and know all the talks, so I'll just mention a few favorites ...
Something I really liked,
and will help me teach, was a part in President Uchtdorf's talk where he
said, "Live the Gospel Doctrines and test for yourself the truthfulness." I can testify until my face turns blue of the doctrine of
Christ, but until you take that step yourself and attempt to live the
way I try to explain, you will never know if it is true. Also,
the Elder that spoke in Spanish, Elder Gaverett ... I heard this in German,
but hopefully I understood the gist. He repeatedly said, "Come unto
Jesus." Why must we come unto Jesus? Why is it so vital? It is because
Jesus Christ is Everything. He is why we are here and he has shown us
the way. God made a perfect plan through Jesus Christ, so doesn't it
make sense to follow His plan? The last thing was from Henry
B. Eyring: the value of the Revelation depends on the receiver. That
is so powerful and cool to think about. We can receive revelation every day,
but we must treasure it and take head to it to make it valuable to
ourselves. Just like the revelation from prophets, we ourselves did not
recieve that specific revelation, but we can use what they say in our
own lives and make it valuable.
Well, if you didn't get the chance to listen to the talks, I would encourage you to do so. Also, if you
did get to, listen to them again; read them again. These are words of
prophets! Soak in every bit of revelation you can. I am so blessed to
have a Prophet speak to us today. I know I said I was done,
but one more thing ... Before conference I read another talk by
President Uchtdorf and it talked about how a member was talking to his
neighbor one day (who wasn't a member). The neighbor asked him, "So you
have prophets that speak to God, and they come to a conference twice a
year to speak to you the words of God?" And the member said, "Absolutely." The neighbor then asked, "What did the Prophet say last conference?"
The man couldn't remember and the neighbor then asked, "So you mean to tell
me God speaks through prophets to you and you don't know what they
said?" This was a humbling expierience for the member, and me also. It
is so important that we remember these words of the prophets. That is
why I encourage you to re-read the talks and remember the prophets' words.
So this week has been pretty fun. I went on my first "split" and we went to Wetslar for a day. Germany is so beyond pretty. One of my investigators took us to a small cafe for breakfast Saturday
morning and we were talking about all the things she had to do that
next week and how her son was failing calculus. I had to open my big
mouth and say, "Oh! I aced AP Calculus in high school!" Yup ... so now I get to
teach a German calculus! Wish me luck. Hopefully I can
remember everything! Yikes!!
This week I didn't eat anything
too out of the ordinary. I tried Weisswurst, which is basically the
fattiest sausage on the planet. Whew ... I had to work that off the next
Morgen Sport we had (morning exercise). I also had fleischkase, which
reminded me of like a fat slab of spam. It was quite tasty! This
week just really flew by me, though. We stay so beyond busy here, with
at least 3 or 4 appointments in the days and studying and everything! It
is wunderbar :) Although I didn't get to have "jamma weekend"
with the family for conference weekend, we basically had a pizza party
in the church for conference. We brought so much food, it was
fabulous. We made homemade popcorn, also. I am just loving my time
here! I have decided I need to stop pretending I know German,
though because people will talk to me and I'm pretty good at pretending I
know what they say until they ask me a question and I'm like, "Uh ......" Hopefully I get better at understanding people.
Well, I'm sorry to say there weren't too many "blonde moments" for me this week
to laugh at so ... I'll try to get some funny stories for next
time. I hope you all have a great week.
Sister Brown
First German castle!
Cold German morning ... brrr!
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