Missionary Work in Mainz

Bruder (Brother) and Schwester (Sister) Grünewälders are the most amazing member missionaries i've ever met! they have the missionaries over ever other monday for FHE but only if we have an investiagtor. and the reason why we go every other week is because they have non-members that they invite for FHE! so every monday they have people over for FHE who aren't members. Schwester G asked us what we wanted for dinner and i said that i haven't really had any german food yet and so she made an amazing german dinner for us! it was meat and potatoes and something else that i forgot what it was called but it was amazing!

so we're teaching this woman named ciane. schwester lourido found her while she was contacting at a streetpreach (she's the lady from my ward). anyway so schwester lourido comes to every appointment with us because ciane only speaks portugese and sister lourido speaks spanish so they can mostly understand eachother. anyway so we speak german to sister lourido and then she translates to ciane in spanish. it's been so amazing for me because i can understand everything that sister lourido says while shes translating. sometimes she forgets where she's at in the translation... so like what she's suppose to say next, and because i can understand her, i'll say in german what she needs to translate next. i hope that all made sense. but its so amazing because sister stevenson can't understand spanish so she doesnt know what sister lourido is saying... but i do and i've been able to help her translate. it's a really awesome experience for me because i feel needed and important.

also real quick we were teaching a woman named patricia who's from spain but her german is really good so we teach her in german. last lesson we were talking about the commandments ´gebote´ in german. she asked me in spanish what ´gebote´ means and then all of the sudden like without thinking i said ´mandamientos´ which is commandments in spanish. she understood and then we continued on. but again i felt totally awesome! ♥