......................Her GerMANY Adventures: انا اتعلم اللغة العربية الفصحة! - (May 14

Happy Mother's Day! I got to skype the fam and it was AMAZING, I'm 100% positive that my family is the most amazing, supportive, loving, joyful one that I could ask for! I love you a million!

Some highlights of the week:

1. We are giving our all to build this new area, and the miracles are coming. I was already late to my Arabic class one morning, but as we were speed walking down the street, we talked to this lady who spoke very little German, and a lot more Turkish! I felt like we were speaking sign language, talking about the Book of Mormon! She said she wanted to learn but was in a hurry, and legit said "house 130" and pointed down the main road!😂 Later when I was with my handy dandy Turkish comp again, we went searching and by the miracle of God's hand in our work, we found it!!

2. The wonderful Sister Lay came to Neukölln on exchanges! We had a hard working, productive day, she's absolutely dedicated. The storm clouds start rolling in around 8 pm, and we decided to just go visit 1 more person. It was perfect and we ran into their son while walking there! Then, it starts POURING. The son started screaming and booking it, and we were like , "this is just a normal day!" and started prancing around, it was pretty funny. I'm glad we decided to go to one more house.

3. The next morning, somehow everything seemed to go wack! We kept forgetting things, we missed the bus, then we got off a stop early! As we walked to the next stop like pack mules, carrying our things to exchange (and then go on exchanges again! #loveit!) We passed this man and both felt we should talk to him. We stopped and just stared at him walking away (when I write that, it sounds pretty creepy and it probs was whoops). I said, Sister Lay, what should we do? Next thing you know we were jogging after him! We ended up having an amazing conversation for more than 15 minutes, and he said he felt he should talk to us too. We had a lesson with the elders the next day and he said he wants to start over, brand new, and he knows this is the right way for him. It was such a beautiful, spiritual experience. This was no coincidence that we ran into each other (okay, rather we ran after him!). I know God prepares His children to hear the gospel!

4. We did an awesome service project on Saturday with the whole Neukölln crew! Let's just say that I should apply to be on "Fixer Uppers" after my mission haha. We sanded and prepared the ward mission leaders table and chairs, and it was SO fun!! We all walked away super dusty with sore arms, but with huge smiles across our faces. #canwedothateveryday?!

The coolest service project ever!