Week 60

Happy Monday💖💖

Hi!! We had transfers this week!!!! I'm staying here in Düsseldorf which I'm super happy about!!! I absolutely love this ward!!! But sadly Sister Harouny is leaving me and going to Frankfurt! But she way excited about it! She actually really wanted to serve there on her mission!! And my new comps name is sister Shelley!! I've met her once she was in sister Speaths group and so I met her there when I picked

up sister Spaeth. She seems super cute and nice so I'm really excited to get to know her and be companions with her!!

This was a really good week. We were super busy and always on the move.. it was super fun!! We met with Mauhammad again! Still super Muslim but also still super kind! We talked a lot about the gospel of Jesus Christ so faith, repentance, baptism, Holy Ghost, and endure to

the end, and then really focused on the Holy Ghost and that how he can really receive an answer is through the Holy Ghost. But it's a really hard concept for him. I've realized that a lot on my mission. Someone who didn't grow up with that knowledge it's really hard for them to grasp the Holy Ghost and what he can do! So we are still working on

it!!

We had lunch with the Becks! They are an adorable family!! I love all there kids! They have 3 super cute daughters and 1 son in the midst of them! He's way funny!! I always have so much fun at there house! And they are so open to missionary work!

We went finding in a smaller part of Düsseldorf this week called Erkrath! And it was really cool!! We were contacting in this little park and we reached a point when we could go three different ways and there was literally no one in sight! So we decided to be missionaries and pray and ask where to go and I kept saying in my head purple

bridge! And after the prayer I looked at the path with the purple bridge and really felt we should go that way! And sister Harouny said okay so we went!! And we are walking up this path and all it did was lead us out of the park to this neighborhood with no one around! And so I prayed in my head and asked why and if we were supposed to be there then show me! And then a guy walked around his house. Now granted he looked very busy but I decided to talk to him anyway! And I went up to say hi and all he said was "can't you see I'm busy and I don't have time, leave" and I didn't know what to do but I very quickly explained we were missionaries for the church and have a very important message that we came to share with him that day! So I asked if there was a better time we could come back to share it. And he said yes!! We set up an appointment!! I'm so excited!!! We will see what happens!! We also met a women when we doored at her building and set up an appointment!! We saw lots of success that day! I was excited! Still am!

That night we went to the Barlows for dinner!! They are a cute family who just moved here from England! They are hilarious!! We had so much fun! The have two cute daughters and one cute baby boy!! And we got to help them to learn how to pray in german!! It was fun!

This week we went to eat at sister Kleins for a lunch appointment! And it was so funny! So we had a great lunch and I'll be honest this day I was so exhausted and I have no idea why! I slept great.. but I had a hard time staying awake on the train ride there.. and that continued through our appointment!! Guys it took so much energy for me to keep

my eyes open during dinner and not fall asleep in my chicken and potatoes! So I kept talking and talking cause that would help me! I just kept making conversations out of the most random things! And I managed to stay awake! But then the spiritual thought came along and we planned to read from a talk and discuss it and then all of a sudden

she went out and pulled out this huge book and read out of it for 45 minutes!!!!!!! And it wasn't the most fun book.. well I didn't pay the best attention the whole time cause I was so tired! But I know it was about why our religion is true and what makes others not. And it was a good and interesting book that would be kinda cool to read someday, but I was so tired!! But I made it through staying awake the whole time!!! And we left and sister Harouny just goes "ok.. we need to get you a Diet Coke" haha!

We met with Linda this week and that was a great lesson!! She finally kept all her commitments we gave her and agreed that after her final exam she will come to our church with her whole family!!!

Okay funny story!!! Well.. they probably didn't think it's funny and I didn't at the time, but now it is!! So on Sunday we had this girl who just moved here from Spain two weeks ago and came to church. And she is so so sweet! So we introduced her to everyone and tried to get her involved with the ysa's in our ward! But they all just disappeared! So we asked a member of the bishopric where they were and they told us

just to go to the institute building cause they were doing something with missionaries and the stake president! And I thought.. what no I'm right here what missionaries?? So we went and they were all in the class and we just walked in and are like "sorry are those seats free" and try to sit quietly while this man was talking and I just picked up he was talking about missionary work! And then he got way emotional! And the girl from Spain who speaks no german looks at me and was like what is going on? And he's like bawling and multiple people in the room were crying.. pretty hard!! And i was confused cause i mean the

spirit was definitely present but i mean a lot of people were crying pretty hard! And i just look at sister Harouny on the other side of the room and she is also confused but then it clicked!! A girl was leaving on her mission soon!! THIS WAS HER GETTING SET APART AS A FULL TIME MISSIONARY AND WE WALKED IN.. IN THE MIDDLE OF HER FATHERS TESTIMONY!!! And she gets up and gets set apart! And I'll be honest, I cried! Especially cause it made me think of when I was and how long it's been and everything that has happened! And then she bore her testimony and hugged everyone! Then I apologized so much to her parents and dad for coming in during his testimony! And luckily they were really good about it and said it was fitting the sister

missionaries were there cause she is one now!! Haha but still I felt so bad!! And sister Harouny is in their family picture hahahahaha!!!!

Luckily I took it!! Now it's funny!! Then, not so much!

But ya this week was good! Pday was just kinda chill! We cleaned a lot for the new sister and sis h packed! Oh ya our mission president changed our pday to Thursday so next pday is next Thursday..

well I love and miss you!!! Talk to you later!!!

Love Haley!!

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