Sister Allison Wrathall

So this week has been really great! First of we had Bishop Causse talk to us for our devotional last Tuesday and that was really good. Then on Wednesday it was back to the same old same old class for 6 hours and really only breaks for gym and eating. As a side note I am really loving gym. I usually ride the bike machine for 6 miles my best ever is 9 but now I am starting to do the bike and ab workout so i don't get fat haha.

Anyways, we are getting so much better at teaching in German. It is crazy! We have recently realized that when we go in with just a few notes instead of having the whole lesson scripted it goes a lot better and we are able to say what we really need to say and are able to feel the spirit more. So Thursday was basically the same as Wednesday but Friday we got to do something new. From now on we will do this new thing ever Friday! It is TRC ( training resource center) this is when we meet with members and teach them a short message so they can have a spiritual activity. So my companion and I went in with a couple of scriptures for some main topics but decided to follow the spirit in what we should really teach. This was super scary! So with the first lady it was really difficult but she was super nice she would say something in German and then she could tell we couldn't understand so then she would whisper to us what she said in English haha. Then we got to teach two guys, an older gentleman and a guy who has been home from his mission for less than a year. We started off talking about Germany and where we are from and then we said a prayer and I still had no idea what to talk about for our message, but my companion said scripture study so I then read Moroni chapter 10 verse 4-5 and asked the two guys what this scripture meant to them and the older man spoke first and told us after he read this scripture he closed his door and knelt at his bed and asked to know if the Book of Mormon was true. Then he felt this overwhelming feeling of the spirit fill his body and the next day he went to his bishop and asked to be baptized! Crazy right? And while he told us his story he was crying! So cute! Then we all went around and told how we came to know that this is the true church, you could feel the spirit sooooo strong! When we were done my companion and I couldn't talk about it for awhile because we would just start to cry. Also later that day we had class and we taught our investigator Sven which normally would have been fine but the thing is we didn't know that we were teaching Sven that night so we had about 20 mins to plan our lesson! It was CRAZY we were really scared at first but lucky we had already talked about what we wanted to teach him and the lesson ended up going really good.

Then came Saturday! GENERAL CONFERENCE!!!! It was so good and it was as always amazing to sing the songs with all the other missionaries! We have one room that holds about 2 thousand missionaries and then a couple other rooms to hold the rest. I loved general conference my favorite talk was probably Dieter F Uchtdorf and it wasn't just because he is German ha-ha. I really liked how he talked about walking in the light, because that is what I am trying to do and also because I want others to be able to come into the light as well. During the priesthood session we watched the young womens broadcast and that was also really good! It was really funny because Dieter F. Uchtdorf was talking and said " No one knows the language we spoke premortality but I have a sinking suspicion that it was German" so I thought that was awesome haha. Then Sunday was more General Conference and for our Devotional we had Vocal Point come and sing! That was really cool they are the BYU A Capella group, they were on the show the sing off also, they were really good and it was fun to listen to them sing. After we had devotional we had films which is what happens every week this week we watched a talk by David A Bednar called Becoming a Missionary it was really good he talked about as missionaries we shouldn't just go through the motions we have to become a missionary. Also on Sunday I finished memorizing the1st vision in German!

Then on Monday we went back to the normal schedule but at the later class we decided to make a district goal that in our building we would only speak German! Except when we are doing personal study and planning a lesson. This is going to be really hard but I know it will really help us. Also on Monday we had to turn in our laptops :( but now we are going to be able to try out TABLETS haha our district is sooo lucky haha. We should get our tablets tomorrow. Also now we get an hour to email which you probably could have guessed. So that is how my week went hope all is good with everyone else. Thank you for your letters and support

LOVE you all ~ Sister Wrathall or as the Germans pronounce it Sister RAT TAll haha