A Season of Change

Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Familie! I love you!!!

Before I forget maybe I should tell you where I am getting transferred too . . . :) I am going to FRANKFURT!!!! It´s funny how I said if I did get transferred, I wanted to go near Frankfurt so I could go to the temple. This just proves that God is very anxious to bless us, we just need to ask. I am excited and a little nervous. I will be the senior companion and yeah, that makes me nervous. But I feel totally at peace, and really excited too. As much as I want to be nervous I feel like the Lord won´t let me. He just keeps giving me peace, and excitement. I feel like I will grow a lot there, and it will be a little different. But I am looking forward to it. We go to Frankfurt as soon as I get this emal sent actually. My companion right now, will be training next cycle and has to go to a special meeting in Frankfurt tonight. We get to stay in a hotel, we are both kinda excited for that. :) Then I will meet my new companion tomorrow! I don´t have my address there yet, but if you send stuff to the mission office, my companion and I can stop by and pick it up. But I will have my new Frankfurt address next week. If you give stuff to Sister Marin, she will give it to Sister Niebergall who will give it to one of the AP´s at Zone conference who will give it to me in Frankfurt. I think Tara already gave her stuff. I am so glad you got to meet her and Shahab! That is neat you had met her family before in the temple. That is really neat. If you haven´t already given her stuff I would say just mail it instead.

Anyway, this week has been great. We have two more new investigators! I just can´t hardly believe it. The Lord has been blessing us so much. One we met like 3 weeks ago by the University. We did a survey and at the end he said he was interested. And we met with him this week and he really wants to learn more. Also, we got let in again doing doors! Miracles happen! It´s funny, this whole cycle whenever we had a lot of time to do doors we felt like we should go to this particular street. It was prettly long. And then this past Saturday on the very last building on the street we klingled this man and he let us in and we taught him about the Book of Mormon on the door step and he said he wanted to learn more! When we were back on the street I was just so shocked and happy. It was incredible. Some of our other lessons have fallen out, but hopefully we´ll meet with them soon. Another thing my companion pointed out to me yesterday was that two of the less actives we have been working with this cycle are coming to church now on a regular basis. I hadn´t noticed that, I don´t know why, but it was neat to think about. I will miss Düsseldorf. I have been here for 6 months. It does not feel like that long. I really enjoy the people, the city, our ward, our investigators, but I know I will love Frankfurt too. I think the change will be good for me. It usually is.
Also, I just love the scriptures. Everyday is just so rewarding. I have been studying the Christlike attributes this past cycle, and I just got to Knowledge a couple of days ago. (I go so slow because there is just so much to learn about each one). Anyway today I studied in D&C 93 and it said what truth was. Truth is a knowledge of things as they are, as they were and as they are to come. I thought that is so simple. Truth is so simple. It does exist, much to some people´s dismay, and it is simple, and is found in the gospel of Jesus Christ. I also was studying in D&C 76:5-10. And it hit me that we are taught truth through the Spirit. The mysteries of God are told to us through the spirit. The way to find out the mysteries of God is to live worthy of the spirit. Then I just pondered for a long time about all the things I have learned on my mission so far. I have learned so much and have gained such a greater understanding of God and of his love for us, and for the truth that he has given us. I know that knowledge is given to us through the spirit. And when we have a knowledge of God and his love for us, our desire to share that knowledge grows. Oh I love this gospel! I just can´t explain how much I love this gospel. Ritchie I can´t wait for you to start your mission. There is great joy and happiness waiting for you in Urugauy! There is great happiness waiting for all of us as we live more worthy of the spirit day by day. This gospel is true! Truth brings happiness! Truth is a knowledge of how things are. Once we realize that we can use it for good and take flight! Just like once we realize gravity exists we can build a plane and fly. If we refuse to believe gravity exists we will never get off the ground. God wants to give all of his children so much! Let us get into the spiritual condition we need to be able to experience the joy he has for us, and share it with all his children. Tell everyone at the reunion hello from me! Welcome home James! Good luck Ritchie I am so excited for you! (What is Ritchie´s MTC address?) I love our Stubbs family!! I hope you have a wonderful time at the reunion. See ya next year!

Love,
Sister Fitzgerald

P.S.
I am sorry my mailbox picture is torturous. I thought it would be funny. I am glad the boys got a kick out of it. Prepare yourself Ritchie. :) Just kidding, you have a ton of friends I am sure they will write you. If not though Paul wrote a lot of letters to us in the New Testement, just read those if you want a letter. :)