Larry and Aladdin

More adventures across the pond! Just a little note- whenever Sister Roscher mentions names I've decided to just use initials. Hopefully its not too confusing :)

This week, I would call the week of miracles! We have spent a lot of time running for buses, and got soaked twice but all in all it's been good. 

A quick run down on the miracles: 

W was supposed to go to prison this week, but the witness didn't show up! Instead of jail time, he got off on a two year probation. We can now keep on teaching him. We lost contact with him, and assumed  he was in jail, but turns out he lost his phone. He just showed up at church all by himself! It was a nice surprise :) 

One of our investigators who hasn't been progressing since I got here had a breakthrough this week! Cool thing about her, she's from India and she was searching to get married, but couldn't find anyone. She went to Malaysia, and became a Christian! A week later, after a year and a half of searching, she was married to a member of our ward. (It was arranged, crazy right?) She sees it as a miracle and sign that Christianity is the way. She just happened to marry a Mormon :) YAY for us!! She believes the Book of Mormon is true, now we just have to convince her of priesthood authority so she can be baptized again. Its kind of a touchy subject right now.

Then, we had a first lesson with this man S. He actually talked to us when we were waiting for a bus.(This supports the principle that people who are ready for the Gospel will find us sometimes too).  He looks super homeless (we found out he isn't) and is a chain smoker. He has had a REALLY tragic life. His whole family died. And he used to be a successful business man. He needs the Gospel, and he wants to quit smoking! He is pretty much as humbled as one can be, but he has faith in God. Random fact: he prays on his families ashes because he can't let go of them. Nothing the plan of Salvation can't solve though :) We were teaching him at the church and a crazy homeless man came in (He's the one who spit on me) and interrupted our lesson! it was really touching to see how nice S was to him. I think people who have experienced really hard times tend to judge others less. 

Then another investigator who hasn't been progressing randomly showed up to church for the first time and loved it! Truly a miracle.

Lastly, another investigator (S2, who is from Zimbabwe) who hasn't been progressing called us and we had a WONDERFUL conversation with her! We are meeting her this week, and after a break, she is now ready to commit to the Gospel! I love her SO much! Her first lesson was actually the first lesson I ever taught to an investigator. 

We also taught a lesson this week to a lady who had Muslim prayers playing in the background... it was so interesting! We have laughed a lot this week about experiences we've had. 

This week I have truly felt love for those we are teaching. I see how the Gospel can strengthen and help them. We are extending 6 baptismal invitations this week, so it should be an exciting week!!!!  This is such an exciting time to be a missionary! Miracles are everywhere. 

The pictures this week are from P-day last week. The Chinese buffet was good. There was some WEIRD stuff there! And it was fun! There is also a huge Chinese superstore next to it so we bought some Chinese Candy and Chopsticks! It was actually super good :) I'll bring you some White rabbits home. They're delicious!

White rabbits are like taffy. I googled  it ;)

The second one is from our walk home for dinner after a really long day. There were slugs and snails EVERYWHERE! They were seriously the biggest slugs I've ever seen, Disgusting. Anyways, We got pet snails for 5 minutes (white handbook says no pets unfortunately). Mine was named Larry, Sister Millers' was Aladdin!

Meet Aladdin and Larry. Precious.

P.S- the white handbook is basically an instruction manual/ rule book for missionaries. 

I'm sure next week will hold more adventures! Thank you all for you love and support of Sister Roscher.