4th of July Party in Germany :) (July 7)

This week I have decided I want a garden. I have been wondering that my whole Mission because Germans are so crazy about them, but this week, I know, I want one! We spent a day helping a Lady in our ward work on her Yard. I loved it. I noticed pretty early on during my Mission, I love the hands on work. I LOVE it.

Last week, we had the goal of finding, as a Zone(stake), 100 potential investigators and then ending it with splits on Tuesday. Happy to Report our Zone did work, and the Lord blessed us with 156 potentials! So cool! For the splits we went by on less active members, it was so useful. We had two less actives that we visited between the four of us come to church! WOW!  

This week we got to meet our new Mission President. He is so cool! His Family is sweet! It was so uplifting to hear the two children talk about their experiences and how it feels to come here, leaving all of their Family, friends, and life to come to a foreign high school and have missionaries as friends. They are really a great example of faith. I am really excited to work with President Kohler. I think his views on missionary work are exactly what are Mission Needs. Work will be done.

THE FOURTH OF JULY PARTY WAS A HIT!

Sister Smith and I decided to Dress appropriately in red White and blue! It was the same day as the France vs. Germany Soccer game.... Incase that didn't click, the French Colors are also red White and blue...... haha we got weird looks in the trams. BUT the party was great. The soccer game was projected on the wall, horse rides and water activities outside, and tons of food. Everyone came: People of the street, old investigators, less actives, investigators, members, neighbors. It was awesome. Throwing parties is really a fun part of missionary work :)

The next day at church was just so fun! Everyone seemed to be so happy and united. Everyone was so grateful that the missionaries threw such a fun Party. Next activity- Family Dance activity or an Ausstellung (exhibition) in Donauworth! LOVE IT.

I love this ward.

Have a great week!

-- Love,

Sister Regnier

I am so grateful for the Spirit (June 30)

Wow, I thought it was crazy how much happened at home this week, but then I think how much happened to us this week! This was a week of happening all over the world.

Monday- we taught the part member family we teach every Monday. This week we taught 10 commandments. It’s really fun to teach kids!

Dienstag- We printed out of 4th of July invitations had district meeting and had a finding day. It was cool because we sent our district out with invitations and they went by on our old investigators. (The forth of July party is going to be sweet). Oh, I also had a really funny contact this day. I was sitting next to this guy at the bus stop and just started chatting with him. Well he found it weird, about 1/3 of the people find it abnormally strange, but he went on to tell me he doesn’t need a psychologist who is going to ask him how he’s doing and stuff.... I felt SUPER awkward. Then I couldn’t decide whether to just stop talking to him or continue. Well the Spirit lead me to the topic of conversation. Turns out he’s super passionate about teaching math and history. We had a really long great conversation and at the end he told me thanks for the conversation.... so funny. Oh people.

Mittwoch- Today we helped an old lady in the ward clean her apartment, had an appointment with a member, and met with the bishop. Busy day. On the way to the bishops, there were drunken people passing out in the gated churches property. It was really weird, but really cool to help them. Maybe one day they will remember the nice missionaries who helped, chances are they won’t remember, so we left a note on their bikes... haha Thinking about these little specific things really shows how fun/funny missionary work sometimes is.

Donnerstag- the bus and bahn system was on strike.... well that makes it hard to be a missionary. We planned with a member fro 4th of July. Visited a family and then went and watched the soccer game with bishops his family and his neighbors. Soccer is incredibly boring. But Germans are CRAZY and we are allowed to watch 2 games when a less active or nonmember is there. Germany won.... but it was quite boring. Get back to real work.... haha

Friday- the day of the filmabend! IT went so well! So many members came and brought friends or family that are not members. I loved it!! Everyone was able to see that the missionaries know how to do it and got really excited for our party this week and are going to even bring more friends! It’s awesome! Afterwards, the elders were helping us bring the mattress back to the apartment. Well, we ended up playing a game with our neighbors and they are going to start coming to English class and our activities and THEY ARE OBSESSED WITH US. WOW God works such miracles, we work our hardest, and he just puts people in our lap! It's awesome!

Saturday was interesting and a huge eye opening day for me. I can't explain too much. But we met with the bishop from a few years back, who is no longer active and has a very interesting story. Our ward may or may not have told us not to visit them, but the Spirit told us otherwise..... It was awesome and definitely the best thing we did all week. After, we had GMK we ate my favorite food. Rolladen. So dang good. :)

I am so grateful for the Spirit and that it leads us what to do and tells us as missionaries what will be most effective.

Who knew throwing a party we cant even go to would help our ward so much.....

I love this work.

Love you,

Sister Regnier

Filmabend and Fischerstechen Fest (June 23)

Well I have been having such crazy p-days, it's really nice to have one to just do the normal p-day stuff!

This week we really had fun. 

On Friday, we will be putting on a filmabend (movie night) in the churches attic! It’s been really fun to prepare that and get the ward excited for that, as well as out 4th of July party.

One of my favorite things we did this week is go visit a member who lives far away. I don't think she invites the missionaries over very much but it was really fun to strengthen our relationship with her. We will be going back to do some service, it's just so awesome to form relationships with the members out here. After eating, she took us to the town to the Fischerstechen Fest. They have it every year and it’s so cool! It is jousting, but instead of using horses, they use boats! It was quite the activity.

This week we also had a picnic with a less active and spent a holiday with a member family and a new convert. This is starting to be WAY too much fun. The best part about it is that no matter where we go. If we are doing it smart, we meet the coolest people and make the biggest difference. I love this work and I love serving here in Augsburg!!!

I love helping this ward and having contact with less actives that haven’t had contact with the church in a long time. As members, that really is our duty, to help these sheep come and remember how beautiful the light is. 

Love ya!

German’s LOVE their soccer!!! (June 16)

No joke, I though South Americans were crazy... no way. I can watch the game just walking down the street because everyone is broadcasting it. haha lots of honking going on...

Well this week started off with a WUNDERSCHÖNEN TAUSCH! I was back home in PASSAU. It was WONDERFUL. We had to travel 7 hours for the tausch (exchanges) so, we didn’t spend too much time in Passau but it was FULL of miracles. I got to see some people and get in contact with lots. I hope that I was able to help and get old investigators running again. I got to see S___ and I called T__. He has moved but I got his email address so I am really excited to keep in contact. It was so cool to be home.

Sister Regnier

TOGETHER bringing people closer to Christ! (June 9)

Hey Family!!!

So, today we went to Neuswanstein! So I literally have no time to email, I printed your emails off so I can read them tonight. It was great seeing you yesterday. 

I really enjoyed todays P-day. We were out and about and had SO MANY MISSIONARY OPPORTUNITIES! I loved it, I really think it’s due to the fact we were dressed in normal clothes. BUT I met a lady, her sons first wife’s kids are Mormon. Well they encouraged her to read the Book of Mormon, and she already got an answer!!! We were able to talk about modern day revelation all the way down. I LOVE THIS WOMAN! It was so great to just chat and she loved it. We also met a Mormon family from Alaska! They wanted to take us to lunch but we didn't have enough time, so they bought us drinks and ice cream. They were SO SO SO sweet. I believe you will be getting a picture from them. I really loved today, it was great to see how natural missionary work is! 

The week went well, it was a hard one, but I am learning a lot. I love working with members and TOGETHER bringing people closer to Christ!

I will write more next week. 

LOVE YOU!

Sister Regnier