Week 10 -- Contacting on Busses

Sister Frank (MTC COMP) & I saw each other at Zone Conference

Another hard week but it's been so good. Sorry I have literally no time to write. We were at a castle all day so I guess that's better than emailing.

The language is coming everyone. Slowly but it definitely is. The miracle is that I am finally contacting on my own now. Still, have no idea what people are saying though. And the Solingen busses are electric so they are dead silent. Every time you talk the whole bus can hear you and just glares you down. My German is already not good. Then you have 20 people on the bus listening too. Hahaha wow. On missions, you just do the strangest things. I wonder if people know that me and sis Linebaugh are scouting them out and then trying to purposely cross paths with them. Or that we purposely sit by people we want to. Or if our investigators know that their names are on our wall of the apartment. I guess you could say missionaries are stalkers.

So the coolest experience happened at zone conference. Me and sister Linebaugh have been working so so so hard and have seen hardly any success. She even said that this has been the hardest work she's ever done on her whole mission. Like what we are doing is hard. Anyway, when we went to zone conference before we walked in we talked to this guy in the mission presidency I think. He shook our hands and was like oh you are the amazing sisters in Solingen. Then he told us that he knows how hard it is. He told us our job is to just work hard and have the spirit. He knows what we are working with and that it's not going to be easy but he just told us how amazing we were and that the Lord picked us to go there. 

Then in zone conference, he talked to us after the mission president. He was like bearing his testimony and it was literally to us. He called us out during zone conference. He said like the sisters in Solingen. I know you are there for a reason and I know that the members are not super excited about missionaries he talked about how we would maybe not have tons of success. Not because of us or anything we do but because we have been chosen to be tested. To have our faith tested. But Do the work cheerfully because The Lord is so proud of you for serving in Solingen. You will be so blessed for it. And he just talked straight to us in front of the 60 or so missionaries. It was really really awesome. We both almost started crying. He also got super emotional when he was saying it. I am really so so grateful to be here and know I am supposed to be here. I love you guys and miss you guys so much. Praying for you and our family.

Thank you for all the prayers. Hope you all have a good week. Sorry for the short email. So many cool experiences where you learn the Lord knows you.  I love you guys and miss you guys so much. Praying for you.

Sister Clegg

Pictures from the castle we went to: