We have been so blessed this past week it is unbelievable! We taught Sarah a few times, she accepted the Word of Widow, and was just so amazed that Joseph Smith received the revelation of the word of wisdom back in 1833 when the people had no idea about all the negative effects of those bad substances. She shared with us that 1 year ago she stopped smoking because she "felt like it was the right thing do to", how prepared can someone be? She is stopping drinking coffee, she said she is replacing her coffee a day with a diet coke, haha i was proud of her and bought her a six pack of diet coke! Geri is so solid! He loves President Monson and cant wait ti go to the temple in Switzerland when he is ready. He loved church on sunday, afterwards we ate some cake that we had made with him and a few other members, just for fun! He made some really good friendships with the members. Member are so important in helping people progress and feel confident about their decisions!
This past week we had Zone Conference. It was combined with 4 other zones, so there were over 125 missionaries there! THinking about that fact that is was my last Zone conference made me sick! We got to watch a recording of Elder Ballard who came to Switzerland to talk to the missionaries in our mission. It was so good!! He talked about how we must be ready to teach and testify to anyone, anywhere about any point of doctrine that we believe. He invited us to focus our studies on the basics of the Gospel, and that by doing this we will become better people and closer to our Heavenly Father and He will be able to better use us to bless the lives of His children. My favorite quote from the conference was " We are only as close to Christ as we invite Him to be to us". It is really up to us to invite Christ into our lives! At the end 9 of us missionaries who are "dying" this transfer bore our testimonies, man it hit me what was happening. I never imagined myself there, my knees were weak and felt like they might give. I wanted to get up and just say "no regrets" and walk down haha, but then i knew i would regret having done that! I love my mission so much! It brings me so much happiness! I love my Savior Jesus Christ, i really know that He is our Savior and that HIs church is on the earth today, in its fulness. We have so many blessings at our fingertips, but like Elder Ballard said it is up to us to "invite" these blessing into our lives!
I love you guys so much! Thanks for all of your support and prayers! Have a great week!!
Love Sister kupfer!!
Thursday night, around 1030 we got a knock at the door, we were crawling into bed so i about had a heart attack because the 4 months i have been here no one has ever knocked on our door "haha yes we are weird", but no one knocks on missionaries doors! I bravely got up and checked the peep hole, it was our landlord, so we opened the door and apparently there was i leak in the apartments below and she wanted to check if it was coming from our bathroom. SHe pulled a board off the wall and sure enough water was jetting out of a pipe, like a lot haha! She jerry rigged a towel and a trash bag so that the water would run into a bucket for the time being since it was so late. THe problem was, that bucket filled up every 38 minutes to the dot and it was the biggest thing we had in our apartment! haha sooo That means my comp and i took turns waking up every 38 minutes during the night to do and empty the bucket! One time when i woke up it was way flooded so that is where the 10 towels came in! We did that just until the morning then had to get ready and go to zone conference. We gave our keys to our landlord and they got the wat a little stopped so not it fills up like every 7 hours, a lot better! BUt for the moment, we only have hot water, and it isnt just hot water it is boiling haha! It is hilarious! I plug the bath with a sponge, let the water cool for like 15 minutes then take a bath, it is so funny! THe plumber hasnt come yet, WE NEED ERIK! but hopefully he will come today and figure this thing out! Just our little weekly adventure..... Have a good one folks! i love you!
Got to see some of my favorite people at the Big Zone conference it was the best!!!
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