7-8-13: Gratitude list (a bonus posting this week!)

Here's a quick list of things I've been grateful for lately.

parks everywhere!

green grass. also everwhere.

green trees. you guessed it, everwhere.

flowers shops

lessons with Africans

personal study time

language study time
missionary gatherings and conferences

running

having purpose/working with God

German windows

letters from family and friends
grocery stores

awkward stories from finding investigators

rivers

wearing a nametag. i forget sometimes.

members who love missionaries

seeing old buildings

the Andruses (the "ehepaar," or senior missionary couple assigned to Leipzig)

adorable foreign children

mission friendships
walking places! with feet!

testifying of what I know

having two built in best friends (my comp and the Holy Ghost)

cake, gelato, and bread

sticky note reminders

public transportation

teaching!

funny language mistakes

mission culture. it's a weird world out here.

old German ladies. who tell stories of old.

focusing on Christ. every day. 

#bethankfulforyourtimeasamissionary.