Sister L., the Sister in charged of us during the Summer, decided to take us to this town in the South called Rotemburg, on a day trip. Our purpose was to sepend time together, sight-see, buy souvenirs and do missions (that's what they call evangelism). So we set out in the morning with a nice pack lunch and a back-pack full of bookmarks in German, English, Spanish and who knows what other language...
{Side note: I should tell you that the Sister's bookmakrs are well known in many parts of the world. They have different messages about God, Jesus, His love, plans and desire for us. The bookmarks have very nice pictures and are well made but the great thing about them is all the prayer that goes into them. When the bookmarks are being put together the Sisters pray that God would speak to the people that will receive them in a very special, very real way. They do this with their books and pamphlets as well. Consequently they have received testimonies of people who at the verge of despair a bookmark has made it into their hands and God has revealed Himself to them.}
Back to the story...
At first I was a bit weirded out as ppl kept staring at us. I didn't undestand why they looked at us so intently, then I realized it was because of the Sisters. (hehehe, after spending some days with them one gets so used to the habits as to forget they are dressed quite differently than 'civilians') I thought to myself: 'Oh no! this is going to be a hindrance... who wants to talk to a 'nun'?!' (not that they ARE nuns, they are Sisters, but to the untrained eye they look like nuns)... Well, to my surprise- EVERYONE seems to want to talk to them. Hahaha, there were indeed few people who refused to take something from them or share a word. When we set up to sing about God many ppl came over to listen. Their smiles disarmed the hardest countenances. Praise God He is glorified!!
It was a great lesson for me. Here are this Sisters, their desire is to love Jesus and have other people love Him too, they (even though they might be a little afraid of sharing with strangers just as much as any of us are) want to be obedient to God's command and therefore are unhindered by things like apperance. They are free and courageous, they do not worry about being 'relevant', politically correct, having the right words or examples to share with people- they simply obey out of love for God and God uses them in response to their abandonment to Him.
At the end of the day I thought, they really are just regular ppl sharing an extraordinary God... only they do it while wearing a costume ;-)
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