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great Comunion August 13<hi rend="superscript">th</hi>. 1727, and I begged the Lord Jesus,<br />
with many Tears to think also of me. I went here to<br />
School to Mr. Krumpa, who often told us that he loved the<br />
Lord Jesus, because he had shed his Blood for us. This excited<br />
in me a Confidence to our Savior that he probably had also<br />
shed his Blood for me, and would have Mercy upon me. At the<br />
Time when in Herrnhut the great Awakening among the Children<br />
began, he asked once his Scholars: Whether they also would love<br />
our Savior and give him their Hearts, so that He might wash them<br />
wih his Blood? With those who expressed a Desire for it, he<br />
made a Covenant, to love Him above all Things who loved us<br />
first. Upon which Occasion He in whose Eyes we were precious<br />
walked certainly in our Midst, and none of us knew what had hap<br />
pened unto us. It occasioned a great Joy in Herrnhut, that our&nbsp;<br />
Savior had also graciously visited the Children in Berthelsdorf.<br />
We went and prayed together during an inexpressible Feeling of the<br />
Nearness of Jesus.<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; My Parents moved soon after to Herrnhut, where we had<br />
it outwardly very pinching and hard. But I must say to the&nbsp;<br />
Praise of our Savior, that I could suit myself pretty well into<br />
poor Circumstances, for I had left my Mother Country with<br />
no other Intention, than to be satisfied with Bread and Water.<br />
But the Holy Ghost begun a new Work in me. I learned to know<br />
our Savior as the Friend of poor Sinners; he forgave me&nbsp;<br />
the Sin of Not believing in Him and His Merit, and showed me my<br />
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Name engraven into his Hands. Now happy did my Heart<br />
feel when he cleared it up to me, that His Sufferings, his Death<br />
and Bloodshedding had also happened for my sake, and that I was<br />
his Property. I could not sufficiently contemplate our Savior<br />
in his Sufferings Beauty, whereby all external Troubles and<br />
Difficulties were made quite easy to me. In January 1729<br />
I was to my inexpressible Joy admitted to the Holy Comunion<br />
with the Congregation. I then made |: as it was the Custom at that<br />
Time :| a public Confession before the Congregation that I would be,<br />
long with Soul and Body to my Redeemer and devote to Him<br />
Life and All. In this blessed Enjoyment of our Savior, I went<br />
on during a particular Care of the never to be forgotten Dis<br />
ciple of the Lord, Count Zinzendorf, who took much Care and<br />
Pain with me, till 1732 when i came to Ebersdorf, to take<br />
Care of some young Countesses. Here I was to my Heart<br />
somewhat removed from the Simplicity in Christ Jesus.<br />
But our Savior, according to his great Faithfulness, did not<br />
suffer me to be plucked out of his Hand, but renewed in me that<br />
Mind to devote myself to him intirely, and to look upon it as my<br />
destined Share to follow him, in Poverty and Reproach. By Occasion<br />
that I was joined in Holy Matrimony September 8<hi rend="superscript">th</hi>. 1733 with that<br />
Servent of Jesus my late Husband David Kriegelstein, I re<br />
newed the Covenant with our Savior to be his with Soul and Body, and<br />
begged Him to be with me, and lead me by his Hand, till he would<br />
happily take me home. He did not last long, before we had to<br />
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