Oh i got your package on Friday :) That made my day happy:) Thanks for all the stuff and I like the songs ...I can´t believe I have it´s a small world haha that is funny. Every one made fun of me for the hats because it is soo hot here it was 98 yesterday but I just said I am preparing for the future. The despicable me things were cute too :) I really do like living in Germany it is pretty cool I think I would enjoy it even more if I didn´t have to do missionary work so I could really explore it. The grocery store isn´t that bad especially since we eat pretty basic. One thing though is there is so many different kinds of flour and the one that people tell me to get seems to not be anywhere so i just buy the ones that are closest to it and it seems to turn out fine haha.! But any how on to the weekly report :)


So Monday was awesome we went to the Königstein Castle and that was really fun. I mostly hung out with Shama I really love her she is sooooo cool :) We got to go all around it an explore and it was nice because when we went inside it was like a cave so it was nice and cold which was awesome because it has been really hot here recently. It was a really fun thing to do on our p-day. After that we went to the Hannigan´s house for dinner and that was fun. They are really cool and nice it is always fun to go to their house for dinner :) Oh and they had wraps and quesadillas and they were really yummy.


Tuesday was a strange day haha we went over to Shama and Andrews to help her clean her kitchen which was exciting because that meant we got to wear jeans! Woot! haha but after we helped her with her kitchen she insisted to give us massages...like legit ones....she actually is a masseuse we found out and has a table and everything...so i had my first massage ever on my mission haha weird! It was actually relaxing but also I felt strange haha. Then we made dinner with them. I really like these people they are soo nice Shama is more interested in the church than Andrew which makes it difficult because it would be easier for Shama if Andrew at least believed in God.


Wednesday we had our full Study which was nice. We actually were able to have our fun study about every day this week which was weird for us but because we didn´t have many appointments this week we were able to do it. Then we went to the church so Sister Stoker and Elder Sheppard could practice for their musical number they were doing at the leavers testimony. So we get there and because transfers were the next day but the tech elders are special so the new one came today they were normal elders and had 2 sets of 2 instead of a dritt, but this meant that they couldn´t drive Sister Pferdner , the piano player, to the church to practice so they drove the car to  the church and then we drove the car to the office and got her then drove back and then after practice drove her back and drove the car to the senior couple that were getting that car today and we turned into the delivery people. So we originally planned to just drop off the keys and leave to go to a referral that we got but we get there and give them the keys and they have no idea what is going on and have no phone....so we stayed and helped figure out a couple things for them...we were there for about and hour so that took up our time enough that we were not able to go to the referral because we had a dinner appointment. Our dinner appointment was with the Fernandez family and it was really good. They are really nice and we had lots of fun at their house after that we went to the Lucas family because Elder Sheppard and Elder Ryser wanted to say good bye to them because Elder Sheppard is going home and Elder Ryser is getting transferred. So we went and did that and then we went home.


Thursday we were able to go by on our referral and it took a while to find the house and just to walk there and once we got there it was pretty sketchy but her name was on the klingle so we rang it and no answer...rang it again still no answer but at least we now know where she lives and can come back a gain another time. After that we had an weird amount of time and since we were falling behind on the Book of Mormon Challenge we are doing  we decide we would go to the temple grounds and catch up. So we get on the 45 min train and head off. We get off the train and head towards the temple as we are getting out of the train station we run into some people that just got married and are from Idaho and were also heading to the temple! It was cool to see them and meet them they had been married for 2 months and he had an internship here in Germany and they thought they would come to the temple because he had a couple of days off they also went to BYUI I asked if they knew Jared or Rachel and they didn´t think they did but any who. It was good we found them because it is kinda hard to get to the temple for the train station so without us they probably would have got lost. So then we got to the temple and told them to have a good time. Then we caught up on our reading. Then we walked 30 mins to our dinner appointment with the Robertson family and oh my gosh i love this family they are so clever and funny and kind and cute haha so in other words we had a great time. After them we got a ride with Shama to the leavers testimony meeting but before that we got a call telling us that Sister Stoker and Elder Sheppard´s musical number was cancelled...weird. But the meeting was great despite the fact that it was really hot!


Friday we had a lesson with Rita that went well but we found out some things that will probably move her baptism date back so that is sad:( After that we went to the office for some things and we saw that the people that were at the leavers testimony were there! They were suppose to be on a plane going home! Turns out that they got to the airport and found out that their electronic tickets were not really there....so they had to wait till the next day to go home! Could you imagine that waiting so long to go home and then you have another day! And think of their families! CRAZY then after that we went out with Alejandra and got some ice cream she is so cool!


Saturday we went over to Shama and Andrews and had a wonderful time making food and then we told them the story of Korihor ...that went ...well Sister Stoker and Andrew had a "discussion" and I let them go at it because i have already done that before instead I just talked with Shama haha and she is thinking of baptism but I don´t know if she can do it if Andrew is not supportive. Then after that we went to the Spittlers and had a good time there as well. Then we went home and got a call from Rita saying she couldn´t come to church this week so that was a little upsetting but I think she will come next week


Sunday we had Shama at church and that was awesome it is so cool that she is coming every week now :) She really enjoys church :) after church we went home and made pancakes and hashbrowns and then we met up with Johnson and we talked to him for like 2 hours he is a cool guy and really nice but i don´t know how open he is to actually trying to learn so we will see how that goes in the future. But anyways that was my week oh also a cool experiences have been happening so I admit I haven´t been doing too good at talking to people on buses and bahns (That means trains for those that don't know German) and stuff and Sister Stoker hasn´t been doing good either. Heavenly Father knows this and I basically think he was saying to us come on guys I have these people prepared for you so I am going to make this really easy. I am going to have people approach you and even bring up the church and you just have to talk back to them! So the first example of this is Johnson, we were walking into are apartment building when Johnson said hey are you guys speaking English! Then he saw our name badges and asked if we played with snakes( where people get these ideas idk) But we told him no and then he kinda hit on us but we told him who we are and what we do and then got his number and met with him yesterday actually. Example 2 I was just walking down the street when a lady yells at us asking direction turns out she is from Nigeria and doesn´t speak German very well we also just happened to be right by the church building and she asked about church we got to met with her and she asked if she could have a Book of Mormon! Cool right. Example 3 we were waiting for a bahn when a lady came up to us and asked if we spoke German and we said a little and then we helped her spell something then she asked about our church because of our badges and then said she use to be Muslim but said Tschüss (That means see you later) to that so then Sister Stoker was just like would you like to come to church with us and she said YES! if not this week next week 100%! we got her name and number! Sooo thank goodness Heavenly Father has our backs haha. So that was awesome!
Love you all and hope you are doing great! I know that I am here for a reason and that my Heavenly Father is there for me and Loves me and loves all of his children and I am happy to help people understand that they are children of a loving Heavenly Father I love the knowledge that I have and I am so grateful for it love you all! Plus there is an attachment of ways to do member missionary work that i made for my ward i thought it would be good for you guy too! Love

Sister
Wrathall

Königstein Castle

 

Tuesday we met with Rita and her family! I love these people sooo much they really are awesome Rita and her 10 year old son Cross are getting baptized on August 17 :) She also has 2 other kids Bright star and Divine i love them! After that we went to Shama and Andrew´s missionary party haha they are so funny they are basically members! They just won"t commit! After the party I went on a split with the Friedrichsdorf sisters and they are awesome. We went to this investigator's house named Wolfgang, I know soooo German and he was really cool just with meeting him once I could tell he is progressing! Then they have an English class that they just started up and we went to that there was only 2 people there and both members but it was fun. Oh also I know you would want to know this Elder Emory is in that ward and I met him and he seems pretty cool. Then after that we got a call from the Elders saying they saw this less active girl eating ice cream and told us to rush over and see if she would say hi to us and talk and set up an appointment. Oh the life of a missionary STALKING PEOPLE haha. So we went and got some ice cream hoping she would talk to us but she didn´t but we still got ice cream.

Wednesday I went with the Friedrichsdorf sisters to their relief society breakfast and that was soo fun there was only like 8 people there but they were all really nice. Then I went to their district meeting and that is weird to go to another persons district meeting. They do theirs so much differently. Theirs is like all business and ours is more like a spiritual pump up. So that was weird and then after that we went to a lunch appointment at Sister Fischer's house. This lady I met last time I went on a split there and oh man she is funny. We got there a little early so they were like perfect we can make some calls. Then after like the 1st call we see sister Fischer leaning out her window yelling at us to come up haha. We get up and she tells us we shouldn´t do that that we should just come up if we get there early and then she gets mad at Sister Robison because last time they were there apparently she laughed too loud and the neighbors complained haha...she is ...crazy but that is OK. But she did make us eat soooooooo much! UHHHHGG I hate food! After her it was time to switch back I was kind of sad I loved being there with sister Chard and Robison it was good to teach so much. So when we switched back we went to the Wings for dinner they are a new senior missionary couple and they were really nice she was actually Miss Philippine so that is cool. Then after that we went home,

Thursday we had district meeting and then district lunch and that was all really good and then we went to Frau Seipel´s house and made brownies with her and talked about D&C because she just finished The Book of Mormon and was now starting D&C. After her we went to the Spittler's and talked about the Atonement D&C 45: 3-5 look it up it is a awesome scripture. Then they litteral made us each eat a box of pizza! SOOO MUCH FOOD. Then we went home and on our way home we were just walking into our apartment building and this guy said wait you know English and we were like ya totally and he asked us lots of questions and tried to get us to go meet\drinking with his friends and it was too late so we said no but we got his number and he has ours so we will probably meet with him some time next week.

Friday we went to the Church to meet up with Tracy, the lady last week who came up and asked for direction, she was an hour late but she showed up! We gave her a quick tour of the church building and then talked about the Book of Mormon and when we were done SHE asked if she could have a Book of Mormon sweet right! So after that we met with Delphin and that was awesome I am sad he will be moving to Berlin for 2 months soon :\ after that we went to Shama and Andrews and that was good I love those people!!

Ok Saturday the big day to see if I will stay or if I will go. So we woke up and we got ready and then we met together as a district and had yummy breakfast. Then the call started.......and I am.......staying in the Frankfurt International ward with........Sister Stoker. So no change but the rest of my district will be different 3 people are leaving :( and I will miss them. After that we went and met with Rita and taught them and made sure they were coming to church the next day and it went really well. Then we had dinner with the Cravens and they were wonderful I love having all these senior missionary couples! 

Sunday we had Rita and her 3 kids and Shama all at church! Those kids are soooooooooooooo full of energy! I was sooo worn out by the end of church it was crazy! After church we went to the Spittlers for lunch at 3 and then right after went to the Gublers for dinner at 5:30 AHHHHH SOOOO MUCH FOOD! but ya that was my week love you all!

Sister Wrathall 

Shama and all the sisters.



Brownies with Frau Seipel

District meeting.

Nope another half p-day...so writing today again. The blind museum was closed! lame! (These are answers to questions that I had for her)Oh a dritt is a trio so 3 missionaries and they are called the tech elders because they work in the office and deal with contracts and tickets and make things like the video on our blog. \

Monday we met with this man named Marty and he is this really old black man with dreads and he is really funny. We found him in the area book and called him and asked if we could meet with him and he said sure so that is what we did. It ended up that he believes everything and has a testimony of it but his wife said she would kick him out if he got baptized so that is kind of a bust :( but it was nice to meet him. I don´t think we will meet with him too often though because he seems like he will not progress. After Marty we met with Rita and we taught her the first lesson and it was awesome she really liked it and in her prayer she said thank you God for answering my prayer and sending me these 2 angels awww so cute! and she has 3 kids you would never guess what their names are. The oldest boy is Cross the girl is Bright Star and the younger boy is Divine haha she is so African it is awesome.

Tuesday we had zone training and it was a lot about member missionary work. So make sure you guys are doing your job. You are in charge of the social conversion and as missionaries we are in charge of the spiritual conversion you are the inviters and we are the teachers. After zone training I went on a split with Sister Robison which was cool because she was in the MTC with me :) The first thing we did was go to Bro. Raeolina´s house where he hooked us up with American food. He gave us nutter butters and Reese's pieces and peanut butter and chips ahhh man all this good stuff....it is sad that everything we miss from American is unhealthy food. Then after getting all that yummy food we met up with Li for lunch at the college eating place and it was pretty good we talked about priesthood with Li which was good because he is awesome and already knows everything but it was good for him to hear it anyways. After lunch he took us around the school and told us all the good places to find people and good times to come haha he is so cute! Li is awesome! After Li we met with David with the Madsens as a joint teach and it went really well we talked about how we recognize the Spirit so hopefully he can feel the spirit when he prays about being baptized...he is suppose to get baptized this coming Saturday but we will see it would truly be a miracle if that happened.

Wednesday we went and got Sister Stoker applied for her visa and I got mine :) in my picture I look like I am going to kill someone but that is ok haha. After we had our German study with Elder Sheppard and that was good. I am so glad he does these classes for us they really help! Then after that Elder Ryser made lunch for the whole office us and Alejandra and it was super yummy...then he shared some of his Swiss chocolate....BEST CHOCOLATE in the WORLD!!! Man that stuff was soooo good I could have eaten 100! After that we met with Bro. Lucus our ward mission leader because he had been gone for 2 weeks and we needed his help finding rides for our investigators and just to update him. Then we taught Alison Tascon and that went well she will be baptized August 10th :) I hope I am here to see her get baptized. After our lesson with them Sister Stoker had an impression to talk to some people but ignored it and told me about it. I stopped asked where these people were and she pointed in a direction and we went and looked for them. We didn´t find them but we did some doors ( my first time) and these really nice old people answered and said it was too late but to come back so we will try to do that sometime this week. Also on the ride home we met the US Military soccer team well at least some of them, it turned out they had a 24 hour layover in Germany and decided to explore so that was cool to meet them :)

 

Thursday not much happened we went and had our weekly lesson with Frau Seipel and that went well and then we went to the Spittlers and while we were there Luis Spittler played the guitar and he was really good he played hotel California and lots of Bolivian and agitinion music (sorry that is spelled sooooo wrong ) but that was about it on Thursday.

Friday we met with Rita again and watched the Restoration with her and she really liked it. Then we asked if she were to come to the know the things we are teaching her are true if she would be baptized and she said I got to tell you something I have been to many churches and have had lessons with the elders before and I already know that this is true so yes I will be baptized! Sweet! So she is going to be baptized August 17 that means we would have two baptisms in 2 weeks nice :) and her son Cross who is 10 might get baptized too! That would be awesome! After that we went home and did study and then went to the Maslo´s for dinner. We see them every week on the same bus we take to go to church so we figured they didn´t live to far for us so we left 30 mins thinking that would be plenty of time....WRONGO it took us and hour and a half to get there! But they were really nice about it so it was ok ha ha. They are really nice people and have the cutest little boy ever!

 

Saturday we found out the blind museum was closed so we had another half p-day so we went with the Elders to teach Lamar and it went really well! HE is so prepared we will ask him a question like what do you think heavenly father´s work and glory is and he goes into well like as I see it as a father I want my children to learn and grow and one day become like me so I guess that is what our Father in heaven would want for us too for us to one day become like him...those are just my thoughts... LAMAR you are awesome!!! He is not a question of if but of when when it comes to becoming a member. Then we went to a huge Flea Market by the Main and it was just basically a garage sell ...people selling junk but there was a couple cool things like those African carvings and stuff but nothing good enough to buy. After that we went home and studied and then went to the church because sister Stoker and Elder Sheppard want to sing a song together on his last Sunday which is next Sunday so they need to practice. I played basketball, well really just shooting with Elder Ryser and Elder Waterböhr it was fun.

Sunday Sister Stoker found out they couldn´t do their song because someone else was doing a musical number that Sunday so she was quite sad. But then SHAMA came to CHURCH so that brightened our day in fact it was the only good thing that really happened Sunday. She loved church and said she will come every week! WOOT!!!!!!

But ya that was my week :) Hope everyone is doing good love you all

Sister Wrathall

 

Elder Ryser cooking

Flea Market

Her Frankfurt shirt

my first knodel

Her Split

So this week was really good but weird at the same time.

Tuesday we had a lesson with Shama and Andrew and that was really fun but also a little weird because we went over for lunch and they had invited a co worker of Andrew.They were an older couple but were really nice I liked them but it still wasn´t the same as with just Shama and Andrew. After Shama and Andrew we met up with Li and man this guy is so cool he is one of our new converts and we went and got milkshakes with him ( it really was just flavored milk :/) But he is just so cool he has a strong testimony and is so nice. After that we went to Brother Raeolina´s house to heart attack his door for his birthday. So we get to his apartment place and we think he lives on the American place so surely someone will let us in to do a birthday surprise....no one is home or no one answered either way finally a man came and walked in and we followed him and he was asking us all these questions like wait what are you doing and we explained it to him and he was just like...ok... we even showed him the hearts! But anyways so we put up the hearts and then we head out. So when we left we look back and a police women is walking into the place we just were.....that man totally called the coppers on us! Rude! but haha Heavenly Father is looking out for us! Also that night we had Sister Hasara come and stay with us because the next day there was a leadership meeting and so we were taking Sister Hasara with us while her companion was at this so we would have a drit for that night tomorrow and some of Thursday.

Wednesday we did something really cool. For our German study Elder Sheppard held a class for us and it was really good so we are going to start doing that 2 times every week and I think it will really help even from the 2 times I did this week. We are doing better in our German and it is super nice of Elder Sheppard to do. So because Elder Sheppard did that for us we decided we would make Pazookies for the Tech elders, don´t worry I have a picture, but basically it is not all the way cooked cookie dough with ice cream on top :) So that was YUMMY! After that we had a lesson with David, he is still hung up on this marriage before baptism and I think we are starting to get through to him but idk  he says he will prepare himself to still be baptized on the 20th but we will see. 

Thursday was the 4TH OF JULY! and we did good in celebrating it! We went to KFC for lunch and then we had interviews with President and then we went out for ice cream and then we talked to people on  the river and then we had hamburgers for dinner it was as close to an American 4th of JULY as we could get also Sister Stoker and I dressed in red white and blue so that was a fun day! Also took a lot of money! Dang holidays :P

Friday we had our German study with Elder Sheppard again, once again very helpful then we met with Shama and Andrew and Shama told us that those people that were at their house last time said mean things about us! I was soo surprised because they seemed really nice :( so that made us kind of sad but it is ok because they are gone now and we did nothing that they can say is mean. They were just being mean. So after Shama and Andrew we had to meet with this family that wants their daughter Alison to have the lessons before she is baptized. So we got there at 6 which is what we decided on last Sunday. The trick with this family is that they actually don´t speak German or English so we had to have Sister Fernandez there for her to translate into Spanish and it turns out she thought the lesson was at 7 so we got there and we were awkwardly sitting in there house not really being able to communicate. The daughter spoke a little bit of German but lets just say I felt weird haha but the lesson went good once Sister Fernandez was there haha.

So Saturday was suppose to be our p day because we wanted to go to this museum that you go through as if you were blind and that is not open on Mondays so we asked if we could do it Saturday and president said yes. So we got up and we went shopping for our food and then we dropped it off and headed out to do emails when we realized we left our keys in the apartment....so we called the elders and they came 30 mins later and unlocked our door. Because of that we didn´t have time to do everything we wanted so we made Saturday a half p day and our doing the rest today. So we went with the Elders to teach this man named Lamar because they asked if we wanted to come and we said sure since we can´t do our full pday today anyways. So this man Lamar is soooooo awesome he will be baptized soon he is just so cool! The elders had taught him a while ago but these elder hadn´t but were looking through their area book and decided to drop by to see if he was still interested and when they did he said "I knew you guys were going to show up. I just found the Book of Mormon a couple of days ago and I thought to myself the missionaries are going to come soon and I was right here you are!" Cool right! So anyways this guy is cool. After Lamar we went with the elders to give furniture to other Sisters and man seeing there apartment I realize how sucky ours is haha but that is ok i don´t really mind. After that we headed to the blind museum because that was what we had been wanting to do all day so we get there and it turns out the next English tour is at 6 and we at first like ok guess we can´t do it but then we built up our courage and said we can do it in German and it turned out the next German tour was at 6:30 so we couldn´t do that either! Lame so we went souvenir shopping instead and decided next week we would go to the blind museum so my pday will be Saturday again hopefully the whole day. I did find a cool shirt that says FRANKFURT and shows the city skyline. It is really cool because the tallest building in the skyline is the building right by our apartment so I can point out where I live on the shirt. Sorry I wasn´t smart and didn´t take a picture of it. But I think that will be the one thing I buy from every area I am in, a t-shirt :) so after that we had ice cream with a member from the German ward and that was fun :) Also we saw the finish line for the iron man race that was going to happen tomorrow.

Sunday we had church and we had David and Luis Spittler come which was really good and it was just all around a good church meeting. Then after  church we went to the Spittlers to do the sacrament and to have lunch. They are really nice people and it is always fun to go and see them and on the way to and from their house we saw people in the iron man so that was pretty cool to see. After them we went to see Grace and our lesson with her was really good at the end she said she felt something new and it felt good so that was really cool to hear. But ya that was my week :) thank you to everyone who is writing me and praying for me :) I am loving my mission and I am loving the people I am teaching I can see how the gospel is changing the lives of these people and it is such a cool thing to see. I love having the knowledge that I have a father in heaven that loves me and I love sharing it with the people of Germany :)

Love you all, 

Sister Wrathall

Eating the Pazookie!

Love Locks

Cute little girl in the ward.

Frankfurt