July 1

This week for me was weird. We had lots of fun but I think maybe too much haha. So on Tuesday we were supposed to have a golden trainer meeting so we got to the church at the time it was supposed to be and no one was there! But we walked around and we found our zone leaders and asked them what is going on and they said it had been cancelled and Elder Sheppard was suppose to tell us......he didn´t so then we had a free day basically. This worked out pretty well because we actually had an investigator that needed help moving in. We were just going to have the Elders go and help but now we could go too which was nice because I had never met this investigator before. So we all got into the car which we can do because the elders are in a drit and we headed off. We got quite a ways and realized no one had a GPS which was odd because we both have one but Elder Watherböhr forgot theirs and Sister Stoker forgot hers so then Elder Sheppard was like I sort of know where it is....he didn´t we were lost for over and hour! Rita our investigator was really nice about it and when we did finally got there she was really glad that we were there to help her. After we did the first load another one was apparently coming in 45 mins so we just stayed and talked....but except Elder Ryser and I. Everyone was just talking to the other missionaries not to Rita or her Kids or Husband which I thought was weird. Elder Ryser and I played with the kids and it was soooooo fun and cool because they spoke German better than English so it was fun to play with them and hear their cute little kid German :). Well the second load never showed up and we had an eating appointment so we had to go but we told them if they needed it we could come back tomorrow. So then we were off again and the Elders dropped us off to get changed because we were in jeans and t shirts and then they left to get changed and then came back to pick us up to go to our eating appointment with the Eberts. That was so fun to have dinner with them they are a wonderful family :)

Wednesday Rita took us up on our offer. But when we got to her place on time she said she would be there in 30 mins....so we had some fun and played on the park and talked. When she did come we finished helping her move in with the Elders and then after went to lunch with the Elders to Subway, yummy, and I ordered all in German :) and got what I wanted haha! Then we went out with Sister McGill for ice cream we split Gnocci ice cream and it was good but I decided all these cool looking ice creams were just vanilla ice cream which is boring so if we ever go again I will get something yummier. Then we had our lesson with Nita and man is she stubborn! She knows our church is the right church and she know she needs to get baptized but she won't. She says she would rather take the punishment from God! Who says that! Crazy lady that I love and frustrates me at the same time!!! But we think the only way to change her is for her to feel the spirit really strong so we invited her to church and to a testimony meeting this week. She says she will come if she gets a ride so we are working on that. So that night we came home and we got to our door and it was open! So we backed away slowly and called the elders....no answer...so we called the other Elders they answered and I told them what happened and they said well is anyone in it? I said I don´t know I am not crazy I know I shouldn´t go in there! and they said ya good job. Well can you call your bishop...me ..ya but he lives in Friedrichsdorf ( 30 mins away)...elders ok ok ummmmm how do you feel?...me scared.... elders ok get away from your apartment and we will come. 10 mins. later all 5 elders show up and march up to our apartment all ready to fight haha. They all sneak up to our door and Elder Sheppard goes to turn on the light and accidentally rings our doorbell instead haha. They go in Elder Ruff goes and gets a knife and it was so funny because our apartment can barley fit 5 people so if there was someone in it they would have seen them right away but they searched around and no one was there! Thank goodness! It was nice to know that if something ever happens our Elders have our backs :)

Thursday we had District meeting and went and ate our with our district afterwards and that was fun. Then we went back to our apartment and did study because we didn´t have it in the morning because of District meeting. Then we went to the Eyres for dinner with the Elders. We had taco salad and it was funny to see all the elders eat that because they being all from Europe crushed the chips with their fork and we all told them you just do it with your hands and the refuse to do it haha. So that was Thursday...pretty uneventful.

Friday all of our appointments fell through so Sister stoker wanted to send her package to her boyfriend. I said ok because she had been wasting so much time on that thing and I wanted it to be over with! So a couple days ago crept on a UPS delivery man and asked him where his store is and he wrote down the address. It took us about and hour to get there and when we got there it was the place like where the trucks go....thank goodness there was a store where you could send stuff too. Sending that package was when I realized how sucky our German is it was soooo hard to get it all figured out. When we finally did figure it out it turned out to be 175€! I told her I wouldn´t do it, it is too much! But she did it anyways. Later that night we found out she could have sent it for like 20€ haha sad day. So that wasted our whole day basically but at least it is done with now! So we were supposed to go on a split that night but we still had some time so we went by on Sandra and it was good thing because she has been really sick recently and I was really worried about her and she was home that night so we got to actually see her and talk to her. She seems to be doing better so that was good and she was really happy to see us. After that we went to the Frankfurt German sisters apartment and it turns out we had the split wrong I was staying in my area and Sister Stoker was going to theirs. So I carried my stuff all day for nothing but oh well. I was excited because we had a really good day planned for tomorrow. We had a lesson with a recent convert Delphin and lunch with Shama and Andrew and a temple tour with them too and then we had a lesson with Justine and Jay as well.

Saturday at 2.30 am I get a text from Shama and Andrew saying Shama was very sick and they couldn´t do tomorrow so that was really sad. So in the morning I had to call the Friedricksdorf sister and elders and tell them because they were all going to be involved in that meeting and so that was sad :( But it was ok because I was going on a split with Sister Imbach and I love her she is soo cool. So we went and had our meeting with Delphin and he is so cool we answered some questions he had.Then we stopped by on Pamale lemon but she wasn´t home so then we went home and ate lunch and she talked about how she is having troubles in her companionship so that was sad because I really like Sister Imbach and I don´t want her to be not having a good time. Then we went to Körnigstein and that is about an hour long train ride and when we got there we had our lesson with Justine jay was working and Justine had questions about fasting and tithing she says she can´t do tithing because she will go bankrupt but we basically told her FAITH!!!!! and TRUST!! and then told her she needs to pray about it.

Sunday we had no investigators at church but we watched the leadership broadcast and that was awesome and basically the secret president told us. Then we went to the Spittlers to give them the sacrament with the Elders and that was really cool because you could tell how much it meant to them. Then we had and appointment with this lady named Grace. So we got off our train stop and were already going to be later but then we got lost! When we finally found our way we realized all we needed to do was go under ground when we got off the train and we would have been golden. So then we were waiting for our bus and we were waiting and waiting and then I realized it doesn´t come on Sundays.....:/ so we ended up being like an hour late. But she was really nice and waited for us but we could only have a really quick lesson but we set up another appointment with her so it was all worth it :)

But ya that was my week pretty slow going this next week I hope to get more done :) I will be taking my p-day on Saturday this coming week so if you want to write me do it before then :) LOVE YOU ALL

Liebe,

Sister Wrathall

 

Elder Sheppard

Sister McGill