Sister Allison Wrathall

You didn´t tell me about Hailey Marie (her cousin had a baby) so that is nice to know and I will pray for her. Sounds like you had a pretty good week your wreath looks cool! (Kayla has gotten me into a crafty mood) HEHE MISSIONARY WORK! (I told her that our ward conference was about missionary work) I am glad our ward is being good with missionary work! Oh yes I totally want in on the guessing you know there are subways here there is one pretty close to where I live :) (For Dallin's mission call) I told Sister Stoker to look out for Casmin but I will tell her again , I told her to use her for joint teaches haha. Also I need family stories I don´t even know how dad proposed! oh and the molasses cookie recipe if you have time. OK now on to the week

So this week was a little crazy but it was also fun :)

Tuesday we met with Nadine again the lady that got baptized about a month and a half ago. She is going strong we read in the Book of Mormon with her in English because she is trying to learn English. The only thing she needs right now is a calling and for her visiting teachers to teach her the new member lessons then she will be set :) After Nadine we met with Herr Kessler who is our landlord and investigator. We could only meet for a short amount of time but he bought us pfeffermint tea and it was fresh so it looked really cool and we talked with him about family History and he really liked that he seems super nice now I just need him to give us a mailbox ha ha. After Herr Kessler we were going to meet with the family Whittaker and to get there it is about a 30 min train ride so we get all the way there and they aren´t home. So we have the choice to rush and try to catch a train that was leaving ion 10 mins or to stick around and hope they came home soon. We chose the 2nd so we walked around and talked to some people and both were like no interest or the Book of Mormon is a horrible book. So after that I was sad and to try to cheer us up we went into this Bäckerei because food fixes everything haha. So we get in the Bäckerei and the lady comes to the front sees our badges and asks if we are from the church and we say yes and long story short she has read a book from Gordon B Hinckley and wants to learn about our religion! And it is a family and she gave us a free cookie :) God really does love us haha he knew I was sad and to cheer me up he gave me that wonderful experience :) After that the Whittakers called and they were home so we went over there and had a good talk with her. She is a wonderful member and so helpful.

Wednesday we had to get up get ready and then go on a split because Sister Miller had to go to a meeting in Offenbach. So I got to be with Sister Nufer which was fun because she was in the MTC with me :) This day was strange so we first tried to go by on this investigator and she wasn´t home and then we tried to go by this less active and we didn´t really know where she lived but we thought we go it figured out but we didn´t we ended up getting on a train and when we got off it was still a 2 hour walk haha so we didn´t have time for that. So we headed back to the bahnhof (train station) and while we were buying tickets this guy came up to us and asked if we spoke English and we said ummmYES haha he was trying to get to the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof and I knew exactly how to do that but this other guy kept speaking German to them and the guy was like can you tell me what he is saying and I could! I was translating for someone cool huh! Keep in mind it was really simple things but it was still pretty cool. Also on the train we meet this guy that told us he passed the sacrament in his church when he was younger and he was so excited to tell us haha. It was cute I gave him a card and he seemed really excited. I hope he calls! After our adventure of getting lost we were suppose to switch back but it turned out the train Sister Miller was on went directly to Mainheim so in other words we were not switching back till tomorrow. So we went to the church and went to German class which is taught by Brüder Hufler and that was fun. Then we had sport night where we played you guessed it SOCCER and I was so afraid that I was going to be really bad but I was not totally useless haha it was really fun!

Thursday day 2 of the split so we decided to go by on this investigator named Hilda and we got to her house and she also was not home so then we were waiting for our bahn (train) to go to the next place and I saw this lady with cute red glasses so I told her that I liked her glasses and she said thank you...are you American? and I was like....yes haha and then she asked us if we believed in re birth but I thought she said further commandments so I said yes....good thing Sister Nufer was there and said no we don´t haha. So we talked for a while and then she pointed to her son or grandson not really sure and said he is catholic and doesn´t believe in God we were like ok throw him under the bus haha So then we talked about the Book of Mormon and gave them one and the boy took it and started reading it and then we asked if they would like to meet with us and learn more and she said yes because she wants to open him up to other religions. So then I asked for her name and number and she was like ya sure and then she wrote down her address too with out us even asking! I then asked if we could set up an appointment to meet and she said ok so this next Friday we will meet with her :) After that we went to the family Cziesla and man there house is hard to find! It was really funny because this guy saw us wandering around from his balcony and asked us if we were lost and I said YES haha then he helped us find their house he was really nice. It turned out to be Sister Cziesla´s birthday and that family is really cool! So nice! When we left the house the man asked if we found it and we said yes thank you! After that we switched back! YAY glad to have Sister Miller back.

Friday woot my 6 MONTH MARK it wasn´t that exciting haha. We had to wake up at 5 because Sister Miller had to finish planning Zone Training but it wasn´t too bad. I got to catch up on my Book of Mormon reading auf Deutsch. Zone Training was pretty good it was nice to see all the people in my zone and fun to see people from the MTC. On our way home guess who we saw....SPACE MAN! So we started talking with him and first we found out his really name which is Sebastian...space man is cooler ...then I tried to give him a Book of Mormon but he wouldn´t take it but at least I tried. Then he asked us if we wanted to go to a party and we told him we couldn´t. He asked us why we have such a passion for our religion and we told him and then we ended up talking to him for about and hour about the church it was really cool. Heavenly Father answered my pray that we could see him again. He isn´t sure he wants to learn more but he is kind of iffy but he does say he will come to sport night! So I am excited for that at least he will be in the church building :)

Saturday we did a lot of service first we went to Gross-Gerau to help someone move but it turned out to be the wrong place ha ha. Gross-Gerau is where I got lost earlier in the week ha ha. I tell you there is something about that place but it was ok because we had fun getting to know the Elders better. So once we got to the actually place we got to do a ton of work and it felt good to help. After that we went and sang at an old people home and I LOVED THAT! Those people are so wonderful :) I want to do that more! After that we made cookies and gave them to people.

Sunday was really good for the sacrament meeting it was all the missionaries giving testimony and then our Ward Mission Leader giving a talk. Right now we have 7 missionaries in our ward because one missionary is German and is waiting for his visa to go to augten Utah (Do you think she means Ogden?) for his mission. It was really good I hope that the missionary work with the members starts to pick up :) I love this ward! After that we did weekly planning and Study. This week was a lot of meetings and strange stuff but it also was really good I can´t believe I am a third of my mission done it is crazy to see how fast time moves. I know that my Heavenly Father loves me and that I am here for a specific reason and I am so blessed to be serving a mission in this place at this time. I am loving every minute of it Love you all