Sister Allison Wrathall: A birthday and a baptism!

My birthday was ok we had French breakfast puff things, you know the muffins with sugar on them :) Then I opened you presents which I loved everything and tell Stef thanks too :)

Thanks for giving me the shirt even though you really liked it. The next birthday that I have will be better though with you guys. It was weird to have no family there. Sister Miller is from Wenatchee Washington. Anyways onto the week! Oh btw it was 3 hours not 6 on the train. I lied to you whoops.

Tuesday we went to this lady named Margaret, she is an investigator and this is the second time the missionaries have met with her in a long time. She is Nigerian so I was excited to meet her. We get there and she forgot about the appointment but that is normal for Africans. But we taught a lesson anyways and it was kind of hard because her kid was running around the whole time and she couldn´t really focus. She doesn’t believe that anyone can see God because he is just a spirit....So that is an issue haha. Good thing is she is really nice next time we meet with her I think the kid should go down for a nap or something haha. After Margaret we met with this lady named Angelika she is (well got) baptized this Saturday. It was cool meeting with her because I am still new in this area and she treated me like I have been there forever and that was super nice. We just made sure she is reading her scriptures every day and asked if she had any questions about her baptism. It was a good lesson she is super cute.

Wednesday we had District meeting and that was really good. Everyone that talked said like the perfect things it was really cool and it was a little different. It is the smallest one I have ever been too. After then we went with the Elders to the Skopek's for lunch. They live pretty far away but it was cool because it is prettier the farther away you get from the city. They were super cute they made us rotkohl and potatoes and some meat, a typical German meal...good thing I like it haha. Then we were all stuffed and they put us in this warm room to give the spiritual thought haha we were all soo sleepy but we pushed through haha. After the Skope’s we did some planning then went to our weekly ward night. We were in charge this week and we were going to carve pumpkins but we ended up not having enough time because we made pumpkin soup too. So now Sister Miller and I have 3 pumpkins. Good thing we both like to cook haha.

Thursday we woke up and had a special breakfast for my birthday and then I opened my package from my family and loved everything in it :) Love my family! Then we went to this member’s house and cleaned for 3 hours then we ate lunch with them. It was actually pretty fun and it was good to get to know them better. Then we went to Herne to go on splits with their ward council which was cool. We went out with this one lady to this less active that turned out to be pretty nice but she was just mad at the bishop for not calling her when she was in the hospital. The member reminded her that not everyone is perfect.

Friday we went over to Sister Kretzmann´s house for lunch with the elders and she was super nice and cute. She got me flowers and a card for my birthday! This is a lady I have seen 3 times! That was super nice! But she did feed us this thing calls fricadella or something like that and those are not that good. After that we did planning and then made my cheesecake and ate at this place called Banana leaf which you actually eat off a banana leaf! The actual food wasn´t that good though. Then the cheesecake didn´t turn out quite right either, it wasn´t bad just not the same. Then we had English class that night and that was cool. This family was there that was super nice so I am looking forward to doing that every week.

Her favorite birthday dessert. Pumpkin chocolate chip cheesecake.

Saturday we played soccer which I think was a waste of time because no investigators or members were there! Just missionaries! Sister Miller agrees with me so I don´t know what will happen next week. After soccer we went home and did weekly planning while cutting up some pumpkins. Then we went to Angelika´s baptism and that was great she looked so happy and right after we had a fireside that we put together. 11 people showed up and I think it went pretty well.

Sister Miller

Sunday we went to church and I finally got to see the last session of general conference but it was in German so I could understand it but not fully grasp it so I will just have to see them some other way. After church we went home and made some pumpkin soup that turned out to be really good. Then we went to the Roslers because it was Helen’s birthday. I gave her some of my cheesecake and we made her a card and us and the Elders sang happy birthday to her she seemed pretty happy :) After that is was pouring down rain so of course it was the day we were going to do go byes haha. So there we were soaking wet haha and no one was even home! Oh well it was fun. After that we went home and enjoyed our p day eve by making apple crisp :)

That was my week hope everyone else had a good one too! Love you all and I am so glad I am a member of this church I have had so many blessings because of the knowledge I have.

Sister Wrathall