Your pumpkins
all look cool and thanks for the recipes :) Thanksgiving I don´t know what is
going to happen. I know Sister Miller and I want to make some things but we
will hopefully go over to a member’s house or something :) You did tell me
about Sarah (Her cousin who is serving a mission in the Philippines) was going
back. That is crazy that there was a huge storm there. I am glad she is okay. That
would have been so scary. That is crazy that Dallin is giving his farewell talk
so soon! Every member here knows that Dallin is serving a mission haha. I tell
everyone! That is funny it will be the same time Tim Brannon comes back. This
week was pretty cold and rainy but I try not to think of it as cold yet because
I know it is only going to get colder. I am excited for Lauren and I am sure
she is too. Now on to the week
Ok so first of my mom told me I should explain how it is
like to live in Germany. So the thing I think is the most different is that we
ride trains and trams and buses everywhere and that you see them everywhere! I
think that is really cool in every area the trams are a little different. In
Frankfurt and Darmstadt I had a ticket that would last a month and then I had
to get a new one every month. Here I have a ticket 2000, which is an actual
card which doesn´t expire for a long time but it doesn´t work before 8 and in
some areas. So sometimes we have to buy tickets and get them stamped before we
get on trains and on trams you stamp them in the tram. There are people that
sometimes wear official uniforms that check your ticket and then there are the
undercover ones that are dressed normal and sometimes no one checks your
tickets but if you are riding without a ticket you have to pay 40€! So always
have a ticket is my way haha. Another thing is most people don´t have houses
most live in apartments. Almost everything is closed on Sundays and any day
after 9 it is crazy! Yay so that is some detail into German life. Ok now on to
the week:
Tuesday we had a split with the Herne Sisters because the
next day Sister Miller and Sister Bauer had to go to MLC the next day. So
Sister Clendon and I were together and on Tuesday we tried to cover 2
areas....that didn´t work. We first went to one of her investigators that has a
baptismal date. That was really cool the lesson went really well. The only bad
thing is that it took too long and made it so we couldn´t make my appointment
which was with Sister Kozlik, our Relief Society President, whose sick non-member
husband had made dinner for us!!!!!!! I ALMOSTED CRIED I felt sooo bad! The
worst part is she told me this was the second time this had happened so she was
kind of upset. So we saw here at ward council that night and we said sorry like
10000 times and she said she forgave us but I could tell she was still upset. But
she brought us the food her husband made and drove us home. She was still so
nice that made it even worse! But ward council was really good. This ward is
amazingly missionary minded. It was really cool to see how everything they
talked about related back to missionary work.
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| Sister Clendon |
Wednesday was the full day with Sister Clendon and guess
what? She is from New Zealand! So she has a cool accent and she is in her second
cycle so still pretty young. We had a good day though. It started with going to
a member and she was super nice she made us brownies ...American brownies (
much better than German brownies) and then we went to a less actives and she
made us lunch and gave us chocolate. Then
we did service at another member’s house and she also gave us food! After that
we had a little time before ward night but I didn´t have key to the church.
Sister Miller did so we stood by the church in the cold and rain and read the
Book of Mormon with a flash light haha. That was fun. Then for ward night we
had a pumpkin themed dinner and sang German Christmas songs and played
instruments it is soooooo fun!
Thursday was fun haha all except one of our appointments
fell through but it really did turn out to be great first we went to this Mensa
(student cafeteria) which didn´t go too well. Then we went to go to the
church and we started talking with this lady and turns out she had been taught
by missionaries before and is willing to learn again so we got her number and
hopefully will meet with her soon. Then we talked with this other lady that was
super nice! She wouldn’t give us her number but we know where she works hehe.
Then we made a pumpkin pie to give to Sister Kozlik to say sorry and went to
our appointment that didn´t fall through it was with a member that is super nice.
We taught her a lesson and then invited her to share a Mormon Message on FB and
she said yes! Sweet!
Friday we had this Leadership meeting that took up the whole
day! Thank goodness it was really good. So the first couple of hours all the
leaders and their companions (ME) brainstormed of ideas for different subjects.
The first one how can we have a white Christmas ( lots of baptisms and using
Christmas as a tool) second how we can find more YSA and third we have a
mission finding day so ideas for finding on that day. It went pretty well we
came up with lots of good ideas. The next part was President and the A.P.s that
was good of course and third was we went to areas that were struggling and
tried to find people for them. So Sister Miller and I were walking in this big
shopping area and we saw this lady walking a ferret. So I went up to her and
asked her what the word for ferret is in German and she told us and we then
introduced ourselves and we ended up giving her a Book of Mormon and getting
her address ( because no Germans know their cell phone number!). So that felt
nice to help out the Elders there. Then after that we went and gave Sister
Kozlik the pie and she really liked it and said sorry that she was so mad and
now I feel like it is all good again which makes me really happy.
Saturday we did weekly planning and then we had an
appointment with Angelika who is a new member and that went really well. She
asked if she can go out teaching with us! We said of course! Then we went to
Sister Neu´s for dinner again and that was fun.
Sunday church was great and after we
had tons of coordination meetings and then we ate at bishop’s house for dinner
and that was really fun. He is a really sweet guy. I like him as my bishop.
That was my week it was a
pretty good one :) Hope you are all doing well too LOVE YOU ALL
Sister Wrathall
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| Kent and I found this statue on Google Earth and we challenged her to go and get her picture with it. |
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