Hallo Familie!!
How is everyone doing!!I hope you have all had a wonderful Conference Weekend. Yes, we watched it but I will save that for the end. This week I have really missed home. I'm not sure why just alot of things that remind me of home. This week was so crazy.. Oh man we did so much stuff that most days we didn't even have time for our studies. So Monday after we had everything done we weren't really sure what to do for pday. We didn't want to waste a day in Germany sitting inside so we called the Elders, they said they were up hiking so we were like sure why not. Well they said that it was just a walk up the hill and then you will see us.. They didn't mention that this hill was the entire mountain.. I was dying. It was like the steepest hill I have ever seen and it was like 7 miles, I swear. It was really funny the way they described it they said it was past the houses in the forest past the windy road past the old brown trailer. I thought for sure it was a joke. These random people live in these old gross trailers in the mountain. But we got up and it was so pretty! There was this cool little tower thing and a fort it was just really fun! I also bought new shoes and a new scarf. I love all the clothes here way to much, its a problem. And today we are going to Erfurt to Oktoberfest. That will be fun.
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| The Hike |
Well Tuesday was an exhausting day I was already tired from hiking and my calves where burning. and we had to go help Sister Etkhause in her garden. It is so strange, papa will know what I am talking about. They don't have yards here so they buy a land somewhere else and grow a garden. Like its just miles of land cut in different sections, Its really cool! But she needed help with hers. She needed a tree taken out. We know how much fun that is to do.. So the Elders just started taking it down and then they had to cut up the stump.. they gave me and axe and a saw and told me it was my turn That was a bad idea. I just started going crazy. I felt like a lumberjack, I was chopping the tree into pieces. I think the Elders were shocked. But it was good it was like a stress reliever. I just let out all my anger on this tree. It felt so good! She fed us some lunch, The Germans love potatoe salad. We have it all the time but its really good! we also had eggs with it. They cooked them sunny side way, whatever its called. I have never eaten an egg like that in my life. I panicked a little bit but I made it. It was really good! And then after that we had to meet Eder Robinett so we could plan our topic the next day. We had to give a talk thing on Confidence. Which is hilarious they gave me that topic because I am probably the least confident person. So we were planning and we also had plans to heart attack Elder Watts for his birthday! So we went and did that before he got home that night.
So the next day his actual Birthday the whole zone had planned this big surprise. We had zone training and we all panned to sing happy birthday to him. But first zone training. We talked on Confidence really well. I just laughed the whole time because I wasn't confident in what I was saying. I guess my motto was Fake it till you Make it.. I am good at faking. I don't think I ever made it. But it was really good we had a few other Elders talk about finding and Unity. We played this hilarious game with animal noises and someone had made cinnamon rolls so we enjoyed those and all headed back home. Ian, he is in our branch, wanted to have a surprise party for Elder Watts. We were invited to come over and help set it up. It was real
y good! We all just had alot of fun. Elder Watts was a little teary eyed and he said it meant so much for him because he really hasn't had a birthday like that since he was 12. He was very grateful for his Best Friends. It was awesome! So we decided that it would be fun to play the animal game with everyone. So we had the 4 Americans 2 Chinese and 3 Germans and 1 British who speaks German. It was so funny with the culture difference. So pretty much you pick an aniamal and make a sound and action to go with it. So sister Weber decided to pick a cat throwing up. Its so hard to explain but it was so funny. I was laughing so hard. I started crying. You know how I get when me and Best friend (Ryan) laugh so hard we can't talk.. That was how I was. I was trying to talk and it was just bad, After I had finally calmed down Ian said Wilkommen to Jena meine Frundin! Elder Watts told me that I had finally come out of my shell. He said in Germany when that happens they call you a naked slug because you are out of shell. So we laughed about that It was so fun!
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| Elder Watt's "heart attack" |
| Elder Watt's Birthday |
Thursday we had service again at Bernd Studz this time we got to throw rocks down a hill... He has this big hill with stones at the top and sometimes he likes to move them I don't understand so we just did what he wanted us to, then he had us move some wood over by the bunnies because he likes it over there better. Pretty much he finds pointess jobs for us to do. While the Elders build things for his yard. Like this past week they built a grave.... We aren't really sure about that one. So we don't ask. Later that night we had an appointent with Siter Bösemann.. She is the sweetest lady I have ever met she is in our branch and we wanted to check up on her. She was really sad because none of her kids have joined the church and she writes them a letter everyday with her testimony in it telling them of the blessings of the church. I thought it was amazing. She is so sweet. We had planned to share our favorite scriptures with her. I had mine, my mission scripture. I had the book mark you made me mom. and Papa was right they love stuff like that. She admired that for like 20 min. and in my best German I could I bore my testimony I felt the spirit so strong I started crying. I talked about my family and that didn't help the tears. I am pretty sure she couldn't understand what I said. My German is horribe but she felt the spirit and it was really good. Everything reminded me of you mom. She had made us Pero and she told us at least 100 times don't worry its not coffee!! It was funny! We talked about families and how important they are to us. I had my bookmark with me and the leaves are changing here and I think about going with you and Lisa and Kristen and filling Lisa's car with bugs again. But I guess that will have to wait!
| Conference with the Elders |
Okay now for Conference. Yes we watched Conference. All the missionaries get to go to Erfurt and watch it in the building they have. It was so fun to watch it as missionaries! So with the time difference we started watching conference at 3 on Saturday. We watched the Womens meeting from a week ago. And then at 6 we watched the Saturday morning session live. Then on Sunday we went back to Erfurt and at 2 we watched the Saturday afternoon session and had the 2 hour break and then at 6 we watched the Sunday morning session live again. And then we had to go home because it was like 9. So we dont get to see the last session until next week or when it gets posted online. But It was so good! I loved the Focus on the blessing of the Gospel and the focus on the importance of the Atonement and our Savior Jesus Christ. I loved the talk at the Womens Session from Uchtdorf. And how he said the most important thing we can know is that we are children of God. And how Heavenly Father is raining down blessings for us but most time we let fear get in the way like an umbrella shields the rain. We need to put our umbrella down, trust in God and have faith to fight our fears so we can be showered with the blessings from Heaven. Seriously it was so good! If you haven't read or watched that I would invite everyone to! I just loved confernce It was so good! Everything about it! I cant wait to go back and re read them! Well this letter is aready long enough. I hope you have a wonderful week! I love you all so much! Never forget Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love you! They want to the best for you! Learn to rely on them and you will be happier in this life!
| With Huiying our investigator who is getting baptized October 18th!! |
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