So thank you for all of your support and prayers for our investigators. It makes me feel good that Sister Martinz and I arent the only ones praying for our investigators! Kenneth probably won't be baptized this Saturday, we still have some things we need to review just to make sure he knows how big the step of baptism really is and what he promises to Heavenly Father. But he loves the Book of Mormon. He always reads farther than we ask him to. Its wonderful it makes me so happy! This week we taught him Keuscheit....that means chastity. It was my first chastity lesson. Haha. I didn't say very much but Sis was really bold and did a good job. Yes, we teach him in English, which is nice. I love when we get to teach in English. But we're going to change his baptism date when we visit him tomorrow. I'll let you know what we change it to. Probably early November.
We teach several people. Not many are progressing, but we're teaching people from Iran, Iraq, Russia, England, Nigeria. We teach them in German. Its pretty tricky sometimes when they don't speak good German and especially don't understand gospel vocabulary. Its like a whole new language itself. But! One of our investigators got baptized!! The surprising part is he is the one that always would say "i'm already baptized" The next surprising part is that he got baptized into the Russian Orthodox church and not ours!!! Weird huh! He said it was a good experience. We're tschssing him this week (Saying tchss = saying see ya).
We teach several people. Not many are progressing, but we're teaching people from Iran, Iraq, Russia, England, Nigeria. We teach them in German. Its pretty tricky sometimes when they don't speak good German and especially don't understand gospel vocabulary. Its like a whole new language itself. But! One of our investigators got baptized!! The surprising part is he is the one that always would say "i'm already baptized" The next surprising part is that he got baptized into the Russian Orthodox church and not ours!!! Weird huh! He said it was a good experience. We're tschssing him this week (Saying tchss = saying see ya).
You're right, it is getting chilly here in Celle. Some days the sun is shining but its still really cold. This week was pretty rainy though so I put on my boots and guess what I found. A NOTE FROM DAD! It made me smile from ear to ear and reminded me how great my family was! I enjoyed finding everyone's notes in my suitcase at the MTC and it was really great to find another note. Thanks so much dad. That made my day. And yes, I have been using my coat. Its very warm and puffy. So puffy in fact that when I sit down it pushes the air out of it and shoots my name tag off of it. That happened on a train on the way to Braunschweig and I didn't notice til I was off the train so I ran back on the train to find it and Sis just stood outside the train pushing the button to open the doors so it wouldn't leave with me on it. It was adventurous! But I found my tag and made it off the train, so all is good!
I love that you used the fruit vinigarette. Did Rachel cover her mouth and make a throw up noise when she saw you were using it on the salad? Haha, tastes like chicken. I'm not angry. I forgot about that. Toooo funny. But sad that my delicious Costa Vida didn't work out.
We don't spend too much time doing doors it seems like. We do more street contacting. But a few weeks ago we found "Texas Strasse" on a map so of course I knew I had to go look at it and take a picture! So yesterday we went there and figured we should do doors while we were there. And we found FOUR potenial investigators on this street!!! We made an appointment with one who was clinically dead but then came back to life so faith plays a big role in his life and others told us to come back (that happens a lot that they say they don't have time but to come back and they're not really interested, but this time they were sincerely interested!!) So thanks for getting called to Texas Jeff! Maybe Heavenly Father inspired someone to name the road Texas so we would go there!
So weird thing just barely happened, we're at the internet cafe again today and a man came up really close to my name tag and then I looked at him and said "Hallo...." then he rubbed my arm, looked at my computer screen, and walked away. CREEPY AND KOMISCH! But funny! Hahaha!
I sent a letter from my mission president to you about packages. I don't know what it says, but you can get info about packages there. I would also love WHS cds (Christmas and not) if thats possible! At least my and Jeff's chamber and A Cappella songs. Also, if you could send me some more sheet music maybe from defordmusic.com or something that would be great. Or copy some more music from my efy books? I'd love that. If not its okay, but that would be wonderful if it were possible. Also, it would be great to have fast and easy recipies too. I'm a little tired of toast with ham and cheese on it.
Oh.... about physical therapy. I haven't really been doing that.. Its so hard in the morning to do any exercisy thingy! But I commit to doing it this week and will report back to you about it.
Also, I can't remember if I paid any of my loan before I left. Do you remember? Can you look in the yellow folder and see if there's anything that needs to be done? Also, will you call USU and see if my Spring 2010 semester is showing up on my transcript? I really don't want to retake anatomy and all of music theory. And will you tell me what you find out so I don't have to think about it anymore?
Random question- whats the population of Pleasant View, I want to compare it to Celle.
The man just looked at my tag again! I think he's writing down my name! Maybe in his journal or something. Weird!!!
I'll be sure to take some pictures of the half timber houses for you dad. And see if we could arrange on a different week to have P-Day a different day so we can go and see the sights of Celle.
I AM SO EXCITED TO HEAR SARAH IS PLANNING ON A MISSION! Stick with that decision, babe it could never ever be a bad decision. It blesses so many people around you and I could go on and on and on about how great a mission is. But I won't. But my advice is START NOW! Read the BoM and pray. Don't think its too early to start preparing because its not. There was a talk in conference fore preparing for a mission. I can't remember who gave it, but it was Sunday afternoon. You should look at that again when you can.
Tell Nick "Hello, I hope you're doing well and aren't too awkward" for me please! Tell him also that "I agree that its cool that I'm in Germany." Sometimes I forget that I'm not in America and then I see the beautiful scenery and think how could I forget!!!
Ohhhhhhh Pop's concert.... how I don't miss it. How were the choirs though? How's chamber sound. Probably different without a Wood son in it!
Tell Brittany hello for me and that I love her.
That's about all I think. I love you all! This gospel is the most precious thing on the earth and we are so so so so blessed to have it. I am so glad that I can share this gospel with those that are searching for the truth but know not where to find it. I know that Christ is my Savior and that He knows me personally and completely. Stick to the gospel! You can never ever go wrong with it in your lives. I love you all so much! Thanks for your support!
Love, Sister Niebergall
Ps. There is no way to attatch pictures on this computer at the internet Cafe. Sorry! Hopefully they'll fix the computers at the church soon.
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