I hope all is going well with you all! Germany is so wonderful, I´m so happy to be here! This week has been so good. I´ll tell you right off the bat why. Because we set a baptismal date with someone! Yeehoo!! (as sister martinz always says) His name is Philipp and he´s 25 and he´s German!!!! WOAH! Thats not normal! :) He met with the missionaries before, but only because he was dating a member. Now, as far as I know, he´s not dating her. He told us he just really wants to change his life and that he´s doing it for himself now. We set the date for January 14th. we´ve met with him 3 times this week! Its crazy how we came in contact with him. We just rode our bikes past him on the way to an appointment once and he called after us. We asked him if he knew us and he told us he met with missionaries before and that we should have his number in our phone still and that he still has ours and he´d call us. We thought. "Yeah, sure. Okay." So we waited a couple weeks and decided to call him. We made an appointment with him and when it was appointment time he didn´t show up. We thought "okay, he´s really not serious about this." but then a couple weeks later he called and said "I´m sorry, I´ve had so much stress, but I really do want to meet with you!" So we set another appointment and he was there and HE asked "so when can we meet again?" so we met like 2 days later and invited him to baptism and he said yes! Then we also invited him to stake conference (Yes stake conference was in Hannover) and he came to that and I overheard him saying he wishes he could get baptized earlier. Wow! Sister Martinz also has lots of friends in Hannover because all of the YSA in Austria, Switzerland, and Germany do things together so she introduced Philipp to them, because he just needs good friends that don´t get into trouble. He made some friends and it was awesome. I´m convinced friendship is an important factor to staying in the church. But yeah! We´re meeting with him Wednesday and helping him stop smoking. He also said to us "Is there a story in the Book of Mormon where someone has done really stupid things in their life and they just really want to change?" Why, yes, yes there are a couple stories here and there. Cool!
Amy goes to the MTC this week. WOAH!
Oh, when I sang "He Hears Me" it was in English of course. We´re meeting with this guy on Friday. Maybe we´ll invite him to baptism too! I have a feeling this is the start of many people accepting the gospel in Celle. I think I´ll stay for at least one more transfer. Sister Martinz will probably go. There are 6 new sisters coming in not this coming transfer, but the one after that so since Celle is such a great place to get trained, we´re thinking someone will come be my companion and get aquainted with the town and we´ll spend one transfer together and then I´ll get sent to who knows where and a new golden will replace me. But who knows? Not me!
It ended up that we didn´t get fed by the Bishop´s wife this week because her daughter in law had a baby. I´m sure she´ll offer to feed us next week so then I can have the Chicken. That sounds so yummy! I miss ranch dressing quite a bit and tortillas..... haha Thats all I can think of though at the moment. I´ll add some later if I think of anything. My favorite new food....hmmm... well there hasn´t been anything too new. I really like Nutella now though! Pumpkin soup is pretty good. I was really scared to try it but it wasn´t bad at all. Also, the grocery stores here, at least in Celle, are really small and have hardly anything. I haven´t seen colored eggs though, unless by colored you mean not white. But do you mean like green and blue? That´d be cool! Yeah, I have no idea what Germans eat because the store has pretty much nothing in it. Just lots of meats, but we don´t have time to make meaty stuff. Also a big alcohol section. Silly Germans.
Hey, that´s what its called. A klingel! I´m sure when I get back there will be many German words and phrases that stick because I´m already somewhat forgetting some English. I was trying to think of the past tense of make and i was like "Maked? Maked? That sounds so weird." A while later I remembered it is made, and not maked.
I hope you get better soon mom. Your sicknesses always seem to last way longer than the average person´s! If you´re sick, go to the doctor silly! That´s why they´re there!
When I saw the picture of Rachel and her beautiful hair I gasped too! I wondered if it was required for the show to have her hair like that or what. But she really does look so so gorgeous and the first thing I thought when I saw her hair was "Does she not fight it anymore??" Hopefully she will continue to let you do her hair. It looks so good. Wow!
I can just imagine Drew´s costume! I know how all-out Heather goes. Oh, good ol´ Mark and Heather. What were Hannah and Lilah? Sister Martinz and I carved little tiny pumpkins for Halloween. It was fun!
I can´t believe Jeff is endowed. Seriously so weird to me! But so wonderful! I was thinking about that the other day that Jeff and I will be home when DJ goes through the temple. That will be awesome! I was glad to see you got a camera and I could see these lovely pictures of snow (YEEHOO NO SNOW HERE YET!) and Temple and Joseph pictures. They made me smile.
So when DJ is the baker does he sing "There I was standing with baskets of bread- with butter"? That would be cool if he did. :) Break legs Deej and Rae!
When I saw the picture of Rachel and her beautiful hair I gasped too! I wondered if it was required for the show to have her hair like that or what. But she really does look so so gorgeous and the first thing I thought when I saw her hair was "Does she not fight it anymore??" Hopefully she will continue to let you do her hair. It looks so good. Wow!
I can just imagine Drew´s costume! I know how all-out Heather goes. Oh, good ol´ Mark and Heather. What were Hannah and Lilah? Sister Martinz and I carved little tiny pumpkins for Halloween. It was fun!
I can´t believe Jeff is endowed. Seriously so weird to me! But so wonderful! I was thinking about that the other day that Jeff and I will be home when DJ goes through the temple. That will be awesome! I was glad to see you got a camera and I could see these lovely pictures of snow (YEEHOO NO SNOW HERE YET!) and Temple and Joseph pictures. They made me smile.
So when DJ is the baker does he sing "There I was standing with baskets of bread- with butter"? That would be cool if he did. :) Break legs Deej and Rae!
Tell Blake (if you see him again) hello from me and tell him the wait is worth it! One day he can join the army in Germany serving the Lord! (Hopefully. Because this is the best mission on earth!)
We have a whole list of people we pray for every day and I will definitely add Austin to our list. Good thing he got injured! I mean, its not a good thing, but you know what I mean. How old is he? There will definitely be prayers coming from Celle!
I know that this gospel is true. I love the Book of Mormon so much and it just breaks my heart when people don´t even give it a chance because it really does bring you closer to God than any other book and it really does give you power to resist temptation and avoid deception and stay on the straight and narrow path. It has an unexplainable power and I just want everyone to love it and use it and feast on its words! I don´t know if the Ensign at home is an all Book of Mormon Ensign, but we got the Liahona here and its all Book of Mormon and it is so wonderful. I love reading from it and hearing people´s experiences with it. It is true! I know it! I´ve felt it! I hope we can all make our study of the Book of Mormon more meaningful. I love you all so so so so so much!
Love, Sister Niebergall
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