Hello family!
Things are still going well. My companion is still sick. Her sinus infection is gone and has turned back into endometriosis problems. We didn´t get as much done this week as we did last week, but we were in Berlin one day for President´s interviews, as you´ve already seen on the blog. We sadly didn´t get to Bad Doberan this week. Andrea called us and cancelled and said she´d call us. It was really sad, but we have hope that she will actually call us. If not, we´ll stop by again in a couple weeks. It´s funny that you mention the church and the train in the middle of the street. I saw both of them in the day I was there. It is a really small town. We actually don´t split up the area with the Elders. We sometimes even go do doors together in big apartment buildings and stick pass along cards in mailboxes. I think we might even have investigators living in the same buildings. It´s kind of like a finders keepers kind of thing and sometimes we have to call the Elders and ask if they´ve done doors at certain buildings so we don´t re-do the places and get them mad at us. But yeah, we´re both all over the city, we live somewhat close to each other and yet we never really run into each other in the town.
I love that random cd you sent. Unfortunately with music on a mission, if one companion has to listen to it the other does too, and my companion wasn´t as appreciative of it as I was. We´ve spent the past week listening to Enya.
Dear Mother,
The sucking of snot that my companion does is far different than the sucking of snot you do. I´ll have to demonstrate when I get home.
Normally we don´t have a Book of Mormon to carry around because in Rostock we don´t really give out that many. In Celle we always had one with us to give away because we´d give one away at least once every 2 days. Here we´re lucky if we give one once a week. When I do doors I carry around my German Book of Mormon, a little pocket size Book of Mormon in English, and pens and planners. Nothing really special. Sometimes chocolate or candy. I eat way too much chocolate here because our church is right above a grocery store so if we´re a couple minutes early to an appointment at the church, we run into the grocery store and buy something we can eat real quick. And Germany doesn´t really have anything yummy and fast to eat except chocolate and candy. So I eat quite a bit of it. Somehow I haven´t gained weight yet.
When we leave our apartment in the morning at 11 normally we come back for an hour break lunch at 1 or 2. Then we go back out and don´t come back again until 9. That´s the normal schedule, but it´s sometimes different when my companion doesn´t feel good.
The Elders do crazy things in the MTC, mom. I´m sure that´s just the beginning of the many many crazy things he´s doing :) It´s hard to stay sane there, being cooped up in a little room for hours upon end, but I loved it so much. It was so chill.
Thank you so much for sending me Jeff´s setting apart blessing. That sounds like a pretty neat blessings. I´m glad he took notes. That´s something that we don´t want to forget! It is really helpful to think about throughout the mission.
Sister Toni is so awesome! I´m glad that she is such a great support to our family. I have a letter written up for her that I need to send her. She´s sent me a couple things (turtle things). She´s so sweet. Hug her for me.
Oh, mom, there´s this website that a Senior Sister missionary recommended because she used it when her son was on his mission and it´s ldsmissionarymoms.com. I guess if you join an e-mail group you can talk with moms who have missionaries in the same mission as us. She said she loved it and talked to her son´s companion´s moms all the time and she said you would LOVE IT and I agreed you probably would love something like that.
And I will wrap this up with my favorite story of the week. Fadi. I don´t think I´ve talked about him yet, but I have always meant to. He is an awesome investigator we have from Jordan. He met with the missionaries a long long time ago and then kind of lost his faith. We had an investigator named FadiL that we met with regularly and we tried to call him but we accidently selected Fadi´s name in the phone. He let us know he wasn´t who we were trying to call, but he told us he wanted to meet with us. So we´ve been meeting with him pretty regularly. I love meeting with Fadi because I leave the appointments feeling enlightened and the spirit teaches me new things when we teach him. His English is very good and he listens to what we say, thinks about what we say, and puts his imput into lessons. This week we taught about Joseph Smith and we decided to invite him to baptism. He said he would have to think about it, but he has been thinking about it (even though we haven´t mentioned anything about baptism to him). He has 2 concerns. 1) He doesn´t want to get baptized in the Baltic Sea (that´s where most people here decide to get baptized) and 2) He´s concerned about his safety. If he ever went back to Jordan they could kill him. It breaks my heart that there is a culture that kills people when they change religions. We´ve been praying so hard for him that he can feel the truth and know that it is something he needs to do. But it´s such a hard situation because we don´t want to put him in danger. Can you please pray for him too that he can get an answer to his prayer and that he can have the courage to go through with something that could potentially be dangerous?
I love this gospel! I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that he restored Christ´s church on the earth today. We´re so blessed, I can never say it enough! Share it with the people around you! It will bless them! Don´t be afraid of blessing people´s lives! I love you all, family. Thanks for your support!
Love, Sister Niebergall
Here's a District Picture:
She looks so beautiful :') I'm so proud of her!!
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