I am so happy to hear from you all. Many many tears were shed when I read your and Jeff´s e-mails and all throughout this week. Tuesday we had Zone Conference and the last song was God Be With You Til We Meet Again. I thought of Jeff and how he´d be dropped off the next day and I sang the song for him. I know he´s going to be a great missionary. It made me very happy to read his e-mail and reminisce on the MTC days.
I did not see the northern lights this week... I didn´t know to look for them otherwise I may have seen them. Bummer! That´s funny that you remember taking Jeff and I to see the lights. I slightly remember something like that. Kind of sounds like when mom took me outside to meet Brother Flora to help put in our lawn. Haha.
We haven´t met all our investigators yet. Sister Kläy has still been not feeling the best. Hopefully we can get the work going here in Rostock. I´m pretty familiar with the area. We are mostly traveling by Straßen Bahns so I just need to know which person lives at which stop and I can find it from there. I don´t really know if the city is rough.... I have no idea exactly what that means.
I don´t know if you´ve already sent the package, but if you haven´t it´d be great if you could put all of the pictures back on the memory card because I will write these Tschüss Book entries for multiple missionaries, so I need pictures of other missionaries too, not just sister Martinz. If not, could you send a CD of my pictures? Sorry for the trouble. It´s a fad thing that is happening in this mission.
That e-mail from Christian is HILARIOUS. He makes it sound like either 1) I died or 2) he´s confessing his love for me. Haha. He´s a funny guy. It´s fun to have YSA in the branch. His English is perfect, he´s just self conscious sometimes for some reason. He doesn´t sound German at all when he speaks. Anyway, the reason I asked for you to send it was because he said it was probably the most awkward e-mail he´s ever written so I wanted to see what it was like. Oh dear. Thanks for sending that to me. I had a good laugh.
Speaking of good laugh I laughed super hard when I read what Rachel said " I'm going to miss him, I didn't get a good look at him, I wonder if he has a tooting corner yet?" Too too funny. I wonder if he does have a tooting corner yet. Speaking of which:
JEFF BEWARE THE MTC FOOD!! EAT WISELY OR YOU WILL HAVE THE WORST GAS EVER!!!! I had a dream that I went on another mission and went back to the MTC and said "I´ve been here. I know I need to stick to the salads." Haha Be so careful cuz people get faa-aat in the MTC. Also, eat a yummy chocolate chip cookie for me. I miss those.
Rostock P-Days are busy because we do things with the Elders and Christian (he just got back from his mission and he hangs out with the missionaries to feel like he is still a missionary.) So it´s hard to write letters because we´re always unterwegs. I can´t remember the translation to that word. Look it up.
I did get to host when I was at the MTC. We only host the Sisters though. The Elders bring the new Sisters to the Host sisters and we help them out from there, so that´s why you didn´t see the sisters. Funny thing actually, I hosted my friend from USU and I didn´t even know she was going on a mission. I forgot about that until now.
That´s so fun that you had the missionaries over for dinner. I can´t believe you have 2 missionaries out. It´s crazy. Reading Jeff´s e-mail was awesome. It reminded me of my first few days at the MTC. They told us we would be teaching a native German IN German. I about peed. I love that investigator so much still. It´s crazy. Mine and Sister McCappin´s first lesson with him was we had our TALL books and we read directly out of them. We tried to ask a question, then we wouldn´t understand what he said back so we´d look at each other, look at him with a blank face, shrug our shoulders, and keep reading from the TALL book. Don´t worry! Before you leave the MTC you WILL be able to give lessons in Spanish with just a lesson plan. It´s a miracle. It´s amazing. Work so hard and the Lord will bless you so much!
Anyway. Sorry about my passionate missionary work rant. Koffi- he´s doing so good. He really doesn´t want to get baptized because he was just baptized awhile ago and he doesn´t want to change religions again. We´re still working with him and hopefully he will feel the truth and change his mind. We have another appointment with him tonight. I knew you´d love that story mom! I love that story too.
I wish we would´ve had testimony meeting after my setting apart blessing. I thought about it, but I didn´t say it. I had a lot on my mind. Keep on that tradition. That´s awesome. I´m also way bummed that I missed getting a blessing from Jeff. But I can get one from him one day.
I asked about the Schülls and the person I asked had no idea who I was talking about. I wonder if Sarah remembered the name right...
Thanks for all of your love and support. This gospel is true! I love the Book of Mormon and I´m almost done reading it! I´m so excited to finish reading it so I can start reading it in German. It´s going to be intense, but I`m so excited. I know that this is the work of the Lord. I´m so happy to bring others to this 100% WAHRHEIT! (Truth) I love you all and think about you all the time. You´re always in my prayers. Be good and keep being Jesus Champions.
Love, Sister Niebergall
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