It was good to hear from you all this week. Sounds like things are going well minus mom being sick and hurting her toe. What a rough combo! I hope you´re feeling better and that you´ll be on your feet again soon. Oh, as for a weather report: It´s been BEAUTIFUL here. Saturday I went without a coat or jacket and I was okay until the evening then it cooled off quite a bit. But it was awesome. We´re getting some spring fever up here and the people are much much nicer when there is sun shining.
This week has flown by. I don´t remember really what happened. But we were busy and that´s why I can´t remember what happened. But it was good so that´s all that matters. We´ve had appointments and not really any way awesome stories. Bummer. But there´s always this week.
I´m glad you had a good time at the Environmental Center. Oh good ol´ 6th grade dances. I´m sure the children appreciated your breaking of the ice with your interpretive dance. I´m also sure that I will be the same way as these 6th graders when I come home. I´ve become very awkward. Oh well, that´s a good thing, right?
It´s good that you let the little boys know not to kidnap the girls. I´d be way embarrassed if that happened to me. Good job.
Man, it seems like Jeff has a rough time with letter sending. Hopefully he gets more skilled at that. Also, I´m incredibly jealous that he got to hear Elder Holland. I guess I was at the MTC the wrong time! Have you heard Elder Holland yet, Jeff? I can´t remember.
I´m glad you got the pictures! I´ve had them printed out to send for a really long time, but it´s hard to get to a post office on Mondays because we´re busy doing other things. I decided to crack down and send you them finally because it was ridiculous that you didn´t have any from Rostock yet. I´m glad you got them.
My companion is still doing well health-wise. This week is going to not be a normal missionary work week. We have Zone Conference tomorrow (so I can´t answer how Zone Conference was because that´s tomorrow. I will talk about it next week.) Then we´re having Tausch. My companion will be in Eisenhüttenstadt and I will be in Rostock with Sister Risenmay from Texas. We´ll meet up at Zone Conference and instead of going to our normal areas we´ll trade up and get back late Tuesday night, stay in Rostock Wednesday and trade back Thursday. So there will be a lot of traveling this week and not a whole lot of time for missionary work. It´s always good to have tausch. So we won´t get back to normal Rostock things until Friday. So we have this week and next week left of transfers. We have transfer calls March 17th. The past 2 years March 17th has been a special day for me, so we´ll see if the trend continues. (Music Therapy acceptance, mission call). I´m sure I´ll stay in Rostock since my companion has been here longer than me.
We didn´t get in contact with that family again. I´m sure we´ll see them again though. It can´t be coincidence that this whole thing happened.
Too bad that Kid History wasn´t the best. I forgot all about those movies. They´re so funny.
We actually didn´t get to go to the zoo because we couldn´t find the entrance, it was late into the day, and it was raining so none of the animals were out. We´re going to try again another day. That turtle picture was taken at a pet store. Those things were for sale! Crazy huh!
It´s crazy to think about our new Mission President. I think he would probably speak English, but I´m not really sure. We´ll see! German is going slightly better except yesterday when I was trying to bear my testimony. There is a Senior Sister who doesn´t speak any German so there was someone translating for her. It was really weird to hear myself speak in German and hear what I was saying in English. It was really distracting and I definitely didn´t give as good of a testimony as I wanted to.
I´ll give you a quick overview of our investigators who make progress.
Fadi- From Jordan. He cancelled his app this week cuz he had to clean. Dang. We´ll get him this week.
Svetlana- From Russia. She was in an abusive relationship and she really knows how to follow the Holy Ghost. That´s how she was found. She was shopping at the grocery store under our church and had a feeling to go around the corner and saw the sign for our church and went up the stairs and luckily a member was there. He invited her to church and she came. They made a baptismal date with her the first time they met with her. It´s passed that date, but she is trying to get her answer if she should get baptized. She has a lot of health problems so she´s hard to get ahold of.
Herr Bielack- From Germany. He´s a therapist and listens to everything we say (you can tell because he does active listening) and it´s very intimidating that he´s actually listening. Haha. No, he´s super cool.
Herr Meuser- From Germany. He is atheist but is slowly but surely beginning to believe in God. He´s such a sweet guy. He also has tons of health problems.
Kofi- From Togo. You´ve heard of him already. He´s super awesome. We´re just trying to slap him in the face with our testimonies so he can see that even though he feels comfortable in his church he needs to join ours.
Mario- From Germany. He´s what we like to call an "Ewig Investigator" (He´s been investigating for an eternity.) He comes to all the activities and church, but won´t get baptized because when he was praying to find out if he should he was swimming and a cloud went over the sun. He took that as his answer. We haven´t really met with him much and we don´t really know what to do to help him realize what he needs to get baptized.
Dietmar- Also from Germany. He is interesting. He is a triplet and somehow finds a way to fit that into every conversation. I think he just wants friends more than to learn about the church. We teach him English and he is at the very basics. He can´t quite do a "hello, what´s your name?" conversation yet. He also has a slight crush on my companion. It´s hard to teach him the gospel, but we meet with him 2 to 3 times a week.
I did get the addresses, thanks for sending them.
As for the Book of Mormon this week- I was able to give it away actually! Every Sunday I play the piano in primary and they just sing one song. (Weird huh!) Then I go into Relief Society. Yesterday when I went into Relief Society there was an empty chair next to a lady that I didn´t recognize and my companion motioned for me to sit by her. I sat by her and chatted with her and wasn´t sure if she was a member visiting from another city or if she was a non-member. I asked lots of questions and calculated she was not a member. She told me she was shopping at this store under our church and she saw the sign for our church and went up the stairs. There are pamphlets and pass along cards there and info about church. She decided to come check church out.
I was able to sit next to her during Sacrament meeting and explain what was happening and explain that we don´t have a testimony meeting every week and things like that. Tons of people bore their testimonies on the Book of Mormon. After the meeting I said to her "You probably have a lot of questions. We do things a little differently than every other church. We´d love to meet with you and explain a little about what happened and about what we believe." She said that she would like that and she also asked if it was possible if she could get a Book of Mormon. I had a big smile on my face and thought "You sure can have this Book of Mormon that I´ve been carrying all week." She was really excited and we have an appointment with her Thursday.
It´s awesome to see how much the Lord blesses us when we are prepared. Thanks for encouraging me to carry a Book of Mormon around. I´m going to do it again this week.
I know that this gospel is true and we are SO blessed to have a living prophet on the earth today. In about a month is General Conference! Start preparing for it now. Prayerfully think of questions or concerns you want answered or resolved and they will be addressed in Conference! I´m so excited to hear from the prophet again. I can´t believe it´s almost been 6 months since the last one. It´s flown by. I love you all! Keep being amazing!
Tschüss!
Love, Sister Niebergall
Love, Sister Niebergall
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