HELLO!!!
I love you all so much. Wasn´t conference awesome? It always makes me
want to get up and be a better person and like...... never sin again. I
loved Elder Uchtdorf´s talk too and felt like the main topic of the
conferece was forgiveness. It must be a major problem with a lot of
people. I am so excited to get the Liahona so I can read them again. We
didn´t get to see the Sunday afternoon session, but I´m sure we´ll watch
it next Sunday in church, and if not I´ll just have to read it or watch
it next P-Day.
I thought about you every time it mentioned
missionaries too. I always said "I bet my mom is crying." Was that true?
It was really awesome to stand and sing called to serve with all the
missionaries all over the world. I kept thinking to myself "Jeff is
singing this right now with me!" It was really neat. I really enjoyed
it. I did see Mr. Wood. It was fun! I also saw happy lady. And that made
me, you know, happy. :)
Rostock has been a little cold the past couple days.
And when it isn´t freezing it´s too warm for my big coat but too cold
for no jacket. I don´t have a jacket. Can I get one? They do have April
Fool´s day in Germany, but I don´t think it´s anywhere near as big as in
America. We pulled a prank on the Elders and Christian. We offered to
make dinner because they always do. We made stuffed bell peppers
(YUMMY!) and we decided to make the meat at home the night before so we
could just put it in the peppers after conference and wouldn´t have to
cook. We had a brilliant idea to put food coloring in the meat so when
we pulled out the meat and took the tin foil off it looked like it was
moldy. I was like "WHAT IS THAT??" and everyone swarmed over and started
making scientific guesses of why it was green. Elder Sniatynsky said
that it was because we put it in the fridge with tinfoil over it while
it was still hot and it discolors the food. Christian said the funniest
thing which was "Just bless it and we´ll be okay" haha. People were
still making guesses about what it was and how it could´ve happened and I
said "Maybe it´s from food coloring because it´s April Fool´s day or
something." All of the guys flipped. They admitted that it was a good
one. But yeah. My companion and I still get along really well.
This week was full of organizing the things in our records so that we can get some effective work done here in Rostock. We also made and printed and delivered a bunch of General Conference invitations. The majority of our lessons fell out this week. It was really bad. I have felt like a terrible missionary this week. And I`ve been working my hardest, but it´s really hard for me to feel like I´m not even making a scratch on the missionary work here, but Heavenly Father told me He needed me on a mission so I´m trying to stick with it and try to find out why He needs me.
The biggest adventure of this week is we were
desperately feeling like we need to get something done here in Rostock
so yesterday Sister Noyes and I poured out our hearts and said that we
really want to find the people that are hungering for His word. We
prayed and said "We´re going to Evershagen" (Evershagen is to Rostock as
Pleasant View is to Ogden). "Please confirm that we´re going to the
right place" We went and started walking and the first person we talked
to on the street we made an appointment with him. Then we got on the
Bahn. There was a guy staring at us so I felt like I should give him a
card or talk to him. I went over to talk to him and was tapping on his
shoulder and then he decided to ignore me. It was odd. So I sat down on a
seat and I saw a guy reading a Russian magazine so I started talking to
him and said "Do you speak Russian? We have a book in Russian that we
would love to give you!" We pulled out a picture of Jesus and explained
the book was about Jesus. He told us he´s a Jew, but he still said we
could come by with our member that speaks Russian (his german was pretty
rough). And so we´re going to go by on him Tuesday evening. I hope you
can pray extra hard for us that day. There are lots of Russian people
here in Rostock and this Russian member is always busy so we need to see
miracles when she helps us because she won´t be able to help us too
often. That´s our adventure. We actually didn´t make it to Evershagen
because we were talking to the guy. But it was nice that Heavenly Father
gave me the courage to talk to this man and that hopefully we can bring
him to the fold!
It was painful to come to the e-mail and not have one from Jeff. But I can´t wait to read it next week!
When
we eat at Bruder Schmidt´s we eat TONS. We always have potatoes with
some sort of gravy and some kind of hefty meat. Sometimes Rotkhol (I
can´t remember if I told you that I´ve actually learned to love Rotkhol
now), sauerkraut, tea, vanilla pudding with either applesauce on it or
raspberry sauce, cake, cookies, chocolate. The other week we had Eis
bein which is pig´s leg from the lower part of the thigh to the upper
part of the shin. The best part is that it still has the skin and hair
on it. Luckily it was on a different plate and we were to dish ourselves
and I didn´t get any skin. I was too scared. But now I wish I did so
that I could tell people I ate pig skin with the hairs on it while I was
on my mission. It´s always fun to eat at Bruder Schmidt´s. I want so
badly to start a fund and get him to America for General Conference one
year and have all the missionaries that have ever been to Rostock help
out, but I don´t know how possible that would be. But I just know that
his dream in life is to go to the Salt Lake Temple. I´d love to help him
with how much he does for the missionaries.
I knew that David Archuleta was going on a mission,
but I´ve heard no one knows where. Is that still true or has it finally
leaked out? Oh man. Poor Elder Archuleta. He´s probably the MTC
celebrity.
Well thanks for everything you do family! I hope
that we can not only listen to the words of the prophets and apostels,
but do what they´ve told us to do and have the courage to make the
changes necessary to become the people he has in mind for us to become. I
know that the prophet and apostles are called of God and inspired to
say what the Lord wants us to hear. I hope we will review the conference
talks when we get the Ensign so that we can remember the spirit we
felt. I love you family!
Love, Sister Niebergall
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