Ich habe euch Lieb!
Thanks
for your e-mail. I love hearing about what´s happening at home. I loved
reading your e-mail and I wish I could print all my e-mails because I
would just love to read them over and over again. Thanks for your words
of encouragement and love. You´re the best! I´m so blessed to have such
an awesome family!
This week has been good. But it has been FREEZING
cold I´ve been feeling better the past couple days. I had to buy cough
syrup (yuck yuck), so my cough has been getting better. We had a scare
for a minute that I had pneumonia, because the kid that coughed on me
ended up having pneumonia. But I´ve gotten better- luckily not all forms
of pneumonia are contagious. I had to relax, but I didn´t want to so I
didn´t really. I´m still coughing, but my lungs don´t hurt anymore and I
don´t cough as frequently. Yay for medicine!
I think the only thing that would keep Scwester
Raezke from feeding us is if she were in the hospital. She is so
awesome. She fed us again last week and she fed us chicken (a very
uncommon meat to eat in Germany), broccoli, rot kohl, potatoes and
gravy, with a fruit salad for dessert. It doesn´t sound too hard to eat,
but she has A LOT of food. And it tastes so so yummy that you want to
eat it, but there´s just so much food! We will be eating with her again
tonight. She always loves it when we can eat all of the food. Thank
goodness the Elders from our district always come with- otherwise we
wouldn´t be able to schaff it. We haven´t had any pumpkin soup yet! And
it surprises me because we eat with the members every day. When I was in
Celle, we had one eating appointment a week and we ate pumpkin soup at
every appointment. Speaking of pumpkins and Halloween, what are you
doing for Halloween? or as the Germans say "hallo wien" (Wien is Vienna
in German). They don´t really celebrate Halloween here, but apparently
it´s getting bigger than it used to be. We met someone that said he was
Satan on the street- maybe he just meant for Halloween. Hmmmm.... He
wasn´t that scary though.
We´ve had a hard time finding new people this week,
but we´ve been working really hard. Our bikes are serving us super well
and it makes it easier to get more done faster. We´ve gone by on a lot
of people that have contact with the missionaries only once and we´ve
been able to contact a lot of people and find out that they don´t have
interest or we have been able to make appointments and teach people. The
problem is a good majority of the people that are open enough to listen
to us are Muslim, so they´re not really interested in changing. But
we´re still looking. There´s gotta be people out there.
We also have like.. A BILLION less active members
here in this ward. My goal is to try to contact all of them before I go
home and reactivate at LEAST one. We only have a branch right now, but
if everyone were active we would have a huge ward. We had an eating
appointment with a member yesterday (we ate this Thai chicken with a
peanut butter sauce. I got the recipe for Heather SOOOOO yummy!) Their
son is 17 years old and is in a phase of "I want to be cool and fit in
so in order to do that I need to smoke and drink A TON!" it made me sad
to see him because he´s so little and has so much life ahead of him. But
I couldn´t help but feel like that was just a silly phase he was going
through and he would snap out of it quite quickly. It makes me so sad to
see people that don´t live their covenants and don´t use their
priesthood. That is such a HUGE blessing from our Heavenly Father and
they could be blessing so many people´s lives. I hope we can help the
members here realize that.
We only had one appointment with the Romanian family
this week. We have been trying to get it organized that they can speak
witht he Romanian missionaries and we almost have it totally finalized.
We might be able to do a Skpe with the Romainian AP´s on Saturday. We
are so excited and are hoping that this is what needs to happen to get
them to progress more in the gospel. They love the Book of Mormon, but
they´ll be able to understand the importance of it. And our ward is so
awesome, they are going to be totally involved in this- one family will
pick them up, another family will let us skype at their house- and
hopefully we can get it figured out that we can get them to church. We
still haven´t had anyone at church yet, but hopefully this will
eventually change. The construction on the church is to make it bigger
because there were more and more members, but right when they started
the construction, 2 big families moved away and people have gone
inactive so now they don´t really need it bigger- but once we´re done
here they will! I´m excited to be in the Elmshorn church house- I´m
still not sure which members are ours and which belong to Pinneberg. We
should be starting church there this week. Oh, and it´s a regular church
building.
I´m glad you like "no regrets!" It hasn´t gotten old
to us either. I laugh every time. We don´t lift our legs though, I feel
like that would make it ten times as dangerous, plus maybe scandelous
seeing as we´re in skirts. But maybe I´ll try it. :) That´s nice that
Sister O´s mom speaks highly of me... I definitely am not the best
trainer and wish I could be doing better, but I´m glad that she
approves. Are you and Sister O´s mom super tight? Do you go out to lunch
together? That´s funny that grandma thought the picture of you was me. I
want to see a picture please!
I am so glad you were able to give a talk and that
the spirit was with you. I can´t believe Rachel was willing to so
spontaniously with you sing. I love speaking about the power of music. I
think the foundation of my testimony came from primary songs. I love
music and I love the gospel! I´m grateful every day that I get to speak
to people about the plan that Heavnly Father has for them. This life
isn´t coincidence. We are so blessed to know this and I hope we
willingly share this with those around you (nail lady). Hope all is well
with you! I know the church is true!
Love, Sister Niebergall
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