First of all, I´ll give you our menu:
Monday: Raezke´s. Some kind of yummy beef, broccoli,
rot kohl, potatoes, and a HUGE cake with manderin oranges in it. It was
delicious. Elder Nathan Elmer served in Elmshorn about a year ago and
he was there to visit Schwester Raezke again and she went all out for
him. We had so much food. More than normal. So we had a party and it was
a lot of fun to talk with everyone together.
Tuesday: Tacos with our Branch President´s family.
Also. Super. Delicious. It was fun to talk about missions with him and
his wife. She also served a mission.
Wednesday: No eating appointment.
Thursday: Chili con carne with a lady who has
cancer. It was so amazing to be with her and hear her faith and her love
for Heavenly Father, it was a great way to spend Thanksgiving. We also
ate cake and wheat coffee later with our ward mission leader.
Friday: Lasagna. So yummy! With the same family that fed us yesterday.
Saturday:
African food! Aka Rice with meat in it, tortilla type things, bean
sauce, and don´t worry. Fried fish heads. I was feeling sick that day
and somehow Heavenly Father blessed us and we somehow didn´t have to eat
it. I wanted to eat it though to say I have, but I really wasn´t
feeling well and didn´t want to puke in front of our sweet member
Marcia.
Sunday: WE CELEBRATED THANKSGIVING. It was so
amazing and delicious. This family has a tradition of doing Thanksgiving
for the missionaries. It was really nice. We had the BIGGEST turkey
I´ve ever seen, stuffing, stuffed mushrooms (oh my gosh, I have to get
the recipe. They were so amazing), corn, beans, peas, cauliflower,
broccoli, cranberry sauce, rolls, mashed regular potatoes, and mashed
sweet potatoes. Then for dessert, an amazing chocolate mousse cake pie
thing, apple crisp, pumpkin pie, cherry pie, and of course...jello salad
(not the pink jello stuff though. Bummer!) The only thing that was
missing was mom´s cheesecake. It was so amazing and I´m so grateful to
have such nice considerate members. I hope that I can be that kind of
member one day.
One day we were riding our bikes and we saw this guy
crossing the road and for some reason he turned around in the middle of
the road, cussed (in english), and ran back the direction he just came.
We rode past him and I said "That was English! We´re from America!" and
then got of our bikes and chatted with him for awhile. He mentioned
before we even said anything about the Book of Mormon that he loves to
read and then when we brought up the Book of Mormon, he got all philosophical and tried explaining faith with philosophy and it made no
sense. But basically he wanted to tell us that we can´t ever know if our
church is true. And to that I say DOCH! (pretty much the most common
German comeback. The most direct translation I can think of for it is
"Yeah-huh!") But its too bad that he didn´t have more interest. That
would´ve been a great conversion story.
This week was pretty wet,
not because it was rainy, but because it was foggy and misty. It was
pretty interesting to ride bikes in.
This week
we were looking through our area book and I found this paper with
referals on it from a member who had moved. He had sent out a letter to
his friends to say goodbye and in this letter he said "I know you all
know we´re mormon and our religion means so much to us. We´re going to
send the missionaries by your house." They moved about a year ago, but I
decided to call this member and ask him about this list. I said "I´m
sure the Elders went by on all these people already" And he said "I
wouldn´t be so sure. I didn´t ever hear back from them and I´m really
disappointed. Thank you for following up on that. Please go by on them.
So we got 20 referals all in one sitting. That was awesome. We went by
on one of them and she said we can come back. I have a feeling we will
have a lot of success with that.
Yesterday we had church and it was crazy. We had met
with a member this week who just barely moved into Elmshorn from
Hamburg and let him know we are back in Elmshorn (it was too hard for
him to get to church in Pinneberg) and he brought a friend with. A 15
year old girl. Everyone was SO nice to her. But I feel bad cuz I think
it was overwhelming for her. And somehow a rumor got out that she was
going to get baptized so there were several people going up to her and
saying "OH! You´re going to get baptized!! That´s great!!" And she was
freaked out saying "No! I haven´t heard anything about the church at
all! I just wanted to check it out!" Oh man. It was too crazy. But we
were glad to meet her. I don´t know how she would´ve been if Elders were
there and not Sisters to be on a girl level with her. Yeah. That was
fun.
Those are pretty much the main stories of the week. It was a good week and I´m looking for a good week this week too.
The
tomato soup didn´t taste bad at all! It was just so yummy that we ate
so much and we ate too much. We weren´t sick from food poisoning, just
overeating. You wouldn´t understand until you´ve tried this soup. Oh my
gosh. It´s so good. The Russian sweets are okay. They´re a little bland.
Pretty much PURE sugar. We did find these cakes though that are like
strawberry shortcakes. They´re yummy.
I don´t really understand what happened with the
Romanian family. I guess they still live there. We were able to find a
member in Hamburg that speaks Romanian and he came this week with us. He
said they don´t live there but they do live there. I said "What??" And
he said "It makes sense in Romanian." HUH? It doesn´t make sense in
English. So I guess they live there. They love the Book of Mormon still
and are reading in it and Gheorghe was even talking to people on mormon.org.
That´s so cool! He´s researching it as best as he can and he still
really believes that God sent us there. So we´ll see where it goes this
week.
Bubble tea is something that I LOVE! It´s like a
thin milkshake with little pearl/ball like things with fruit juice in
the middle and they pop in your mouth. They´re amazing. I love them.
Sister Odenwalder ate the pancake at home. The lady sent them home with
us, it was crazy, they were moldy the day after we got them. Naja.
The people that have fears to leave their houses
don´t live that far away from the church. They even are scared to
grocery shopping. It´s just a fear of being away from home. I´m not sure
if she got a blessing yet. I forgot to ask.
Thank you for following the spirit and telling me
what it told you to say. We will do that when we meet with her. You´re
awesome mom.
I want to find out what happened
with the Felber´s too. I´ve called them every day this week. Sometimes
it picks up and immediately hangs up or sometimes no one answers at
all. I hope to get ahold of them soon. I cant imagine not staying in
touch with the people that I´ve met here on my mission. I love them way
too much. I bet that breaks dad´s heart. I hope he finds them again some
day.
Tell Shayna congrats!!! That´s so exciting for her!
Tell her she is going to be a great missionary. I wish I could go as a
joint teach with her. She´s going to come back a cow-woman.
I hope the card gets to me soon. We´ve used up all of Sister O´s
money and we are living off bread milk and cereal that was paid by her
personal money. But it´ll work out. I just hate bumming off of her
personal money.
I
love you my family! I am so glad you raised me in this gospel and that I
can share it with the people here in Elmshorn. I love it and I know
it´s true! I may not e-mail next Monday. It might be Tuesday. We might
go see Lion King in Hamburg. We´ll see. We might do that the week after.
Woot! Kay. Love you!
Love, Sister Niebergall
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