This week was great! But nothing really special! Sadly Desmond and Samson weren't baptized this week! BUT that's okay!! Desmond smoked again but he felt so bad and really gained a testimony on repentance so that was amazing and a blessing in disguise!! He still wants to so bad and wants to be ready so we are working for April 30!! And with Samson he was so sad that he couldn't get baptized this week!! We learned he actually has to meet with our mission president, not an elder, and he couldn't come till this week!! Samson was literally heart broken! He legitimately started to tear up! I felt so bad! And because next week is general conference we are doing it April 9th!! He is so pumped to start his new life!!! He's been through a lot and loves that through Jesus Christ he can find new life! He told us on church at Sunday that he wants to serve a mission too!!! He would be the most amazing missionary everrrr!!!!
This week we met with a potential named kawa and it was so cool!!! So he's technically a Muslim and he's from Iraq!! And when he moved here he saw the difference between how Muslims live where he's from and how Christians live here and the lifestyle they have and he loved it and wants to be Christian! The only thing is he only speaks Turkish and a little Arabic! But no English or German haha!! But we found him at a street display and tried our hardest to talk to him with very broken German and basically got "God, book, church" and that's it! Haha but he wanted to meet with us and we talked through google translate on his phone haha!! And the second time he called someone on his phone who spoke Turkish and English!! And we had a great lesson with him!! But can you imagine... You come here and want to be Christian so bad and will do anything for it and all of a sudden two girls come up to you talking about God! So he now has a baptismal date!! It's not till May 7th because we are going to need a while to find a translator and everything!!! But he's seriously amazing and already has an amazing testimony of God!! Talk about prepared people!!
When he came to church we tried to translate everything on google
translate while people were talking! And he probably couldn't
understand much but he was so happy and never stopped smiling!! He is seriously amazing!! He is living proof that we don't do anything and it's all the spirit!!
So we got a referral from the office this week and when we called
and he was very specific that he just wanted a Book of Mormon and not to meet with missionaries! He made that very very clear!!!! Haha!! He told us to give it to his neighbor!! So we took a bus all the way out to freakin Vietnam in the middle of freakin nowhere to give this guys neighbor a Book of Mormon for him! We finally get there and sister Carroll pulls out her great little app on the iPad and plugs in the address and we have to walk 33 minutes to this guys house!! And it's taking us through back ways and fields and trails and we went on a legit adventure to get there.. Mud and all!! And we finally get there... But the name on the clingal thing wasn't the name he gave us!! So we looked and realized the iPad took us to the complete wrong place!!!!! His house was on the OTHER SIDE OF THE DUMB BUS STOP!!!!!!
So we had to walk all the back (but before we walked I made sister
Carroll let us door the house it took it too cause, we had to be there
for a reason.... so we did and it was an adorable sweet little man who was very Catholic haha)...so we walked back to the bus stop and it took us a way where there were fences blocking off the apartment building and sister Carroll wouldn't let us hop the gate so we had the walk all the way around!!!! Then 30 minutes later we get there with the clingal thing and she lets us in and takes the book and that's it!!! We didn't even get to talk to her! She just shut the door!!! Dumbbbbb!!! So we were going back to the bus stop but decided to go the closer bus stop and went completely out of the way and left our area on accident but finally made it back to Herne!!
So every other week we go to this place called lebenshilfe where
people with Down syndrome live! I absolutely love love going there and it was our turn this week and we got to color eggs with them!!! So even though I wasn't home with you guys I still got to color eggs!!!
Easter is huge here!!! Like Germany shuts down the weekend of Easter!! And everyone gives out eggs as gifts... like hard boiled eggs!! Isn't that weird!?? Haha I've gotten like 15 warm hard boiled eggs this weekend!!!
Hahaha funny story!!! So, Sister Carroll and I both got a hard boiled egg today from a lady in our ward and when we got home she was putting hers in the fridge and I was sitting at my desk and I was like "oh put mine in there" so I go to throw it at her and it happened to hit the one beam thing in the middle of our house and egg shell exploded everywhere and egg got all over sister carroll's stuff haha!! She wasn't super happy with me! So she told me I'm not allowed to throw eggs in our apartment anymore!! But I've thrown two since she said that haha!!
So we got a pack of American cookie mix and we were so excited!!!!
So we made them and we forgot about them in the oven!!!!! And we burned them!! Haha we finally has something American and yummy we can eat and we burn them!! We were sitting at our desks and were doing studies and something smelled weird and we just look at each other and sister Carroll ran over to the oven to get them! They are little dark but they don't taste too bad!!! Haha
We played soccer again for pday!! And football for a little but the
Germans hated football so we switched back to soccer but it was
freezing and raining!!!
I'm sorry this weekend was kinda crazy!!!! But I want to hurry and send this so you can email back haha!!!! Love you!!!!!:)
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