Week 18

HEYYYYY!!!!

So to start out with the best news!!! SAMSON GOT BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!! Ahhhh I'm so excited!!!!! Saying he was excited is an understatement!!!! He showed up way early and he brought three friends!! It was so cool! I have a picture of him after he was baptized and I have never seen him smile that big before... ever!!!! The spirit was so strong!! Ahh it was the best best best day ever!!!!! Then yesterday at church he was there before us!! He was so happy to get the Holy Ghost!!! Elder Shelley gave him the blessing and it was beautiful!! It was seriously perfect!!! He is super sad that sister Carroll is leaving and he came up to me and was like "you're not allowed to leave.. Just tell them you can't ever leave Samson!" Hahaha he's so funny!! The other day he was leaving the church with a member and he's a quiet shy person and I started saying "make sure you put your jacket on its kinda cold tonight...and make sure you talk to her she knows a lot of English... and don't be late tomorrow cause we need to make sure everything is ready to go!" And all he said was "k mom! Bye!" Hahaha now all the Africans that heard that call me mom so that's a little weird but what ever!

So now what my mom has been waiting for.... 
Yes we got transfer calls!! And sister Carroll is leaving Herne and going somewhere far away called Coberg!! And I'm training!! What the heck?! Training!!!
I'm so nervous but so excited!!! Sister Carroll said my German will
sky rocket so that's good!! I'm taking a train to Frankfurt on Tuesday morning. Then I will meet the girl I'm training and have meetings and spend the night there! And come back to Herne on Wednesday!

Andddd Elder Crossley is leaving so I will be the missionary who's been in Herne the longest!!! So I have to know where things are and who people are and everything!! AHHH pray for me!! This will be an adventure for sure!!!

But something kinda cool is Sister Carroll's new companion is
my MTC companion!!

I ATE RAW MEAT THIS WEEK!!! FREAKING RAW STRAIGHT FROM THE ANIMAL MEAT!!! It looked like someone took a package of raw ground turkey and put it on a plate and served it to me!! And you use a knife and spread it on bread!! It was so weird!! So I thought okay this is okay... I'll just put a thin layer on... and won't I even notice that I'm eating raw meat they just got out of an animal! But NOOO a member walked by and was like "that's not how you do it" and just took a big spoonful and just slapped it on my bread!!!! It was so gross!! But not too bad! It could have been worse?! But still so gross... I mean it was raw meat! But I would rather eat the raw meat than the stinky cheese.. No question! Hahahaha

So I was talking to this lady in our ward and someone came up to me and was like, "Hey sister baker want some jelly beans?" And I was trying to listen to this lady cause she is old and hard to understand and so I just throw them in my mouth and they were the STUPID TRICK JELLY BEANS THAT TASTE BAD!!!! 
So all of sudden my mouth starts tasting like legit throw up...but I'm talking to this old lady member and she's going
on about temples and the perfect guys (I think??)...and I'm trying not to gag and react cause she will get mad...but now I'm not even paying attention to what she's saying!!  I'm just trying to swallow these jelly beans, but still look like I'm totally interested in what she's saying and just nodding along. Then I walk away and the person next me was like, "do you know what you just agreed too?" And I was like not at all hahaha! So we will see what happens next Tuesday with her!!! hahahaha

For pday we didn't do much!! There isn't much to do in herne haha!! But we went to Gysenbergpark to just hangout and see what was there!! We played a little soccer and football and ate ice cream!! Well not much happened this week!! But I love you all so much and miss you and I'll talk to you soon!!!
Sister Baker

We made brownies!!!!

I don't know...this was just fun!!!

SAMSON'S BAPTISM!!!!!!!

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