Sister Haley Baker: Week 20

Hey Family!!!!!!

Oh my freakin gosh to start off this week I sat in CHEWED
GUM!!!!!!!!!! Real, disgusting, mint, already been chewed gum!!!!!! And I didn't realize till I got on the bus and sat down and stood up to move to a different seat and felt my skirt stick!!!! I had to flip my skirt around and try to get it off using hand sanitizer!!!! HAND SANITIZER!!! Which surprisingly worked very well!!!! But how freakin gross is that! Freakin Germans throw your gum away!!!!!!

So I finally got bible bashed by a Jehovah Witness!! His name is
Solomon, which makes it even better! We met him in the library a
couple weeks ago, or well he met us really! He walked by us then like double took at our name tags then got really close to my face and said in English "you speak English" and I was like uh yes! I do! So do you! And we started talking and I could already tell he was preachy cause in the three minutes he talked he quoted 7 scriptures from the bible, and he wasn't super nice and interrupted me all the time, But we got his number and went our separate ways! Then this week we ran into him again and he asked if we had time and we happened to have just gotten stood up, so we did! And we met with him! We went and sat on a bench and started talking about the restoration and then he starts bringing up magic and the devil and I was like uh what? That's not even what we were talking about!!! The he asked what I know about magic and I said not much and he looked so surprised and goes "how even old are you?" And I told him 19 and he went off on how I'm not experienced and I don't know anything! So I, being the kind, patient person I am, simply bore my testimony on how I don't need to be experienced or old to know that what I'm saying is true, then he brought up terrorists so finally we were over it and I said we had to go! BUT then the next day we had to call these two guys we contacted and sister Cressler wrote it down and called it but accidentally called SOLOMON!!! And we had to set up an appointment with him!!! And that's when he pulled out his Jw bible (which they rewrote and changed when it says God to jehovah and changed all the words) and started literally preaching to us for 20 minutes and wouldn't let us get a word in so finally I said "is it my turn?" So I answered his questions
that he kinda asked during his lecture and and shared my testimony again...and thought we were going to end on a good note...and then all he said back was "so how's George bush and what do you know about the illuminati?" WHAT?!? I was so done by then, I just said "can we end with a prayer?" And so we did and then while we were walking away he said you study up on the illuminati and we can discuss that next time!
Ya okay I'll do that!

But on a better note!! Sister Cressler is amazing!!! She loves talking to people just like I do!! Even the crazies!! Haha it's amazing!!! But don't worry they aren't all crazy!! We met so many cool people this week!!!! And have so many potentials we have to meet with and some of them are even kinda German which is a miracle!!! We met a guy Richard and he is from Africa and is so nice and loves hearing what we have to say!! I love it!!! And we met Dominick, he's from Australia!! And we went dooring finally and a man told us to come back cause he's putting his babies to bed!! Hahaha Samson went dooring with us cause he was going to the activity with us that night at the church and he loved it!! He would get so excited!! One of the houses I clingled and I turned round and Samson was at a different house and waiting for the door to buzz open and I asked if he clingled it and he was like ya these ones and he pushed more than one because said he thinks they all need to hear it!! So I was nervous that all these people
would open the door haha but none of them answered!!

I GOT MY PACKAGE!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! I was so happy!! It came at the literally perfect time!!! We had zone training on Thursday and that's when it came!!! I loved it!!!! I loved the Pete's shirt! And that night we had dinner at bishops house and they had me open it there! And I shared my Reece's cause they don't have those here and they loved it and I gave them all a hot Cheeto but they didn't like that so much cause Germans hate spicy things!!! Haha!! And I LOVED all the pictures!! But if I got a dollar every time a girl here saw a picture of my brother and said he's cute I would be so rich.

So I'm going to substitute some words in this next story...So we
were sitting at the bishops house and we're all talking and I was
telling a story... but I cant remember what I was saying and I think the ending wasn't good and the bishops just goes "hm shiz happens" but she didn't say shiz!!!!! It took everything I had not to laugh!!!!!
But then I made the mistake of looking at my companion and we both just cracked up and they were just looking at us like we were crazy!!! Haha I loved it!!!

Weekly fill of Samson!!! Guys he is literally my best friend
here!!!! I love him soooo much!!!!!! He asked for 5 more book of
Mormons this week!!!! What the heck! Go Samson!!

Cool story of the week! We were dooring on day and it wasn't going super well and we were kinda just cold and sick of it but we doored this man and he was just kinda rude and we were going to leave but I felt we should do this other name so we did and we go upstairs and this sweet old lady was so happy to see us and invited us in and was just so German and I couldn't understand her! And she couldn't understand me cause of my strong American accent! But we finally got our message across and pulled out the Book of Mormon and it turns out she's super evangelist but she wants us to come back and I secretly left a Book of Mormon... and I'm super excited!!!

Well I'm doing great!! Happy, healthy and safe!! The mission really is going great!!! My favorite thing is I can literally feel Gods love for people through me!! I have such a love for people I just meet and the only way I can explain it is I feel a glimpse of what God feels for them and it's amazing!!!! And I just love that I get to testify of my Savior everyday, multiple times, in different ways to different people in different languages!!! It's really wonderful!!!

Funny story! So sometimes we help our bishops daughter with English and we were helping her with her American history study
guide and some of the questions made sense like who was the first
president and where is the statute of Liberty...but then we flipped the page and it asked "when was the first hamburger sold in the United States?" Hahahah what!??? no one knows that!!! That's the weirdest question ever!! But it's 1885 if anyone was wondering!!
Got to go. Love you!!
Sister Baker

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