Hey!!!!!
This weekend started off kinda weird cause the bus and bahn drivers were on strike on Tuesday... and it was freezing and raining and hailing and snowing... all at once and we were soaking but had to walk everywhere!! We had service at Lebenshilfe and had to walk all the way but it was worth it cause I seriously love it there!! The people are so sweet!!! And we went at the perfect time cause they had to do there relaxing exercise!! And they said we had to do it with them!!! "Had" and they put comfy mats on the ground and we lay down and turn off all the lights but one lamp and have soft music and the lady reads a book and we all just lay there! Guys it was beautiful!!
That same day while we were walking we ran into this guy Henry!! It was so cool! He used to meet with missionaries in Italy but when the government made him move to Switzerland he lost contact and couldn't find missionaries anywhere and then moves to Germany and couldn't find them here either!! But now he has and is so excited to meet with us!!! It's so cool great how God prepares people!!!
So I don't know if you remember Ardalon?? He was the referral from the office!! The one who lived in a crappy apartment where the clingal didn't work and when he opened the door a cloud of weed came out with him! So we met with him and you will never guess what happened!!! We set a baptismal date with him!!!!! How exciting!!! He was saying that everything we say makes sense and he can feel something different when he reads the Book of Mormon than when he reads other books!! I explained to him that he would have to stop smoking weed and he said it was going to be really hard cause he's been doing it since he was 14 but he will try!! I told him that if he stopped smoking weed I would stop eating chocolate for 20 days!!! It's been like 5 days and it's probably the hardest thing I've ever done in my entire life!!!!
But I really feel what it feels like to give something up!! We have
chocolate all over our apartment and I'm always so tempted and I think, well no one would know! But then I think wait no he could be thinking that too!!! And it's weird!! So I haven't had chocolate for 5 days! Pray for me🙏🏻
Oh my goodness I feel like I've been super leaving Amir out of my
emails!! He's still amazing as ever!!! We went over to his house this
week!! And he is just wonderful!! He is great member!! And an amazing member missionary!!! He gets to people we can't!! Like at camps!! But it's hard cause we can't teach people who live at camps so that sucks...but hey go Amir!!! And they are all in Essen!!! So the Essen sisters are super grateful!! A girl Mina wants to get baptized so bad!!!! It's awesome seeing people who never had this, then have it, and just want o share it with everyone!!! And when we were at Amir's house he was going off on how he's getting old and needs to find a women soon!! And I asked about Mina and he said "oh silly sister I want an American girl" but in German so it was super funny!! All I said was "well it's going to be a little difficult to find an American girl in Germany but don't worry God has a plan for you!" And his mom goes "that's why he
needs your help sister baker... find him an American women!!" Hahaha!!!! I had no idea what to say so that's when I was like wellllllll we have a spiritual thought for you guys!! Hahaha
So I don't know if I told you about a guy named Nick that we ran into a while ago, but we finally met with him!! He's an older German man! But not like "old old" but like dads age old!! And I was little nervous at first because I had no idea how it was going to go cause when we ran into him we could tell it would either go kinda bad and he was going to argue or pretty good and he would let us talk! But let me tell ya, it went great!!! So we started and he speaks SOOOOOO fast and stutters so it was extremely hard to understand but I did understand that he has looked up a lot of our religion on the internet and has a lot of specific, in depth, deep questions and I was so nervous to have to answer those, let alone in German so I prayed in my head and was like okay
Heavenly Father I really need your help right now!!!! And all of a
sudden he says, in perfect English, "shall we speak English?" And I was like we don't have to!! I can speak German...but he just started talking in English and I was so grateful!! But he's actually really cool cause he does know a lot about the church and is so open to learning from us and says he will put everything he has read aside and start with a clean slate!! He loves the idea of our church and our personal relationship with God and that we don't follow him cause we are scared of him but because we love him!! He came to church today on Sunday and the ward was pleased cause he spoke German! But he loved it!! And I guess he was asking members if they wore the "magic underwear" hahaha
Well this week was so good!! It sounded like you guys had so much
fun!!! I'm so jealous!!!! I'm glad Colten made it to New York
safely!!! He's probably going to have so much fun!!!! I bet Gage had a blast!!!!! I miss you all soooo much and will talk to you soon!!!!!
Sister Baker❤️❤️
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| Elder Kenley jumped in a puddle to get us wet and it just made him look like he pee'd/pooped himself!! |
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