Haley's Email-- 1/23/2017
Tanks and Bloody Noses!!
Hi!! This was a crazy week!! Super busy! Lots of work! And lots going on at home! I'm so so thankful that dad is doing okay and getting better by the day! I got pretty nervous when president Stoddard called me this week and told me dad went in for an emergency open heart surgery and I should email mom for updates! That was an intense phone
call! But I'm really happy he's off all life support finally and got to leave ICU! We have been praying for him like crazy all week over here in Germany! And I'm super happy he's getting better and stronger by the minute and that his heart is beating completely on it's own!!
But other than that crazy news, this was a good week!!! We met with a ton of members last week and will meet with so many this week!! Member missionary work is finally getting bigger in the ward! It's takin long enough!
But we met with Family Smith! The cutest couple everrrr!! He's from England and she's from America! They met when she was 14 and he was 16 at a stake dance in England and just became best friends and never lost contact!! And he is way cool! He's a video game designer!
That's why they had to move here to Germany cause his company moved him here! So no big deal but I already know about all the new games about to Come out!
We met with Eva and Robert again! They are so sweet! It's hard cause she says the Book of Mormon is true, but she says all books are true and when we ask them to pray they just meditate! So we will continue working with them on that!!
Thursday was good! It was cool cause everything we had planned fell out but everything worked out perfectly and we were able to see who we needed to see!! We went by on Linda cause we hadn't seen her in a while, she's going to nursing school and has four kids, and her husband went to Africa for a month, so she's super busy! But on the
way there we missed our Bahn so we had to find another way and then we went to the library to use their free bathroom and walked to Linda's and it was perfect timing cause we talked to her kids for a little and left and as we were leaving she walked in and we got to talk with her
and set up an appointment and everything!
And then we went by on the Hänes and they were all home, even their daughter! Ya and we met some cool people so it was just perfect!!:)
We went back to Family Happi for dinner! The family who fed us chicken lungs... I'll be honest, I was so freakin nervous all day leading up to our appointment!!! And we got there and she fed us fishy beans and fried dough balls.. super weird! Better than the chicken lungs.. but still not my favorite. But it was worth it cause we had a great spiritual thought and played a super fun game!
We met with a guy named Mohammad and a guy named Ali on the same day and so it was funny cause in our plans it said we were meeting with Mohammad Ali! Haha but they both went well! We met with Ali in a bowling ally though! I'll be honest it was super distracting and loud! We were originally supposed to meet with him and his girlfriend in his apartment, but she couldn't come! And we can't meet with guys alone in their apartment so we asked him if he knew of a quiet bakery or something and that's where us took us.. a loud bowling alley! But it was still good!!
Pday today was so fun!! Probably one of my favorites! We went to Aachen and played on old tanks that are just chillin in the middle of a field from the war! Literally so cool!! It was funny, so walking in we saw a sign that said that when the red flag was up it means there is military training and you can't come in.. well the red flag was up.
But there was no way I just spent two hours of travel to see a red flag and leave.. so it took me 5 minutes but I finally convinced everyone to keep going so we continued and got to the tanks and are there for maybe 2 minutes and a huge military trucks comes up and says (rudely) that when the flag is up we can't come and we can get hurt and we must leave now! And so we all bitterly left and walk the 15 minutes to leave and we get to the entrance where the red flag is and
another huge truck comes and as we walk by the flag... they take the freakin red flag down!! What the heck and we ask if it's open and they were like uhh ya come on in! So we went back and continued playing!!
And I grudgingly said "freakin germans.. we aren't going to get hurt we aren't idiots" but then we were playing in them and getting in them and I was getting out and it was slick so I slipped and nailed my face on the tank and got a bloody nose.. and an elder just goes (after we got the nose under control and me out) "ya sister baker we're not
idiots huh!" Hahahah it was super funny!!! Definitely a good pday!!!!
Well I love and miss you! Have an amazing week!!!!
Love Sister Baker
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