Hi Familie! And Friends..
Troy, I am so glad that you feel like
the MCAT went well. I have been praying
for you and it sounds like Heavenly Father heard and definitely helped you. I'm glad.
I am anxious to see how you did and where you will be going to medical
school! Mom, glad that you have had a good week. Dad, I can completely relate to your week. Sometimes things are just hard, but I know
that they will get better. It's normal
to feel overwhelmed. But I have learned
that we will never be given a task that will be too much for us. Our Heavenly Father will always be there for
us. Taryn...well don't know what to say
about her...that stinker didn’t write me this week.
Well, it is officially June! 12 days
until I am no longer a teenager. Weird. Hopefully, I can see some birthday miracles,
because that is sure what we need right now! Let's just say, I am glad that is
it Monday again. It’s a new day, a new
week, and a new month, so that means a fresh start, right? Miracles galore
should be happening this week.
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| This is how I look and feel after a long day on my mission. |
As for last week, it was, well,
interesting. Tuesday we had an
appointment with the Vogts with the senior couple, the Leonhardts. The Leonhardts speak no German and the Vogts
speak very, very, little English. Well,
Bruder Vogt speaks very little. Sister
Vogt knows absolutely nothing. So we
spent most of the time translating between the two families. It was pretty comical. Elder Leonhardt would think that he
understood something, and respond, but would be completely off subject. Sister Leonhardt drank some of this drink,
and made a gross face, and then we told her that Sister Vogt said she made it
herself, and she got embarrassed...overall, funny. And they gave us a referral, so that was
good.
That night, we went by and stopped to
see Danielle. She hasn't been to church
forever, and every time we have called her, no one answered…so we decided to
finally go by. We get there, and her
husband let us in and then Danielle came and just started crying. Life has been hard for her lately. I know that the spirit definitely told us to
go by. I am still worried about her, but
we were able to listen to her and help some of her concerns, and so it was
overall good.
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| Sometimes I really hate phone calls, so I do all I can to make them better. Sometimes, I'm just done. |
Wednesday was also...interesting. Our appointment fell through again, and then
we were had an appointment scheduled with a referral that we got from church
headquarters. She lives out in the
middle of NOWHERE, and I have never had so many things go wrong trying to get
to an appointment before. First, we didn’t
realize that our train split, and so we got on the wrong one, and ended up
missing our connection. So we had to go
back, and by that point, we missed our bus, and so we tried to take another
one, thinking it went to her place also.
Well, THE SIGN LIED. It lied to
us. It went nowhere close to her house. By this point, we were on a bus, out in the
middle to absolutely nowhere (I don’t even know if we were in our mission at
this point...), with only a crazy guy on the bus, and the bus driver hitting on
my companion and singing American songs to us.
By this point, we called the referral and rescheduled the appointment
for another day. Well, at least one good
thing happened. I felt awkward from the
driver staring at us through the mirror, and so I got up and started talking to
the only other woman on the bus. Turns
out that she is from Romania, and knew a Mormon there. She always wondered, but her never talked to
her about his religion, so I said we could meet with her and teach her about
what we believed. So I got her phone
number and we will be going there on Saturday.
A lot of chaos, but success!
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| I find this picture really comical. They are in a drit right now in Karlsruhe, and just seeing them walk down the street makes me laugh. |
Thursday, the elders and us both had
nothing, and so we spent the day finding.
We had a street display, and it was actually quite successful. It was a holiday, so there was a ton of
people, and a lot of people stopped. We
had a lot of good conversations, and we found some people that were interested,
but of course none of them live in our area, so some other lucky missionaries
have some golden referrals now!
Friday, we met with Schwester
Breitenhuber again, and also finally made our way to the referral, Hannah. Hannah was a disappointment. We did our usual null lesson, and then asked
her if she wanted to learn more, and she said "Überhaupt nicht!'
(Absolutely not!) Awkward.... Well, we don’t have to worry about getting
lost in the middle of nowhere again. Our
lesson with Schwester Breitenhuber went really well. We talked about repentance and forgiveness,
and although she didn’t want to admit it, she felt the spirit testifying to her. She also made us these really nasty salmon
sandwiches, with raw salmon on top. While
she was reading a scripture or whatnot, Sister Wrathall and I would stuff the
salmon into paper towels and our bags. After
the lesson, I couldn’t find a trashcan, so I went to the bathroom and tried to
flush it down the toilet, but it wouldn’t flush! Luckily, I finally got it to
work, so no worries.
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| A golden in Darmstadt came up here for a split. He is hilarious. He just loved all of the gelato shops and wanted to go to all of them. |
Saturday, we helped Michelle and Cathy
move some more and then taught Michelle.
That night we met with the bishop, and it was great. I just love that familie.
Sunday, I heard some of the coolest news
that I have heard in a long time. THE
SPANISH GROUP IS BECOMING A BRANCH. I
will be in Germany when our mission gets their first Spanish branch. I don’t know what it will mean as far as who
we work with and how missionary work goes, but we will see. I am so excited for them. How cool is that? My little group gets to be
their very own branch. Cool stuff
happening. I had a dream the other night
that I was training a Spanish native and we were over the Spanish branch and
had just doubled the membership. Now
lets make this a reality...haha.
Oh, and to answer your question, the
next transfer starts June 16, so the new mission president should be coming in
sometime around there...don’t know exactly.
I don’t really want to think about the fact that Präs is leaving.
Well, I hope that you all have a
fantastic week! Please pray for me that we will be able to find people to teach. I feel like we can find people but then they
never want to learn more or progress. So
hopefully we can change that this week.
Love you all!
Savannah
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