Wunderschön. Happiest of Mondays to you!!!!

HELLO LOVED ONES!

Im in an internet laden in Berlin, underground by the subway, we had to take an hour and a half train ride to get here this morning, but so worth it! This city is amazing....and huge! So many people. I am grateful we get to go back to our little smaller city of FRANKFURT ODER.

So Sister Roberts Jones went to mission home on Monday and Sister Forsyth was blitzed to me Monday evening!! She was in Dresden for the last three transfers and had served with Sister Scruggs as well! We are already best of friends, she is from Canada, around Calgary, she has been on her mission for 15 months and is so great! She is 5'2 and is a hard worker. Its been an adventure this last week to get around and decide how to best use our time and get used to covering 3 cities. We have really grown to trust in the Lord and his guidance this past week and its for sure brought us closer :) We had a cool opprotunity to have our mission president come visit our little branch yesterday because Sister Forsyth missed her interview with him because of the blitz, so he came to us! It was such an honor to get them all to ourselves and our little branch. In her interview apparently he said, well I wasnt sure if I should put you two together because maybe another sister needs a 'pick me up' but the Lord said you two should be together so.....'Here goes the dream team in Eisenhüttenstadt!' haha and its true! Its so amazing having a postive faithfilled hard working companion, we both walk fast haha, and have big big plans and goals for these next 9 weeks...well 8 weeks at least! We find so much joy in the work and dont hesitate talking to people, we support each other in lessons, and usually that takes a little while to get used to the new companion and how they work and teach, but we jumped in and are working hard and well togehter, we have already seen so many blessings this week, where to start!?!

The big miracle is Frau Zimmer, Im sure ive told you a bit about her, but she is making this experience as a missionary such an honor for me. She is the previous Jehovahs witness and her daugher is the less active, right? You remember, she wsa the one who said 'I know the lord sent you to me.' Well, we went and visited her on Saturday and had a great lesson, she explained to sis Forsyth he struggles, she has like 4 versions of cancer and has had a really really hard life, and said she has been looking for God since she was nine. She is hesistant because she wants to join a religion and follow God, but she made the wrong decision before and doesnt want to repeat the horrible experience she had, so we taught the restoration and gave her a Book of Mormon, she said she was refreshed to feel the spirit, something she hadnt felt since she was little when she read in the Bible. She said she would pray about the church of Jesus Christ and we asked if we could come back the next day. So.....we did, we came back on Sunday and she said she had prayed and didnt get an answer, she didnt know why and was a little hesitant, we were talking more about the priesthood and the spirit was strong, we then read Mormon 9:18-21. It was incredible how the Lord spoke directly to her through those verses. I really could feel the Lord working through us. We talked about faith and trust in God and she said, 'ich habe gänsehaut (goosebumps) she said the Lord just answered my prayer. That is the key word, Trust, I have lost trust in God.' She said she thought it was a little odd we were coming back the next day, and to be honost I thought myself it was a little odd too, but we all know now that the Lord sent us back there to answer her prayer and she noticed that as well. We said that we would help her build back her trust in God and that there is so much peace and joy with living the Gospel of Jesus Christ and by doing things with this right authority and priesthood we can really feel the power of God in our lives. AHHHH HELLO it was so amazing, the spirit was really filling the room and it made our night, we were so motivated to go find more people, there is nothing more incredible than teaching and helping someone come closer to Christ!

That was our big miracle, we get to meet with her again on Tuesday and hopefully set a date with her. It will be cool too because she said she is going to visit her daughter in hütte and they could go together (MEANING OUR LESS ACTIVE LOVELY YVONNE WILL COME BACK REGULARLY TO CHURCH!) but that is a good transisiton into what happened at church yesterday! We had branch conference and people from the stake came, along with president and sister pimentel like I said, and we had 10 visitors there and 4 investigators! Everyone was surprised and happy to see so many people and I had to give the opening prayer haha, dont worry it was okay :) But I sat next to Frau Zimmers grand daugher, Yvonne's daughter, Katherina. She is 11 years old and isnt baptized and doesnt believe in God, she loves pokemon and well, yep, loves pokemon, So I got to sit next to her and she put her psp away in sacrament meeting! (that is a miracle in itself!) She sang the hymns with me and I brought the Book of Mormon for kids, you know with the pictures, and she flipped through it, I noticed she stopped on the page of Christ and the atonement and Christ's baptism. . . she sat with the other 12 year old young woman in our ward in the gemeinde essen afterwards, and I hope they felt loved and welcome and will come back again, the real problem is none of these people have cars, so its the physically getting to church which is the problem, especially people from our other two cities, but I know thats where the blessings will come, when these people commit to take the train to come to church! So we told the ward we are looking to baptize people with automobiles. :)

Another tender mercy was when we got off the train yesterday with our 70 year old member Manfred, a really pretty girl walked up to us and said Hi. Im Irene. haha, we were all thrown off, but she is a member from Ukraine, lives in Poland and is studying polish there! She served a mission in Russia and the closest ward to her in Poland is 300 km away! So this was her 2nd time coming to church here in EIsenhüttenstadt. She speaks Ukranian, Russian, Polish and English, but sadly not too much German, So it was neat to be her translater. She is SO cool and so sweet, and we 3 immediately clicked and she is planning to come every week now to this ward. She said she is going to burn a talk onto a cd for us that helped her on her mission and wow I just feel so blessed the Lord is just throwing best friends at me left and right :)

I am really starting to love our area, getting to know the bahn and train times is a constant learning process lol, but the more we talk to people and make out appts the more we love the city. there is so much work to do here, so many people to teach and so many people eager to meet with us, lots of prayers needed but a lot of miracles coming! There isnt a taufbeken (baptismal font) here so they either baptize at the sauna, OR if its warm there are two ladies in our ward with a swimming pool! haha, also president told us yesterday to call the Zone leaders to see where the closest one is....sounds like everyone is planning to see some baptisms here!!!!!!!! Hope you are too!

I hope you can feel the love of the lord and the excitement of the work here through my email, this is the most incredible experience and I am so grateful for the encouragement to come, there is nothing more powerful then a positive attitude which makes this experience what it is supposed to be, joyful and optimistic and cheerful, Sister Singer gave me a quote on our tausch about thoughts, and I recommend reading it.....and applying it...its from President Howard W. Hunter…

“There is magic in the way one thinks. If we expect the best, we will receive the best. If we train our minds to have faith in God and ourselves, we are using one of the greatest laws of life. If we think and live righteously, happiness will find its place in our lives. It is amazing when we expect the best how forces are set in motion which cause the best to materialize. Our thoughts more than our circumstances determine the course of our lives. Outward circumstances do not determine the course of our lives as muc has the thoughts that habitually occupy our minds. These thoughts carve their impression on our faces, in our hearts, and on the tablet of our eternal souls.”

 

phew! Cool huh! I thought so too. So have a stellar week, know that I am praying for you and that the work is going well and steady here in Frankfurt Oder. I hope you can feel my love through this email and may the lord bless you in all you want to accomplish this week!

 

I LOVE YOU!

 

Sister Rasmussen

- Hoffnung - Freude - Liebe -

Hope. Joy. Love.

Thats all I have been feeling lately on this whole religious sebatical. I feel the Lord so close and just feel him guiding our steps and accomplishing his work through us. Its such a celestial feeling, I reccommend it! There is too much to say, where to start.....

BIG CHANGES: Sister Roberts Jones is flying back to London tomorrow and she goes to the mission home today. So Frankfurt (Oder)/Eisenhüttonstadt is now in the hands of Sister Rasmussen and Sister Forsyth...did you know this area used to have 14 missionaries here!!?!? Now its just the two of us, so plenty of work to do and Sister Roberts-Jones has trained me well, I feel I know where all the members and investigators live, and how to live life to the fullest here. Íts been a little odd packing with, talking to and comforting someone who is at the end of their mission. Ive definitely been blessed because ive had 0% homesickness, but if anything eine neue begeisterung a new excitement for the work. Having gone through this with her has made me realize how precious everyday is and how quickly it flies, so no time for tears or moping..mopeing? mopping? bah, lying around :) ive really grown a testimony of if you want to be happy just be happy, regardless of the circumstances, just swollow the pride and smile, just choose to see the beautiful things. SPEAKING OF BEAUTIFUL...there is hardly any snow, if any around my area, the sun is out, INCREDIBLE CLOUDS and warmer weather...I even took the trash out in a tshirt! Yeah I know! Youre tellin me, am I blessed or what!? So that is beautiful. Its been so fun serving with my british 'auntie' RoJay. . we worked really hard to help her finish strong, and saw a lot of miracles, we laughed so hard and went through some tough goodbyes, but we will be friends for life so I just feel blessed to have met her and served with her, even though it was only for 3 weeks...  So im stoked to have a companion who is ready to work- Sister Forsyth is coming to Frankfurt later today and she is coming for Dresden having served there for 3 transfers, two of those having been with Sister Scruggs (my last companion) so ive heard how fun and hard working she is. It shall be interesting doing the 'junior companion who knows the city' thing, but shall be a blast and im chosing excitement instead of fear.

I have to tell you all about the super incredible experiences ive had teaching this week.....so Bianka. Shes the mother of Roman (who was baptized right before christmas, hes 13..you remember?) Good, she is the one we were praying and fasting her boyfriend's heart would be softened...WELL when we went by on Thursday (the fast having been from tues afternoon to wed) she said, 'want to know something cool? Wednesday after I ended my fast, Denny came in with a box and told me we are going to start saving for our wedding!!!' She was so cute, so excited, ah she is incredible, such a strong person, such a strong testimony already. So the fast really changed his heart. . . meaning if he wants to get married she then can get baptized!!! Ah she is incredible. We had a great lesson that night talkinga bout 1 nephi 8...Bianka was actually the one that said, 'So I was reading in the Book of Mormon last night and i do not get this story of the tree! I read it 3 times, I mean I know its a dream but will you please explain it?' THIS LADY is INCREDIBLE! I know right?? She isnt even a member and she is reading the book of mormon more often than YOU are! ;) So we talked to her and Lia (their 6 year old) and Roman (the new convert) and also Denny (the boyfriend) was on the couch! We drew out the picture and talked about the rod of iron and getting to the love of God and to Eternal life. Then Lia wanted a picture for herself, so we drew it again (and then yesterday she sat by me in church....yes they come to church every week and only their 13 year old is amember...and she redrew the tree of life!) Bah, I hope that complex array of sentances made some sort of sence, I know my mother and grandmother are cringing when they read this, but ITS JUST SO EXCITING I cant type fast enough :) I hope you can see the miracles in this like I do. This incredible German family of 5 on a Thursday night drawing the Tree of Life......I just feel so blessed to be the one to witess it!

Also another really mission changing lesson (almost cliché because it was so amazing) was yesterday afternoon. We met with Frau Zimmer (who is a less active's mother) She is an 'excommunicated' Jehovahs witness. . .she has a really rough story about her experiences witht hem and a lot of guilt and force and she basically was condemned to the back bench of their group, has to be the last to come and first to leave and she cant talk at all, or talk to anyone in the group, not even outside of church (including her brother and mother) because of this thing she was accused of doing, which she didnt do. ahh I wish I could just tell you all her story in person because I dont have the time or the words to do it justice, but either way she now has a strong belief in God but hasnt been able to do anything about it for 15 years. We went and talked to her about faith, repentance and baptism (this is our first lesson with her mind you) and she loved how repentance is just between you and the lord and its all personal and everything we do is out of love, not out of fear or guilt. We choose to follow Christ because we love him and are grateful for his sacrifice. SO we committed her to baptism and she said, well I just need to pray about it because last time I rushed into a ward and it was the wrong decision, so I think so, I just want to be sure.' AHHHH SO amazing. She then told us that she has a couple health problems and had been telling Heavenly Father that she wanted to follow him and be in a church but when she is ready....and then she said 'und ihr seid da.' meaning 'and here you are!' She said we are sent from Heavenly Father, we felt the spirit so strong and I feel SO blessed Im about to pop I feel so loved to get to have these experiences....

It was such a tender mercy to be able to serve on tausch with Sister Singer in Berlin. IT was a dream. IT was so neat to talk to people on the street with my trainer (my mother) and know what I was doing and know what I was talking about. It was also funny because we went from such a small quaint dorf to the biggest city in Germany and looked like two little country girls just wide eyed and jaws dropped and the size and sounds of the city. I LOVED it. I love Berlin, the buildings, cars, busses, smells, people, and the feeling of being there not as a tourist but as a missionary was even cooler! We went and taught a couple cool lessons and taught German class together at the institute in Tiergarten, Berlin. It was so incredible riding on a bus together and then seeing the street where Valkyrie (sp?) took place, hearing her say 'he was shot right on that street!' I just felt so blessed to be serving my mission where there is so much history. And then going to the Brandenburger Tor, what I have been dreaming to do since my first year of German in 7th grade and it was so cool, but also spiritual which made it even better than any school trip could have been. and a silly side note, we walked past the hotel where Micheal Jackson held his daughter out the window...yeah I know! I was right there! haha. Such a beautiful city and such incredible history. It was such a blessing to see Sister Tasha Singer again and to teach together. We had an incredible lesson with one of their investigators named Senator. He is such a cool guy from Camaroon and when we walked in he was so friendly and got right to the point and asked if we could say a prayer and if he could say it (this was only like the 3rd time he has met with missionaries) and as we read in 2 nephi 31 and talked about baptism and following Christ, we invited him to be baptized on February 13. He said, Yeah I think I would like that, are there more people getting baptized on that day? I think its better if there are lots of people getting baptized together, like when Christ was baptized, John the Baptist was baptizing loads of people.' haha, so they do have another person aiming for that date as well so, I was even blessed enough to set a baptisimal date with Sister Singer! Where are these blessings coming from!?!? If its your prayers...thank you. :)

I hope this email wasnt too long baha, which I know it is, and it was some what understandable, I just cant put into words the love and joy and hope I see and feel and teach here in Germany. Haha, my English and punctuation are so badly failing, but luckily I know you still love me :) I cant thank you enough or explain to you the comfort I feel when I get your emails and letters, its just the cherry on the cake....So thank you for spoiling me and for letting me have this incredible experience. I wouldnt change it for anything and feel so blessed to have a good chunk left! ;) Have a great week and Im praying for you!!

Sister Rasmussen 

What a WEEK! We got out PONY!!

What to say!?? As a missionary....feeling the spirit is usually a constant thing, and then when you have a really spiritual moment the JOY is even that much greater, Sister Roberts-Jones and I had SO MANY spiritually high times, see I cant even write in words that make sense, its just been incredible here in Eisenhüttenstadt with her. She is leaving next week so during weekly planning last Friday we sat and wrote down all the investgators and less actives and planned to teach and meet all of them....we had 34 lessons planned (the missions average is 15) and of course planned to get 21 ballards (meaning talking to 10 extra people each and make out an appointment with someone new daily) so we made the plan with a lot of faith and a lot of drive. We new it was a long shot, like wishing for a pony, but we worked and kept working and didnt go home til the work was done and WE GOT OUR PONY! We actually got 35 lessons so we got a pony and a saddle.

But it isnt about numbers is it. Its about the miracles and the people, so thats what I NEED to tell you about, these people here living in a little city on the border of Poland, an hour and a half outside of Berlin living in their DDR apartment buildings, and our ward of about 25 people, there have been so many life changing miracles, hope you can get a taste of it....

So . . . there is a sweet less active lady in our ward named Katrin with a 6 year old son named Alex who has autism, they are the sweetest and need a lot of love and attention. We had a really cool lesson with them about building our bridges to Christ and what we need to do to build our bridge to him, being níce to mom, cleaning up our toys, praying and being nice...Alex really got it and apparently told the people at school 'I built bridges with the sisters yesterday'....the people at school didnt get it :)

Lesjia is a lady from the Ukraine with a little 11 month old son named Denny, she was thrown off that I was new and was a little shy and standoffish at the beginning of the lesson, it was hard because haha she (and I) have not so incredible German, but we got to know each other and laughed and ended up sharing a really cool moment talking about eternal families and about the peace we feel when we pray, she said she would try praying daily this next week and we said a prayer together when we left, she immediately responded, 'wow, yeah I really feel peace.' I am excited to see how she progresses!! Shes the sweetest.

Manfred is an old man about 73 years old in our ward who was baptized 2 years ago, he is a little crazy and super nice. He comes with us to teach Herr Klinke, and we visit him to review what he knows, he has such a desire to follow Christ, and being a big contributer to the ward, He just got the m. priesthood and he blesses or passes the sacrament. Yes we only have one person bless and the other person pass because the ward is so wittle! So cool! Manfred is already becoming a good friend and I feel so blessed to get to know him, on the train on the way to church yesterday I taught him what I was going to teach the new convert in our ward, to practice, it was a good lesson and he says my German is good, getting better, he is helping me improve...so I talked about Herr Klinke. Hes like 80 or something old and wears the same addias jacket and pants everytime we go, I have no clue if hes changed his clothes or if they are just his favorite haha but he was found like 3 months ago and just barely said he now believes in God. We have been talking to him about prayer and the reasons we pray and how we can be blessed, we sang count your blessings to him and he then asked what a blessing was, he wanting a good definition so its just an incredible thing to be sitting here in a little dorf in Germany telling an 80 year old man that he has a Heavenly Father, that he can pray to him and tell him what A BLESSING IS! what a cool experience. Arent you jealous? His house smells like burnt saurkraut and he talks to his plants, haha but you can see him feeling the spirit and he said he would try to say a prayer this week, so....pray Herr Klinke says a prayer :) Did you ever realize how big of a deal praying was? If we can get an investigator to pray, then they are set! PRAYER is the key to all of it, who knew? I thought it was a cool reminder not to take prayer for grantide or the knowledge of blessings....

Bianka and Roman. Wow. What to say. Roman is the 13 year old who was baptized two weeks ago. He greets everyone in the ward when he comes and says he is sleeping better since hes had the Holy Ghost. He makes great comments and says beautiful prayers. I feel so blessed to be here, because HIS MOTHER BIANKA is GOLDEN. She has read the Book of Mormon twice and wants desperately to be baptized. She has 3 children, two sons with her ex and now a daughter with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend Denny doesnt want her to get baptized so thats the challenge. She and Roman and their daughter come to church every week. She said she wanted to go up and bear her testimony but she didnt know if she was allowed, She fasted on fast sunday and she comes to English class. . . she is pretty much a member and is such a strong incredible hilarious lady, I need to send a picture home, I already feel like we will be bf for life, but the important thing, this tuesday we are fasting for her that her boyfriends heart will be softened and he will give her permission to be baptized (and get married of course) so, Im not allowed to ask you to fast for things going on here, cause then you all wouldnt ever eat, but if you could add Bianka in your prayers . . . many people would appreciate it. :) She is the miracle here and I am so blessed to be here to teach her!

SO two of the most incredible people in our ward are.....da da da da aaaah - OLA and Ahmed! Ahmed is newly called GML (ward mission leader) so we are stoked as the missionaries.  They are both from Egypt and are SO incredible. They we both baptized in the summer of 2009. They live the gospel with so much joy and so fully. They are getting their ph.d s here are hilarious. They speak English and German so that is refreshing too :) Ahmed is stoked to be the new GML and weve already had some cool meetings planning what members can come help and teach and who needs help in the ward and he is so committed to his calling and to helping us! Its such a blessing being around committed members of the gospel, Ive been so blessed to have incredible GMLs and companions...bah! Too many blessings with this work.

Theres a couple in our ward named the Scharfs, and when I went to first meet them we were planning to teach the word of wisdom (well review it) because the husband wants to receive the m. preisthood but needs to stop smoking. We had a really great visit, hilarious cause the dog liked me more than sister RJ who has been here for 6 months...woops. and laughed a lot, we then talked about the Word of Wisdom and talked about what things we can do to really treat our bodies like temples because they are hoping to be sealed in the temple when he receives the priesthood.....so we got talking about how to keep our body a place where the spirit can live clean and holy inside and out...well as we did we found out he had quit smoking a long time ago! He is worthy and prepared to get the preisthood! Wahooo! So he just has to have some interviews and he and his wife can be sealed for time and all eternity!

There are like 8 woman in our ward and the relief society president is Schwester Lassmann, She is an older lady, shes a doctor and she is incredible, She has never been married and her best friend Schwester Urlaubs husband died a long time ago so they now live together roommates and both incredible members of our ward, Schwester Urlaub is a dentist and has 5 kids, on Sunday they had us over for an eating appointment and Schw. Urlaubs two daughters were there with their families, they made a big feast with mashed potatoes because thats Sis RJs favorite food and its her last time eating there. So we had an blast just laughing together and then talked about Joy, one of the daughters isnt a member so it was cool to share our testimonies and talk about the gospel...cool miracle seen there.

A really cool ending to this really cool week was our appt with Maik last night at 8. We showed up and there was a lot of people there, playing wii, drinking beer and cigarettes....then some beer spilt when we first got there and we didnt know what to really do....we were just friendly and they were friendly too, Maik is around 40 and is now going through a divorce, he has 4 kids with his wife and is going through a really hard time, so we had planned to teach him, but he had like 5 people over....well we got to talking and the louder people just went into the kitchen and his friend with a tattoo, buzzed head and pretty good english stayed, we didnt know what would come of it but as we got talking Maiks friend asked questions like 'well how do you know which chuch is true??? there are so many' and how do you pray? and Miak asked how he could find more joy and hope in his hard time....I ended up talking to Miak and Sis RJ talked to the other guy and Miak said he would come to church and the other guy agreed to meet with the missionaries with his wife! It was so cool to tell the Joseph Smith story and to then pray before we left with these two men and to feel the spirit and to have brought such a special spirit to what wasnt really the ideal teaching situation :)

Those are just some of the people and I apologize youll have to read this email in sections because its so long, but I am just loving the work and learning this new city, its an odd thing helping Sis RJ get ready to go home, really bittersweet and I feel lucky we were both working with fiath and committed to our goal. We have seen so many blessings and miracles and I feel this last week will be one I try to achieve the rest of my mission, This next week should be great too! We have president interviews on Tuesday and Im tausching with Sister Singer in Berlin on Wednesday!! Wahooo! We are trying to get everything caught up and updated before Sister RJ leaves and someone else new comes, so your prayers are greatly felt and appreciated!!! I hope you all are having a FANTASTIC WEEK and are feeling blessings and seeing miracles as well! Talk to you soon! If you are just dying to write me a letter......

Sister Kimberly Rasmussen

Kirche Jesu Christi

Heilbornring 11

15234 Frankfurt-Oder

Germany

Love you!

Ihre liebe, Sister Rasmussen

DDR. British. HAPPY New Year!

HELLO and Greetings loved ones!!!

From Eisenhuttenstadt! (theres an umlaut on that u, but there arent any on this computer wierd enough)

Yep Im here and Im warm and safe! This area is so cool, we actually live in Franfurt Oder and serve there and Eisenhuttenstadt and another city called Furstenwalde. So we serve between these three different cities and have investigators and members in all three. We have a cool apartment its bigger than the one in Freiberg and Ill send pictures soon. A big study room, all wood floors, huge shower, bunk beds, sofa, big kitchen and a balcony! (theres a lot of snow on it now, but cool huh!) I love it here already. Its definitely a big change, learning where and who and what is which direction is crazy, but I do know how to get from our home to bahnhof and a couple of investigators already yay! I need to learn this place quickly and get to know these people...because Sister Roberts Jones is going home on Jan 17th...so I need to learn this quickly, but Sister Roberts Jones is such a great missionary and is working hard til the very end of her mission. She is so sweet. From London England, I love her accent and she has GREAT German. I really look up to her and the way she teaches. She has so much love for these people, and luckily that love is rubbing off on me quickly :) She has a teaching certificate and makes great hamburgers :)

We had an awesome New Years together. We were supposed to be inside by 6pm...so we heard fireworks going off from 5pm on....and we could see the sky light up. We played some snakes and ladders...which her family sent her :) We then made hamburgers which were DELICIOUS. We had pudding and then made face masks out of quark and honey. Haha, it worked and my face is babybottom smooth.. :) We had a great New Years eve and have some GREAT plans for the new year!!!

The ward...I mean BRANCH here is incredible.......there are 20-25 members! TINY! And I love it already, and church on Sunday was so cool. I gave my testimony and introduced myself and felt the spirit there so strong. That was the coolest part was to feel the same love and spirit I felt in Freiberg and how I felt at home in Sandy. The Lords love and spirit is the same wherever we are around the world and I am SO eternally grateful for the comfort I have felt. There is a 13 year old boy named ROMAN who got baptized last week!! His family arent members, hes the first in his family to get baptized but we are teaching his mom too! He came to church and his mom came as well and they both fasted, we are planning to commit her to baptism this week! We also had another really cool experience going to see a less active and she said her mom might come by so we would have to make it a quick visit, well the mother got there a lot earlier than she planned and we ended up having tea and talked together, her mom and daugher and brother were all there and we talked about the most random things, christmas and the story of the nativity, to where foods came from and where their ancesters are from haha, it was a very relaxed convo full of laugher and we proceeded to find out her mother (Frau Zumme) is an "excommunicated" Jahovahs Witness! She really doesnt like them now and we asked if we could come meet her and she was really excited about the idea, she said she had a copy of the Book of Mormon and said she would try to find it. . .ahh what a miracle, we are so excited to go teach her! Ahh, the miracles are already coming. Another cool way to start off the new year...we have 34 lessons planned! Yes I know I know that sounds like we are wishing for a pony, but we sat down and made 25 set appointments with these people...finalized some joint member lessons at church and have those other 9 planning to stop by.....wahooO! lots of work and we are going to be dead tired by the end of the week but we have a lot of faith and a lot of motivation with me being new and Sister RJ wanting to put in her best that the miracles are going to come....yay!

Welp I have to still write my letter to president and Sister RJ warmed up some soup so we'd better go, but I wish you all a great week, and good luck with the new semester and the NEW YEAR!!! I love you so and I am so grateful for your love and support!!!