Welcome drink....better when it pops not burns...

Why did I call this email welcome drink you ask? Well, I just wanted to tell you a funny yet sad mission experience and explain another awesome drink experience we have here in lovely Leipzig, Germany.

We were given a 'welcome drink' as we showed up to our appointment with Ruth Stein (who is the same lady we talked to 3 months ago who is finially back from her vacation!!) She was so excited to see us and has been reading in the Book of Mormon and showed up to CHURCH YESTERDAY WOOT! but going on with the drink story there were beautiful glasses on the table she had so lovingly prepared with cut up peaches swimming in some sort of red/purple liquid. She was so excited to give them to us and as I asked what it was she replied 'Ill let you find out' (should have been the first red flag) either way after the little sip of burning grossness we asked, does this have alcohol? and well she apologized then for the red wine and made us some fruit tea...much better. I must say it was a little funny but also sad, its sometimes weird to think that some sort of drink can take the spirit away from us but it is true. Its definitely a way to show faith and obediance by keeping the word of wisdom, especially for these people who have had wine and coffee their entire lives, but its just a way to prove their love for the Lord and respect for his commandments. I am so grateful to even be aware of the commandments of God, it gives me a way to orient my life to do what is right and what is best for me. There are so many people in this world who want to do right but dont have the right direction or orientation, if you make your health decisions on the latest discoveries the best solutions in 10 years will actully end up being exactly wrong and the knowledge of men is just constantly changing its a blessing to know the laws of God and to know how to recieve the most blessings...Love it. The other welcome drink is the new drink we give people who first are transferred to Leipzig, I actually forgot their real name but its a japanese place with fruit juices with really thick straws because there are also little balls about the size of marbles also filled with a different juice that then pop in your mouth its AWESOME. So. Welcome drink can be good, but watch out for the ones that burn down the throat from loving investigators...

We had an awesome Thanksgiving with the missionaries and an american couple and an icelandic couple. Theyre awesome and we felt like a family. We had mashed potatoes, thanks to Sister Faerber and I, and all the turkey and homemade stuffing we could want. I felt so blessed to have so much food and a warm home and loving people to be with. Its an incredible opprotunity to help those who dont have so much to realize they have a Heavenly Father who loves them and will bless them as they do what is right...and we get to be the people to tell them the good news and help them feel loved. One little moment of that joy was last week at family home evening...did I already write home about this? We bought Bürcan new tennis shoes which he couldnt afford and his eyes were filled with such gratitude and love, not just for the shoes but for the loving new family he has found. It was a neat expereince that Ill never forget, Christiane is feelign just as loved and blessed, she is now assigned as a visiting teacher of course and has an interview for a temple reccommend next week (the one she used for the temple was only for that day) and she is feeling loved. She sent us a text yesterday saying how grateful she was to know us and wrote us a note saying how she is grateful we are teaching her the gospel and helping her find out she has a new ward family. That fact in itself just shows me that the church is true and that we have a Heavenly Father who loves and guides us, anyone ANYONE can come into church and feel loved and welcome, and its all over the world!! Today we went with Olga to her russian orthodox church, just to see it, its a beautiful building but as we stood inside it was old and hollow feeling, I felt cold (not not literally) and just felt sad yet blessed and excited to be able to now clearly show Olga the difference of a church being lead by the living Savior of the World, through a living prophet, its really true that people still live by the weird old traditions of their fathers just like in the Book of Mormon and it draws them away from the love of the Lord, not because they are horrible wicked...they just arent correct and are missing the truth! Im so excited to share the gospel these next couple weeks with our two older German investigators, Thea Ritcher and Ruth Stein, Thea was at temple square and gave her address to the sisters there, and we invited her to be baptized and we have an appt this next Thursday so pray for Thea!!

I get to see another baptism this Saturday from our lovely Rober Schuster...he is such a cool guy, around 45 years old, is LOADED and is a huge deal in the volleyball reffing world of Germany, on like the main board for Northern Germany or something, haha anyway he was talked to by Elder McCann about 4 months ago on his bike and is now getting baptized this Saturday, he was going to get baptized later but moved it up, first of all because he is ready now and so I could be there :) He had to sacrifice a lot...lot of wine as he has been learning to live by the gospel standards, he knows its worth it, definintely not in the money he lost in giving away his wine collection but in the blessings he will receive in doing it. Hes so cool...He watches a general conference talk on his ipad before he goes to bed every night and stayed up til 5 in the morning one night last week reading on line about chastity and families and the prophets words on the topic, He loves the gospel and has such a strong testimony, how cool would it be if we all had a new love and desire to listen to general conference talks more often and refesh ourselves on the standards we live by. Robert has definitely given me a new motivation to have a bigger love for the gospel and desire to learn...

Im feeling a lot of mixed emotions with the changes going on but im so grateful to be here and know these people and help them feel the spirit and have a stronger desire to choose the right, to know who Christ is and what he did and continues to do for them. Its such a blessing to be here in Leipzig with such an awesome ward and even cooler CHRISTMAS MARKET....youve never celebrated Christmas til you have been to a Weihnachtsmarkt in Germany....ill take a video and show you in the real world...its a dream. So we are enjoying the holiday season and asking people why we celebrate Christmas is always a good time.

Hope you have a successful week and know how much I love and appreciate you and this gospel and this mission. 
Vielen dank und Alles Gute.
Sister Rasmussen

Thanks for the package mom!! I'll send all these out to everyone I've met!!

Us in the old part of the Christmas market, its like old medieval Germany with Handbrot...delicious.

Thanks for the golden bikes mom, Sister Faerber and I love them

 Yep, mashed potatoes, we made a lot.

 

 That was Thanksgiving.

Tschüssssssy

Gott, der mich bis hierher gebracht hat, wird weiter sorgen.

The church is true.

Its incredible how clearly and simply we can find that out. Just pray about it. Then you get an answer direct from your Heavenly Father of love and peace. Ah! Its indescribable feeling. Its been such an awesome week taking our new converts: Christiane, Bürcan, Irakli, Lali and Daniel to the temple. The spirit was so strong watching the baptisms and confirmations seeing them now helping others fulfill these eternal ordinances. It was an awesome experience when Bürcan got the priesthood. We woke up at 5:30 and got ready and met him and Moni at Bahnhof and all rode together happy and tired except for Daniel who said, 'I cant be tired, we're going to the temple!' He is such a 12 yr old stud who has such a strong testimony. He knows to follow the spirit and talks about how he has people in the school who make fun of him because he goes to church but he stands up for his faith and you can already see what an awesome missionary he will be. He loved the temple and it was amazing because he was with his mom and older brother, who are all such strong contributions to the church here in Leipzig. Bürcan knows that the priesthood is the power of God and it is the power the Lord gives to his servants to help build his Kingdom on the earth. He was excited and ready to be ordained to a priest. I just love these people. Im honored to know them.

Im honored to know all these older members here as well. We had an eating appointment with an awesome older couple who were those who lived as members in the DDR times, freezing huddled together for sacrament meeting in the basement of an old theater....Ive heard and read about those strong German members, but I got to eat dinner at their house!... talk and laugh with them. Brother and Sister Baasch. Who by the way said he has Rasmussens in his family line. He was so excited to check if we were relatives! Pretty awesome, he kind of looks like grandpa Rasmussen as well, so I wouldnt be surprised. Anyway these members went through so much during the ddr. For example Schwester Baasch's sister Schwester Schmidt when she was 6 yrs old in the school was asked if she believed in God and the teacher put her on a stool in front of the class and said 'okay class you are all aloud to laugh at this girl who believes in fairytales like God.' Bah, I cant even imagine that being a real story, let alone meet her and become one of the family! I love these people and admire the testimonies of these members. They are so strong and are great examples of how to represent Christ. 

We had some awesome appointments this past week with Bianke and Olga. Teaching about eternal families is the best. We talked to Olga about being married in the temple seals a family not just for life but for eternity. She said she would want to get married in the temple. Still struggling realizing the truthfullness of the church and the restored truths that are in this church but she is sweet and reading in the Book of Mormon and will understand it someday...Its a blessing having the faith and understanding of the truthfullness of the gospel. This experience with Olga has made me grateful for the faith that God has blessed me with. I love that concept that faith is a gift. Its not something you can pay for or go pick up at the store, its also not just something you can work on yourself, it comes from God and I challenge all of us to pray for more faith, because if our faith is stronger than our desire to choose the right is stronger and we feel the strength of the Savior behind our decisions. If we are struggling keeping the commandments our faith has weakened and commitment level drops. That is why prayer and scripture study are so important, its like keeping our muscles toned. It doesnt work to just work out hard once every week, and eat crappy and not exercize thoughout the week and expect to stay top fit. Just like our testimonies, we cant just 'work out' on Sunday, but every day train a little, study a little or a lot but stay ständig, constant in the spirit. Its such a true principle ive noticed on my mission thet times where Im happiest and feel the Lord guiding us is when our prayers are more sincere, and our study is deeper..Also the investigators that really make progress and experience the miracles are the ones who pray and read throughout the week as well as come to church. Its an eternal concept and takes constant practice.

We had an awesome lesson in our gospel principles class taught by a new convert named Gotcha. He taught about freiheit (freedom) and the concept of choosing to keep the laws and if the laws stop us from being free or if they are what keep us free. Like the example of a 'Schwimmin verboten' (swimming forbidden) sign...does that sign take away our freedom? No. We still have the decision to keep the law or not but if we chose to swim we could drown and then all freedom is lost. Opposed to not swimming and being free to do anything else. I know that concept is true as we keep the laws of God we are happy, clean, full of love and the spirit and life is invigorating... Im so grateful for our Savior Jesus Christ who gave his perfect life so that we could be clean and have these feelings of joy. I hope if you arent feeling these feelings of peace, contentiment, motivation and love that you pray and figure out what you have to change and change it. Not only will it make you happy but its also a commandment so stop putting it off and change now because well you have to and it makes you happy! 

I've been working on my calling people to repentance part of missionary work and its a beautiful challeging thing to ask people to change, but that is when the spirit can touch people so its worth it. We have some big plans to visit a lot of member families and challenge them to invite others unto Christ. With big or little steps its the most important thing to share the gospel of Jesus Christ, if that is to say a prayer together on dinner together or invite them to the Christmas concert or to meet with the missionaries it doesnt matter how big or small just that we extend the invitation. So please pray for us that we can touch the members hearts and they can feel the spirit of the missionary work...then the big miracles will come!

I love this place and these people. Oh and I love you too. Happy THANKSGIVING! This thursday? Yeah we are getting together with the other Americans in our ward and the missionaries...we are bringing the mashed potatoes, I hope I can make them like my pops'. Mal sehen. 

 Christiane's baptism

 Us eating Hackepeter...raw hamburger

 The group. I love these people

 The sisters.

 Me and my Christiane after temple baptisms

Our district...end nov-beginning dec 2011

Bis später! 
Sister Rasmussen

Come ye children of the Lord...

We had a beatiful taufgottesdienst...baptismal service yesterday for Christiane. I am feeling so blessed to have the knowledge of this gospel and get to share it. Christiane was nervous but excited and we woke up at 5:15 and she woke up even earlier to get there an hour before it started and we helped her look all purdy and set up the programs with roses etc. We also got her a picture of Christ and had the people that came to the baptism sign the matting. It was a beautiful service, but more beautiful was the spirit that was there as a couple members gave talks about baptism and the Holy Ghost. We asked people to speak who have met Christiane but who also havent been toooo involved in the missionary work and they brought their families and we had many many people from the ward young and old come an hour earlier to church to watch our Christiane make a covenant with the Lord through baptism...with the priesthood of God.

She was nervous at the beginning then seemed to be quite humbled at the turn out to her baptism. Shew as beaming after it hapened and was happy and offering to read scriptures in our gospel principles class. She has already invited many people to come to family to home evening and also invited a lot to her baptism...shes already a missionary. Also in the blessing she got when she received the gift of the Holy Ghost spoke of missionary work as well. I just love her and am so stoked for her because she is also going to the temple this Saturday with the ward to do baptisms! She wants to do the temple work for her parents who passed away 6 years ago...and we as the missionaries are excited for her because its said those new converts who get to the temple in the first 6 months of being in the church stay stronger in the gospel. Yay! We are excited to go and Bürcan is coming as well! We taught him about baptism with Mike and Irakli there as well and it was neat to teach them about the power that God is giving them to build his kingdom to bless their families and perform holy ordiniances. It was cool to read about the powerful men in the Book of Mormon....for example like this scripture . . .

 17 Yea, verily, verily I say unto you, if all men had been, and were, and ever would be, like unto Moroni, behold, the very powers of hell would have been shaken forever; yea, the devil would never have power over the hearts of the children of men.

So true. Can you imagine if all the men in the church were like Moroni? What if all the woman treated their husbands and fathers and brothers, friends as priesthood holders of the Lord. The devil wouldnt have power over the hearts of the children of men. . . that would be great. Anyway we are feeling so blessed with the progress and joy Christiane and Bürcan are having. We also have a new GOLDEN investigator named Gonzales....

yep theyre just walking around outside looking at the tables haha, we were street contacting in the city and the people were particularly mean that morning (this was 3 days ago) and we were headed back to the institute center when we saw Gonzales looking at the tables in front of a restaurant. We talked to him about the ´Book of Mormon and found out that he is from Peru and is getting his Ph.D here in Chemistry and he will be here for the next 2 years. He said he had lots of collegues back home who were members of the church and one of his friends gave him a Book of Mormon back in Peru (wahoo, good member missionary work) and he said he would love another one. We gave him one and set up a return appointment for the next day...yesterday and it was AWESOME! One of the best lessons of my mission. Irakli was there, helped a lot because of his spanish, yeah he baptized Christiane ýesterday morning and then helped us teach last night, he is always with the missionaries, switching between lessons with us and the elders, all members should take after his example :) anyway Gonzales was telling US the prophecies of the apostacy in the bible and said he totally agreed with the concept of the great apostacy and said of course Joseph Smith could have seen the Father and the Son, he said he would of course be baptized when he found out for himself that the Book of Mormon is true, so hopefully we will set a date with him our next appointment! woot!

I love it here in Leipzig and yes we had transfer calls and Sister Faerber and I are staying together! Im so excited for the miracles coming our way with Olga, Mascha, Bianka, Christiane, Bürcan, Ines, Maria....bah theres so many, just waiting to come closer to Christ, isnt the gospel true?? Yes. Yes it is.

Have a happy Monday and know how important it is to pray... really pray, with your whole heart. Then you can repent and feel the love of our eternal, allmighty creator, and our perfect father. He is just waiting to bless you, just ask him for the blessings, and follow his guidance...then the miracles come! I promise you that.

Love you!

Sister Rasmussen

Christiane was baptized! It was a beautiful taufgottesdienst.

1.All the girls

2. Me and the Christiane

3. Katrin is great, thats a real smile of hers.

4. Us on the train headed to tausch

5. Distrikt meeting!

6. Us... lost...

Behold, who can glory too much in the Lord?

Yea, who can say too much of his great power, and of his mercy, and of his long-suffering towards the children of men? Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I feel. I agree with Alma...I cannot say the smallest part which I feel about serving the Lord and being one of his missionaries.

Last week was an amazing week wasnt it? I hope it was a good one for you. I heard it snowed in your gegend? (youre area?) It's luckily still clear here. Actually, not too chilly but they did set up some christmas decorations outside hanging in between the buildings. It's so charming! Leipzig is beautiful. You all should come visit... not me, just the city. : ) And you know what's even better? The ward!! And even better, the gospel. It's so....true! And if you aren't sure of that truthfullness than, well, I recommend figuring that out at soon as possible. The blessings that come from living the gospel of our Savior are so precious, perfect, and so full of the love our perfect Heavenly Father. 

I know the church is true and miracles happen...one of them occurred at our Halloween party! Yes, it was a success. We decorated all day last p-day and the institute center looked awesome. We had 42 people show and 14 investigators! It was a really enjoyable enviornment and we had an awesome spiritual thought. Sister Färber and I at the beginning about when Christ walked on the water. We talked about how when the disciples first saw Christ they didnt recognize him and thought he was a ghost and were afraid. When we relate it to our lives and sometimes when Christ answers our prayers not how we expected we can first be afraid and not even realize its our loving Savior bringing us help. It was a great thought. Well, I thought so anyway. It helps me in my life when I get timid or hesitant the adversary gives us these feelings of incapability and fear. But in those moments I try and remember the Lord and his sacrifice and willingness to help me whenever I need him. I know he is there and I know his strong, loving arms are out ready to help all of us when we need support.

Yeah like I said, (I keep getting distracted from my point because talking about the gospel is so much more awesome),we had a miracle at the halloween party. Mascha came and was pretty happy when she was there and as the games started going, she asked Sister Färber and I if she could talk to us for a few minutes....She took us aside in the kitchen and said....'Ive been thinking and reading the past few days and I want to do it, I want to be baptized on December 4th!' BAHHHH! Isnt that amazing!?!? She said she is doing this with her whole heart and wants it for herself. She wants Irakli to baptize her and is excited! We are so blessed here. It's my first experience having someone come to me and tell me they want to be baptized (opposed to them saying yes to our invitation). So thats the plan, sadly she is leaving for the next 10 days for Ukraine, but we saw her right before she left at bahnhof and she had her Book of Mormon in her bag and was planning to read on the train! We prayed with her before she left and she is going to try and quit smoking and build her relationship with her Savior while she is up there. MIRACLE!

I was super blessed this past Thursday to go on tausch with my great friend Sister Stewart! She is fantastic and so original and hilarious. We had a great tausch in DRESDEN and had one of the most awesome lessons of my mission. The sisters there had made an appointment out with a guy whos number they had found on a contact sheet. His name was Michael Pfenning and he was so cool!! He had perfect English but was from Bayern. He is a musician and had the coolest apartment. The building is from like the 1600s but he has redone it and I just wanted to stay and look at all the artwork and pictures...but the best part was the conversation we had with him. In mixed German and English we talked about life and joy and peace, and then we went more specifically into how the relationships we have here on earth can last forever. He proceeded to tell us that his sweet wife had died of cancer less than a year before. It was so cool to teach him the first part of the plan and to see the spirit touch him. He gave us peppermint tea and pfannkuchen and said he liked the sound of families being together forever. He didn't have a big knowledge of Christian belief even though he apparently was raised Catholic .Either way it ws such an honor to get to be the missionary to tell him that the spirits that we have in us and the spirit his wife had in her have been with God before and can be with him again. It's a perfect glorious plan that we have the knowledge of...tell somebody about it! It brings so much JOY!

Yeah, then we had Zone conference on Friday and it was my favorite one so far! I loved president's theme on fishing with nets. He remotivated us to keep going with our cards and to get the name of the church out there. We have given out half a million cards in the past 6 months in the Germany Berlin mission woot! So we are continuing to fish with nets, just like the disciples did after Christ was resurrected. They had to call over other boats to help them bring in the catch it was so big...

I got to give a workshop on obedience. It went pretty well. It's such a crucial important concept of missionary work, and also of being a Christian, and actually of being a good person in general. It's so simple yet difficult sometimes. There are blessings and guidance we need to have the best life we can, with success and joy.  And there are laws, rules, specific ways to receive those blessings. Simple. Keep the law, get the blessing. And we are called of the Lord to keep those laws, it is expected of us. NO you dont HAVE to....(ahem but youre a fool if you don't) it just feels good to do good. To be good. To do your best and realize you can even do better with the Lord behind you. I kind of put some missionaries in their place and called myself as well to repentance, but we have no room to debate if we will be obediant because we gave ourselves to the Lord, all of us, and we represent him. But do you want to know a secret???......shh...so did YOU! As members of his church we said we would keep his laws and commandments and be his representatives. It's so fulfilling and full of JOY. Hope youre keeping all the rules... if not, well... just do it :)

I know this email is too long already but I wanted to also report we are seeing success with the excitment of the members of doing missionary work as well. I bore my testimony about chocolate cake. How I love it, but dont love it by myself. It seems almost depressing sitting down to eat chocolate cake alone, but when you share it it tastes so much better because more people get to taste of the deliciousness. JUST LIKE THE GOSPEL OF COURSE! We need to share it! I told the members we are helping Christiane WHOSE BAPTISM IS THIS SUNDAY! We are helping her realize the seriousness and responsibility of being a member of the church. and that our responsibility is to live and spread his gospel! Woot...its such an awesome work. Anyway, Schwester Schmidt then got up and said she needed help knowing how to share her chocolate cake. Then we met with the Ortlieb family and they are excited about our plan to help them pray and invite people to come unto Christ. Whether that is with big steps or small steps it doesn't matter, just helping people feel his love, and be aware of His existance and sacrifice and love! The gospel is so amazing! I hope you feel that love as much as I do...you can if you want! Just do it. Keep that law thats hard for you then youll be more fulfilled with joy. I promise.

Well, probably should let you get on with your day, but just know I appreciate you and your prayers. Thanks for your love.

Machts gut, Sister Rasmussen

Ja Klar

So...Happy Halloween to you all. They don't really celebrate Halloween here. It's more scary than fun. So we said, "W the missionaries will throw a halloween party for family home evening." Then they announced it at stake conference! So...we bought some stuff on Saturday, and today (Monday) all the stores are closed. So...well I'm feeling a little pressure to make it awesome with little resources. But it sounds like we will have more visitors than members attending so there should be a lot of missionary work going on like new appointments made out to get to the really important stuff, like teaching the gospel.

Speaking of teaching I had one of my favorite lessons last night and wanted to share it with you. We were with Christane all day long yesterday and she came with us to visit our sweet 89 yr old schwester Schielde and then came with us to visit Bürcan. We just helped him get a new apartment (we as in the ward) and we helped him move in. He had to do some last minute stuff in his old apartment so we met him there to help him and teach him. So the four of us sat on the floor of his old 5th floor apartment with a lamp being the only light, and we talked about their experiences of finding the church. Both of them have been having some outer pressure. Bürcan's ex girlfriend randomly saw a picture of him getting baptized and read up on the church and gave him a lot of anti stuff and info and we were so proud when he told us the story and shared with us his response. He just said I know this church is truch and I feel the love of the Lord when I am in the church and with these people and living this lifestyle. He shut all that opposition down quickly.
Christiane is the same way. She talks about how she knows there is a God and will be able to see her parents again (who both passed away when she was 11) and she knows that there are people who won't support her. She has already lost a few friends, and the boyfriend of her sister 'ist seemlich dagegen' (pretty much against the church) but apparently her sister was asking a lot of questions and wants some info. Sadly no contact with us yet, but that will come :)

Sorry all my thoughts are all mixed together because I am just so excited about the work going on here. We took Christiane yesterday to stake conference which was in another city so 13 of us went on the train and met the whole stake in this theater they rented out. President Pimentel came as well as a 70 from the Netherlands. Olga came as well to stake conference on Saturday night and so did Georgy our new investigator! It's just miracle after miracle. Stake conference was awesome. The 70 talked about how we need to stand in holy places and those are the temple, the church, our homes, and where we stand. People who come into our presence should feel they are on holy ground because we keep our thoughts clean, language clean, and if we are full of love then people will notice something different. Isn't that great! It's the truth. People do feel a difference and feel the love of their Heavenly Father, through us! Isn't it such an honor to be a member of the church to get to be an answer to someone else's prayer, yeah i love it!

We are working hard on mapping out how to visit as many members as possible to get referrals. We have a new referral card which we got from the zone leaders and all of the Leipzig zone will be meeting with all the members in the next few months to propose this plan. It is to pray for a week to find someone new to invite to meet with the missionaries. The invitation is the success and we are so excited about the miracles that are coming... It's a little tricky just trying to bring the spirit and excitment of sharing the gospel while not overwhelming people. And I know that there is someone (satan...such a bother) who makes missionary work seem so foreign or such a challenge. But it's really so simple. Just opening up and loving people more, with ouwhole hearts! Man I love it.

We also are having zone conference this Friday and I get to give a workshop on obediance. I'm excited because it's such a simple yet profound concept and all success relys on obediance. Especially missionary success. I just love the plainness of the fact that if we love the Savior we will keep his commandments. No ifs, ands, or buts. We either truly love Him with our whole hearts and appreciate His love and sacrifice and than show that to him, or not. Then I ask why would someone waste their life not expereincing the love of their Savior and Heavenly Father...the warm feeling of his presence, and the clarity of his guidance is so heavenly and profound. Just keeping his commandments is the simple way to feel that warm love and support from our Heavenly Father. DON'T YOU LOVE IT!? Me too. Makes me smile, the clarity of the gospel is so great. Let's go tell someone about it!! So they can feel it toooooo.

Have a lovely Halloween, just have fun and keep the commandments, aka show your love and appreciation for OUR Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It takes concious effort until it becomes a habit, but I promise you will be more fulfilled and focused and einfach (simply) happier when you try it! I will if you will!
Love you dearly,
Sister Rasmussen (actually dressed up as Sister Faerber today...looks great, Happy Halloween!)