Feb 25, 2016

Hey!!

So, Mom told me I don't have to write much, and to go make memories. So, right now we have the STLs with us. We are exploring Nürnberg. I will have lots of pictures and stories when I get home. Love you!!

-Sister Montgomery

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Feb 7, 2016

Liebe Grüße,

Last Monday we met with Georgiana, our resident Romanian investigator. We've been skyping with some Elders in Romania, and it has help a ton, because Georgiana's German is good, but it's not phenomenal. She understands the Romanian a lot better than German. So, the Elders have been going through the lessons with her, and her demeanor had changed. When I first met her she was in the Hospital, and was dejected and slightly depressed. Now, she's still having trouble, but she just seems a lot happier, and at peace with difficulties. She's wonderful, I love her, dearly. I'll see if I can get pictures with people (I need to be better at that). Skype didn't work that day, but we set up another appointment, and hoped it worked.

Tuesday we had missionary correlation with Elders Clawson and Webber, and Elder and Sister Hart (+ us is our area). Then we went to Mr. Burrito, which strongly reminded me of Costa Vida (which, I want to go there when I get home. I've been craving one of their chicken burritos for a couple weeks now), and it was yummy. Then we dis Bahn contacting for a few hours, and did a go by, and then went to Gemiko (ward mission correlation). I was not happy with having to contact for that long. Contacting is still my weakest point of missionary work. Other missionaries can say "okay we're going contacting," and then go talk to people. I'm still like " . . ." Can't talk to people. It's really hard, and frustrating.  Oh, well.

Wednesday, we met with the Fosters, and talked to them about prayer and the blessings that come from it. I think we're starting to make a breakthrough with them. Then over to Georgiana's. This time we got to Skype with the Romanian Elders. Georgiana is doing much better. I don't remember what they talked to her about, but after they left, we talked to her a bit about prophets, because she has so many questions. We ended up being way, way late for our next appointment, and i felt so bad, because he hasn’t met with Maxine in a while. She was back in China visiting her family. I still feel bad for not being able to meet with her. 

Thursday was Zone training, leavers interview (went really well. President gives lots of good, personal advice. He really is inspired), and then we got to work with Sister Stoddard. We had an appointment with Elena (Ellen-uh, not Elayna). It started out a little scattered and disorganized. Then Sis. Stoddard shared how her mother died and she didn't get to go home for the funeral (Elenas situation was similar when her mother died a few months back). She bore a powerful testimony on the Plan of Salvation, and we were able to get things back on track. It was wonderful.

Nothing else exciting happened. Not that I can think of anyway. Love you, and hope you have a good week!

This was the sign on the wall at Mr. Burrito. We went there as an area after correlation Tuesday morning. Really good burritos, by the way.

Love ya! Have a good week! See you in 3.5.

-Sister Montgomery

Feb 1, 2016

Hello friends!!

Nürnberg is amazing. And the history here is amazing, too! We went to the WWII documentation museum last week, and MAN. There was soo much there! Learning about WWII was interesting, and I learned some things I'm not entirely sure I want to know. But It was fantastic!

The ward is all elderly sisters, all of them adorable little Omas, just like Essen. It's great. There's a lot of potential here. I'm kind of sad I only get one transfer here.  But I've finally come to grips with the fact that I'm going home, and I feel fine again. No more stomach problems. No more feeling like my brain is going to explode. No more constant fretting. Just peace. I know it's inevitable, and I've already started packing, and organizing, and getting things ready. Life is good. I have my leavers interview on Feb. 4-- according to rumor, it's an hour long talk about marriage, and dating, and stuff like that. Häh? I just had an interview last transfer! Oh, well.

My life is kind of boring. We go contacting regularly, since we don't have a ton of appointments. Thursday, we had 4 hours straight, of white time. So we took Presidents advice and rode bahns, and just talked to people and "practiced our German." It was actually a lot of fun.

We had a couple LA (less active) appointments. They went well. In one we talked about temple attendance, and the other (more of a member present) we talked about Prophets, the Apostasy, the Restoration, and the Book of Mormon. Rene, the (LA) member basically taught the lesson in a way Andrea (on-dray-uh -- not a member) could understand. It was super cool. He even committed them, as a couple, to read a couple chapters in the Book of Mormon. I was super impressed, and elated. It made me so happy!

Aside from that, not a lot of exciting things have happened this week.

Does anyone have any questions?

Love you! See you in just over a month :)

-Sister Montgomery

Guess What Mom?! I love you! - Jan 25, 2016

Liebe Grüße, ihr liebten!

"Our ties with God and each other are everlasting. Our homes are sanctuaries from the things and cares of this world. Our family is the heart of our eternal hopes. Our love is the tender thread that ties us to an endless, creative, increasing union."

I read this in Marion D Hanks April 1971 Conference address "Practicing what we preach." Super good talk by the way. He talked about how practice in the home is almost more important than anything else. It was super cool.

So, I think I told you last week that I got transferred to Nürnberg. Yep. One of the headquarters of WWII. Pretty cool. We actually went to the WWII dokumentationzentrum today, and I learned a lot. It was cool to learn a little about some of what Hitler did, and how he made things work in his favor. 

Traveling down here was fine. I almost missed one of my connections because the train before was late, but I caught it, so it was fine. Everything has been going well. People keep bringing up that I only have six weeks left. I tell them "we don't talk about that, yet." 

Things are taking their usual turn, and appointments are -- unfortunately -- falling out. We've done some contacting and go-bys

I'm sorry to cut this short again. We started having a school "American system vs German system" kinda "what are the differences?" Conversation with a member and it took up the rest of P-day. It was fun.

Got to go. I'll try to write a better letter next week. I'm sorry. Love you all, bye!!

-Sister Montgomery