It's Almost Gone!

Hello!!

Oh, my heavens. Where did January go? And the last transfer? It's week five! And the last five months??? I hit my five-month mark tomorrow! And then we have transfer calls next week, and transfers the week after, and then February's over and I hit my 6-month mark (1/3 of the way through, whoo, whoo!) and then people go home, and we have another transfer. Man, time is just flying by. Where is it going??

I've decided with my cameras, that I'm just going to fill up the memory card I have, and then send the whole camera home so you can enjoy the pictures and then bring more home with my on my other camera.

So, last Monday we had a great time hiking up to see a castle in Gießen with the Wetzlar and Weterau Elders. They are all quite silly, and it was great fun. After that, Sister Ferris and I went to visit sister Dülfer (Duel-fur) an elderly member who lives not far from us, and we discovered that her birthday is today, and wanted to do something for her, but don't think we'll be able to, seeing as we have FHE with the Sertels tonight.

Last Tuesday, we had DDM, here in Wetzlar, and for some reason there was a meeting going on with an area 70. No idea where that came from or what it was about, but it was really cool to talk to the people for a minute or two. We had an appointment with a former investigator at 3 that day. We made our appointment fine, and he asked lots of good, but random questions, but it felt like they were more out of curiosity that to actually find out more about our church, which was slightly nerfing (frustrating) but oh, well. That's how life goes, right?

Wednesday, we had Missionary Correlation Meeting (gemiko) and it as always was really cool. When you have the world wide Family History Coordinator as your Ward Mission Leader, you get lots of cool ins, like the RootsTech conference happening in Seattle, Salt Lake and one other place (Can't remember) in a couple months. It's going to be sure cool, because they have interactive display that kids can use that have historical stuff linked in (kind of like "Night at the museum"). It's going to be so cool! Be excited, and talk to your Bishop or something to see if you can get tickets. Also on Wednesday, I had a really cool Personal Study session. You remember the other day when I told you I traced my heritage back to Adam through Seth? Well, in D&C 107: 42, 55, 56 it talks about how the Priesthood came down through the line of Seth. It was probably the coolest thing I have learned since reading D&C. you should check it out. It's a really powerful section. Anyway, we had an appointment with Wolfgang set up for 5:00, but for some reason the last few weeks, every time he calls an hour before and say that he's going to be working longer and won't make it. I'm almost starting to think he's just coming up with excuses because we know something's up. Brudder Svedjot said that he was investigating some stuff about Wolfgang because some things just didn't line up. He said that he tried to search him on the Internet, but couldn't find anyone by the name of Wolfgang Bochert on the list of Doctors at the Wetzlar Hospital. That was 2 weeks ago. I don't know what's going happening, but I'm worried because he was doing so good, and now we're not getting anywhere with him.

Thursday, we had German class, as usual, and afterward, we went dooring in a very large apartment building. 9 floors, 9 apartments on either side of the hall. It was massive. We placed a couple Books of Mormon, and then moved to another building. And found a potential investigator. His name is Charlie, he's from Alabama, and was in the military. He got really excited when he learned my name was Montgomery, and said that he lived not far from there, I don't remember what city he was from.  But we left a German Book of Mormon with him, and told him we'd come swap it with an English one, but we don't have any English ones right now, so we ordered some and will be getting them this Wednesday at Zone Training. Super excited for that. Zone trainings are always spectacular. We also visited with a less active woman who is from the Philippians. She spoke neither German nor English very well, so we couldn't really communicate with her. But what we could get across to her was the spirit, and he did a magnificent job of telling her that we were there to help her, and bring her back to God. It was a really difficult lesson, but it was good.

Friday, we had a lesson with Ulla, who we will hopefully be seeing more often. She doesn't get very many visitors because she lives in a really small, out of the way town called Bonbaden. But she has 8 siblings (all of which supposedly have cars) and none of them come to visit her, which is really sad. We invited her to church, but her dog is dying so she doesn't want to leave Lila alone fore more than 4 hours since she's what got Ulla through the death of her husband, about 6 years ago. It's a really sad situation, but we're trying to help. I asked her how often she reads in the scriptures, and she said every 2 days. I promised her that if she read every day she'd be happier She's been having some depression problems, and I was hoping to help her. We'll see how well she's doing on Friday when we have our next appointment.

Saturday was a whole bunch of running around with no busses, no appointments, and freezing cold weather. We got a couple of less active lessons. Sister Röder (Roe-dur) is an elderly woman, and supposedly has a mental problem because she thinks that she has evil spirits following her around and not letting her do what she's supposed to. She has a testimony and a desire to come to church, but she doesn't "because of the spirits." it was a scary situation once we learned why. Her house didn't have a bad feeling about it when we went, though, so I'm very confused, and unsure how to help her. We'll pray, and see what we can do, and I'll let you all know how it goes. Wolfgang once again cancelled our appointment due to work (supposedly), but we were able to visit with the less active Brudder Peppler, and his non-member wife out in Dorlar. It was a really good lesson. We had received the impression from B. Peppler that his wife was a controlling witch who wouldn't let him do anything, but after meeting her, she's actually really sweet, and I think she's just insecure. We'll continue visiting them, and see if we can help her come to church with him. I think it would be good for both of them. We shared the scripture Alma 37:6-7, which is the one about "small and simple means" bringing great things about. Totally makes sense. Sister Ferris and I both have pretty strong testimonies about how important the small things are, and the spirit was really strong as well. It was really a testimony builder.

Sunday, we had an eating appointment with Familie Schmidt, but sister Schmids forgot because she just got back from vacation in the US, so she was very jet lagged on Sunday. So we ended up going with Bishop and Sister Meiser (My-zer) to their house to eat instead. We had spaghetti, and ice cream. I ate myself sick, because they just kept putting food on my plate and I didn't want to be rude. So I had a tummy ache Sunday night. But it was all good. I'm fine now. We shared Mosiah 23:28, which is about putting your fears to rest, and trusting God. We talked about how missions are hard, and how we have to trust God, and that fear and Faith cannot exist in the same place. Once again, a really powerful lesson, and a real testimony builder. We have a great ward here.

Well, I think that's all for this week. I love you all, and hope you're doing great. Miss you tons, and hope you're smiling lots. Especially since the sun is coming out again, and sunshine is good for your teeth.

Much love,

-Sister Montgomery