Family, Friends, and Acquaintances
So, this week was quite eventful, very busy,
extremely entertaining, and painfully unproductive.
Last Monday was a nice relaxing day. we went
grocery shopping, hung out at the mall with Dana (Dayna-the visiting Canadian)
and we went shoe shopping, because I literally wore my boots out. The heel was
falling off, and they really did no good for me- cold, wet feet -- even with 3
pairs of socks on. It was horrendous. I'll send pictures as soon as I get
a cord for my camera, or a new camera. Hopefully I can get the pictures off if
I get a new camera. Anyway, I didn't get any new boots at the time, but
it was really nice to be able to just be with friends and not have to worry
about anything for a couple hours.
Tuesday, we had DDM in Wetzlar. Everyone came
to us. it was quite nice. I gave a wonderful little Theme on Obedience because
Elder Brandner thinks it's my favorite Christ-like attribute. I’m not quite
sure why that is. Elder Mitchell gave a really cool "get to know you"
theme because half of our district was new to the area, and It's always fun to
get to know people. :D We all quite enjoyed it. After the meeting we went to
Sattmacher as a district and ate lunch. We talked and got to know each other
better, and it was quite enjoyable. I'm excited for DDM this week. :D
Wednesday, we went on our first split of the
Transfer. Sister Ferris went to Hanau with her trainer, Sister Gardener and
Sister Taylor came to Wetzlar with me. Sister Taylor and I have a lot in
common. Namely, both of our first field area was Wetzlar. After we got back to
Wetzlar, we had an appointment with Wolfgang. He was late, but both he and
Sister Taylor were excited to see each other. It was really cool to watch them
get so excited when they saw the other. Our lesson went really well, even though
we were in a bakery cafe. We discovered that he hasn't really been reading out
of the Book of Mormon, so Sister Taylor made him a promise that if he read out
of the Book of Mormon every day for a month, he would find the answer he's
looking for. And yes, I am dead set on helping him with that. Every appointment
we have, I will ask him how his reading been going. I am excited to see how
this goes.
After Wolfgang we had Missionary Correlation
meeting. And then we had Gemeinde Rat (ward council). It took forever. It
literally took 2 hours. I'm not even kidding. Normally it's an hour, hour and a
half, so I didn't start to get antsy until about 8:45, when I knew there
wouldn't be any more buses coming after 15 minutes. Thankfully, after the
meeting ended, Sister Meiser immediately told us that she would take us home. I
called the Zone leaders while sister Taylor talked to people she hadn't seen in
almost 8 months. They were all super surprised and extremely happy to see her,
and I felt like an angel because I had arranged it. It was really fun because
everyone was like "Wait, what are you doing here??"
Thursday, we had some studies, and then went
to German class, as per usual on Thursday. That lasted about 2 hours. Then
Sister Taylor and I had lunch at Subway, because she hadn't had German subway
yet. She said, "I got to be there for your first Döner, you can be there
for my first Subway." it was a nice exchange. After lunch we caught our
train, and split back. Then Sister Ferris and I went to the church to print out
some stuff for a new dooring experiment we want to try this week. I'll let you
know what it is and how it works after the trail period is over. Then we went
over to the housing area where a few of the less-actives live, and scouted out
some doors to experiment on, and had a less active lesson. Sister Müller is
really nice, and planning on moving for work. After we left her house, I told
sister Ferris, "We'll have to work fast if we want her to be reactivated
by the time she moves." She laughed and agreed whole-heartedly. She's so
wonderful.
Friday, we went up to the Braunfels area, and
ran around trying to find less-actives that don't live there anymore, or their
houses don't exist. It was really fun, except for when it started drizzling. And
we couldn't find anyone. We rode basically every bus in the area. it was quite
entertaining.
Saturday was almost the same as Friday, except
that it wasn't in Braunfels, it was in Wetzlar and Gießen. We ran to one of the
rehab/nursing homes in Gießen to visit a less active named Marlies (mar-lease)
who had a seizure a few months ago, ended up in ICU and then went to this home.
Sister Blackhurst and I tried to find her a couple weeks ago, but the heim said
she was in the Wetzlar hospital, and the hospital said she was at the heim, and
it was just a mess. But we found her this week, and had a really good lesson
with her. it was quite peaceful. Her roommate is from the Philippians, and
speaks Tagalog. I wished I could remember some of the words you had taught me,
Danika, but I couldn't. Oh, well.
Sunday, we had everything as usual: get up,
get ready, catch the bus, go to church, wait for church to start, have church
(always a good thing). Then we had an hour long "short" gemeinde rat,
went home for about an hour, and then headed to our dinner appointment in, what
do you know, Braunfels. as we were waiting at the bus stop in Braunfels -we
didn't know how to get to the Viogt'S house (foh-kt)- we stood there for about
10 minutes waiting, because we had called to tell them we'd be a few minutes
late and they said they'd pick us up. So as we're waiting, these two little
boys and a dog come up to us, and the older one says "Hello, sisters.2
Sister Ferris and I both jumped a little because we weren't expecting
Vico(Vee-co, age 10) and Cedrik (cedric, age 7) to come get us for dinner. it
was actually really a funny situation. We got there fine. We had our dinner
appointment, and then left a spiritual thought, and came home, had call ins,
and then went to bed. It was a nice, quiet, restful day.
Today, I'm emailing early because we're headed
out to Braunfels again to show sister Ferris the Castle. Even though we've been
there 2 in the last 4 days, we didn't have the opportunity to get up to the
castle for her. The elders and Dana are coming with us. I'll be sure to get
lots of pictures and send them when I can.
Love you all, can't wait to hear from you,
-Sister Montgomery
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