Liebe gruße, ihr lieben! (Love filled greetings, ye loved ones).
So, we did get iPads. I'm typing on it, now as I write this.
Personally, I prefer an actual keyboard to the touch screen
board. I
Find them easier to work with. You will probably have lots of
spelling
Errors, because I have to switch back and forth between the
German and
English boards in order to write in Denglish, the only language
I’m still fluent in. But, you get what you get. Have fun trying to translate
it. You can use Google, if you need to.
So, this week gas been one of the longest, slowest, weeks, but
also one of the fastest of my mission. It's really weird.
Here's the run-down:
Monday, after p-day, we visited a less active, sch. Greiff, and
her 2 daughters. We talked to them about charity and how it's a two way street,
and, like Moroni says in Moroni 7:45-47, with out it, we are nothing. Sister
Eden and i discussed this the day before and came to some really cool
conclusions: charity and love are basically the same thing. Charity is shown
through giving AS WELL as receiving, because both are an act of love; serving
as allowing others to serve you. Without service, and love, we are nothing. We
talked about how we need to feel love, as well as give it in order to feel
complete, and that we're in a sense broken if we don't give or receive love. It
was really interesting and we tried to share this with sch Greiff, but I guess
it wasn't what she needed because we went off on a tangent that I don't
remember. But it was a really cool conversation we had about love, and charity
and service. I invite you all to research that a little, because there is still
so much we can learn. I love learning. :)
Tuesday we had zone training all day in Dortmund. We talked
about the
Atonement, and how it applies to us, and how it enables us, and
such.
The angle they took was really cool, because they made it more
of a discussion with class participation, which I liked because we always learn
so much more when that happens. I mean I at least learn a lot more when we get
more view points. I think it's really cool.
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday were all a little slower,
because we didn't have as many appointments. Thursday we had DDM with iPad set up,
and then a termin in one of our ward missionaries, sch. Weidauer.
She is the cutest!! She loves to talk. All we have to do is ask
a question, and she will talk for 40 minutes. We talked to her about charity
as well, and she went off on a tangent about how important missionary work it,
and scripture study, and it was just perfect. That lesson was amazing.
Saturday, we had three lessons: one with Sister Arnold, the
80-some-odd year old sister in the pflegeheim, that we help with
her therapy. And with Sch Buschak-niedner, an elderly sister in the ward who is
just the sweetest little thing. i will be sure to get pictures of all these
people so you can meet them, too, because they all just bring so much joy to my
heart :)
So, we had been trying to get in contact with Daisy (a YSA LA)
for a couple weeks, and Alina, the little angel that she is, invited her for ice
cream, and then they had the idea to invite us, assuming we wouldn't be able to
come. Haha, FALSE! We didn't really have anything scheduled in, so we said
"of course, we'd love to come!!!" And come we did. We had a great
time getting to know one another better, and they were both practically
attacking sister Eden with questions about home, and plans for later. It was
really fun. Of course we shared a spiritual thought. We thought that for their
situations and how different they are (Alina's 18, active, living on her own,
and applying for college, and Daisy is 28, finishing high school, living with
her mother, and less active) that it would be best to share Alma
37:36-37, and talk about how it's the little things that build
up who we are, and that help us through trials. It was really cool, because we
asked them if they had already seen examples of this in their own lives, and
they were both able to provide 2 examples on the spot. It was really powerful.
Okay, subject line explanation: sister Eden and I have a running
joke that a mission is like a video game. Each transfer is a level, each seek
is a part, the mission is the game it's self, and we don't have a category for
days. So the translation is that transfer 6, Week 4 are done and we can move
on, now.
Well, I guess that's all for this week. Love you! Hope you enjoy
the pictures :)
Sister Montgomery
Sent from my iPad
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