Danger Week!!!

Note from Mom: She said she was going to send pictures, but I didn't get any. I'll post them when I do.


So this week is the last week of the transfer. That means that Sis. Montgomery will be entering her last full of week of missionary work, and I might be getting a call Friday (otherwise known as Danger Day). All of the new Trainers in the mission get calls from President Stoddard or the Assistants Friday, so I am kind of hoping I don't get a call from them Friday. It's going to be a super stressful day. :P

Anyways, it was such a good week! We started it by playing tourist in Nürnberg (but Sis. John, you live in Nürnberg! Yes. Yes I do. And that's literally all I do here. I don't go around and visit the tourist shops or the castle or the planetarium. I just live here.) and the Sister Training Leaders were with us! It was so much fun! Because one of the three sister areas in the Nürnberg Zone was closed last transfer, our STL's are in Frankfurt because it doesn't make sense to have one of the two remaining sister companions be sister training leaders for just one companionship. We're missionaries. We're efficient!!! Yay!

Anyways, Sis. Godwin and Sis. Landeen came and hung out with Sis. Montgomery and I for a day and it was so much fun! We went up to the castle and took SO MANY pictures. I'm kind of done with pictures now. But I'll send some out anyways and take more because we're planning on going to Rothenburg today. It's my third time! And it will probably still be raining! Yay!

Oh! We got Eis on Monday! It was SO GOOD. It's ice cream, but it was so much better than anything back home. I might consider moving to Germany just for the ice cream. The place we went to had a Flavor of the Month and we all had to read the sign three times before we believed it. It was red beet and thyme. Yep. I totally did not buy a scoop of it. But I did try it and it tasted like.... Beets and thyme. It wasn't bad, but it definitely was not something you would expect of an ice cream flavor.

As far as lessons taught this week, we finally got to teach Georgiana's husband!!!!!! It was so good!!!!!!! We've been trying to get a lesson with him and the Romanian Elders over Skype for FOREVER and it finally worked!!!! We're going to help him stop smoking and then teach the lessons and then he and his family can all be baptized and it will be wonderful and I am so excited for them!!!!!

After the lesson I closed Skype on my iPad and the background picture I have is currently the Provo City Center temple and Jon (Georgiana's husband) saw it and was kind of curious (at least, I think he was curious. He seemed curious but he can't speak German and I can't speak Romanian so it's kind of hard). So I pulled up the full picture for him and he stared at it and all he said was, "Paradies." It was amazing. I felt the Spirit stronger in that moment than I did throughout the entire lesson. We ended up spending about 20 minutes looking at the pictures of the some of the temples that I have downloaded on my iPad. It was awesome. I'm going to try and get a picture of the temple for him and his family to put in their apartment. I think he would like that. It would definitely help invite the Spirit.

So yeah. That was miracle number one. Miracle number two happened when Sis. Montgomery and Sis. Godwin were off on their part of the STL split and then split with the Feucht sisters (a split within a split.... Splitception!). Sis. Godwin and Sis. Riser went off and contacted this random man on the street. This random man wrote down his number and took a card and agreed to meet on Thursday. It was super cool! Then on Thursday, we got a call during Gemiko and it is the random man! He was worried that he had written his number down incorrectly so he wanted to call us and make sure we had the correct number.

His name is Bernhard, and he is AWESOME. We met with him and the Harts on Thursday and he apologized because he hadn't read the entire Book of Mormon and he was only in 2 Nephi 5. ONLY IN 2 NEPHI. This man is amazing, and is just so prepared for he Gospel. I'm super excited to work with him and help him learn more about the church and the Book of Mormon. His questions are so good and so specific and it's awesome! He is awesome! It's going to be so cool to work with him. :)

This week I came to the realization that I've spent too much time worried about me and my testimony. I was worried that I didn't know enough to be teaching the people we are and be helping them through their problems. Which, is probably a valid concern because I'm just a twenty-year-old punk. But, I totally forgot that one of the purposes of having the gift of the Holy Ghost is so that he can "bring all things to [my] remembrance." I got so worried about not knowing enough, that I forgot to trust that Heavenly Father and the Holy Ghost would help me out as long as I do my part. But it's okay now, because it was brought to my remembrance. ;)

We just got back from Rothenburg! It wasn't raining! It was super windy instead and I almost got blown over three times!!! Woo hoo!!! We also talked to this super cool old man who was painting and selling his paintings. He was pretty neat and I bought some postcards from him because I really liked his paintings, but definitely do not have enough money to buy one. He was super cool though, and we tried to We didn't get to leave him a card though....

I guess I should probably wrap this up, but I would like to let y'all know at I truly love being here. I have been blessed to find, teach, and get to know some truly amazing people. Georgiana and her family are incredible. Elena is progressing and opening up to us. Zeynep is absolutely adorable. Bernhard is amazingly prepared. All of these people are children of our Heavenly Father. He loves ALL of us. I have been truly privileged to get to know all of these incredible people here in Deutschland. It has been an interesting transfer, but I wouldn't change a moment of it.

I love you! Have a fantastic day, and an absolutely wonderful week!!! 
Love Always,
Sis. John

P.S. Totally saw Bronte and Savannah Knowlton's grandparents in Hauptbahnhof (the main railway station/airport of ground moving traffic) this week. It was super awesome and totally made my day. :)