"Hipster" Seamons (week 10)

Long/short week this week. Wasn't it just yesterday that I was emailing last? Oh yeah, it was. Days are literally like weeks and weeks are literally like days. Life is good and this past week was great.

On Monday, if you remember from last week, Josh and I were able to email back and forth for a while. It was truly NO coincidence that he and I got on at the same time halfway across the world. I know this is gonna sound cheesy, but I know that God is watching out for us. He knew what I needed. Okay cheese over. [Ed. note: I guess we are supposed to read it as they didn't coordinate last week.]

We rode our bikes to a dorf (village) for FHE with a part-member family after emails. Sister Hein is originally from England so we spoke English with her the whole time and it was really nice. They have three addooorrabble kids and it was fun to spend time with them. We ate dessert, then dinner (that's the way I like it), and then said goodbye to make the trek home in the rain. It was coming down pretty hard. We decided to stop and wait out the rain. On the way back again, I discovered that I have 7 gears on my bike instead of just 5... Holla! That discovery has changed the whole way I ride my bike. Blessings. God is always watching out for us (especially for his missionaries;)).

One of our appointments fell out last minute, so we were walking back home over a bridge by our Wohnung (apartment) called the "Bridge of Power" (for good reason, we always have good conversations on this bridge). An African man stopped us, spoke to us in English, told us he had seen us a few times on this bridge, and said he wanted to learn more about the Book of Mormon. What?! That doesn't just happen! We got his address and phone number and made out a return appointment. We met with him on Saturday at the park and had a killer first lesson. He's so prepared to accept the gospel. He even said that he talked to some of his friends and they also want to meet with us. WHAT? This is missionary work! Hildesheim is exploding!

On Wednesday we spent the day with the Lüke family. We made brownies (which we destroyed), the Elders bought ice cream, Kim made us Vietnamese food, and we ate outside in their backyard. This family is so fun. "E" and I were attached at the hip and we had a lot of fun together, despite the language barrier. She's without a doubt one of the reasons I'm here in Hildesheim. I don't know if I've mentioned this yet, but she wants to be baptized. We're waiting for her parents to come back from Vietnam so we can set a date because she's underage. They're coming back THIS WEEK so we'll be getting her on baptismal date real soon! AH, I am so pumped!!!! Okay anyway, we met with them again on Friday at Isabel's Wohnung and we taught about Faith in Christ. Tischtennis was cancelled so we went to a park instead. We were there for a little while before we heard sirens and someone across the park on a mega phone telling us that we were in a private park and we needed to leave, haha. We tried to get out one way but the gate was locked, so we tried another way and that gate was locked... We were locked into this park, with no way out! Sketchy stuff.

Thursday we decided to stop by on a man we met a few days ago before going home for dinner. He invited us in and one of the first things he told us what that he was Muslim. Remembering how our last appointment with a Muslim went, my heart dropped. We introduced the Book of Mormon (we taught in English), and then he ranted on about Islam for the rest of the time. The Spirit was simply not there. I said the closing prayer (in English, which was surprisingly sooo hard, I didn't even know what to say, haha), and my companion told me afterwards that the only time she felt the Spirit in that lesson was when I was praying. I'm so grateful to know that this Church is true and that Jesus Christ is our Savior. I wouldn't trade my testimony for absolutely anything.

Yesterday we went to Stadthagen for a big missionary-centered Sunday for the ward there. There was a bunch of missionaries from the Hannover West and East zones that came, and even President and Sister Kosak came from Berlin to be there. It was awesome to see other missionaries. We ate some awesome food (Germans don't mess around with dessert) before heading back home to Hildesheim and crashing. Just kidding, the word "crash" doesn't exist as a missionary. We really came home and studied, haha.

Welp, pretty successful week this week. Tomorrow we have exchanges and I'm gonna be staying here in Hildesheim with Sister Lartey. If you could pray for me that this goes well I'd super appreciate it cause I'm stressing out about it. Danke!!!!

Much love,

Sister Seamons

Side note: the title of this week refers to something "E" said on Wednesday. We were driving back to Hildesheim and there were a group of hippies on the side of the road, and she was wearing Sister Stuart's nametag, so she said, "I'm Hipster Stuart." Haha, she's so funny. So now we're Hipsters instead of Sisters, haha.