As for a cool/funny experience this week, we have a weekly service project for the Braasch family. They have a little farm thing in their backyard and what we end up doing there usually ends up being pretty [strange]. This week wasn't bad—we just cut up a HUGE pumpkin that weighed at least 35 pounds. Last time they asked me what I liked to do and I guess I mentioned something about cooking/eating and they asked what I liked to eat. Well I said pumpkin soup. I guess they took me really seriously because we literally cut up this whole pumpkin into chunks and they made soup out of it. I literally had blisters on my fingers by the time we were done. My hands are still just a little bit orange. BUT this pumpkin soup ended up only being the entree to our real meal....some kind of meat and gravy on potatoes, which actually didn't taste that bad—I was surprised! Whatever it was was not too bad. As we were eating, she asked if we wanted to know exactly WHAT we were eating...then she said, "actually, I'll just tell you in the car later," but continued to make some funny jokes about what we were eating, like "oh my! You can see the hair on it!" Yep, I'm sure you guessed it, we ate......................pig lung. Lecker, lecker [yum, yum]! [Strang]est thing I've ever eaten.
On the more spiritual side of things. Well, this week was kind of a flop. We spent two days in Berlin on exchanges and one day serving the Braasch's, and when you add p-day to the mix, we didn't do a lot for our area. Yesterday night we were talking about things we wanted to change about the area and how we were going to do them, so we set new goals, and went outside to do finding. It was dark and raining a bit and no one was really outside. But alas, that does not stop us! (PS—before I forget, my companion right now is Sister Alison Barlow and we went to high school together! Small world!) We walked around humming/singing hymns and got one guy's number and got hugged from a drunk man until we started talking with this other guy...actually, he talked to us! His name is "B" and he's from Iran but had been living in Norway for 7 years before being deported here. He's Christian and had been looking for a church near where we were. We helped him as much as we could before telling him that we are Christians as well—missionaries, in fact! He was so happy to talk to us and gave us his phone number and address and Facebook and we made out a new appointment. He was thanking us profusely and then asked if we knew anyone that could help him learn German, and we said, "WE CAN!" And he was just overjoyed, haha. We continued to have good conversations throughout the night and made another appointment with another woman on the street. That's the most success I've seen in Greifswald so far! It was so great to see the Lord's hand in our work that day and I'm learning to be more aware of His help.
With Christmas fast approaching, I wanted to share something that I learned from Sister Kosak at our last zone conference.
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Look at these numbers. Which is biggest? WHY is it the biggest?
By putting Christ FIRST, He magnifies our efforts, which may sometimes seem very small and insignificant, but through them and making Him a priority in our lives, we can be great. He helps us get there as we do our part.
By putting Christ LAST or even close to last, we can do all that we can and it still amounts to nothing.
Through Christ, we can be made great. Our shortcomings and weaknesses can be overcome. The Atonement is there, not only when He is our number one, but to help us to put Him there! I know this is true! I have seen this over and over again in my mission. He was born a long time ago, but what He did affects us right now.
So what can we give Him, He who has everything? We give Him priority.
Merry, merry Christmas everybody!!!
SISTER SEAMONS
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| Berlin is my favorite place in the world (besides Christmas at home with my family, of course;))!! |
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