I forgot my planner at home so here's to trying to remember everything that happened this week...
We continue to teach our Syrian man German. Twice a week, at the church. He took Sister Jensen's desire to learn Arabic seriously and bought her a notebook and started filling it out with Arabic words and numbers and the alphabet and stuff, haha. He taught us how to say the alphabet and a little bit with writing. As I was saying the alphabet to him, he got so so excited and gave me a high five and said, "in one month, you speak perfect Arabic." Haha. We helped him a little with his homework for this German class he's taking and he was just so excited, haha. Arabic is a pretty cool language but totally different from anything I'm used to. Eduardo (that's not actually his name, but we're not sure what it is or how to spell it, plus Eduardo kind of just stuck, haha) used to be a teacher for like 20+ years so he definitely knows what he's doing, trying to help us learn Arabic. Ha!
We had branch conference yesterday! On Saturday we had a huge get together at the church building in Wolgast, which turned into everyone bringing some kind of "international food" and then dancing and playing funny games. Sister Jensen and I brought no bake cookies from America. Everyone died. Then we basically just watched the rest of the ward make fools of themselves, haha. I think it's funny how at almost all ward functions they involve the missionaries in some awkward way. At both of the Christmas parties I was at, the missionaries had to sing Jingle Bells, and this time, we had to blow cotton balls across the table at each other. Then they blindfolded us and made us do it again, but they put flour on the table so we were actually blowing flour at each other!
In other random news... On Friday we spent literally the whole day with our ward mission leader, Bruder Paeplow. Seriously, like 7 hours straight. He came to be a joint teach for our only (eternal) investigator and show her how she can get moving with her family history, but she lives in Stralsund. So we rode the train to Stralsund together, then we power-walked for 30 minutes to our less-active appointment, which he kind of just invited himself to and ended up being really great! Then we power-walked again to our next appointment with Frau Pahl. Then we had to wait like 45 minutes for our train back to Greifswald, rode back with him, then waited in Greifswald with him for the bus to take us home. The day ended up being really great and he made it a lot of fun, haha, he speaks perfect English too and was a super great joint teach. He's definitely the best ward mission leader I've had on my mission!
Sorry if this email is scattered. The weather is so nice outside, my brain can't totally comprehend it... gotta go! The church is STILL true!!
Sister Seamons
 This is my companion in Stralsund...That's definitely a toilet, being used as a flower pot. |  These are partying Germans. |
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