Weird [thing] happened for transfer calls last week...
President told me in my interview last week that Sister Egbert and I are staying together, phew! Then he told me that, since our mission received the Erfurt zone from the Frankfurt mission and we now have to fill those areas with Berlin missionaries, he had to close a bunch of elders programs in the mission. One of which was the Halle elders program. So not only do we not have a ward mission leader, but we have no Elders. Sister Egbert and I are taking over their program and getting all of their investigators, which is nice, but basically everything else about the situation just kinda... yeah. Family home evening, eating appointments, German and English class, choir, they all more or less are falling apart. The Elders pretty much held everything together. This is going to be interesting. With no more interactions with those my age of the opposite gender, by the time I go home, I'm not going to know how to even be in the same room as one of them. Sorry Josh.
Other than that, we've been seeing some pretty cool miracles.
We were walking down the street and we both had the feeling to start dooring this one house we passed by. No one had interest, but there was an older man who came outside as he was leaving and started getting his bike out and checking his mail and stuff. He told us not to bother with ringing his doorbell. As he continued to get his stuff together, he asked us what church we were representing and what we were doing. We got to talking with him. Turns out he had a genealogy kick a little while ago and had heard about our church and our extensive genealogy records and how we have a big center in Salt Lake and all of this. We told him why we find it so important that we find our ancestors and all of that good stuff. He wasn't interested in learning more but we definitely planted a seed!
A few days ago during personal study, I was glancing out my window as I usually do. I had closed the blinds the night before and there was only a little bit left of the window that I could see out of, but it was enough for me to see a man across the street pick up something off the ground. I was curious to see what he was doing with it, luckily my view was just big enough so I could see him go to a trash can and throw away that piece of trash! I was so impressed that someone would do such an act of service :) it's probably cheesy of me, but I immediately said a prayer in my heart asking God to bless this man for his humility. What a guy. Then, this morning, I was able to see the same man do the same thing at the same spot across the street. Ah. I was so lucky to be able to witness it. His small act of service is going much farther than he had ever intended it to.
Sorry no pictures, we're in the internet cafe and I don't have my converter.
Ipads? Maybe this Friday. No promises.
Halle's great! I love it here!! But it's going to be an interesting week this week...
Sister Seamons
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