Since we got iPads and its now much easier to do emails, I decided I'm going to write daily because there's so much more that goes on that I always forget about on Monday! So now you can get a real look at what it's like to be a missionary in lovely Halle. :)
Monday
Went to church and did emails. Enrico invited us to do a little train ride for kids that was going around this 'island' in the middle of the river! Sister Egbert was super excited, haha. Then we had to go to our appointment with Christine at "C"'s (the man who came to church yesterday). Remember how we thought he was totally crazy when he called last week? We got that side today. We had a pretty good lesson about the Book of Mormon but then he's all hitting on Christine and telling her to come over to his house alone because he's got something to talk to her about and she's basically like I don't know you, haha. He's African and she's half African but also like half his age, haha, he kept saying how he's looking for a wife though so I think that has something to do with it. We went right to the church for FHE which is now super awkward because the elders aren't there and only 3-5 people come. Then we finally ate after not eating the whole day as all of the food places were closed because it was a holiday.
Tuesday
Began the day serving at the soup kitchen. After the soup kitchen we always go to the church and call all the people we have to call and make out a bunch of appointments for the week. Then we went by on a contact from the elders area book who apparently couldn't hear us through the speaker thing so we left a note. Then we taught "D" German! Thankfully we have google translate on the iPads so we can make sure he understands what we're saying in French. Love him.
Wednesday
First district meeting with the new district. We talked about iPads. Again. We had to hurry and change and meet the Leipzig couple at the Elders' apartment so we could DEEP clean it. 15 years of elders...yum. We spent the whole time on the bathroom and still weren't finished. But we got some goodies that we desperately needed in our apartment. Then one of our appointments fell out so we actually had time to do language study at the church using the iPads, :) we love them. :) We met with one of our favorite less actives "C" who is African and sick so she can't really walk. She is a crack up and told us the other day that when she's not sick she's "swagga woman," hahaha. Afterwards Enrico invited us to eat cake at a restaurant on the roof of this building on Marktplatz (market place). Just look at that view! We walk here everyday. :) Then we had our "Sunday school" hour of church because we only have two hours on Sunday. Then choir. The Mitte's (the choir director and her husband) drove us home and we always have some good laughs on the way. Super good day!
Thursday
We got a call from Enrico early this morning inviting us to this blind people convention thing with one of our less actives who is blind. We've been trying to repair our relationship with her because of a bad experience that she had with sisters in the past, so we decided to skip lunch and go to this. We didn't actually get to see her until right before we had to leave but Enrico said later that she was really really happy that we came. The one thing I took away from this was increased gratitude for my sight! There is so much that we experience through our eyes and they bring so much beauty into our world that I don't know if I could do without. Hats off to all of those blind people. We had to run to our appointment with a member family in the far outskirts of Halle and we barely made it on time. They fed us and the grandma talked our ears off as we played with two year old Nico who is just the cutest little thing you ever did see. Then we had to run again to meet with Enrico at the church (we spend a lot of time with him, don't we? :)) and then again to meet with Sister "S", another one of our less actives. On the way home we had to buy our train tickets for zone conference in Berlin next week. PHEW these past two days have been soooo busy!
Friday
Weekly planning this morning. We were supposed to have an appointment with another African man we had met a few weeks ago but he said he was busy and didn't show... Then we met with "K"! Our Muslim African friend, who's totally normal. We had planned on teaching the third lesson about the doctrine of Christ, but somehow the lesson found itself on the topic of polygamy and he was telling us why polygamy is such a good thing and takes care of all of the lonely women in the world who just want a husband but can't have one because the men are all already taken. No comment... We had to cut the lesson off because we had to run to our train to Leipzig for exchanges. Right now I'm kickin' it in Chemnitz.
Saturday
Sister Moffet and I taught a woman from India this morning. She's not baptized, but Sister Moffet said it best when she said we basically just visit teach her, haha. Another lesson with a guy from China. We studied German, ate, and traveled back to Leipzig. Yesterday I forgot to give the apartment key to my companion so they had no way of getting in and the bishop wasn't answering his phone so they had to stay the night in Leipzig, hahahaha, my bad. Sister Egbert had nothing but her backpack and the clothes on her back. She wasn't mad though. Good thing.
Sunday
Good day! Church was good but "D" didn't come... Strike two... For some reason the members were being way nice to us today. Maybe it's because the elders are gone. Afterwards we ate at the Mitte's and had such a good time. Those two just crack us up and we have a super good relationship with them. Brother Mitte showed us pictures from before his mission days when he had hair down mid torso, haha. As he was clearing the table he piled everything in his hands and walked away saying, in English, "real men only need one trip." Hahaha, we couldn't take it anymore. Then we met with "D"! I don't know if I mentioned, but he didn't pass his first baptismal interview but still wants to get baptized. We think he's now ready and asked him to pray about the 20th as a baptismal date and he said he would! I AM SO EXCITED!! He's just gotta come back to church. I made banana bread during our dinner hour. Such a good day!
Hopefully this helps you guys get a real feel for what we're up too, it also kind of counts as my journal writing, so that's a big plus. Being a missionary is so much fun. My testimony is strengthened literally. every. day. I don't know where I would be without my mission. I know that God is there, Christ is there, and they love me. I couldn't possibly deny that nor would I ever ever want to.
9 weeks.
Sister Seamons
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