Tuesday was weird for a few reasons. It was blazing hot outside. We had two appointments but they both fell out, so we decided to go by on a referral we had received—bad idea. It was too hot to be walking around in that heat. No one even thought in their mind about leaving their apartments and we were literally the only people outside. We stopped at the grocery store really quick because the heat was sucking all of our energy and recharged in the refrigerated section of the store. Then this referral lets us in his house and we went to the top floor and were like, "So we're the missionaries from the church and it looks like you requested a missionary visit." And all he really said to us was, "I did not expect this," and left the door open and sat on his couch and continued smoking. Well we didn't expect you either, buddy. Well, we survived the day and then in the evening there was this HUGE thunder/lightning/rain storm that happened suddenly. It was like the sky was freaking out because of the hideous heat. Apparently it was like almost a tornado. So that was exciting.
Wednesday was weird because one of our former investigators called and said she wanted to meet. She is basically a member but doesn't want to be baptized until she can speak better German. So we were really pumped, thinking that she wanted to be baptized! We were all prepared for our appointment at the church and then she was like, "I just want to introduce myself to you quickly," and then proceeded to tell us her life story for over an hour. We literally just sat there and stared at her basically, haha. Her German isn't THAT great and half of the time I had no idea what she was trying to say and we had no idea when to jump in a take control of the appointment, haha, at the end we asked her if she wanted to start meeting with the missionaries again and she kind of agreed I guess because she made out another appointment. Not sure where this one is going to go... We'll see!
We also had this weird appointment with a guy from German class named "B" and Enrico. "B" is definitely not the most normal person we know. He's actually probably the weirdest. Our plan was to (well, not necessarily our plan but the plan we got wrapped into) was to go take some cool pictures by this lake in Halle with my camera and Enrico's and talk to this guy (who was a former investigator of the Elders) about the gospel. Well of course it started pouring rain as we were making our way to the lake (OF COURSE it would rain at the most inconvenient time—not a few days ago when it was hot as heck) and so we huddled under a tree and "B" gets his phone out and was just taking pictures of us standing under this tree. Then he invited us to a coffee shop for a chat or something. We ordered hot chocolate and what they brought us back was literally hot pudding. I am still confused about this. It was just a mug filled with hot chocolate pudding. So we were already weirded out so I asked "B" if he had interest in learning more from the missionaries and he said, "no" so we left, haha.
So summary of the week: Missionary work can and probably will be weird. But we always have a good laugh afterwards. We're still waiting to see what weird thing happens to us today...
Unfortunately "J" was so busy with appointments this week that we weren't able to meet with him. So his baptismal date is kind of up in the air still, but we're hoping that he'll have time for us this week. Other than that, we have no investigators... We did have 7 less active/new convert lessons this week. That's pretty much the bulk of our work in Halle, haha. We need to find more people and fast... Pray for us that we can find these people!!! And pray for "J"! And David! And us that we can have some normal days. Or maybe not because these weird days are fun. Either way.
I'm still grateful for every day that I can be here.
3 weeks.
Sister Seamons
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