January

New Year's Eve was crazy. The sisters texted us and said "Does it sound like WWII at your place cause it does at ours." All night and part of the day too. There were fireworks that sounded like lightning and bombs.

On Sunday a girl from Sweden showed up. She's here teaching yoga and met with the missionaries in Sweden. She's read almost the whole Book of Mormon. There's also a guy from Madagascar. We're teaching Michael, a 25 year old from Benin. He came to church and said "Yeah I like it here. This is nice."

We're starting a German class, besides our English class. For the students to study here they need to study German for awhile too so I think we'll have a decent turn-out.

Marina is from Russia and she's confused about religion. She's really obsessed with everything being really clean. She needed help with her electricity and moving a refrigerator so we called a bruder (brother)from the ward. We met him and he had his massive dog with him. So we go over to her place and she is terrified of the dog. Anyway, he fixed her light, etc and she is just super nervous. She says "I need to go to the store. I'll be back..." So she comes back and gives the brother a thing of soap and says "Here. This is for your dog. Go wash him." He starts getting upset because he loves his dog. She says it smells! He starts saying "Well you smell." Anyways, we were in the middle of it, not knowing what to do. He goes to shake her hand to leave and she won't touch him; she says he is too dirty! So awkward! Anyways, guess you had to be there.




I've really experienced some amazing things that testify to me how real God is and how He really knows each of us by name. The Lord is totally involved in all aspects of our lives. I've also found a greater testimony of the restoration and Joesph Smith. It all just makes so much sense why it had to be him and why it had to take place when it did.

I am so grateful to be here in Germany. I love the German language and culture more all the time.

Food in Germany

Sr Wittmaack said that her last companion was a picky eater and would sneak food onto her plate without the people seeing. One time there were elders and the sisters. No one liked the food so they all shoved it on Sis W's plate and she ate it all. Ha.

We eat chocolate ALL day long. Right now it's 10am and I've already eaten some.

We were teaching Bill the other day. He's from Ghana and knows Will Smith, besides looking like him. He asked us to sit down while he finished cooking some goat. So he comes in and gives us bowls of the grossest food I have ever seen! It was this soupy brown stuff with huge balls of goat fat, fish with the bones and all. You would lift your spoon and it was sticky and thick. He went back in the kitchen and I could not stop laughing. So Sis W put some of the big gross stuff in my bowl and suffered through eating part of it.