Power Knocking

guess what.... on the 23rd (so last week) i reached my HUMP DAY... do you know what that means?? that means that i am now more than HALF WAY done with my mission!! does time FLY by or what!

Picture: me and sister davis eating pink laffy taffy - the american ward had a halloween party and the elders got some candy

so yesterday we went power knocking as a district. there's only 8 missionaries in my district and we had never been power knocking together. power knocking is when we find a tall apartment building and we get in and go to the top floor and then we each go to a door and knock and then ask every one if we can sing to them. and when they say yes then we sing a hymn and then whoever knocked that door goes with their comp and talks to that person and tries to get their contact. i love doing this and it's been months since i've done it. we did it in heidelberg every week and yesterday was the first time since i've been in mainz. anyway it was a lot of fun and we did 2 apartment buildings - each had like 20 floors. haha but we got 3 comebacks! one lady gave us 3 bottles of wine - which we told her we didn't drink it and she insisted and said that we could even give it to someone as a gift. and then this sweet old lady like demanded that we take her money (the elders handled both of these doors) and so we ended up with 3 bottles of wine and 10 euro. so we don't know what to do with the wine... probably dump it and we used the 10 euro to buy icecream. so all in all i thought it was a very successful power knocking session. haha

a few saturdays ago sister davis and i were contacting along the Rhein river and we found a flou market! (it's like a garage sale) tons of people just bring their old stuff and set up tables and then sell it. apparently they do it every 3rd saturday of the month along the Rhein. we're totally going next month! we got there at the end apparently because people were packing up. it's actually really hard to find really german things in stores here - but at the flou market there were TONS and TONS! plus the prices aren't bad either.

i'm so excited - next week is zone conference and sister ranzenberger will be there!!!! i miss her so much and i'm SO excited to get to see her!!