We Do What We Can

split with sister niebergall

first of all: i was sitting on the bus on my way to emails feeling sorry for myself because i`m tired of life right now. but i checked my emails and i had 17 new emails! and all of them were fantastic and just what i needed! so thank you to everyone who emailed me today. you all answered my prayers!

transfer calls were on saturday. but president wasn't ready. he still hasn't finished and transfers are tomorrow! we know that we are staying here BUT we might get a third companion.

4th of July is on saturday. there's a baptism in krefeld that evening that i`ve been asked to play the piano for. so we`re going to krefeld on saturday. it's like a 20 minute train ride. our district is split into two cities. 4 of us are here in MGB and the other 4 are in krefeld. anyway sister dexheimer and i want to do something way fun for the 4th... i really want burgers - grilled. sooo we`ll see what we can do. if anything we`ll sing the national antheme and watch on my camera a movie i made of fireworks that were going off when a new store opened in MGB a few months ago. we do what we can!

Misc. Photos

Sister Dexheimer and Rachel

schloß rheydt

Highs and Lows

so this morning i was thinking... bummer i have like nothing to tell my family. but then... i went and got my hair cut by alex the inactive hair guy. he owns a really nice salon and so i went in and i was like... i just need some layers. and he just went to town! he gave me a hair treatment and massaged my head and like pampered me! I LOVED IT! something you should know about hair places in germany... they don't style your hair afterwards. you do it. or you pay them more. anyway alex did my hair and it's funny because i told him that we were playing soccer afterwards and he was like....ok so i know you`re going to go do sport in a minute but you`re in here still and your hair has to be perfect. so he like paid so much attention to my hair and it had to be perfect. it was WONDERFUL. anyway what the best part is....is that this whole thing was FREE! all because i`m a missionary! i want to go to him every day and have him do my hair. it's a little poofy right now but i think he did a good job fixing it. plus he gave me some anti-frizz stuff as well. it was fantastic. i love my life right now.

guess what... today 17 months ago i went into the MTC! crazy huh! time is just flying by!

so no new investigators. poop! i don't know if i can handle another 6 weeks here. i`m starting to lose my mind. maybe i`ll just go to alex every day and get a head massage and life will be wonderful... 'just kidding

yvonne finally came to church again on sunday. she's breaking my heart. she's changed during the past 6 weeks. after church we had our missionary meeting we call it gemiko, i dunno what it's called in english. but we were meeting with our ward mission leader and others in ward and they asked about yvonne. as i was explaining what was going on i started crying. she hadn't been to church for 3 weeks. anyway she came on sunday and she got mad because she didn't understand why she wasn't allowed to go in the whole temple right away and why she had to wait a year. and i tried explaining it to her but she wouldn't listen to me! and i tried explaining in german and english! it took like 3 or 4 people to explain it to her and now she understands. anyway she doesn't listen to me much anymore and i know that i can't force her to do anything. i`ve taught her the commandments and everything that she needs to know but she has to make the choice herself to live it or not. and it makes me so sad. so sad that i cried during gemiko on sunday. i`m starting to lose it. i can't watch this happen. i really hope she pulls it together. it was really good for her to go to church on sunday. i think we`re going to start meeting with her 2 times a week instead of just one and start reading the Book of Mormon with her. maybe that will help...

anyway so that's what's been happening with me. part of me REALLY wants to get transferred for my last transfer. the other part of me doesn't trust anyone else to teach yvonne and i want to stay and help her. but at the same time if she goes down the wrong path it`ll break me. i don't want to end my mission like this.

alright well that's me right now. my knee is SO much better. we`re all playing soccer today but i think i`ll play goalie or something. i wont play too hard on it. i`ll email pictures next week of my new hair.

Bummer News

well mom i emailed some more pictures. i`ll try to take more of me and my comp....and there are like no pretty places in MGB. so i hope these düsseldorf pictures work for now.

soo...bummer news. we lost our investigator. so we have none again. erwin said to call in july or something. so for the time being we`ve got finding time again!

some guy asked me on the bus this morning if i was from spain. did i tell you i get that a lot? i have people ask me all the time if i have some sort of spanish in me.

anyway that's what's going on with me. my knee is totally better now. the doctor is keeping me on the meds for the next few weeks and then he`ll call me. hopefully my knee behaves for the rest of my mission.

Pete

i dont know if you remember Pete... he's from england and sister olson and i met him and his friend gavin and taught them a little. anyway pete moved to düsseldorf and so whenever i`m there i give him a call to see how he's doing. anyway he came to the street preach after zone conference last week. he's moving back to england in like 2 weeks. and then sometime in 2010 he's moving to LA!

A New Investigator

guess what we finally have a new investigator! his name is Erwin. sister dexheimer and sister niebergall contacted him at the streetpreach a few weeks ago. anyway he`s golden! he's an older man with no wife and 2 grown children. he lives alone with his dog. he's got lots of time... i love people like that! i really think he could maybe get baptized before the end of next transfers. but that's only have one visit. so we`ll see. we`re meeting with him again on thursday!

we`re going to düsseldorf today for pday to hang out with the sisters there. i`m just way excited to get out of MGB for a day! plus düsseldorf is pretty and the weather is a bit nicer today.

anyway i gotta run! LOVE YOU