Frau Kästle

For those of you who read along, you may remember Rachel mentioning Frau Kästle - the old, tempermental, Russian woman they visit once a week because she's lonely. Well, here's the latest in this story:

oh my goodness so frau kästle says she wants to come to church on sunday. oh dear..i'm afraid that she'd yell at people as they bear their testimonies. she yelled a few weeks ago when we were reading the Book Of Mormon and yelled that it was false. i was afraid that she'd get struck by lightening or something. anyway so we dont read the Book Of Mormon with her anymore. she likes it when we read out of the bible. its the word of God too so its all good. haha. yeah and she hates cars because they are ruining the environment so we'd have to get her to church on the bann. it'll be interesting. i dunno if shes really going to come but we're making plans just in case she really does want to come!

I can't wait to hear what happens!

Silly Photos

PS - tell meg thanks for the tape that she sent me! i got it last week and started one for her today!

Small World

Last week I found out that our good friend, Lisa Sharp, knows Rachel's mission companion - Keri Ranzenberger! Both are from Kansas City. And now today Rachel e-mails this:

sometime last week my comp and i were doing some finding time along side the Neckar River and we were heading home and decided to get some icecream. we were eating it on the bridge watching elder hopkins and elder braithwaite talk to some people. we heard some women speaking english behind us and turned around and asked where they were from. long story short one of them is named Marg Bailey and she was baptized by Kevin Doty (Shayne's cousin)!! she saw my nametag and said hey i know a doty..and blahblahblah yeah she said she was baptized by a Kevin Doty in like tennessee or someplace like that! cool huh!! and then she served a mission in germany too and was just back visiting. anyway what a small world we live in!

The Cutest Missionary Ever!!

The Apartment

She says, "it makes me feel like i'm a secret agent or something having those maps up on the wall like that."

I love how the curtains match the refrigerator! And I love that there are photos of friends and family all over.

American Grocery Store

we went to this family in the american wards house because he's a dentist for the military and he was going to check out sister ranzenbergers tooth for her because it was really bothering her. so he couldnt tell what was wrong just by looking at it so we all got to go on post!!! (the american army base) it was awesome because apparently its considered american soil when your on base so on friday i was in america!!!!

sister clark was so nice after my comp got an xray (she needs a rootcanal) she took us to the grocery store and bought us some things. i never thought that i would ever miss an american grocery store before until we walked it. it was the most amazing thing i'd ever seen. it was beautiful! it was huge and clean and didnt smell!!! she bought us peanut butter, oreos, italian dressing and microwave popcorn!! it was the most amazing thing ever...

Letters to the Brothers

Rachel sent the boys some letters this week. Here's a fun comment she wrote:

We have a refrigerator in our living room because the kitchen is too small. And our washing machine is in our kitchen and we don't have a dryer so we have to hang our clothes all around our apartment to dry. Crazy huh!

Another:

Germany is awesome! We play soccer every Saturday by the river. The only problem is we have to be careful not to kick the ball into the river. We did once. Elder Hopkins like climbed into the tree that was in the river and was laying on the branches trying to grab the ball. haha! The ball eventually floated back after like 10 minutes. It was pretty funny! Anyway I'm having the time of my life! Missions are awesome!!