Hallo Welt,
This week has been crazy! I had no idea I could do so much and accomplish so much in one week. This week I was assigned my companion and district. My companion is Sister Howsmon and she is the sweetest kindest person. I don't think she has an evil bone in her body. She is an inspiration to me. She is always so happy and ready to serve our investigator Moritz.
Our District Leader is Elder Sommerfeld. He is so caring and sweet and he is the best district leader we could ask for. He constantly asks if we are okay and Haben Sie frage? (do you have a question?).
Other people in my district:
* Elder Joyce. He is so serious, at least that is what he wants you to think, but he so sweet and he is so spiritual!!!!
* Elder Hartle. He is constantly singing and humming a tune, but it lightens the mood and he helps bring the spirit into the meetings. He loves to smile.
* Elder Ducker. He is really good with German grammar, which is super helpful since no one else is! He also tries super hard to follow the rules, which is good (we all actually are really good at following the rules).
* Sister Cain. She is so funny. She always lightens the day and she is so sweet and is trying so hard to learn this difficult language
* Sister Rasmussen. She makes the best faces and she knows how to lighten up the mood with faces and noises. She is so sweet, she asked me and Sister Howsmon how we were doing, and we all care about each other so much.
* Sister Campbell. She has taken 6 years of German so she is really helpful with the language and pronunciation; it is super helpful!
* Sister Peterson. She is so funny and athletic. It's fun because she is not really into skirts and make-up, but she loves exercise time. With that though she is the biggest push to get us to keep the mission rules. I love it!
* Bruder Wilkinson is so funny. He is one of our teachers. He served in the Frankfurt Mission. He is also our investigator Moritz. He loves the gospel, but he knows how to lighten the mood because it can get really intense since we are all so stressed with learning a language.
* Schwester Gäbler is our other teacher and she has the sweetest spirit ever. She is from Germany and served English speaking. It is so sweet because she puts in advice and suggestions in her German lessons and they are so sweet.
Both teachers are amazing at helping us learn the language but remember that we are not here to learn German, but to learn to be a missionary in German.
This week has been crazy! I had no idea I could do so much and accomplish so much in one week. This week I was assigned my companion and district. My companion is Sister Howsmon and she is the sweetest kindest person. I don't think she has an evil bone in her body. She is an inspiration to me. She is always so happy and ready to serve our investigator Moritz.
Our District Leader is Elder Sommerfeld. He is so caring and sweet and he is the best district leader we could ask for. He constantly asks if we are okay and Haben Sie frage? (do you have a question?).
Other people in my district:
* Elder Joyce. He is so serious, at least that is what he wants you to think, but he so sweet and he is so spiritual!!!!
* Elder Hartle. He is constantly singing and humming a tune, but it lightens the mood and he helps bring the spirit into the meetings. He loves to smile.
* Elder Ducker. He is really good with German grammar, which is super helpful since no one else is! He also tries super hard to follow the rules, which is good (we all actually are really good at following the rules).
* Sister Cain. She is so funny. She always lightens the day and she is so sweet and is trying so hard to learn this difficult language
* Sister Rasmussen. She makes the best faces and she knows how to lighten up the mood with faces and noises. She is so sweet, she asked me and Sister Howsmon how we were doing, and we all care about each other so much.
* Sister Campbell. She has taken 6 years of German so she is really helpful with the language and pronunciation; it is super helpful!
* Sister Peterson. She is so funny and athletic. It's fun because she is not really into skirts and make-up, but she loves exercise time. With that though she is the biggest push to get us to keep the mission rules. I love it!
* Bruder Wilkinson is so funny. He is one of our teachers. He served in the Frankfurt Mission. He is also our investigator Moritz. He loves the gospel, but he knows how to lighten the mood because it can get really intense since we are all so stressed with learning a language.
* Schwester Gäbler is our other teacher and she has the sweetest spirit ever. She is from Germany and served English speaking. It is so sweet because she puts in advice and suggestions in her German lessons and they are so sweet.
Both teachers are amazing at helping us learn the language but remember that we are not here to learn German, but to learn to be a missionary in German.
Big events....
1. I ate fish, it wasn't the best thing in the world but I am in England and that is what they eat so... fish and chips it is (they only had it once, over all the food is great)
2. Sneakers.... so I didn't have any sneakers and when exercise time came I had nothing to wear and so I tried to find Sister Preston for some but she wasn't there so I found Brother Field (my pre MTC tutor) and him and some of the other teachers helped me find some they are featured below
3. It is the coolest thing when you can feel the spirit when we are singing in German. So because the MTC is so small all meetings are done in English and then classes are in German but my distrikt brings our song book to the meetings and we sing Auf Deutsch. Coolest thing ever. I felt the spirit so strongly when I conducted in Sacrement meeting, all those missionaries singing.
4. Our Gift of Tongues classes are really cool, it includes us German speakers, 2 Greek elders (they are so funny, Elder Rickard is British and he is funny but hardly ever cracks a smile "only when he wants to" haha) and then 5 English learners (from Brazil, Spain, Taiwan, Czech, and Germany) Elder Freiman is so sweet he is always wiling to help us with our language skills and answer our questions.
5. Gift of Tongues and Interpretation of Tongues is so real! It's hard to explain it but I just know more and more each day, we have been promised if we obey exactly we will receive the Gift of Tongues and it's also reassuring that we are not the teachers the spirit is so if we mess up the spirit makes up the difference
6. DOCTRINE IS ALWAYS THE ANSWER Elder Bednar taught us that if we have a question we need to answer it with doctrine and especially with investigators because applications don't convert only doctrine. So being kind to one another is an application love one another could be the doctrine. What classifies as a doctrine is kind of up to you AS LONG AS YOU CAN FIND IT IN THE SCRIPTURES AND IS SUPPORTED BY THE SCRIPTURES!
7. Temple- we get to run past the temple during exercise time, go take pictures during free time and go inside on P-Day! I love it! It's gorgeous!!!!
Fun Facts:
1. One missionary traveled for 43 hours to get here.
2. Elder Meza; I met him at BYU and had no idea that he was coming here. The first day I saw him, I was like wait,I know you. It's been nice having a familiar face.
3. I found the spot where Oma and I played with Paige, Claire, Erin, and Seth by the temple and I took a picture with my companion in our exercise clothes. That was cool.
1. One missionary traveled for 43 hours to get here.
2. Elder Meza; I met him at BYU and had no idea that he was coming here. The first day I saw him, I was like wait,I know you. It's been nice having a familiar face.
3. I found the spot where Oma and I played with Paige, Claire, Erin, and Seth by the temple and I took a picture with my companion in our exercise clothes. That was cool.
I hope all is well in Amerika and you all can be assured that I am being well fed, haha. I miss you all but I know that there is no where else I could be!
Guten Tag, ich liebe dieses Evangelium,
Sister Anderson
Es tut mir leid, ich lerne immer noch Deutsch
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