On monday evening I was forced to use my Hausschwein skills because a member friend who accompanied us to our eating appointment kept putting it on my plate because he thought it was funny. I thought it was funny too. And yummy. My stomach was the only one not amused. That little stinker.
Tuesday was a bummer because all three of our appointments fell out (One with the lady we taught the plan of salvation too - who I feel like though she accepted and said she was "convinced" by the plan of Salvation still doesn't seem to me to feel that the book of mormon or the church are that important - but we've got another appointment tomorrow) So that was unfortunate, and Elder Baake was starting to feel pretty sick, so we were headed to buy some chalk-full-o'-vitamins juice. On the way we ran into one of our investigators with whom we'd had to cancel our appointment, who's been coming consistently to church (I really need to come up with a better way of referring to people....But I don't really want to make up names, and I don't think I should publish people's names....) And he said whatever he'd had didn't take as long as he'd expected and that he'd see us the next day (which was when we'd moved the appointment to. But then he called us a bit later and asked if we could just do it that day again, which seemed to me a marvelous idea - we ended up even having a joint teach since we'd already had one set up with the other investigator who'd had to cancel. It was fantastic. Afterward he ordered us pizza which leads me to some pretty random side notes: First of all, Germans have this weird habit of putting all sorts of weird crap on their Pizzas. Meat lovers is fine thank you, supreme is weird enough for me. but yeah, they'll pile anything edible onto their pizzas and look at you like you're a madman when you look for a conservative salami Pizza.... :P Some of them are good though. The place we ordered from had a bunch of Pizzas named after places in the US and pretended to have something to do with those places. I could not find a single thing that made sense about the 'Utah.' We ordered the 'San Antonio', Which had what seemed to be nacho cheese instead of tomato sauce - maybe it had both... then with more normal cheese on top, and jalepenos. It was quite good. All this talk about German pizza making eccentricitites puts me in the mood to do this:
A couple things I was surprised by in Germany:
1. People are just as fat here as at home. All the talk I'd heard indicated that all Germans were super healthy, biked/walked everywhere, and they considered the American obese person as some sort of mythical creature. I definitely heard wrong. Though even the fat people bike a lot.
2. Little girls wear Hello Kitty stuff.
3. That the things that surprized me are so random
Okey dokey - I say it's time to adjourn this digression, back to the week....
Wednesday, Elder Baake was super sick, so we never left the apartment. I felt bad for him, but it was actually really nice for me. Apparently some people have a problem with being cooped up, but I had a marvelous time reading Jesus the Christ, doing dishes, napping, eating, trying to cut my own hair and rather quickly giving up (though I'm feeling bold enough to maybe try it again soon), studying, etc.
Thursday he was feeling a bit better, so we went to a couple appointments though we still spent most of the day in the apartment. one of those lessons we had we brought our ward mission leader as a joint teach to, and he talked to her about his conversion, told his life story pretty much, and I think it made a really strong impression on her - I'm excited to keep meeting with them
Friday we were able to drop by a less active members, help some members put up a fence to replace the one we'd helped them tear down, and ate exciting african food at a recent convert's house. That night we went to Glückstadt where we had an unproductive albeit fun time looking for people... We didn't find any people, but we did find a crab, and got some fun pictures -
Saturday we had fußball in the morning with the ward, which was quite the party, I only tripped into like 5 people. Then we got a new magical washingmachine! It's basically super amazing. It has a lit display thingy, it works, you can make it "Dry" stuff - it just like rings it out really well, it works, it's pretty, and it works. Then our two appointments for that day fell out, and we had weekly planning.... And I started to get a sore throat....
Sunday (yesterday) I woke up with a runny nose and clogged throat, but was able to make it sniffling through church just fine, then we went to a member family's for lunch, and then ended up going home and napping for a while on account of my nasal condition, after which we went out to another member family for the evening where we played a game called personality, which would've been fun if I understood German.
And today I pretty much got up, spent my life savings on cold medicine, and came here. I hope I get better - that would be unfortunate if I go through as much as Elder Baake did, I don't want to have to lose all of our appointments this week too.
So yeah, that's the story of my life for right now, I hope you're doing well!
The church is true! I know that Christ can and wants to heal us! We just have to believe him and follow him when he tells us what we need to do in order to receive the cure. Some of the stuff he told lepers and blind people and all sorts of other afflicted people to do probably seemed pretty weird to them, but as they did them with faith, they were healed in the process. The commandments and promptings of the spirit may often seem senseless, too hard, or even too simple to us, but Christ is the master physician and his prescriptions are always the right ones. We just need to take them.
- Elder Cloward
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