Sometimes I hear about the Pope...a lot - Dec. 23, 2013

Well, Monday to Tuesday...I was in Bergerdorf. On exchanges with the Sister Training Leaders. Great times. Or, mostly. I just missed my companion.

Tuesday morning: Walked out of the apartment and stopped to talk some old woman on the street. She was cool and when she found out we were Mormons...well...just let me tell you. She said, ooh, I remember the Mormons during the war! (she lived World War II) She said, I remember getting my package. (care package) and you know what she told me? She will always remember the kindness and the Mormons, what they did for her. She told me to tell my ward back home (no doubt she probably thought there is only one ward in Utah), Tell them, I got my package. Well, Utah, Schwester Friedrich got her package! It was one of the coolest things to remind me of home. :D

Hamburg also has REALLY good döners...better than...Kiel. Sorry Kiel!

Had a fun eating appointment with the Elders and a member...who made fun of me...again...because I didn't like her grün kohl that one time two transfers ago! Goodness. She will never let me live it down. But she is cool, gave us Chocolate Santas. In which, Elder Larson folded a napkin and stuck it on his head and then he was the Pope. Quite interesting. Fancy that, the 'Pope' eating at our table.

Which reminds me, a guy on the bus totally told me he was the Pope. Then he said, okay not really. I am the brother-in-law of the Pope. Interesting...you sounds Russian and Pope Argentinian...Well then. 

Then again, we find people to teach by asking other people about their dogs. It was just this GIANT white FLUFFY dog and we couldn't help but to ask. Turns out her friend wants to meet with us and she already has a Book of Mormon. Well, sweet! Exciting! All because of a dog. :D

Oh, on Sunday, I was asked to give a talk for this upcoming week. I am surprised it did not come sooner. Almost 6 months out and I am barely giving a talk. Sweet, I know what I will be writing during language studies this week. Hahaha.

I am super excited for Christmas...they celebrate for 3 days! YESSSS. Plus I am going to see the Nutcracker. Even better. 

I hope you all have a wonderful week and a Merry Christmas. I pray that we may all remember the real reason for Christmas! (Some people don't even know why) Let's keep Christ in our hearts and remember to do good! I LOVE YOU ALL AND STUFF.

Love

Sister Rimmasch

Vokuhila - Dec. 16, 2013

Well....weeks are just flying by, at this rate I will be a grandma and won't even know what the heck happened. Haha.

ANYWAY

I have decided my companion is a time traveler. We were walking in the midst of the Christmas market and I saw this girl, thought it was Sister Johnson, and then was amazed she would wear a hat of such big proportions...then I realized she was actually standing right next to me...weird.

I bought a Pink Panther music box, it's pretty legit, and the sound is actually amplified when I place it on my head. It's like the music box Meg has from Germany. Put it on your head, see if it works. Haha. It really shouldn't work that way...but it does.

We had a great HoHoZoCo...*cough* I mean Christmas Zone Conference. It was great! We learned a lot and watch a movie. What?! Nooo...YES! We watched 17 Miracle and I just sat there like a happy camper because I LOVE MOVIES. Not to mention, I have watched Joy to the World more times than I would like to count. And you know what I learned, that I want YOU ALL to spread to your friends? Germany GERMANY IS A BAPTIZING MISSION. There. It's true though, I get a text almost every week with a list of names of people being baptized in the Germany Berlin mission. Pretty sweet.

Anywho, going to some appointments includes having a mass exodus on a bus and being smushed by little children about the age of my nephew, Alec. Well then. I was in the elbow of the bus when a gaggle so school children jumped on and crushed just about everyone for the whole bus ride. I even talked to one of them. She said my German was pretty good. Well, heck, thanks!

Something cool happened this week. We went street contacting...OH NO THE DREADED STREET CONTACTING. No, just listen! We decided we were going to give Book of Mormon's away. And that we did. Four copies in little than an hour. And a new investigator. I leaned to my comp, how do I talk to someone who is smoking? Just like anyone else. Duh, I should know that. I went up and opened my mouth and you know what happened?  We now have a new investigator. SIIIICK! We also walked around trying to find someone who read English we could give a copy to, turns out we live next to this thing they call a University and many people speak English. Well there you go! What a miracle that was! Super cool!

We went on a finding activity with ward members, singing in the outdoor mall. I gave out cards because my violin decided he didn't want to stay in tune for want of a warmer place. Oh well. It was good, I went out on a limb and asked this 14 year why he celebrated Christmas, he and his oh, I dunno, 6 other friends stopped and listened to me. They took my cards, they listened to me testify of Christ, the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith. (They also thought my German was good, double points!) But what was important is that they hear me, and they listened. Maybe they don't meet with us, but at least for the first time in their life, they heard about Christ. (The had NO idea that Christmas was to celebrate the birth of Christ. What?! Yea, there are people out there like that.) What a cool experience!

I hope we all have a wonderful Christmas and remember the TRUE meaning of Christmas, what is stands for. Christ was born to save us and redeem us from sin and death. He is the reason for the season, let us share that with friends and family!  (All year!)

LOVE

Sister Rimmasch

Another storm?! Dec. 9, 2013

Well, it's been a week and here is the forecast of the past.

Monday: ZONE P DAY!!!!! It was sports and fun and döners and new friends! I made lots of new friends, from America, Germany, and England. Well, my friend circle just keeps getting bigger, I don't know what I am going to do with so many people. Party? We also had a great appointment with 'John' our cool investigator. He is super Bible smart. That is a super plus for him! We will be meeting again this week! We also ate our favorite döner laden and the man who works there, loves us of course. We bring in all the customers. He laugh when we got there because all the missionaries came there to eat and he asked, is this your group? hahaa, yes. Yes they are.

Tuesday: Sometimes you try beer on your mission. Hahaha, just kidding, it was non alcoholic. It is called Malz Beer (like Rootbeer, but not) and it was not my favorite...blech. Guess I know not to drink it now. Rootbeer will forever remain KING.

Wednesday: I got lost. Totally not my fault though, the street is a huge ring and nothing is ever grid systemed here, dang. Good times and fun visits. 

Thursday: Well this was definitely an interesting day. We read the WHOLE white handbook cover to cover in GERMAN for district meeting. It took SOOO long. And then we got bored so we did different accents while we read alloud. That made for some good times. Then we ate Chinese, and I will say, Chinese food is not Chinese food unless it is American Chinese food. That is all. Oh then it rage stormed and we had to stay inside the WHOLE day and went through the ENTIRE area book and made apple crisp. Aw well.

Friday: Turns out that sometimes we don't have Book of Mormons in every language, that's tough when you need one for an investigator. One day! We also helped set up for the Christmas party, that was fun!

Saturday: We bought some tickets to go to the ballet! We are going to the Nutcracker for a p-day deal thing. Yes! And then it was the Christmas party! One of our old investigators came! SWEET! It went well, I had to play some crazy German Christmas songs and then ward members were so sweet, they came and gave me hugs. Aww!

Sunday: Second Advent! Fun times! We had good times and got a referral from a member! Miracles do happen! And we had a good time at our eating appointment! Super cool! I love them all so much. Good food and nice people = happy missionary.

Sometimes you get to drive in Europe Dec. 2, 2013

Monday: DISTRICT P-DAY! We went to Vapianos where I ordered a pizza...and the pizza man made it into a heart shape!!! WHAT?! Hahahaha. No one else got a heart shape. Funny story. We also went to the Christmas Market, first day! It is pretty big and they've cool stuff!

Tuesday: We have some pretty cool members. One brought her friend over while we were there and we had a great spiritual lesson! This gave us so much hope to work with members and I believe it brings hope into our ward, that members are also missionaries.

Wednesday: Of course our first appointment fell out...lame, that's okay, I needed to eat lunch this day anyway. But we had a great lesson with our new miracle investigator 'John'. He is super cool and alread has some great spiritual experiences! He has such potential and he is nice and great and humble! We are so excited to make progress with him! He called us and made another appointment out with us the next day! We also helped Sister Zickler out for institute, she makes super good food, by the way. YUM.

Thursday: Turns out sometimes you walk from one side of the bay to the other looking for one house and realize you could have taking a bus directly there. It was SO long. It took us the WHOLE hour. Ridiculous. Anyway, after that we watched the Drive Safely DVD and received some information about driving because we needed the car the next day so we could be back to our apartment on time. We also celebrated Thanksgiving....by going to eat döners. And make Apple Crisp and Icecream. Well, it was the closest thing we could produce to being Thanksgiving. Na gut!

Friday: Sometimes, when you are in Europe under 6 months you get to drive the car. That's right, this girl, drove in Europe. It was fabulous. We had to drive up to Eckerförde for some appointments all day long and our President was very gracious to allow us to use the car this one time. It was a good day full of fun things like driving and backing up (comp backs me up). Haha. Oh well, but no worries, we were completely safe and nothing happened to us!

Saturday: First district meeting as a new district. We drove down to Neumünster with our new Ehepaar. They are super cool and really excited about missionary work! They are going to be fabulous. Our district now has 2 sets of Elders, 2 sets of Sisters, and a married couple. COOL! It was great. Afterward, we took the Ehepaar to get a döner because they haven't had one yet. Bwahahaha.

Sunday: SURPRISE! A man we met on the bus the other day came to church! He is soooo cool!! Super nice and humble and great and so excited to teach him! I was very proud of my ward, everyone came and greated him and made him feel welcome. The testimonies they bore helped him feel welcome and interested in learning about truth. :) Good job! We were given a Advents Kalendar from someone as a gift! AW! SUPER NICE! We had a good choir practice and another SURPRISE. Two food appointments in a row. So. Full! Both were really good and nice! Our members treat us pretty well and they are great. 

Other than that...going on week two of the transfer just right. SPORT ZONE P-DAY!!! WOOO

TRANSFER Nov. 25, 2013

So...sometimes we celebrate Thanksgiving a week early because our missionary couple is going home on Tuesday. Sad day. But, they had a good run here. We ate thanksgiving dinner with the YSA's and....OUR INVESTIGATOR.

John came to insitute and he is GOLDEN. We were learning about the BOM and the teacher asked him if he ever read Isiah. He said yeah, I studied it and proceeded to answer what is was about. JAW. DROP. SAY WHAT?! Yeah, that's how cool he is. ANNND afterward, he expressed that he WANTS to read the BoM.  So cool right now. I love him, he is soo humble and he even got dressed up in his Sunday Best to come meet with us. That is so cool.

Anywho, we gave ANOTHER lesson in District Meeting because we are just cool like that I guess. We gave a lesson on Alma 60-61 and how we can relate it to working with the members. I would encourage everyone reading this to go and read it NOW and decide for yourself. Particularly pay attention to Alma 61:9. It is super good. How can you relate this to your life? 

This weekend thing was a LITTLE crazy. We had Sister Training Leaders at our apartment for 2 flippin days because the trains decided to fall out...all the time. Anywho, we were on tausch (so splits) and the ONLY time I ever get lost in Kiel is when I go on tausch. Go figure. We found some interesting....abodes...cough....red...cough...lights...........(For any of you who do not get this, just forget it about it. ha.) Quite an interesting day, and then of course the STL's had to overnight, again. So I have been quite tired the past couple of days.

Practicing with the primary was fun and our GML just went up to a whole other level of cool. He sang The Spirit of God to the tune of Eye of the Tiger. WHAT?! Yes. It was beautiful and I think we should all sing it like that sometime. Or something. Ha.

We came home to a surprise at our front door on Saturday...from the Zone Leaders. A CHRISTMAS TREE. (sort of) They had done a service project and got some branches for us to make a Christmas tree!! It is pretty awesome! Just sayin. It's the beessstt.

The Primary program was SOOO CUTE!!! They are just soo adorable and I just want to hug them all and then I remembered that I have nieces and nephews and then I got sad and just missed my little babies. 

We colleged it up again for sunday dinner because we had no eating appointments, so we made......FRENCH TOAST. It was pretty awesome until I remember I don't have maple syrup. So we used Cinnomon Sugar. That was actually pretty tasty.

Oh. I guess I should mention. I will be staying in Kiel for Christmas. Any letters you have recently sent will get to me. Do not worry about it. :) I will be here AT LEAST until Jan 5th.

Love you LOTS

LOVE

Sister Rimmasch

Sometimes I just play my violin with hobo gloves - Nov. 18, 2013

So this week...

One of our first appointments...she had lots of cats...normally cats are okay BUT NO, this cat hated me. He tried to bite me and batted my boot. Then he jumped up on the table and sat right in front of my face for a whole hour...I was so scared. THEN when we were praying I kept thinking how it was going to scratch my face up and it JUMPED ON ME during the prayer. Which then of course caused me to jump and have a heart attack. OOOoo I wanted to kick it sooooo bad. However, I did not because that it is not kind.

I also lead a lesson this week and asked someone to be baptized. She didn't really say no, just that it was a super soon date. It was so exciting and it was so easy and we felt the Spirit sooo strong!!!!

This week we did something really cool. I took my violin to the Fußgängerzone(out door mall) and put some hobo gloves on and...started playing in the middle of it! It was soooo awesome!!! I had a lot of people trying to give me money...and one person who got away with it. BUT anyway, we made lots of people smile and gave out a TON of pass along card!! Then...we started singing....I know. Crazy, right? I even sang soprano!! 

In the midst of our singing, a man asked if he could sing with us! Sure...and he did! And then we found out he had previous contact with missionaries and would be interested in meeting with us again!! We have an appointment for this coming week and we are super excited!!!

We gave a lesson in District Meeting and we did really well! It was funny because it was on a topic we had tried to work on. Developing Faith to Find!! It was a cool lesson...we took up a lot of time...oh well.

I practiced with the primary again for the program for next week! It was so cool!! AND ADORABLE!!! I even made a secret handshake with one of the kids who is like, 4. Ha. 

Sunday, we didn't have an eating appointment, so we sort of made our own with another member our age. We basically colleged it up and made a college worthy meal. Noodles and sauce. And then we watched a Mormon Message or two. They are sooo awesome!!!

But yeah, things are looking good this week. And transfer calls are on Saturday! I have no idea what will be happening!!!

LOVE SISTER RIMMASCH

The week of MEETINGS Nov 11 2013

First off, Noah's Ark has parked itself in the Kiel Förde. That's pretty cool. Too bad it costs money to get on, so...yeah. If it flood, I probably will just find my own boat.

We had a great lesson last P-day with an new invesitgator family. We are really excited for them to make progress and cannot wait to continue to teach them!! The Lord does have prepared people, they are pretty humble and listen to what we have to say. The father even prayed for our missionary effots!

The week we saw a large miracle come to pass. We got on a bus to from Flintbeck to go back to Kiel, and I realized we had the wrong tickets, and the ticket checker was coming...needless to say, we were both slapped upside the head with a 40€ fine. Ack. So, us being the responsible missionaries we are decided to go pay right away.

As we went to the building to pay, I talked to some people on the bus. They were very interested in what I was doing as a missionary!! Anywho,we got to the building and they told us we couldn't pay there, but if we came back tomorrow morning we could go upstairs and pay it might only be 7€. Well shoot. Will do. We prayed SO hard that day and the next morning as we went our way to pay. We talked with the man there and he made a call. It went something like this.

'Yeah, I have a couple of foreigners here, yeah. Mmhm.. Yeah.'

You're free to go, just pay more attention next time.

WE HAD A GIANT PRAYER ANSWER. We did not have to pay this fee out of our personal money. Thank goodness!!!

Anywho, we had a great service project with the Elders and a members house who loves the Elders and calls them 'süßes' aka, sweet hearts. Hahaha. Good time. We did lots of Garden work and it was great! So fun!

We had a great Zone Training Meeting and I learned a lot and understood quite the amount of German and even participated! My German is growing exponentially as I study and put trust that the Lord will help me and I have seen His help in my life. I haven't once been frustrated when I couldn't understand something. Cool, yeahß

I had a great interview with my President, Präsident Kosak. He is SUPER cool and a great mission president! He even spoke and both sessions of Stake Conference!! (By the way, the charge money when you order water at restaurants here...probably because it is bubbley water, which I actually like now. Hahaha)

My companion has been sick for a while, so I have had some extra down time to study while she slept it off. I read a lot of scriptures and practiced violin and thowing cards. Yeah, also watched Together Forever. Super 80's church movie, but still just as good. :)

BY THE WAY, I love trains and train rides, especially to Hamburg. :)

AND I have found that my musical abillities have ALSO multiplied whilst on my mission. The Lord really loves to give blessings out and I am greatful for them!

LOVE YOU ALL

Love,

Sister Rimmasch

ZoCO! Nov. 4 2013

Visited a cathedral this week. It was cool, and old, and cool. We took pictures and then apparently, I survived a Hurricane...or so I was told. It was really windy and some trees were felled and I was told that some people died. Sheesh! I am glad that we had decided to stay in because the next day as we were walking down a street, we saw a bit of damage and stuff right where we would have been walking the night before. Thank the heavens we stayed indoors.

This week was Zone Conference! We had area 70's there!! Elder Kearon (from Britain) and Elder Fingerle from Germany!!! IT WAS SO AWESOME AND INSPIRING!!!!!!!! Elder Kearon told me he served for awhile in the Sunset Stake in St. George! He loves my home city and says that it is really pretty!! :) Aww...Warm fuzzies!! It was super cool!

I got to talk to my old MTC buddies!! All but two of them were there because one is in a different area and one is in the Alpine mission, so yeah. Ha.

This week we threw a Halloween Party. We helped set up parts of it and even participated as it was a ward function of some sorts. It was super fun, and we ate doughnuts on a string! So fun!!! It was a blast and it was cool. We have got a pretty cool ward.

I learned in German studies this week (with some awesome members) that THOU THEE THINE etc, are forms of the DU sprache, the INFORMAL YOU in language. Which means that YOU is SIE sprach therefore I have been using the formal use of you for my whole life!!! NOOO

I will now refer to you all as thou and what not. 

Sunday was great. I am playing piano for the Primary Program! And all the little kids were singing in German and it was soooo cute and I about exploded of cuteness!! SO ADORABLE!

Anyway, real excited to go on! We even have an appointment today with a new family!

WOOO!

LOVE

SISTER RIMMASCH

That moment when you bond over The Regular Show - October 28, 2013

Well...

This week has been great. I have a hard time remembering stff because too much happens...all the time.

My comp and I bonded over The Regular Show, that was definitely a highlight to my week.

We have been doing a lot of contact because our investigators are meeting with us. (Rough, I know)

But because we went contacting, we received a new investigator FAMILY! YEEESSSSS. That was worth it.

I have been able to share my talents on the mission, I played the violin in church and at an activity and it was awesome! Also, when I went through a weekly market, I saw a girl playing violin and I went and talked to her and...she LET ME PLAY HER VIOLIN!!!!!!! So cool right now. She is super sweet and I think we will be friends.

Missionary work is sometimes hard, but it is the work of the Lord and therefore important.

One of our members this week had us over for dinner and invited her nonmember friend and her family too! It was really neat and a good way to have a good contact with someone that could potentially have interest in the church!

I LOVE YOU ALL 

I will send pictures next week because I am at an internet cafe and don't think I should use my USB stick here...

LOVE

SISTER RIMMASCH

Transfer 3 week 1

Well to start off the transfer I traveled to Bremen to pick up my new comp, Sister Johnson. She's super cool and way nice, I am way excited to work with her and to see how the work will change when we work together. It will probably just be really awesome. All the time. 

First thing this week, we have done a lot more dooring since the transfer, I have been able to get more used to it and to see what it is like just talking about the gospel and just putting it out there for everyone to see. We met a guy who told us it was all a lie. Oooaky, maybe you are not ready yet, buddy.

We reorganized the area book this week and I found a little surprise going through the area book. Apparently, there has been a Sister Rimmasch (my sista) and a Sister Johnson here together before...WHOA, MIND BLOWN. But seriously.

We have been using The Worldwide Broadcast, The Work of Salvation with members. It is such a good tool, and it really gives some great ideas to members and missionaries on how they can work together. I love it, and then it's even better when members bear their testimonies about missionary work. Such sweet hearts!

We went to a member appointment to talk about missionary work and what we can do to work for it and they surprised us, they brought up the topic and starting making the plan themselves!! Members are cool! They are totally ready to do missionary work and to work with us. So exciting!!!

We watched the last part of conference this week in German. So hard to understand!! BUT a member and his non member wife came to church!!  YEAHHHHH So cool.

I have done so much walking this week!!! Ack!! It's a little cold for bikes so that's a no go. Oh well.

We have had good times this week and we are gonna rock Kiel and give them some Gospel. That is always a plus! THE GOSPEL IS TRUE AND THE LORD LIVES.

PS, I started readaing Jesus the Christ, it is really hard to read, BUT it is SUPER COOL:

LOVE

Sister Rimmasch

In Kiel

With Sis. Johnson (left)

Outside the wohnung (apartment)

Proof of the past Sister Rimmasch and Johnson in Kiel

And sometimes I eat at McDonalds not in America.

Well...this week. Let's see if I can even remember all of it. Ha. I don't have my old planner with me so I can 't remember everything.

Last P-day I went to Laboe. We had district P-day and ate at a Chinese Restaurant..that had Kangaroo meat. Blerg. Did not eat that. Anyway, we had to run from the restaruant to the catch the Ferry! ACK! My stomach almost came out on the cobblestone! (As a side note, Cobblestone is of the devil. It looks REAL nice BUT, it is scourge to us missionaries! Continuous polish checks on our shoes and sometimes you just trip. The devil lifts up a cobblestone everytime you are about to do something awesome.) ANYWAY

We made it to the Ferry!! It was a fun ride and had a great time, aside from losing a few Elders for a couple of hours.

This week, we had Zone Training Meeting, it was really good. I really enjoyed it and we tried to really work together to support each other. We text for success. We spread our success stories around the Zone so that we can see what is happening around our Zone. It is really great! So inspiring!

We went back to Eckernförde this week, and after one WHOLE transfer, we talked with an investigator and I think that he is definitely ready to make some more progress and meet with missionaries again! Yea!! That is a miracle indeed.

Next we found one of our investigators in the hospital! ACK! BUT, we were able to teach him there and give his hospital room mate a Book of Mormon. (is that allowed?) Haha. Good times. 

TRANSFER CALLS

I will be staying in Kiel for another transfer and Sister Veselka is going to a new area. She is going to Bremerhaven (where Captain Von Trapp was to report in the Sound of Music) and I will be receiving a Sister Johnson from said Bremerhaven. Tuesday is just a day of trains for me. Woo hoo. Love me some traveling!

SUNDAY was awesome, except that it started out flat. Aka, flat bike tire and then a late bus = call the missionary couple. We thankfully got to church on time after I almost died (I play the organ on Sundays) Then, after Church we ate at the beloved Zicklers! YUM YUM and THEN we had a pancake night at which were several investigators and members! How cool is that?! Loved it!

Well! That's this week, on to a new week and a new transfer!

Love, Sister Rimmasch

Inside a WWII era U-Boot

Looking out on the Baltic Sea

Sometimes you get to call the Polizei on your mission....

Well, this week was interesting to say the least.

First off, bikes need repairing. It is quite a sad story that no one takes care of their bikes. Gah. Do I have to fix everything?! (thanks Dad for teaching me to fix stuff, it has come in handy)

We got a new investigator this week! Actually, a family, so that is cool, we will be meeting with them next week! And they live really close to one of our members. We just checked up on a contact and boom. New investigator. Pretty neat.

We went to the Fußgänger Zone, it's pretty cool and stuff. I just love the food mostly. You know, like Bratwursts and stuff. They are soooo good!

This week we had a service activity! We went to the garden of our RS President. Gardens are not in your yard in Germany. They are far away and have little mini houses. We worked for about 3 hours or so, it went by fast, needless to say, I think St. George gardening is easier. The weeds there were so stubborn, that I was using a spade in the grass to get them out...until I broke said spade...yeah, you know, I'm just WAY too buff to be a missionary...

Sad story, but short. One of our investigators dropped us. He basically doesn't want anything to do with the church. LAMMME.  Quite unfortunate, really. Maybe in the next life?

So after Saturday session of Gen. conference, we went home to the noisy neighbors of noise...ness. Yeah, so I said, if they are not quite by 11 I will do something. (The rule in Germany is quiet at 10) So, I called the Haus Meister (the Land Lord of some sorts) He told me that I can ask them to be quiet, or call the Polizei. So I went and asked them if they would quiet down. Yeah, yeah, okay they said.

One and a half hours later, I hear the blasting of music, once again, and the sound of drunken screaming. My companion was sound asleep and I could not sleep. So...I must now therefore...call the Polizei. Except I have no number for them...uh...

I called the Sister Training Leaders, they gave me a false number, Zone Leaders didn't answer (no surprise) and then I texted the Haus Meister who then proceeded to give me the number of the Polizei.

That's it. I phoned the Polizei (who are very nice by the way) and they dispatched someone immediatley (for noise!) Two minutes later, the Polizei were there! Talk about quick service. They had a hard time finding my name, because it wasn't on the doorbell yet. I had to explain that I am pretty new and haven't done that yet. They were quite understanding, and they gave a stern talking to my neighbor. I was naturally hiding in my apartment. Ha.

Good news though, is I haven't had any problems since that time.

I just think it is funny that sometimes the first time you ever call the police is on your mission. Whoa.

In other news, GENERAL CONFERENCE WAS AWESOME. That is all.

Love you all!! I hoped you enjoyed my story and adventures with the Polizei.

Love,

Sister Rimmasch

Picture Rampage!!

Pommdöner Special (a recent favorite meal)

In the Hamburg Hauptbahnhof

District Meal!

While out doing doors in Kiel, Sis. Rimmasch came upon a Skywalker.

Sis. Rimmasch and the giant birthday cookie!

Fun times in Kiel

Sis. Rimmasch and Sis. Veselka enjoying their meal :)

That awkward moment when you knock on a members' door and they're Catholic. Sept. 30, 2013

On Tuesday, we were able to practice a lesson in German with a member family, it was good and we were able to really feel the spirit, and I mean REALLY. It was pretty awesome.

On Wednesday, I was give such delicious food...PERUVIAN food. Our Relief Society President is Peruvian. So..yeah, Spanish food in a German country with American Missionaries. It was fabulous.

After, we stopped at an inactives house, she let us in! She promptly told us she was active for 7 and inactive for 18. Okay. BUT her daughter was really nice and invited us to go see a huge Rittersport tower at her work. Super excited.

So DÖNERSTAG. (In German it is Donnerstag, but we say Dönerstag because we go buy Döners for dinner) We knocked on a door of a supposed inactive, only to find out that she was in fact, Catholic. Her father is a member, but she and her mom are not. They invited us in. We did a little getting to know you and then, we ended up teaching the first lesson and getting her number. (She is a YSA, which is totally awesome) It was sooo cool! AHHHHH.

Döners were good too, we ended up having a gospel discussion with a man in the Dönerladen. It was pretty legit.

Love my district, they are all so great, by the way.

WE HAVE A NEW INVESTIGATOR.

We left a Book of Mormon at his house earlier, and we came back and he told us that he was really impressed with the testimony that was written inside of it. He really thought it was cool, cool enough to give us a return appointment. Wayyyyy cool. I mean way cool. 

We are trying to concentrate our efforts on YSA's so that we can build the program, but we do not exclude anyone. We are called to invite ALL unto Christ through baptism. Yeah. So awesome!

Love you all!!

Liebe Grüß,

Sister Rimmasch

Birth Week? Sept. 23, 2013

Well then. This week was my birth week! Craziness. I am 21. Hmm..

Anywho!

On Wednesday, I was back in HAMBURG for Zone Conference! So fun!! We had a good time getting there, on the AUTOBAHN, except that it was backed up with traffic, so we were a little late....hahaha. Na, ja.

The ZoCo was really good and inspirational, and I ate waayyyy too much. Man, Elder Dospil is really good at trying to get people to eat more than they can handle. That Elder. Austrians. Hahaa. Na, he is really cool too. But our ZL's kept putting food on each others plates when they weren't looking. Basically, both are really sassy. Ha. Okay, everyone in our District is Sassy.

I bought a mustach scarf on the way out of Bahnhof too...haha.

Thursday, we had an eating appointment with the Elders and Sister Hardel's. She is such a cute old lady. And very fresh. She totally made fun of me because I can't handle grün kohl. (so nasty...it's like seaweed) Anyway, at the end she had a Tschüss book that people draw pigs blind folded! I found Meghans!!! By the way, Meg, it would be cool if you wrote something for her! Or she might write you, I am not sure.

Friday we had a joint teach with our old Track investigator, Herr Dammers. He is pretty funny. We finished Alma 32 with him and I hope he reads his homework for 1 Nephi 1-3. He is making progress, one day, I hope he gets baptized while I am in the area.

We also shared The Work of Salvation with S. Schäfer, she is really cool and I feel the Spirit everytime in her house, but she has struggles, just as everyone. I hope that we are making a difference in her life, but she committed to think of someone that we could teach! It was cool, asking for a commitment wasn't too scary.

Many people called me on my birthday! B. Zickler called me! And my STL's called me, they sang to me while they were on a bus, but the Elders called first thing in the morning. All 4 of them sang happy birthday, it was beautiful to say the least. President and his wife called too! They harmonized and everything!! So coool!! We visited two less actives on my birthday and read scripture and had some great contact. Love it!

Church was great! Played some organ, some piano, met someone new! I hope she comes back, she was waayy cool!!

Went to dinner at Zicklers, where they sang me a family happy birthday song, it made me feel like I really belonged there. It was so nice! I also learned an awesome word! Schickimicki! It means glitzy! I may say it from now on.

Until next week! I love you all!

Love, Sister Rimmasch

Week of what? Sept. 16, 2013

Well, a lot of things have happened since last Monday. I shall dazzle you with my stories of awesomeness...yeah.

On Wednesday, I went to HAMBURG on exchanges with the Sister Training Leaders! Their apartment is pretty awesome! It used to be an Elders apartment, so they have weights, a soccer ball, football, and other awesome things for Morgensport! I am so jealous. Very jealous.

I had to learn better how to talk to people on the street. Sometimes it is hard, but when ward members don't have friends for us to talk to, we've got to spread the Gospel somehow, and that is one way we can do it. :) It makes for some fun stories.

Right when I got off the train, we got some Eis (ice cream) and this man came up to my comp, he had a deer stalker hat on and a tweed jacket and told us that Christ is his Lord, that he respects us in our church, but he still has his own religion. It's a common story, but he was totally dressed awesome, mustache and everything.

We had a good meeting with our old (70) investigator who used to do track. He totally loves us, even though he professes that money is his religion. Ach so. But! It's funny, he judges how people run...just like I do..haha, but that is not the point. We read Alma 32 with him, I hope he felt it in his heart. He asked me if I had ever gotten an answer about the Book of Mormon being true. I was able to bear testimony to him. It was a really cool experience.

After our lesson, I was telling him I did running as well as throwing, and he looked at me and said, 'but you don't look like a runner.' Thanks man, thanks. Sarcasim. It was pretty funny, none the less.

Another funny thing, my companion and I are becoming so unified, that we talk in our sleep. I woke up to Sister Veselka saying something about Preach My Gospel, and I thought, yeah, that's right. Good thinking. Then I naturally fell back asleep. We have both talked in our sleep and were on the same page, even when we're asleep. It's great.

Had a lesson with a guy...from Bulgaria...who totally was flirting with me. Yeah....(sarcasim) But we were able to use Googletranslate. That was good, we also had the Elders with us for a 'joint teach' aka muscle. I told this man the Joseph Smith story and he was totally agreeing with it and said yeah, he believes that would happen and it did. Wait...what?! I don't know what to think of this man, I guess we shall see. Haha.

On Sunday, we made our own eating appointment, with a member from America, Anne, and all the Elders (4 in total) we made pasta...or I provided pasta and I made Elder Larson cook. He is a good cook despite what he says. Ha. It was great and it was a good bonding moment for all of us. Pretty awesome sauce! Even though Elder Dospil snuck some more noodles on my plate when I was looking...ack!

Looking forward to this next week!

Liebe Grüß, Sister Rimmasch

Week 1 Transfer 2

Alrighty, get ready, Fans of The Work in Deutschland! Germany is about to catch on fire! (Not literally on fire, but like, faithfully on fire)

This week, we did some area book finding...through our phone. Ha. It went well. We went to visit one of the appointments we made. It was super awesome! She really likes science and is working on her PhD. She asked a lot of good questions that we will answer next week! Cool beans!

Wednesday was flippin' ridculous. All of our appointments fell out. ALL!! I was pretty bumbed out, until we got a call from a less active telling us that we could come visit! It was really cool, I was able to bear my testimony about how important the temple was. The Spirit was so strong, I hope that she was able to recognize it and that it helped her a bit.

The next day, we schaffed(made) all of our appointments. It was really neat! We almost made all our goals for the day, and were able to have a lesson with an investigator who has been investigating the church for a year this month. I hope that she will get baptized soon, because she will make the most amazing and strong member!

Friday was miracle day. We lost our joint teach appointment and were desperatley trying to find a joint teach when the doorbell rang on our Zentrum. It was one of our investigators that we DIDN'T have an appointment with. He is also deaf. Right at the same time, one of our members called (she is from Utah, actually) and we were able to ask her to do a joint teach with us with another investigator. After all this craziness, we went and bought Pommdöners. So yummy by the way. Too bad the states doesn't allow the Döners.

District Meeting was cool, we made some awesome goals. We will be working more with Young Single Adults and Less Actives! I think we can totally get some great activation in the church and catch everyone on FIRE.

I still hold my record of having an eating appointment every Sunday since I have been here. Hopefully, I can keep it going. It's pretty awesome! We had dinner at the Timms! Brother Timm made curry with rice! Richtig Lecker! For a Nachspeise (dessert) we had basically a tub of Quark with Strawberry sauce. YUM! 

Until next week!

KEEP THE FAITH AND CARRY ON! (also, someone PLEASE make a shirt with that on it)

CONGRATS TO MY BROTHER AND FAMILY WITH A NEW ADDITION TO THE FAMILY: WELCOME MILLY DAWN!