Then and Now...

Sister Rimmasch's apartment now.

Sister Rimmasch's apartment in 2006 (when her sister, Meghan, lived there).

Guten Tag!

This week has been a doozy.

We were supposed to have baptism this week, but long short, chaos has ensued and the date has been moved to next week. Crazy people. This is the third time this investigator has had to move the baptismal date, so let's hope next weeks it klapps.

In fun news, I made a seagull friend. We were at the train station and a seagull and we had some delicious treats that we started feeding it. I was throwing the pieces and this seagull, dubbed Sparky, was catching them in his beak. It was pretty awesome. But then the train conductor came, and scared the poop out of him, literally.

Next, we HAD a new investigator this week. We thought it was a miracle. Turns out, he was just in love with Sister Veselka. He left flowers in our bike baskets for two days, and then texted us that he realized it wouldn't work out because we only "wanted to catch him for our church". Haha. So, we had a new investigator and and not in the same week...kommisch.

It keeps raining here, but it makes the temperature really nice. My hair is always curly, I don't even have to do it sometimes.

I have give two more Book of Mormons away this last week. It seems to be a pattern with us, whenever we go to contact a referral, they are not there, and someone else in the building is and allows us to speak with them and accepts the Book of Mormon as a gift and tells us that we can come back. Exciting.

This happened yesterday after we visited a less active. We walked up the steps of a musty building to find a young adult asking if we had klingled his door. He talked to us for a good ten minutes, took a card, a book, and said he would go look up the website right after left. We had to run for the bus after that. But....we made it! 

I am putting my organ skills to work by playing for the Gemeinde (ward) here in Kiel, they are so appreciative. It's so lovely. And this ward really participates in their lessons in Sunday School and Relief Society! It's amazing!

We even have a class just for investigators that the missionaries teach, and they all like to participate. Fabulous!

That's all for this week! 

Love, Sister Rimmasch

Well HELLO! - August 5th, 2013

Here I am in Kiel! 

This week, I was able to give out two Book of Mormons. One was Turkish, but the other one is a pretty cool story. 

     So, we went to go give a Chinese BOM to a lady we met last week, when we got into the apartment complex, she wasn't home. We were kind of sad about it. So we decided to knock on the doors in the rest of the complex. Most people didn't answer their doors, then we knocked on the door of Benjamin. He told us he was Presbyterian. But he took our card, and seemed really interested. He asked if we had a pamphlet. I told him no, but we have a Book and briefly explained what the BOM was. He wanted to buy it from us. We told him it was free, and he said, 10 Euros? No, it's a...present! And he took it and said he would be reading it. He seemed very interested. We will be going back soon.

Here is a weird, kommisch, story:

So...I was waiting at Hauptbahnhof for a bus to Garten, and this guy winked at me...so I went up to Sister Veselka, and said, that guy just winked at me. I look the other way, and he had sat down and winked at me again...oh gosh. Phew, our bus got there. But NO! He got on the same bus. Arg. So we went to the back hoping he wouldn't follow, but to no avail. He sat right across from us. And then started to chat to us. He told us he was from Hungary and that he was Muslim and that we are all holy people, because we were missionaries. He asked how to say, Rimmasch. And he said, Ah..Rimmasch, very beautiful, and kissed the word with his hand. Like Italian chefs do when they make something amazing. Normally, this would be like oh, thanks, but being a missionary is totally different. He wanted my number, so we gave pass along card. Then he said, I will call you. He also thought I was from Belgium. Uh...yeah. Crazy!

Anywho, we have an upcoming baptism. His name is Herr Petersen, is about 70 and has been investigating for awhile, but sweet! I can't wait till he gets taufed! (German word for baptism.)

I love you all! If anyone wants a certain picture of something or any comments, notes, threats, declarations, compliments or other responses, please make them known. 

Love, Sister Rimmasch