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!