KONFERENZ - 10/5/14

Well my friends, if you didn't watch conference, I would suggest going to the LDS account and watching it for yourself. It was pretty awesome.

We had exchanges this week in which I had to say goodbye to my trainee for a day. That was kind of lame. But yeah, so that happened...but then I got her back, it's okay.

We had some fun times randomly running into investigators...like everyday. I got daily contact with some investigators just by walking out the door...kind of handy I suppose. Haha. Actually really handy, you have no idea. It was great.

I also witnessed an act of beautiful kindness this week. I got off the tram to my surprise I see someone I know running after the tram. What had happened is someone had left their child on the tram so he dropped all his things and ran after the tram. He got the child back and a bag of apples which he then proceeded to hand to me and we walked back to the worrying mother of the child. So...yeah, that was the most Christlike thing I have seen for a while. It warmed my heart to know that people of all nations still have the Light of Christ burning ever so brightly in them. Look out for these people, they are everywhere. :)

And sorry for the lateness of the email, but we were at the zoo. I don't think I was built for the zoo...four hours and I was a gonner!! Next time...there is no Leipzig zoo next time, I've already been twice! ACK!

8 weeks and it's all over...just kidding. 8 weeks and it will all be beginning

LOVE

Sister Rimmasch

PS

congrats AJ and Cami for running a marathon! And their kids for running the mile!

New Companion

Sister Rimmasch and her new missionary, Sister Jensen.

LEIPZIG RULES - 9/29/14

People, did I ever mention how much I absolutely love Leipzig? And just how great it is to be a missionary?! Well...Super cool, let me tell you.

So for my birthday...we went and bought Oktoberfest stuff...aka a Bayern Flag...and a new outfit. Yay! And...yeah. Oh well! But this week we had miracles so it doesn't matter!

Using the 12 week programm to train has really made a difference in missionary work! It is so great! We love it! I like the part where we watch clips of the District. Super fun. This week we also got a new missionary couple. They are really nice and sweet. They brought me my packages! :D How nice! They are spunky and ready to work! Woo hoooooo! We love hard workers!

We had some good lessons! One of our investigators brought his girlfirend to our lesson and so...NEW INVESTIGATOR. Sweet. Also, someone stopped us on the street! He had met with missionaries before and wanted to start meeting again! Cool!!!

We tried out some new finding this week. We thought of it through inspiration! Pick a card finding!!! We wrote down some really deep questions and walked around the down town and asked people to pick a card! It went really well!  We had good gospel conversations and found a new investigator! MAN! PEOPLE LEIPZIG IS JUST BEGGING FOR BAPTISMS!! Super cool! So excited!

We also had an investigator from China come to church!! For testimony meeting! She asked me a really funny question. Why do people go up and announce their problems to the public? HAHAHA. I have no idea. People, watch what you say up there! :D Still it was funny.

Anywho. Lovely day lovely day...we are going to the harvest festival today! Bwahahahaha! Super excited!

AND General Conference is this week! I challenge you all to go with a question in mind and really pray for an answer and look for you answer because you'll get it!! LOVE YOU ALL!!!

Love 

Sister Rimmasch

a picture of me and my trainee at a members place 

and the sunrise this morning!

Miraclesssss - 9/22/14

Yeah, so this week...this week...diese Woche....ACH. Sorry, that was just my brain turning into German...haha. My bad...

ANYWHO. Training is AWESOME. I get to learn so much as well! And my Padowan learner is real great! Fast learner and ready to do all the crazy things that missionaries do that I am pretty sure no one else in the world does. Bwwahaha.

So some cool things about the Lord is that if you prepare yourself and say you are going to be a certain place at a certain time, he provides a way for you to get people. Yes indeed! I had the spontaneous thought that we need to do some finding at Augustus Platz and so we went! We walked and talked and thought maybe Sister Rimmasch is just crazy but them BAM. My comp was all, I want to talk to these two girls. That is what we did and then...BOOM. They were new investigators. Take that, Satan!

We invited our new investigator to baptism this week...he said yes. Wait, what? Yeah, that's right, he said yes. Of course we do not have a date yet, but we will be setting that this week for him! :) I love these people! MAN.

Oki, here's the cherry on top. We were at church...and just a little slow getting into class...you know...talking to people...my bad. I turned around and there was this man there...but I recognized him...from Berlin. From Dahlem. (I was in Lankwitz and was there on exchanges...) WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE MY FRIEND? Turns out this man decided to move from Berlin to Leipzig to study and I happened to know him. What?! My heart was so full of joy (I never thought I would see him again) that I could not even frown. What a great birthday present from my Father in Heaven. I know he is watching out for me! :D

I then had a FHE / birthday party at a members house...she only felt bad though because my name was spelled wrong on the cake...but that's okay!! HAHA No problems. But Leipzig is great and it feels like home to me! Everyone of the members wished me a happy birthday! :D How nice!

Keep up the good work at home!

Love

Sister Rimmasch

LEIPZIGGGGGGGGGGG - 9/15/14

Well if you can imagine this crazy week you will get tired just reading about it! Ha. So...in the midst of a billion Sister Sleepovers, I had the opportunity to take the new missionaries out finding. So that was fun. And then the next day I had trainer meeting and learned how to be a trainer and then the trainees came in and I got to introduce my area...LEIPZIG and then I receive my trainee....who I just happened to take out on her first finding! WHAT? Yeah, crazy, I  know. Then we jetted ourselves down to Leipzig to do stuff, then to Halle for yet another sleep over back to Berlin to see Elder Bednar and then back down to Leipzig. WELL THEN.

Now that that mess is over....WELCOME TO THE FINAL COUNTDOWN. (11)

So I am back in my area of Leipzig and I get to train! (Sister Jensen) It is pretty cool being a trainer because I get to learn as well. How sweet is that?! There is lots of work to be done and two willing hearts to do it! We are gonna raise Leipzig back up from the depths! :D

Being in a meeting with Elder Bednar this week was amazing. I felt the Spirit so strongly I wasn't sure if I could actually hold it all in, I thought I was going to explode. Amen. But you know what, it was so cool, I received answers to questions I didn't even know that I had. And he said something profound, One cannot possible convince one's self that this Gospel is true, you actually cannot talk yourself into it...it is only by the divinity of the Holy Ghost that we know things are true and sometimes we surprise ourselves by what we say because the Holy Ghost works through us to teach us. That's why testimonies are so cool, because sometimes the people don't know that they know it, until they say it. SUPER COOL.

Anywho. Had some fun times this week going to appointments in Sachsen...where people speak Sächsisch, the dialect of German that all Germans tend to hate and you know what? I totally understood every word. Oh man. That is just hilarious! Hahaha. Welcome to my life, my German is a mixture of High German, Berlinerisch, Sächsisch, Bayrisch, and just a touch of Swiss. It's not my fault, I've always had a German in my Distrikt except for two transfers. This time she's from Munich so another Bayrisch! Hiliarious.

Anyway this email is WAY too long. So enjoy these photos I choose to send to you! Ha.

Love

Sister Rimmasch, Queen of Leipzig. (not really)

There is a picture of my DDR face and the

giant mass of missionaries in Berlin...HA

TRANSFERRED - 9/8/14

Do you know what happens to people when they live next to the Office...? The President tells you your transfers before the actually transfer day...it's kind of nice...but then I was all in a flurry. Man...

ANYWAY. This week was nice. You know, appointments falling out like flies dropping to the ground. Maybe because the weather decided to be nice this week. Whatever people! I will find someone like you!!! Oh wait, that is an Adele song pushing it's way through verses of memorized German Scriptures. I now have over 20 Scriptures in German memorized. Sweet. It's actually really nice and they are there to help me when I need them! Sweet!

We had a sweet lesson with a YSA age girl who was just SO HAPPY to meet someone her age who wanted to talk about God. It's actually quite difficult to find here. Weird....but yeah. She basically accepted the truth of the message of the Restoration first time around! WOW! Super cool! This goes to show you, that the Lord puts prepared people in the way of his prepared servants who want to share the Gospel. True story.

Zone Conference was epic. Loved it....had a great time there learning about leaderships stuff and Elder Bednar stuff and yeah. It was sweet. And then...after it was over...that is when it happened the epic moment where my President pulled me aside and tells me that I am training and where I am training. Well..thanks. (Hint. It's not in Lankwitz, Berlin) Uh...okay. Challenge accepted. Will do, Captain! MAN! INSANITYYYYY!!!

Testimony meeting was awesome! It's really cool to have an opportunity to give testimony every month! Such a neat opportunity because when we bare testimony, that is when it becomes stronger. The very act of speaking the words strengthens the testimony more that just keeping it inside! PLEASE GO BARE TESTIMONY. You don't have to say, I'd like to bare my testimony, and it doesn't just have to be at church. We can bare testimony anywhere and we can tell them that we know or we believe...said point. That is a tesimony and we can give that anytime anywhere anyone. AMEN.

Now that you are all thouroughly annoyed that I haven't actually mentioned details of my transfer...here you go.

I will be in Lankwitz until Thursday so that I can pick up my BRAND NEW MISSIONARY. I will then be leaving the Beautiful Berlin...and will be WHITE WASHING a certain area. Just check out the address below...then you will know.

SISTER STEPHANIE RIMMASCH

KIRCHE JESU CHRISTI

GERBER STRAßE 18

APT 916

04105 LEIPZIG

Yes, I wrote the right address. I have been called to go back and start Leipzig back up. Brothers and Sisters, welcome to my life. White washing and training in an area that I have been in! Someone must have prayed me back. ;) LOVE YOU ALL

Love

Sister Rimmasch

I cannot English - 8/25/14

Well...this week was insane craziness the whole time. We said a farewell to our companion, Sister Cameron. She is now safely back in America with her American technology. I guess that is fun and stuff. 

We saw some great miracles this week. We finally found this referral we got and turns out that she had lived in America for a year! Sweet! She is super cool and wanted to come to church with us! Woo hoo!!! We also found 4 new people this week...people who were actually German!! This is a very great miracle indeed. :P Though, looking for these new people, a man talked to us and asked me if I spoke his language...wha...? He thought I looked like I came from Yugoslavia. But by the end of our conversation, he was 100% my comp was German and that I came from Russia. He said he could tell from my dialect. Good thing, he kept telling us how much he hated America so it was a blessing that he thought I was from Russia. It's almost Germany. Haha.

There was a baptism in Neukölln on Saturday, so we went and brought an investigator with us. The funny part was that it was partly in English. So...a German was giving a talk in English...and I was asked to translate it into German being an American. Quite flipped around, oder? Ja, that was really funny. Just ya know, losing my English. I just speak Deutsch now so....sorry if there are too many German words in the Email. Or if my capitalizations are in weird places because of how German is written. Happen. Sorry to break it to you! :D:D

I gave the ward quite the kick this Sunday...aka, I was playing the Organ. And well...sometimes when a song says 126 beats per minute, doesn't mean you should play it that fast...I do not think they were used to that and had a very difficult time keeping up with the pace. IT WAS SO FUNNY. I had to slow down for them, but at least I did what my President asked and did not play slowly. Fortunately, for them, the song said 112-126 beats per minute and they were able to handle the 112. Ach, so. Funny. Please for the love, follow the organists' pace in your wards. :D Oki, rant over. :P

Well friends. Going to East Side Gallery today and then we are going to missionary this area up in the Stadtteil of Lankwitz in Berlin!

LOVE

Sister Rimmasch