25th, and the 26th so everyone is still celebrating. But the 26th is
Pday so we kinda get another holiday too. Course nothing's open so we
can't go shopping haha.
Anywho, this is what's gone on this week.
Earlier in the week we spent some time in Frankfurt with our new
district. (They're all crazy.) We met up in the Frankfurt
Weihnachtsmarkt and we went caroling (Don't be surprised, I can carry
a tune when I need to.) and a couple of us talked to people about
Christ, Elder Deus literally ran down people on bikes. It was a fun
time.
First we sang all of our English Christmas songs then used all of our
German ones. When we ran out of songs it just so happened it was time
to leave. So then Elder Davis and I went on a split and I took Elder
Campbell to Offenbach for the next day. He's only one transfer older
than me, he knew the Armenian Elders in the MTC, and our Deutsche
Sprache is about the same.
The next day I took Elder Campbell to a investigator lesson with a man
named Mohamed and a member, Sister Höcht. Mohamed had some interesting
beliefs, according to him the USA is going to be destroyed by a giant
meteor. So I guess y'all better watch out back at home haha. But
otherwise he's a nice guy although a bit verrückt. I was able to keep
up with their German which was a nice blessing as well.
We met with 4-5 other families through the week. They're all very kind
and I think I'm gaining weight from all they're feeding us. We got to
see what the Germans here do for Christmas. It's honestly pretty close
to American traditions so we weren't too far from home.
One family in particular, the O family. (my edit here since the church has asked that we be sensitive to names of families that missionaries teach. Names are not not necessary for the story here. I will respect their privacy.) A single mom with three
kids ages 12, 11, and 5. They've got one of the biggest apartments
I've seen here and everything was covered in Weihnachten decorations.
We ate a meal of French fries with some sauce. (I kid you not we ate
straight French fries for dinner, Kartoffel is everything here) then
the kids had a massive plate of various cookies they made and we got
to try lots of different kinds. Later the kids got to open some
presents and stuff, Elder Davis and I even got a present. The oldest
daughter Selina and I share a love of Legos. Since one of her presents
were a set of Legos we got to prove to everybody why Legos are the
best, it was a lot of fun. Then Sister O shared a short
Christmas story, something about a mouse and a horse I couldn't
interpret her German very well as I was childishly distracted by Legos
(I regret nothing!).
The next day (Sunday) we had a combined sacrament meeting with the
Wiesbaden American military ward so our building was properly stuffed
with people. Later Davis and I joined our Friend Troy for Christmas
dinner. Somehow he got his hands on a 6 kilo turkey and cooked it
perfectly. It was nice to have that feeling of a miniature food coma.
After dinner, as a missionary we get to skype home twice a year (once
on Cmas and Muttertag) so I got to see Daniel and Rachel before
they're shipped off to Nairobi and Barcelona tomorrow. I honestly
don't know what my Mom and Dad are going to do with their freedom from
us kids haha. We've got to keep our heads in Deutschland but it still
hurt to end the call.
Earlier today we had an appointment with the Obst Family (another "O" family).
Oddly enough she had made a Mexican style dish which was
pretty close to the Mexican food I know. We ate with the Father,
Mother, and youngest daughter. All super nice. M (the daughter)
had studied at byu Idaho for a semester or two so she speaks perfect
English and has a fascination with the Russian language like me, so
we'll probably learn some from each other. We played a game of
Yahtzee, Elder Davis hadn't played before but he wiped the floor with
the rest of us. Very nice family, super strong members too.
Anywho, as it goes here in Germany we're making progress, it's
surprisingly not that cold, getting ever closer to the spiritual side
of the work, learning new stuff as we teach it, still meeting odd
people, not any super weird foods yet, all in all I think it's going
pretty well.
Bis zweithousandsiebzehn -Elder Füller
Elder Davis und ich
Empty Marktplatz Bahnhof (it's like Never empty)
Feeding pigeons underground. Fun
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