First days in Germany!!! I've missed so much here! The Strassenbahns, the food, the members, the Danglish, all of it!!
My trainer is Sister Godwin- She's from Georgia and an absolute delight. Last night we had a revelation which led to our first motto as a companionship:
Sister Riser and Sister Goodwin RISE & WIN everyday!
This will soon be on our apartment wall :) Slightly cheesy and may be later turned into a fight song to motivate us on days when people just stare us down when we door. (Knocking doors to find people to share their message with)Goodbye MTC! I'll miss Preston and everyone we got to work with.
**This international keyboard is teaching me to be patient, sorry if there's mixed up Ys and Zs!
Yay for iPads! We are now an iPad mission!! So excited!! We have a list of 26 approved apps as of now and we can download and share messages and videos! The only problem so far is because of privacy laws here, none of the Europe missions have been approved for the Area Book app. But I enjoy looking through each entry from previous missionaries so that's okay for now :) Im also in need of good quotes, specifically for my background so feel free to Pinterest stalk for me some so I may think of you daily when I teach hahah :)
Yesterday was my first sunday and it was so incredible! Theres a record 5 YW and a really strong JAE (Junge Alleinstehende Erwachsene: Young Single Adults) group. I bore my testimony and Sister Godwin taught FHE (Family Home Evening) AND gave a talk- what a superstar. She really is incredible. She's been in Mainz for 3 transfers and there's so much to do here!! There's to sets of missionaries in the area and our Elders are hilarious. WE get to teach a missionary workshop for the youth in September :)
Peter I hate when you're right, but my English is already a struggle. We speak mostly German everywhere except sometimes at home and during missionary correlation meetings.
Things I loved and learned this week:
-Anti social sidewalks. All over these little villages there's little tiny sidewalks for only one person that make you keep checking if your companions following you
-For her lesson, Sister Goodwin copied her name tag and we wrote the members names and backed that with cardstock so they each had a missionary tag :) We talked about every memeber a missionary and that now is the time to pin one to zour heart. Missionary work is incredible you guys!!
-New perspectives on exact obedience
-Fun fact: missionary tags made at the England MTC have a smaller name
-That Sister Godwin is terrified of the birds here which are EVERYWHERE! They fly on the streets, in the Bahnhof, I'm really just waiting for one to follow us home. I've almost started crying of laughter to see her shreik MOTHER OF PEARL when one sweeps past her head hahahaha
-The last speaker we had at the MTC. An area seventy that spoke to us about finding our own purpose within the missionary purpose. 'Go to Disney for fun. Missions are for fulfillment.'
-1 Nephi 6:4 The fulness of mine intent. EVERYTHING I do!All that I can do, I should do.
-our alarm clock. I'm thinking of naming it Eunice.So if it ever doesn't work...EUNICE why didn't you wake me!!Love love love you all!!Sister Riser
PPS- Apparentely we send packages to the mission office and letters to our apartments. Sorry :/
ADDRESS FOR LETTERS:
ADDRESS FOR PACKAGES:Sister Sarah RiserPariserstrasse 10Mainz 55131Deutschland
Sister Sarah Riser
DER HEILIGEN DER LETZTEN TAGE
Deutschland Frankfurt Mission
Missionsbüro: Corneliusstr. 18
60325 Frankfurt am Main
Deutschland
Finding this is my study journal was one of the greatest moments this week! :) |