Legal (Week 34)

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Hallo liebe Familie!

Well, this week was pretty good. Last Pday, we went to the Bückeburg schloss, and we got there 20 minutes after their last tour. So we went first thing today and it was super cool! It is amazing to see how much work they put into this building. It is very impressive to see the art and detail in every room. It was a lot of work. I actually thought about the temple, because it is probably the only other place I've seen more detail. The castle was very cool, but in the end, it is just a pretty building where very fortunate people lived. I love the temple because it is the house of the Lord. It is made with the upmost attention to detail and with the best of everything because it is His house. And we are blessed eternally with the blessings found in the temple and with His spirit that you can feel there. Temples are kind of like our lives. We do our best and serve God, and he pours out blessings upon us and we are changed by His spirit. A temple without the spirit is just another  pretty building, but when the Lord accepts it as His house, then it becomes something more than we could ever build.

I anmelded this week and am finally legal in Stadthagen! Happy day. I hadn't ever anmelded, so the government didn't know I ever lived in Altona. Oops.

We now have sisters in our ward to Visit Teach, so we've been working with that and trying to get everywhere in our area to take care of and find new people. That means a lot of time is spent traveling, but it's good. We spent an entire day walking around Hameln, which is a large city south of Stadthagen. Apparently that is where the pied piper brought the rats (or sent them away).. Not really sure,  but he's everywhere, and there are giant rat statues everywhere.

We met with Herr Nicola and talked about the Book of Mormon and why we read it, because he hadn't been reading. Granted he does work from 5-19 or later, so he's super busy, but I don't think he really understood why. The lesson was great though and we've tried to stay in contact with him more this week.

We met with Monika twice.. We taught her the whole Restoration of the church (i.e. Prophets, Jesus Christ, the apostasy after His death, Joseph Smith's first vision), and then the next day, we met with her and a sister in our ward and watched The Restoration film. She reads in the Book of Mormon and believes it is true. She has a lot of problems with the word of wisdom so we figured it would be okay to introduce it. She decided to start the stop smoking workshop again this week after we told her we would try to teach her English and the piano so she wouldn't sit at home all day.

We went around with one of our ward missionaries, Schw. Hegemann, to go by on some less actives and old investigators in Nienburg. No one was home, but she knew an old lady in one of the buildings who was 96 years old, so we visited her and sang her a primary song. She's super Catholic and super old, but it was very cool to visit with her (she lived through WWII) and serve her. Schwester  Hegemann is probably one of my favorite people in this country. She humbly serves and loves EVERYONE. We also have a senior missionary couple in Nienburg, who are awesome and they share the gospel with everyone. They are like our grandparents out here and take super good care of us. They go home this month, which is sad because they have been a huge help to the Nienburg branch before it was added to the  Stadthagen ward. They actually might come visit you, family. Their daughter lives in Meridian and I gave them your address.

Well, that's all for now. Have a great week!

Lg
Sister Simpson

District lunch with the Zone leaders

Hameln

Hameln (there's a giant gold rat on that bridge)