Burrito Week in Berlin (Week 63)

Getting burritos after Tausch

Fürst des Friedens

prenzlau and sister Daines

Spring in Berlin!

prenzlau and sister Daines

Another week has come and gone.

We had a family home evening with the Hansen's on Monday. It was awesome. We ate Italian food, watched the Prince of Peace video and talked about how we can have that peace with us always. It's always a good time with them. Mark said that he's noticed how  They asked for priesthood blessings, so we came back on Tuesday night with the elders. They fed us all dinner yet again, which we weren't expecting but it was fun. Then the elders gave them blessings and it was so cool to sit there and hear of God's love for this family. I love the Hansen's!

Tuesday was insane. We left around 8:30 that morning to go translate for Martha to help her clear some things up from her apartment. Then we had a service project with an eternal investigator, where we broke sticks in her yard so she could burn them in her oven and talked about the Book of Mormon. She had been coming to church for 8 years but hadn't read the Book of Mormon all they way through. She had a ton of questions that we answered and we invited her to read it. Then we had an appointment with a less-active member, Schw. De La Rosa. She pretty much just bashed the church the whole time and said some not very nice things about us, so we were itching to get out of there. We probably won't be going back for a while.. or ever. Then we had the coolest appointment ever with a lady and her family who requested online to have us come over. This family is looking for a church and wanted to know what makes ours "different". We taught about prophets, Joseph Smith and the restoration, the Book of Mormon and invited them to find out for themselves. They invited us back (aka we didn't have to ask for a return appointment:) so we're going over tomorrow. The Stratmann's are so cool, I love them!

Wednesday, I went to Prenzlau and went on Tausch with Sister Daines.  It was super fun. We visited a member and did some finding, trying to share the Easter video. We all met back in Berlin on Thursday and ate burritos from this super cool burrito shop in our area.

We had Zone conference on Friday, which was great. We had to give a theme on how to help people of other cultures integrate into a german Ward, which I wasn't too pumped about but it went pretty well. Also, we are becoming a Facebook mission, which will be weird but I'm excited. They ordered burritos for lunch so we ate burritos yet again. I have no complaints. We also had our Easter Choir concert Friday night, which we've been practicing for forever. We didn't quite nail the Mendelssohn song, but almost. It was a cool night and also a miracle because there were almost 200 people there in our little old Gemeindehaus in East Berlin. We got roped in to locking the building, and our key got stuck in some stupid side door that someone opened, so we got home pretty late, but these two sweet sisters waited with us and drove us home.

Saturday, we went to Frankfurt (oder) and did a street display with our district. It was a lot of fun and I saw the bridge to Poland. I talked to this super awesome woman from Cyprus who is here with her husband while he gets medical treatment. She is so sweet and told me basically her entire life story and how she feels like Jesus Christ is walking right alongside them through this difficult time. It was so cool to hear her testimony, and she told me that if she ever sees missionaries, she'll go introduce herself to them. :)

None of our people came to church on Sunday. Fast and testimony meeting was great (and sometimes interesting) as always. One brother who has also had a lot of pain and health problems bore his testimony and said that it's been a blessing and a gift to have the patience to trust God and that everything will work out, even when he doesn't know what will happen. We broke our fast at our GML's house. He's the biggest redneck and we grilled up a storm, sat outside and enjoyed the sun. We had a nice little talk with his 17 y.old son about missionary life. He told us his favorite thing from Conference was Elder Bednar's quote "Be worthy, Stay Worthy." Leon is the best.

Happy Easter this week. Don't forget what it's all about. I am so thankful for Jesus Christ and that he suffered and died for us, and was resurrected so that we can all live again. Hallelujah. I know that He lives. He is the prince of peace.

Love you all!

Sister Simpson

We visited a member and she really liked this motorcycle driver. She had a pillow with his face on it.

Borrowing sister wilsons sunglasses and sister Daines' jacket

prenzlau and sister Daines

prenzlau and sister Daines

prenzlau and sister Daines

Tausch with sister Daines

Zoko with Sister Koch

Zoko with Elder Rockwood

After the Easter choir concert with Jenny, our crazy awesome
American choir director