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Hellooooo Everobody!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy Flippin cow we had an insanely busy week this week and it went by way to fast. But it was an amazing week. To start off we got our transfer calls.......We are both staying again for another transfer. This one is only five weeks because last one was a long seven weeks. In other news the reign of District Frau is back. My comp is the District Leader and that means I get to be district frau again!!!!!!! A.K.A best job in the whole mission. I am honestly very happy to stay another transfer again and Eberswalde is really starting to grow on me. The little tiny family like branch is so great and I love them so much. While we have very few investigators each one of them have a special place in my heart. Yes Eberswalde is full of hippies that walk the streets bare foot, yes, one street finding is really taking its toll on me, but I'm really starting to love it here.
Today for P day we get to go to the lovely, awesome, sick, dope, sweet, fantastic, wonderful, amazing, incredible, gorgeous, beautiful, mind boggling, the bees knees of the world, attractive, big, city of Berlin. We decided to go check out checkpoint Charlie and get our passports stamped. And we will probably visit the gorgeous Berliner dome.
On Thursday we got to do some service for our very good hippy friend. Matthias. He is currently working on a fence to keep those pesky teenagers from stealing his stuff so seeing as how it is a three man job it works perfectly. Something I've been trying to do is really make friendships stronger with our investigators. That's something he really wants is a closer bond to the missionaries. It's very difficult as the language barrier prevents me from expressing myself the way I want to but it took me a while to realize it's not what I say that's important but rather what they say. As long as I pay attention to what they are feeling and what they are expressing and actually find a way to take interest that is when friendships are won. I just need to give him the lime light.
Wednesday was a rather emotional roller coaster for us. We went with the one and only Bruder Schmidt to the court house to see if we could print off and post fliers for German, English, and our game night. It was a long process and we finally got the ok. Then we went over to a museum place to see if we could get permission to do a street display. The lady we talked to was a very nice sweet lady who I could tell was very very stressed. We walked in and she told us that she didn't have much time but we could email her. She hecticly searched for her card found it and apologized for being so stressed. Well, Bruder schmidt wasn't really empathetic towards the situation and he told her we are also very stressed and we work non stop. She um, started to cry and Elder Partridge and I tried to calm her down and say it was no problem and we will email her. We then pulled bruder schmidt aside and told him to try and be a little more understanding of the situations of other people. He got rather schmidty with us and began his rants. My comp under much pressure may have yelled back a little which caused even more drama. After a rather rough few hours when we could all be situated we taught Michael. He is such a sincere hearted man and he told bruder schmidt and us how much he appreciated us and bruder schmidt began to cry. Such a tender moment for all of us. We taught him and the lesson went amazing as usual. The next morning he called us to tell us how thankful he was for that evening. He also asked for a priesthood blessing that we will be giving to him this week.
On tuesday we had ZOKO. It was just what I needed. A good spiritual boost for the upcoming next transfer. My favorite lesson was given to Sister Fingerle. During the end what she had decided to do is write questions down and we would go in a room and give us a personal interview where we wrote down the answers to the questions she had written. I began answering the questions and writing them down and then I got to the last one. When was the last time you have felt love from your father in heaven? And do you feel it now? If I could tell you my most favorite feeling to feel in the world it would be love from my heavenly father. In most of my conversations with my great friend Elder Bennett they mostly revolve around the feeling and expression of love. I have felt extremely happy, and I have felt extremely angry and the power of these two combined do not compare with that of feeling the love of God. A quote from again Elder Bennett: "The love you have for people will do more for them, than any preach my gospel lesson." This quote is so true. While teaching is so so important love is what brings change to peoples lives. That's why God uses the emotion love to evoke a change in us. There are many things I still wish to change and sometimes I feel like I will never be at the point I want to be. Well, I know that God loves me and as long as I try I can't fail.
I have you all love. Thank you for your emails of encouragement. BYE!!!!! Tciao.
Elder Riggs.
The Lord is My shepherd.
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