The Dish on the Mish: Happy Happy Fourth

Meine Familie,

"Wherefore this land is consecrated and it shall be a land of liberty unto them. It shall be blessed forever."
-2 Nephi 1:7

So how was the 4th??

I hope everyone had a great celebration filled day.

Mine was pretty awesome here in Deutschland. I had no idea you could have such a fun America day without parades, fireworks, the national anthem, or a BBQ.

So how does one spend the fourth of July in Deutschland???

We went to KFC for lunch and ate some fried chicken and coleslaw.

Then we went about our missionary activities for the day.

Then we went to our America party at our GML's (ward mission leader) house. We had some members and their nonmember friends and a new convert there. It was a lot of fun. We played some games and ate a bunch of yummy food and red white and blue treats.

We tried to make cream to go on some red jello we had made for our party. We put some cream into an old yogurt container and shook it around. Apparently we got a little too excited in the shaking because when we pulled off the lid we had yellow clumps. We didn't know what we had done wrong. We called up the Elders and they laughed and laughed and then informed us that we had made butter. Who knew?!? So we had to buy some spray cream in a can and go with that, but we do have a big bowl of homemade butter now!

We also had a funny thing going with the Elders. All day long we would text them inspirational patriotic quotes on the hour. The best part was, that we were making them up. We would string some fancy old words together and throw in something about America and then attribute it to a president. It may have been my favorite part of the whole day.

"The taller a man's hat, the more love for his country he has in his heart." -Abraham Lincoln

"I was counting stars in the heavens above and got to 50 and stopped and put them on the flag." -Thomas Jefferson

So that was pretty much the adventures from the 4th.

We actually did missionary work too :)

We visited a member in the Old Folks Home and took her to singing time.

A picture of one of the songs we sang. They are all super sad and depressing.

"Oh how lonely beats my chest
My father doesn't know me
My mother doesn't love me
I don't want to die because I am so young."

Gotta love German folk songs!!

We also had another Ausstellung in Rheine. It was so successful. The elders there got 5 new investigators. It was so cool to see. They put Sister O and I in charge of singing hymns. It was really fun to be singing something like "I know that my redeemer lives" and then look up and see the Elders teaching people the gospel. Ah! So cool!!

We got a new investigator from the Elders too. We actually kind of did a tradsies. They were teaching a sweet young mom who said she would feel more comfortable with Sisters teaching her. So they swapped her for that really cool new investigator who found us and knocked on our door last week. It turns out that he is definitely someone who needs to be taught by Elders...

So that is that.

We had two investigators at church this week. A***** is 17 and L*** is 12. They are both such sweet girls and I am so excited for them to be making such big steps.

The work is movin' on in Osnabrück!

Die Kirche ist wahr!!
Liebe Grüße,
Sister Brown

This was me just singing to the countryside of Germany as we waited for our bus.

My little mitarbeiterinchen just happened to pull out the camera :)