Ich hab' euch Lieb!

Sister Brown

Because He Lives

Deswegen bin ich hier.  

Meine liebe Familie,

Ich hab' euch Lieb!

+ This week was Easter.  We got SO much chocolate.

+ We visited the Völkershclagdenkmal with a member.

+ There is currently a medieval Markt in Leipzig.  

+ I found a hippo mug.  (I have collected mugs from all my cities and this week I found my Leipzig one and it has a hippo on it!)

+ I got a lot of fun post this week! Thanks cute family.

+ I went on tausch to Chemnitz.  It was a surprisingly good experience.  

Alles Gute,

Sister Brown

Opposition in ALL things

Family,

This week was bad.  

Can I say that?

Our already minuscule teaching pool shrank, we helped this lady move which ended up being a total mess and we have received angry phone calls and mean texts the whole weekend as a result, and we had quite the "showdown" with the elders.  

We started playing a game.  The whole 3 positives to 1 negative game.  It isn't really even a game.  Anytime we would catch ourselves complaining we would have to find 3 positives.  

It didn't always stop us from complaining, but we sure did get creative with the positive things we thought of.

I already lost the game in this email.

So here goes nothing:

+ We have successfully made it to pday.

+ I got two packages this week.  (a maddie went on her mission package and an Easter one.  Both were amazing!)

+ Both Haribo AND Ritter Sport were on sale this week.

+ We got to watch some more of conference yesterday.  I have now seen almost all of it!

+ We had ZTM this week and got to have an uplifting meeting and see the other missionaries in the zone.

+ The small group of people we are working with is pretty solid.  Incredibly small, but solid. 

+ We got new I'm a Mormon cards.  This will give us something new to use this week in the hours of finding.

+ There was FHV sport this week and we had a contact and a less active there.   Plus it is always a good stress reliever to do some sport. 

+ And yesterday M got the priesthood! (picture attached)

So there you have it!

Leben geht immer weiter.

Kopf hoch :)

Sister Brown

And this from the email she sent home:

this came from president kosak's letter this week.  I'm holding on to it!

I promise you, this week will be special. You will see miracles; you will find those the Lord has prepared, and they will find you; you will increase your knowledge and wisdom, and you will enjoy your mission in deeper gratitude and happiness.

Thanks for everything mom. 

I love you so much!!!

Thanks for the letters and the packages of randomness.  It is great to have a new skirt to wear and some new stickers and paper to craft with.  Everything you send is always just what i need.  

I will put it all to good use this week.

Love,

Hills

on the plus side, my german DL told me that I have really good german...

and i finaly got stuff from maddie! It made my whole day to see stuff from her in my inbox.  she sent her address to so i can send her the letters i have written.  it sounds like she is doing really well.  we pray for her every day here in Leipzig and cute sister nilson prays for her every day in cottbus!

 A super windy day!

The DDR in Spring. It really is beautiful, not just broken down buildings.

 A Jane Eyre street we found.

it was a 3 ritter sport week...

...plus cookies, brownies, ice cream, and bakery treats...

family,

wasn't conference wonderful?  9 ft breadsticks, selfies, and tales of semis on fire?  it was a nice weekend.   Those sisters with the potatoes in their hair aren't the only ones who needed a boost. 

sorry.  I have no computer skills...

I loved all the talks that I saw.  My favorites were from President Monson about love and Elder Bednar about the atonement where he used the truck/snow analogy.  (That will be the next mormon message.   I am totally calling it now!)  I also liked Elder Holland's.  It was good in a keepspreadingthegospeleventhoghitissuperhard kind of way.  (German has greatly improved my ability to form obnoxiously long words...)

I also noticed some things this time around.  I will now share my conference observations with you.  There are now more conference shout outs than ever.  I have always secretly wanted a shout out at conference, but they have upped the shout out standards.  Since I don't often win Olympic gold medals, walk home alone in the dark, or become hysterical in aircrafts, I think I am out of luck! I will just have to find a new dream.

Also all of those video presentations?  Whatever cheeseball made those is has successfully made over 80,000 missionaries trunky this weekend.

I also diligently choir scanned but didn't see anyone I know.  Not even in the Orem institute group.  So that was a strike out.

Sister Nilson is in Cottbus.  I am in Leipzig.  

Sister Champenois is my new companion.  She is from Denmark.  Transfer Tuesday was insane.  Sister Nilson left before 10 am and Sister Champenois didn't come in until after 10 pm. I bounced all day  between members and missionaries. I think I had 8 companions total on Tuesday.  

crazy.

Now we are back to work!

Have a good week! 

Love you all

Love,

Sister Brown