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meine familie,

so first of all. . . i have been so bad in wishing people a happy birthday! so here it goes the big shout out to Blake, Mom, Neil, Lindsay, Grandma. . . HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!

So from my own observations here in Rostock I have come up with my own stats of the city:
99.9 percent Atheist. . . at least that is what it seems like when we talk to people everyday
99.9 percent smokers. . . seriously i have never seen more smokers in my life
100 percent the most coldest place i have ever been in my life.
Well so this has been a great week in a way. The snow and ice has been melted for maybe like two weeks and it is really nice because were not having to trudge through snow and ice every day, but it is suppose to snow again this week. . we have been getting a lot of rain though.

So updates on people. . . That Herr Lytle. . the disgusting perverted one. . . he comes to church every sunday, but until he shows interest we are not going to teach him. He gave Sister Christianson and I a present. . . they were these extremely cute journals. We love the presents, he just creeps us out. But we are going to drop a thank you card in his mailbox since we do not want to go into his home. The thing is is that he does not want anything to do with anyone else but the sisters. . . He won't talk to or acknowledge the elders when they try to talk to him or any of the members, so Sister Christianson and I do not sit next to him on Sunday. Wwe try to get other people on purpose to sit next to him.

Anyways, we met with Herr Gruber for the second time. . the man from Austria. We brought a member with us. He is an awesome guy, but he just cannot understand the Apostosy and Authority since he is Catholic. . . and it is hard to explain it because we just end up saying the same thing. . . We were at least glad to have a member there to talk too. We will not get to meet with him for a couple weeks because he is going home to Austria for a little while. But hopefully he keeps reading and praying about the Book of Mormon.

So the other day we were doing finding and we talked to every single person on the street and then the last person we saw on the street was a crossdresser who was smoking. Sister Christianson and I both looked at each other and walked past him. . . We did not know what to do. . . we should have talked to him, but oh well. . it was just creepy. lol.

So we met this really awesome previous investigator named Herr Ritter. . .(just so you know that when I say Herr. . it means sir). Any ways he totally reminded me of a mixture of Dad and Grandpa Anderson. He was an old man who is retired form the German Navy and his wife passed away when she was 55, so a long time ago. He showed us a ton of pictures from his navy days and his family. . they were awesome because they were those really old photographs. We do not know when we would see him again.

So Schwester Hageman. . she is the one with two fishes. . though the other day we discovered two more. lol. She came to church yesterday. . . she has not been forever and we were so excited to see her. . . . we're really working on her 10 year old daughter who is not a member and claims she is a Catholic and so will not come to church or let her mom come to church. So we're visting them every week and teaching her daughter through games.

I learned how to knit last pday. Judith is teaching Sister Christianson and I. It is alot of fun. . . maybe by the end of my mission i will have something made. lol.

We went to this awesome ice cream shop. . . we have to tell them no alcohol because they put it in all of the kinds. We also went to this place called Little Money. . . it is a hamburger place with a huge picture of Utah and then a Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho license plates. It is so American. lol. We loved it . We went with the Elders there.

So yesterday we had dinner at the Dudins. It was us and the Elders. They are a couple from Ukraine and they joined the church a while back in Ukraine. It was so weird at first because they were just serving us and not eating with us. I was so full. . . They served us this huge bowl of soup and then a main meal and then a dessert and then they gave each one of us a bag with an apple and orange and a chocolate bar to go. They are such an awesome family and so happy and joyful. I love them. . and it was alot of fun with the elders there too.

Well I am actually going to Berlin today because Sister Christianson has a trainers training tomorrow in Berlin. . . so that should be fun to see all the other goldens that I came in with. . .

Let me know if my pictures make it through and upload them onto picasa. ..I will not delete any of them.


Anyways .. . . I am going to write an actual letter to y'all on the train to Berlin. . . so I love y'alll


Love Sister Britt Anderson!!!