haPpY HaLLoWeEn!!!

Meine Familie,

I am so extremely happy right now...I can not even believe it! So much has happened this week and I would not say that eveything has been really happy and dandy but looking back at the whole week it was one of the best and I can not stop smiling!

Last Monday....a good enjoyable, relaxable p-day was needed to get my mind off of some things. Sister Dorsey and I went to this U Boot memorial. It is a memorial for the German sailers and others who died in the war. It was really cool and I took alot of pictures. . . and of course I will be sending those to y'all.

What made this week alot awesome....well it was the people and some funny things that happened. First off we we have this awesome new investigator named Hou. He is so cool. He is from China and has only been in Germany for two months and is working on getting his PHD. He speaks english with us because he does not know German yet. He is Golden. He does not know any thing yet and is just so curious and willing to learn. We had our first appointment with him on Tuesday and then he came to church on Sunday and we translated for him and even one of the members came up to him to offer to translate...it was great. It was funny though because we were supposed to change our clocks back an hour, but pour Hou...nobody told him and we told him that the bus leaves at 8:50 to go to church. Well....at 8 in the morning we get a phone call and it is Hou asking us where the chuch was because he was there. We felt so bad and we told him that we will be there in at least forty minutes...so we called the Elders quickly because they had a car and we drove down there...Then he was not there. . and our church is like in the middle of nowhere and so we had no idea where he might of gone and so we went on a search for him...It turned out he went on a walk for like 40 minutes since no one was at the church...But we were so happy that he came and he is so sweet and he always just has this huge smile on his face!! We are planning on setting a baptismal date with him this week!!! I am so excited!!!!!!!!

This week we also had an eating appointment with the Kalies. They are such a great family. And so amazing...They are raising there two little grandchildren because their parents won't and they come evey once in a while to take the kids on day trips. But Bruder and Schwester Kalie are just so strong and amazing and the little boy grandson has a money jar of change for his mission!!! It is just so cute. I love it.

We met with Schwester Räwel this week...like every week. She is less active and it is mainly because she has to have a ride to church because of health problems and her really bad hip...But we are trying to work with her because she has picked up smoking again. We are going to just reteach her all the lessons again and really help her. She is so sweet and caring though and has such a strong testimony...we just need to help her a little more with some commandments. But yeah.

English class is going great. I love it so much. But I realize that I have forgotten some english. Like spelling and so forth... But the class is a great help in helping me even learn the English language again. lol. Naja.

On Thursday we had companionship exchanges. . . Sister Dorsey went to Langenhorn and Sister Wakefield came to Kiel with me....It was a fun time. We now have bikes in Kiel because the Langenhorn sisters do not use their bikes and Kiel is a city that is very useful for bikes and so we brought them back on the train with us. Of course, Thursday was my year mark on the mission and I was happy to celebrate it with Sister Wakefield...who is just a transfer ahead of me. We rode our bikes home and we both realized how out of shape we really are by doing so...That was a long bike ride from the train station..not to mention uphill as well. Our first appointment fell out that day and so luckily Dorothea was able to meet up with us earlier. She is just so awesome and we are helping her read through the book of Mormon before December. Later that day our next appointment fell out with Gustave and since we were at the student housing anyways we decided to bring a Vietnamese Book of Mormon to another guy who lived there and then made a return appointment....Then we stayed in the building and did doors...in doing so we found some awesome people. Ameya is from India and he let us in. He is a student here and is Hindu. He is really cool and we taught him how to pray in our church and he said the prayer in his mother language, which is this cool tribe language from India. Really cool. We are going to bring him an English Book of Mormon this week. Then we knocked on Raneez's door. He is cool and we made out an appointment with him and are going to bring him the Urdu book of mormon. Then Sister Wakefield and I went to get ice cream for my year mark and it was yummy...we then enjoyed a nice walk home. It was a great!

Friday we exchanged back and Sister Dorsey and I had an appointment with Marian..she is our baptismal date. We made her a baptism calender and brought it to her. She is so crazy and but we do think she could very much make her date. Except for the fact that she is meeting with the Jehovah witnesses and we are trying to figure out the best way to approach her about that. Our appointment was really good and she is understanding everything....until well...somebody rang the door bell and she went to see who it was...she then ran in the room...luckily at this point we had already said a closing prayer and she said "Hurry down the stairs the Jehovah witnesses are coming up the elevator ." She then took the Book of Mormon and hid it. We hurried out the door and pretty much hid a little bit up the stairs until the Jehovah witnesses were inside. We do need her to understand that she is getting baptized in our church and this is not ok. ... we can not just keep running away or being rushed out of our appointments. She did come to church yesterday and brought a friend...who is a bit weird and thinks that yoga is a sin. But at least they came to church.

We also met with Jörn again...I love it so much because it is like talking to Neil. I like it. We taught him the 2nd lesson and then taught him some English. He is really special person and It is like having Neil around. We also made that Jambalaya that y'all sent me....my goodness that was spicy. Me and sister Dorsey were so surprised on how spicy it tasted and were wondering if we alway thought it was spicy...But then again...we are in Germany and Germans do not do spicy or hot food and so I have not eaten spicy food in a year. I have forgotten what spicy is...and well...that Jambala sure reminded me. lol.

Also..... Happy Birthday Dad!!!!! I hope it is a great and spooky on this Halloween!!! What a great present to get an email from me on your birthday!! lol.

Oh, and I am sending a package home today. It as a few things that people have giving me and also some other little things and a stack of letters that I am sending home. Let me know whenever y'all get it.
To answer Mom's questions... I think I could wear a medium or small vest or shirt...it just depends on if it is a loose shirt of vest or a not loose. I like a lot of colors...mostly green. And I really can not think of anything that I need. But yeah. I would need to get you phone card information some other time.... i do not belive I have it because it was also in my wallet.

Any ways, I hope y'all have a fanstaic week and beginning of November!!! It is awesome.

Love y'all, Sister Britt