Alright, so this is going to be scattered, but hopefully you can follow it.
First off. My Companion, Sister Sykes.
She is from Colorado Springs, Colorado and is probably the most real person you know. In the sense that she keeps it real. Always. There are no pretenses with Sister Sykes and she is just a fun loving, flashback to the 80s person!
I have probably dressed more colorfully with her than I have in my entire life.
So that is another thing about her! She belongs in the 80s. She has these awesome wing tipped glasses and is just always keeping it classy.
More on Sister Sykes to come. Meaning we are basically hoping to be serving in Neukölln together till the end.
So there is this game that missionaries made up... Or maybe it wasnt missionaries. I don't really know. But the point is, there are stickers all over Berlin. On lightposts, street signs, yada yada, the city is plastered in them.
So the favorite game of missionaries is to use them like trading cards.
And they come in all shapes and sizes.
If things weren't colorful before, they sure will be now.
Our zone leaders decided they were going to come up with a competition against the district leaders in the zone to see who could do the most push ups for morning sport. One of our zone leaders is in the air force and he can do anywhere between 500-800 push ups in 30 minutes. So with all the district leaders and their companions combined, aka 6 missionaries in total, it should be easy to beat the zone leaders, right?
Wrong. On Tuesday, they explained to us their competition and invited us to join. So 8 missionaries against 2.
The next morning, we did about 270 push ups together... and found out that the amount of push ups we were doing as a companionship were more than all of the other district leaders and their companions combined.
If that's not embarassing, I don't know what is...
Yesterday we took out our trash, and there is this little play place behind our building with sand and a playground and all sorts of fun stuff. Super innocent, right?
Well, we turned the corner and there is this little shrine thing next to the play place. Shrine? Hm..
We take a closer look at it and realize that it is for a dog. Thinking that someone had lost their dog recently, we took a closer look.
This shrine was for a dog that lived over 100 years ago. He lived at the airport and one day a plane misfunctioned and a propeller blew up and he died.
Sad, right?
Best part though. You can visit this dog, or the head of this dog that died over 100 years ago in a restaurant.
....Oh the things you find.
We visited a lady this week who is suuuper cool. She is old, but has this fire in her that makes her just go...
Apparantly, when she was little, she was in the church and then the wall went up and they weren't allowed to go anymore. So for years she continued to pray, to read, all that stuff, and one day about 20 years ago, she was talking to a neighbor who was a member of the church and wanted to go with them. She'd ben looking for the church for basically her whole life and had just now found it.
Well, I am not quite sure what happened, but the member wasn't able to take her, and then they lost contact.
This poor woman had been looking for the church her entire life, found it, then lost it again.
Anyway, one day in 2012 she was walking down the street and sees the missionaries.
"It's about time you showed up!!"
And she was baptized later that month.
And this sweet 85ish old lady is now holding a weekly "lesson night" at her house so she can invite people for us to teach.
She is stellar.
We also met someone who used to be a drug dealer. He is super cool and we have a lesson with him this upcoming week!
It has really been an awesome week with teaching and getting to know the ward. We finally got to meet them yesterday because the week before was conference. I am excited. They seem really excited to work!
Also, on Friday, we went as a leadership to the temple!!!
WOW.
That was quite an experience. Especially since President and Sister Kosak were the witness couple. I loved it.
They took us home with them to Berlin that night and we got to have some one on one time with them.
We went to McDonalds. Haha
As the temple was on my mind this week, I was reading in Matthew 21 and found this verse:
I thought about how often we need this. We need to be healed of all our weaknesses and spiritual blindness. Christ healed them in the temple. No wonder we are asked to go so often to the temple. That is where we are healed. Where we can be in the presence of God.
Love you!!
Sister Babbitt
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