Week 5 - 5 DAYS TILL A LOT OF THINGS....

5 DAYS TILL I LEAVE TO GERMANY! So that means 5 days till a lot of things. 5 days till I understand absolutely nothing. 5 days till I have to live with no AC. 5 days till I have the best chocolate of my life. 5 days till I live in a different country for a year and a half. 5 days till my mission actually starts. 

The 4th of July was probably not my favorite one of my life. We got to watch the fireworks from a building. The only thing the fireworks did for the missionaries was make us homesick. Although it was better than laying in our room and hearing them.

We taught some pretty good lessons to our investigator Bjerke. He finally said he would be baptized and it was seriously so cool. We were all so happy and we remembered this might be the only time this happens in our whole mission and it was fake lol. But it was still bittersweet. So sometimes I have a problem with laughing. And always at the worst times. So in our last lesson with Bjerke we were going over the baptismal interview questions with him so if he had any questions we could help him to understand and felt comfortable before his actual interview. I would suggest reading the questions before hand to prepare yourself before you actually ask them. In our lesson we were reading a bunch of german words that we didn't understand then all the sudden I was reading "homosexuelle beziehung." Beziehung means relationship. So I just burst out laughing so hard I started crying. My companions kept apologizing over and over for me and hitting me and telling me to stop with a german accent. 

This week after we sent our companion off to Hungary, we decided to make a groß bed because now we wouldn't have anyone to tell us that was not allowed. We took all our mattresses and put them together on the floor. Even though we are on missions we still find ways to have a good time. The only problem with our bed is that I guess it is normal for people to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. So there is no way to slip out quietly when there is 2 people and beds to jump over. 

My favorite thing I came to realize this week was the power of faith. I was reading the amazing miracles of Christ in the New Testament. All of them were able to work because of the person he was healing had faith. I think it is so important that if we have faith nothing is impossible and I just love that. 

Hope you all are having a good week.

Sister Clegg