Received June 20, 2011
There is a pretty cool story to go along with this email's subject line. However, it's all false. While I was in Waiblingen on exchange, Elder Sills decided that his nose must be really dirty and that he needed to scrub it...bad idea. I saw him the next day and he had a nasty burn on his nose because he had rubbed all the skin off the top. Then it got even stranger looking as it began to leak some sort of orangy liquid. After that stopped, then began the lies. the story took on many forms including me biting him, bar fights, wrestling a real bear, wrestling a teddy bear, the list goes on. Anyway we told the story about a million times and eventually Elder Sills had to tell everyone the truth. Sister Hartig gave him some sort of cream that did some miracle and he is almost back to normal now. Not a ton happened this week. Last Monday we went to Schwabisch Hall where there is a really well preserved old part of the town. It sits in a little valley between the hills and has a quaint little river flowing through it. We happened to have the luck of going there on a day when the town was having a huge festival and lost of people were wearing Tracht and shooting black powder rifles and drinking lots of beer. It was cool. There are a few pictures to along with this email that show some of the stuff that we saw but I will send them next week.
We had a lesson with our African investigator Arisa. He came to church and instead of taking him to the regular Sunday School class where lots of big words would be used or the Temple Prep class, we decided that it would be in his best interest to just have a lesson with him. We got Christof Lichner who is going on a mission soon and Kevin Hartig who might not be going on a mission (?) and had them help us in the lesson by giving testimony. It was really great for everyone. We talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ and we invited Arisa to be baptized. He really wants to and we set a date for him but he doesn't know if he'll be able to quit smoking by then. We will call him this week and see what he thinks after having some time to think about it.
After church we had two eating appointments in a row. People just love us I guess. We went to the Branch President's house and had home made cherry juice. It was good and the food was awesome. Then we left just in time to get on a Stadt Bahn where we rode an our to our next appointment at the Lichner's. They are just too cool! Right now their coolness is even higher because they are hosting an American college student named Caitlin. She is doing some sort of study abroad program where she is just the "caretaker" for a bunch of other American students that are studying at the Hochschule Heilbronn. She gets to chill out in Germany for a couple of weeks making sure the kids don't do anything dumb. That sounds like a cool job. she was actually once a vocal performance major at BYU but then she switched to German as her major. She's way cool to talk to because she's American and as missionaries we love to talk to Americans. So that was pretty much all the excitement this week. I hope everything is great at home. Until next time, Tschuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusssss!
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