What a great week! We had probably the best week ever! We had lots of good lessons with people and celebrated the new year, sort of!
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| We are drinking Inka, the substitute for coffee. We gave some to our investigator and thought we should try some too. It is nasty. This was also on New Years Eve |
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Subway for New Years Eve! Super yum
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To start off we made some delicious chinese food with our investigator, she is really cool! On New Years Eve we had to be inside for most of the day, but that was okay. We had tons of fun! We heard lots and lots of fireworks, so that was really fun. New Year Day we had a lesson and choir practice. We still got up at 6:30, studied, then did weekly planning. After we delivered banana bread to two less actives who weren't home. Then we had dinner and went to the church to have a lesson with Giedre. She is the elder's investigator but we have been fellowshipping her. She is so great. It was the day before her baptism. She finally got baptized :) Then we had choir practice that night :) It was pretty awesome.
Saturday, there was a baptism! We have been helping to fellowship this investigator, and she finally got baptized! She is so cool; it was the best day ever and a great way to start off the new year. We also had a lesson with our new investigator from the Elders, and he committed to baptism in February. We are hoping that him and our other investigator that we gave to the Elders can be baptized the same day. They both have to overcome smoking and drinking coffee, but I know that they can with the Lord's help. I love having lessons with him. He is so prepared and has such a strong testimony.
Saturday, there was a baptism! We have been helping to fellowship this investigator, and she finally got baptized! She is so cool; it was the best day ever and a great way to start off the new year. We also had a lesson with our new investigator from the Elders, and he committed to baptism in February. We are hoping that him and our other investigator that we gave to the Elders can be baptized the same day. They both have to overcome smoking and drinking coffee, but I know that they can with the Lord's help. I love having lessons with him. He is so prepared and has such a strong testimony.
This week has been pretty cold. It kind of makes me smile that we are all here living in such unbelievable weather, so it is kind of fun. Just can't believe that it is this cold. But because it is so crazy, I am loving it!
We were also able to visit a member family, and that was so great! We speak english with them because they are Russian. They have cute two daughters, and so we got to talk about why we came on missions. They both want to serve too. It was super great. I know that Heavenly Father is helping each of us. If we put our trust in Him, everything will work out no matter what. The spirit will lead us right!
We were also able to visit a member family, and that was so great! We speak english with them because they are Russian. They have cute two daughters, and so we got to talk about why we came on missions. They both want to serve too. It was super great. I know that Heavenly Father is helping each of us. If we put our trust in Him, everything will work out no matter what. The spirit will lead us right!
I love you all so much! Have a super awesome week.
Love Sese Dzerman
p.s. to Dad - We spent our new years eve inside for most of the day, in the morning and part of the afternoon and night to keep us safe from drunk people. But on new years we met with a girl the day before her baptism to pump her up and keep her excited. She is awesome and was baptized Saturday. We also had choir practice. Great day, we also knocked doors. For tracting we mostly just knock now because it is too cold to be outside walking and finding people. For new years they love their fireworks. THere are fireworks all year long, but they go ham on new years eve and day too. We heard a ton of them. THey all sound like gun shots and we can usually never see them because of the buildings, but they go off a ton. And all the boys run around, in the cold, throwing off fireworks too. We had a few go off by us, haha. It is pretty exciting.
p.s. to Dad - We spent our new years eve inside for most of the day, in the morning and part of the afternoon and night to keep us safe from drunk people. But on new years we met with a girl the day before her baptism to pump her up and keep her excited. She is awesome and was baptized Saturday. We also had choir practice. Great day, we also knocked doors. For tracting we mostly just knock now because it is too cold to be outside walking and finding people. For new years they love their fireworks. THere are fireworks all year long, but they go ham on new years eve and day too. We heard a ton of them. THey all sound like gun shots and we can usually never see them because of the buildings, but they go off a ton. And all the boys run around, in the cold, throwing off fireworks too. We had a few go off by us, haha. It is pretty exciting.
Sister Madison's fun letter full of details:
This week was great and absolutely freezing!
1) yesterday was 40 degrees below freezing. okay so yeah that makes it sound a lot more dramatic but it was about -10 and let me tell ya, i wanted to die! Haha it's soooo cold. Apparently last winter was pretty mild so when i first got to Lithuania i was like "oh this isn't too bad", but yeah even the lithuanians are cold now! it's a legit winter this year. A certain phrase about a dead witch keeps coming to mind...
2) Lithuania hosted the first baptism of the year for the Baltic mission! One of the elders' investigators named Giedre got baptized on saturday. it was really touching because sister jerman and I have also been working with her to help prepare her and we got to hold the towel for her when she got out of the font and everything. It was a really special day and the spirit was very strong. We got a great turn-out from the branch for which we were thankful.
3) right before the baptism we set a little baptismal date of our own with our new-to-us investigator arunas!!! he's been hesitant to set a date due to word of wisdom and law of chastity concerns but he finally decided to show some faith and set a date for Feb 27. the spirit was really strong and He seemed really excited! We are super stoked to help him continue to prepare for baptism. unfortuantely rimantas, our other investigator with a date, is still struggling with with word of wisdom probs so we moved his date also to feb 27 and hope he continues to progress.
4) For New Years sister Jerman and I had to be in by 5 o clock. but right before that we ran to subway and got some delicious foot-longs, apple cider, and potato chips and sparklers. It felt like quite the feast! and then we were in hilarious mood that night so we made some funny home-videos with the sparklers we bought. Overall it was a great time. Oh and we also watched mormon messages and the famous "Johnny Lingo" movie. haha so classic.
Well, my testimony is growing everyday. On sunday i was pondering during sacrament about what a great opportunity i have to just worry about the savior and his gospel. I love being able to focus on the most important things. anyways, missions are legit. everyone should go! love you all, happy new year!
love
sesuo madison
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| Saw cute sleds being pulled by some kids |
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| Gingerbread House- Lithuania town-made by the Russian elders |
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Stuffed tomatoes, lithuanian recipe, so good!
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Made and hung up snowflakes in the apartment of course!
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Snowy view from our apartment
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Pumpkin soup, also Lithuanian, also super good
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| This is how high the sun is at.... |
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12:53 in the afternoon!!! But at least we can see it :)
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Kiwi soup- kiwi with milk!
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| Some cool pictures of the frozen river here!! |
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| Never seen this before! |
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| Oh man, it is pretty cold here to have this freeze over! |
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