Happy Halloween!

Wow this week. I'm not really even sure all that happened this week.
Sister Helmick said goodbye to people and packed. Wednesday we ended
up in Dortmund because sister Helmick had to take a bus early so we
overnights with the Dortmund sisters. The Düsseldorf sisters were also
there because transfers are confusing and crazy so we had 6 of us in
their apartment. It was really fun. The next day sister Helmick left
and me and Sister Jeppsen who is also from my MTC group who serves in
Düsseldorf and was waiting for her new companion got left to roam
Dortmund by ourselves. We ended up with about 2.5 hours of finding in
a city that neither of us knew with no Bücher Mormon and literally 10
cards. First we attempted to find Bahnhof. That took us about 30. Then
we went on a search for Kinder eggs because why not. Then Sister
Jeppsen made some phone calls. Then we attempted finding and didn't
get much done because we got lost. Then the Dortmund elders called us
to have us come to Bahnhof and we had to find our way. Finally we
found Dortmund Bahnhof and our new companions! It was quite the
adventure.
My new companion is Sister Schuring. She is from Utah and has 2
transfers left. This one then one more. She is really cool. We have
had so much fun.
We started out our companionship with 2 street displays. We had one in
Gelsenkirchen for some elders in our district. Then we had one in
Bochum for us. It was way awesome! We ended up with 8 numbers from the
one in Bochum! Although one of the numbers I called yesterday the guy
remembered me as the hübsch klein Amerikanerin (pretty little American). We will see what
happens with that. He wants to meet to talk about Indians.
Saturday was Halloween! Normally I don't like Halloween. But i think
this year was the best Halloween ever! We had a ward Kartoffel (potato) fest.
So we spent the morning inviting people to it. Then we went and
someone we met at the street display randomly showed up and a  random
family we invited! It was so cool! We had lots of really yummy food
and they had marshmallows to roast for the kids. The best was the
random guy from the street display. He came up to me while roasting
marshmallows and he was like, "these are so good! I tried one not on
the fire and it was good. Then I did one on the fire and it was so
much better!" I then explained the concept of s'mores and I just about
blew his mind. He was going to go home and google it.
After Kartoffel fest we had about an hour and it takes like half an
hour to get home. We didn't really know what to do but just started
walking with the elders. Elder Heiner really really really wanted to
go trick or treating and somehow convinced us to do just one door.
Halloween is not super big in Germany, but some people still get into
it. Instead of saying trick or treat you say süß oder sauer (sweet or sour). We got
let in and got some candy! Then elder Heiner was like, "thank you for
giving us something. Can we give you something? It's called the Book
of Mormon." It was so awesome! We totally did a bunch of other doors.
We gave out 3 Bücher Mormon and a restoration pamphlet! And we got
candy! Even when we got rejected we still got candy! Best way to door
ever. Too bad Halloween isn't more often. It makes dooring so much
more fun.
This week I was studying in Alma. Right when Alma has started his
mission. It is really cool to see what he does. He goes from a very
successful area, Melek to a very unsuccessful area, Ammoniha. It was
really interesting to read and see just how he reacts. I loved what
the angel tells him when he tries to transfer himself. "15 Blessed art
thou, Alma; therefore, lift up thy head and rejoice, for thou hast
great cause to rejoice; for thou hast been faithful in keeping the
commandments of God from the time which thou receivedst thy first
message from him." Basically don't worry about it. You are doing your
best. The success will come. Maybe you won't see it, but as long as
you work hard you will be successful. I thought that was really cool.
Wow sorry for such a long email! We just had a fun week! So many weird
things! Ich liebe euch! Danke für alles! (Thank you for all) Seht vielen Wundern diese
Woche! (See many miracles this week!)
Liebe
Sister Carroll