( listen to Phil Collins " strangers like me"- tarzan.. while reading this post )

No but really YouTube in listen to it while reading. 

hahaha I've decided being a trainer should deserve some sort of soundtrack and this song seems to fit so perfectly. 

Being a trainer is hard work but soooooo fun!! I've always loved teaching and helping others around me. 
It's like being a tour-guide!

Not to mention Sister Woodward is just the most pleasant peaceful nice person ever. 
On top of that she is a PROFESSIONAL baker. Our home has smelt like banana bread and cookies everyday!

Having a new missionary has really brought us ALOT of miracles this week in Germany. 

For example... A random lady from Spain and her 3 year old son wanderd into church because they had a feeling to come by.... 
O_o

WOW

THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN PEOPLE
I'm sooooo excited to teach her this Saturday.

MIRACLES

There were two things if anything that I taught Sister Woodward that I told her i want her to remember is ..

1). Always have a book of Mormon out. Read it on the train, carry it in your arms, have it hanging out of your bag and work it

2). Talk to EVERYONE. No shame. No regrets. Don't let opportunities pass you by. YOLO

The real definition of YOLO:
not going out and making a fool of yourself but doing something with your life

I'm no YODA ( hello president kosak :) 
Nor do I have it all figured out.. 
But once in a while I do say something good. 

Hope I can continue keeping my 50,000 blog viewers happy.. I heard about you and love you

herzlich willkomen readers from Israel this week.. HOORAY FOR ISRAEL
Anyways.. sure enough Sister Woodward did what I taught and held the book of mormon the next day in her arms. 
While on the train a lady approached her and asked her about this Book of Mormon. 

Loooove it 

Later that night we applied the " no regrets" principle. 

I saw a lady sitting alone on the train and told Sister Woodward to walk up, hand her the Book of Mormon and tell her its a gift! 

She was a little nervous to do it so I took my own challenge. 

Secretly dying inside praying that it doesn't go over poorly like just about every other time so it doesn't scare Sister Woodward from trying it again

( kinda like when we were kids and my mom tried demonstrating why gambling is bad while we were in Las Vegas on vacation and she won  back her 20 bucks and we were all cheering WOOOHOOO YAAAA MOM!!!!!!.....hahahaha didn't go as planned did it? Bless your heart)

I approached the lady...told her I wanted to give her this book and she said

YES I WOULD LOVE IT
I briefly described what it was and how it could help her!

I left her our card and a testimony written inside the book.. I'm anxious to see what happens. 

One very true thing I learned and tell people is to never be afraid to give the Book of Mormon away.

The spirit and the Book of Mormon convert people...not us

If the person decides they do not want the book... It will end up on a shelf, or at a garage sale and eventually fall into someones hands that will read in and love it

annnnd hopefully that  person will later go for a swim!!


This week we did district power finding together.
It was a blizzard!
Blowing people off their feet everywhere and I couldn't see a thing. it was -5 degrees and I'd forgotten my gloves ahh

The Elders stopped and talked to an older lady and who appeared to be with her daughter and older grandson... 

I am not sure whether it was a bad baaaad day or whhhaaaaat but the 30yr old son got SUPER DUPER MAD!!!!! 
yelling all sorts of things at us. 

We kept walking and I turned around to look and the poor granny was having to hold this boy back from coming at us. 
Poor little thing haha

Then BAM I felt it. Just a huge snowball right at my back!!

Never thought I'd see the day when I'd voluntarily freeze my bumm off, 
get yelled at, kicked out of homes, get bags under my eyes, walk on blistered feet, 
doors slammed on my face, fed unidentifiable food, called names while wearing hideous skirts, 
wake up at 630am, no cellphone fb tweets tv, naps kisses and pinterest, 
annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd now have things thrown at me!?!..

Well on the bright side I had on so many layers I didn't feel a thaaaaaaannnng

Haters gonna hate
I do it because I know it's true. Because I know it's worth it.

Because I LOVE IT
I am happy to leave my mark in Germany...
.even though this week i had to throw up blood in the snow from my other new edition a bleeding ulcer

I AM leaving my mark. I bet noone will forget me after seeing that!!!!

AHHHHHH 
That's all I have to say. All the other medical things, the work and stupidly taking well over 1000mg ibuprofen daily took it's toll. 
I gotta learn to calm it and not solve all the worlds problems..... at once. 
Just when I think I've heard enough or have too much to handle. I get a little more. 

God must have lots of plans for me....Or fell asleep laying on the:

" TEST SISTER D" button. 

But I will not stop. 

Lots has happened these last few weeks. But I know all will be well. 
Taking it a day at a time.. And praying for strength. 

I learned something a little while back that really put my life and problems into perspective. 

We were asked to write down all of our problems, troubles, trials etc.. on a piece of paper 

Then once we finished on the board was written:

mocked
accused
alone
rejected
hated
betrayed
all sickness of the world
all sadness of the world
all sin of the world
spit upon
called liar
beaten
crucified
killed


Christ 

shoot...That sure put me into place..

I know he lives. I know he loves us. 

and I know through our faith and prayers Kony can and will be found and STOPPED. 

hahaha remember that scandal? Was he ever found?... Does he even exist? Or just a clever scheme? Tusche 

Nah anyways
I love you all. I feel your prayers. Love your letters. And am working my best for you..
I love being a missionary. 


line of the week:
while teaching the plan of salvation

Me: Ok Nurretin.. that was a long lesson and alot to learn.. do you have any questions at all what so ever?
Nurretin: Can i have an example of a good question?
Me: uhm... why were on the earth?,,, what god asks us to do on the earth?,,,
Nurretin: OK i got one..... What does god eat?

seriously.

pics
sister woodward and i doing hood rat things with my hood rat friends.... not beavers like i thought..... but someone told us RATS
and me finding a door just my size

i got it from my mama

That's right. I'm a mommaaaaa. 

Mission mama. 

I picked up my new missionary yesterday in Berlin!!

In walked a small group of new sisters fresh off the plane and they read my name tag and first thing they said was:

" YOUR SISTER DIEDERICH!?!?!?! WE ALL READ YOUR BLOG!!!! YOUR BLOGGED SAVED OUR LIVES!!!"
Hahahaha uhhhhhhhhh whoa I'm flattered

They said sisters in the MTC  quote me and all love laughing about every story and experience from 
Ramona, " ate it ", creepy elder lists, to go shawwwty birthday songs. 

I cannot believe it's been read everywhere from the Philippines, Israel, Netherlands and Argentina.

I gotta keep my game up now

Well so I got my new companion. 

Nervous as ever. Shaking. Sweating. Hot flashes. Stuttering. 

My new companion on the other hand totally was calm and composed 


hahahahahahahahhah bless my heart

My daughter is named Sister Woodward

She is a young sister ( one of the very first young ones to Germany) and from Colorado Springs!

Soooooo sweet. And soooooo tired. Haha today's our first FULL day together. I'm so excited to train and learn from her. I already love her!

Reeewwwiiindd

Valentines as a missionary was just wonderfully awkward. 

I woke up and gave my companion Sister Warncke a BIG hug.. she's not a hugger but I caught her off guard

drank a nice American diet coke

Read a few scriptures about eternal marriage in LuB (Lehre und Budnisse... D&C)

We also came to the conclusion that our mailman is playing hide and go seek with us.. 
BUT when he comes back around he will have plenty of love for us. I'm sure he has a good excuse

Later that day at the mall that we walk through every morning as a short cut to get into the city, they were handing out free yellow roses.. 

So I sacrificed my lunch break and I did a few laps and eventually gathered a whole bouquet! hahahaha

Aww so sweet. I was flattered. 

( gotta do what ya gotta do )

Well I've had worse Valentines Days..

This week we were invited to eat with two older sisters in the ward. 

Schwester Pfannkuchen and Schwester Pfeffer 

Translation: Sister Pancake and Sister Pepper 

hahaha it was the best thing ever. While eating I kept choking on my food because I couldn't stop giggling at the names. 
Why is my last name not pancake?? 

We had the most authentic GERMAN meal I've had thus far.
 Kasseler mit senf ( unknown cut of meet with spicy mustard ).. 
And strumfnudeln (potato fried noodles) and last..

My arch enemy... SAUERKRAUT
Which is basically spoiled rotted sour shredded cabbage 

OF ALL THE DAYS I FORGET MY Zip-loc to go BAGGIE.. 

Right after we finished we stopped by on a less active Vietnamese member whom i adore.

When we walked in on the table I saw the dreaded rice potato balls with creme filling
 ( the same " delicacy" elder Lloyd showed up and pawned off to me in Kiel ) 

my heart dropped!!! It tasted like wet soggy socks with a cough syrup center last time with the texture of baby food.  

We sat down and I was just panicking. She had a plate for each of us both with 10 on it.

Before we began our lesson my companion said a prayer...

During the prayer I panicked and with my tissue just grabbed aBIG handful of them and attempted to put in my bag 

BUT THEY ALL STUCK TOGETHER!!!!! 

I began trying to shake the tissue and break them apart so it wouldn't be sooooo noticeable when ALL were missing. 

But they are sticky little buggers!!!! 

My companion being the champ she is caught onto what I was doing and prolonged the prayer for me 

Although struggling.. I finally managed to break some apart but the tissue was stuck to them! 

The prayer was coming to a close as I was scraping off as much paper off of it as I could....

but I just failed miserably. 

The prayer ended annnnnd my plate looked like a war zone

IM LOSING MY TOUCH.

It was super sad saying by to Sister Warncke this week. I've served the longest with her than anyone in my mission. 
I've learned sooo much from her and I am gonna miss her like crazy. 
We've already planned on her coming to visit in Utah next Summer for a few weeks of all things American.

Root Beer floats
Four wheeling
Rodeos
Chuck a Rama
Country music
Pie
Corn dogs

whom I kidding I hate all of those things

But I am looking forward to taking her and mission buddies up to the cabin at Bear lake and take her on her first boating trip and to the temple! 

As for me this week I learned that the Lord has plans for us that we may not feel ready for. 
But I learned about " faith obedience"

For example... I'm not sure why I am a trainer. I'm still so young out. I feel like I just got here and still can't read these maps right. 
But the LORD knows I can do this. And that is what matters. 

When we truly give our lives to the Lord and put all our trust in him. We will see miracles. 
We will accomplish so much more and find happiness unlike any other. 

I am sister d
I am one of the last uncool 21 year old missionaries 
I'm lost in Germany
I'm a trainer
and I'm a Mormon
And never been happier in my entire life

Line of the week:
more like joke of the week..

They have been finding HORSE MEAT in products over here in Europe and now in Germany.... even found in LEIPZIG!!!!!! kill me now
The companies are making money off of claiming the meat is beef and instead... its horse.. mmkk

the joke here is::
Why are you talking to your hamburger?... because I'm the horse whisperer..

hahahahaha
Looks like im goin VEGAN


photos from me and my new compycomp
the district zooo trip

Until next time...

ch-ch-ch-changes

CH- CH- CH- CHANGES

This week we had the annual reaping festival here in Germany ( transfer calls )

BUT I wasn't stressing a bit. 

1: I'm still pretty young on the mission and haven't even been senior companion in the field yet

2. I haven't been with Sister Warncke too long 

3. I am relatively new to Leipzig. 

Then I heard it 

Sister Diederich will be TRAINING in Leipzig 
o_0

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Wait what!?!?

STILL JUST WAITING FOR ASHTON KUTCHER TO POP OUT OF THE BUSHES!!!!
So I can slug him in the arm for pranking me and then apologetically hug him.

I have been in complete shock! I'm sooo nervous but looking forward to this new challenge!

President told me a while back to prepare to train but i wasn't expecting it until the huge group of sister missionaries come in March!
Or at least after some older sisters had already trained?!?
I know President Kosak is an inspired man and I can do it!

It feels like I'm expecting a child and want to buy new mother books and manuals.
However I'm sure the scriptures and the good ole PMG (Preach my Gospel) will do!

I go to Berlin the 18th to pick her up!

Sister Warncke will be going South to Chemnitz :(

It's like experiencing a breakup ehhh but I'm use to those
That was CHANGES PART ONE

PART TWO:
Some people have been asking what's going on with my health so imma try my best to summarize in whole whats going dowwwwnnnnnn

meet me at the mall. it's goin dowwnnnnn

Ok

This week I finished my series of first doctors appointments.
Finally got to finish meeting the crew that is gonna be helping me.

Besides the fact that I've been blessed with problems for a lifetime within the last two transfers were doing good over here!!!

1. For my lungs.. I am taking two different oxygen treatments twice a day

2. For my blockage by my heart from my car accident.. Once a week I have to attend a physiotherapy appointment for 45 minutes... painful but pleasantly helpful.

3.  And last... For the answer that solves the question as to
"why Bella Diederich and runny noses & always sick have been 2 peas in a pod since the beginning of time?" 

Turns out I'm VERY allergic to..... Air. 
Hahahaha Dust and house mites.. Just life basically hahahaha and it's continually worsened because I never caught it till now
(and possibly because big how (the dad)  keeps the house at home in tiptop military shape an I napped a majority of the time in the basement.

Juuuuuust a few changes from now on,
ugly new special bedding covers for every room in the house,
no rugs or curtains in the home,
 weird looking shampoo for my sheets and clothing.

annnnnnd once a week from now on till I'm an old G-ma... emphasis on G 
( and until i can get a nice young gentlemen nurse to come do it for me).
I have to get injections for an hour once a week in my arm and when I'm home in my chest.

The last is the worse but on the BRIGHT SIDE 
( there is always a bright side with me)

We have some answers and I'm getting great help annnnnnnd the shampoo smells like gummi bears

Hopefully we can do it all on PDAY so it doesn't subtract from the work!

I asked the last doctor if it would be easier ( and wonderful ) if I could just live in a giant bubble.

She just stared at me.... SILENT

world's most awkward staring contest with a German.

Ever. 

This week for p-day we did extreme-makeover Francesco edition part 2. (for those of you who havent read past emails-Francesco was one of my baptisms recently and is autistic)
He is determined and now ready to find a wifey. He's been very VERY straight forward about it.

This week he walked straight up to a young girl in church and said..

" Hello I'm Francesco.. I'm baptized...I have the priesthood.. I gave you the sacrament today.......will you marry me?".
I've witnessed worse first approaches, but I do commend him on being straight forward.
Were working on it..

This week it happened....

I always miss home.. But for the first time in my mission I just got super duper homesick!! 
Being sick in a foreign country and not being able to just call mom or dad or visit Leo on his skates at Sonic has been soooooo hard!

I was just praying for soooommme kindof taste of home or something to relate to.

We visited the temple with all the Leipzig Missionaries and while inside doing the temple work a lady stopped me and said...

" Diederich..... oh there's no chance but would you happen to know a Hugo Diederich??!?"

Yes...Hugo is my uncle!!

The lady broke down in tears and just loved telling me all about Hugo and how her husband introduced Hugo and Anina to each other.. She is also a new missionary and here serving with her husband. She also was missing home..

It was pretty amazing to witness a miracle that brought two complete strangers like us together and felt like family.

She gave me her husbands card and told me to call the next time I have to visit the hospital or need anything and they'd be right there.

She gave me a huge hug and I just broke down crying!! A huuuuuugggggggg geez what are hugs!? I don't even remember!!!

Sometimes in life it always felt like i just keep getting Gods answering machine..

But being on a mission with nothing to focus on other than the Lord and his work

I looked closer and realized God always answers our prayers! It may not be how we imagined them to be but he DOES answer!!!

SPEAKING OF!!!!!!!

A member named Mike went to the American Army base near Frankfurt this week and brought me back some American treats.... Ahhhhhhhhhhhh
( see photo below )

And last a song...


I LOOKED AT MY CALENDER AND WHAT DID I SEE... VALENTINES FOR YOU SUCKAS AND NOTHING FOR MEEEEE

Line of the week:

Visiting with the infamous Frau Adam outside the temple
( well known member to all missionaries in our mission )

Frau Adam: You know what? I am not 75. I am 20. I was baptized 20 years ago and by the love of God I am born again. I feel so young! ( then proceeds to sing happy birthday... to herself )

Me: ahh that means I am a year older than you!!

Frau Adam: YES but that is okay! You my lovely look genau wie schnee wittchen ( exactly like snow white )

......I'm not sure if she was referring to the fact that I was with 7 elders..

Or dropping a hint that I need some sun on my skin....

Danke

**I will be taking my p-day next week on Tuesday instead of Monday since I'll be in Berlin!

Ich bin sehr begeistert für dieses neu Aufgabe. Es ist eine neue Herausforderung aber ich bin bereit....hoffentlich. Ich weiß dass unser Erlöser liebt und hat viele liebe für uns! 

Shoutout to Anna Diederich (my cousin) getting ready to enter the empty sea (MTC) this week! Ahhh my baby girl I'm so stoked for you.
Seems like just yesterday you and I were kids stuck in a tree and you forced me to eat leaves. Now look at you!!!! Good luck girl.

Kill it

Hurrahhhh für Israel 


Liebe Grüße

Sister D

 isabelle's fave!!

just ballin'

HALB ZEIT

Since we last chatted lots has happened..

For starters... Thanks to the generous donation to the
" feed a starving poor missionary fund" - From Bob Mitchell
My companion and i treated ourselves to a good old American steakhouse lunch.

I was just on cloud 9 yet feeling so guilty for spending more than 3 dollars on a meal... #missionarymindset

But what came as an even bigger of a shock to me was that my companion had NEVER TRIED STEAK BEFORE!!!

Tragedy.

It's not too common to just get meat like that here unless it's in a brat or stew. She loved it!!

Best. Pday. Ever.

This week in institute the topic was " the second coming"..

Second coming topic in English is
ALWAYS A HEATED TOPIC..

Second coming topic in GERMAN however
SO MUCH MORE DRAMATIC 

haha we brought Francesco with us so he could meet some new peeps.. maybe a nice little wife.

This was the first time he had ever heard this topic.. and was just f.r.e.a.k.i.n.gout

Francesco then raises his hand and panickly asks the teacher
" no. way. Jesus is coming? Like coming here... Like I'm going to see him!?!?!"
" Is he still in his 30's or older by now?"
" will he speak German!?.. It's ok if not, I speak English and French too?"
" will he come by later today or tomorrow?"
" should I set my alarm in the morning?"

oh Francesco is wonderful..
Were planning on taking him to the temple next month!

This week my prayers were answered.
The snow melted.. and it just rained allll day and alllll night.

fact about sister d: there is no other thing she loves more than rain. she plans to move to seattle one day

Ahh it just makes everything better!! Open the windows, light a few candles, a little enya or James Taylor and a beanie and I'm a happy girl.

One day we were walking home for lunch and what felt to be a gigantic raindrop plopped on sister warnckes head.

A whiteish brown....clumpy raindrop

Bird.


Crap. 

No really it was bird poop.


Hahahaha it was one of those moments where I didn't know what to do..to feel bad or help.. so instead I just died of laughter.

Fact about Sister Warncke: she loves birds..draws them..watches them.. knows all by name

We looked up and saw a little boy laughing. Turns out the little boy is the one who picked it off of his window seal and tossed it onto her head

Charmer.

That little neighbor of ours needs to go for a nice cleansing baptismal swim.

Thursday was my
HUMP DAY

halb zeit.

To celebrate this milestone I treated myself to a nice shower with all the hot water I wanted
(sorry fellow residents of Blochmann 15)
a scoop of gelato and I decorated our apartment!


I'm feeling pretty good. The doctors in germany even though I understand no medical vocabulary are treating me well.

They found there is a blockage in my back that is bringing pain to my heart and making it difficult to breathe for me.
They say its trauma from the car accident I was in last October..


It's been painful but were still working hard and i am definitely feeling those prayers.

I can't do as much physical labor as I'd like right now and my workouts are for the time confined to doing diddly squats

Get it...

Ahhhhhhh hahaha
Ok be a friend are my jokes good? Or am I losing it

Regardless..
I think the only thing more painful is my cheeks! Somehow every single old lady in the ward found out I've been in an out of the hospital,
and on Sunday all grabbed and kissed my face telling me they hope I get better soon.

The work is just wonderful! 
However, either all of our investigators simultaneously decided to take a vacation or entered the witness protection program because they went missing!!

Were working lots with the ward in hopes they can direct us to the right people!
Members are soooo important in this work I wish I would've realize that sooner..

Soooo right now were wandering the streets using the "if your scared... go to church" approach with people we meet.

The church is true the book is blue

Line of the week:
( while sightseeing in an old Church where Bach composed his music)

Me: hmm it smells weird in here...like it did in the 1600's.

Random man: well that might be because your standing right above where Bach has been buried since the 1600's

Sure enough.......

-_-