Monday, July 30, 2018
Letter From Mom (July 29)
Hello Macey,
I feel like you had a hard week last week and didn't tell us. I think it was mostly the "tone of voice" used in the group email that made me think that and then the super short unfinished email sealed the deal on those feelings. I can't be sure because I haven't been able to ask you about it yet, but I had a few impressions that I wanted to share with you that came as I was listening to your voice message:
You can try to be perfect, but you can't be perfect now. You are such a wonderful girl and have tons of really good qualities and I appreciate all that you are doing in your life to be a good missionary, a good daughter and a good person and Heavenly Father can see that. I hope you make sure that YOU can see that! It sure is nice to be happy all the time, but that is not reality. Everyone has bad days, and everyone stumbles now and then. You are like me in the way that, when I am having a bad day, I don't want to ruin anyone else's day, so I try to smile and put on a happy face, even when I don't feel happy at all. I notice that the older I get, the less I do that and the more I just let it happen a bit. I think it's okay to let people in when we are having a hard time. It makes us human and it makes us relatable. These are two very important qualities to have as a successful Relief Society President. No one can relate to a Molly Mormon! (Also, remember that not everyone is going to like you or what you have to say, but that's okay because they are dumb! The people that know you, love you because you are the BEST!)
Quotes:
--Imperfect people is all God has to work with. That must be terribly frustrating to Him, but He deals with it. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
--God is fully aware that you and I are not perfect. Let me add that He is fully aware that the people you think are perfect, are not. And yet, we spend so much time and energy comparing ourselves to others - usually comparing our weaknesses to their strengths. As a result, we never celebrate our good efforts because they seem less than what someone else does. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
--Don't you give up. Don't you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying. It will be alright in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come. Jeffery R. Holland
Be cautious of pride. I'm not talking about the major sin of being prideful. I'm talking about worrying about what others think too much. About accepting that we aren't perfect yet. I'm talking about the pride that causes us to hide our true feelings in order to seem perfect now. It's way too much pressure! Plus, I already think you are perfect, so you don't have to worry about that one! You are my little angel!!
Quotes:
--Pride creates a noise within us that makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. Henry B. Eyring
--Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others. Gordon B. Hinckley
--Christ is a gentle teacher. He is gentle with us, and we also need to be gentle with ourselves. Acknowledge you are doing the best you can. Be accepting of your good efforts!
Do not run faster than you have strength. I remember your freshmen year, you calling me up crying that you were just so stressed out and exhausted and weren't sure how you were going to do all that you had to do. You had severely overbooked your time and were wearing yourself out! I love that you have a massive amount of energy and that you put every ounce of it to good use, but remember this scripture:
" for it is not requisite that a man [or a woman] should run faster than he has strength. And again, it is expedient that he should be diligent, that thereby he might win the prize; therefore, all things must be done in order." [Mosiah 4:27
There is a limit as to how much a person can physically get done in a day, a week, a month. Make sure that feeling peace and feeling joy are among them.
You need time to be a girl too (not just a missionary). Have you ever heard the saying, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"? I'm glad that you went to the aquarium this past pday!! I have been hoping for you to do a bunch of touristy type things and really SEE the beauty and sights of Germany! You've been there long enough that it probably feels a bit like home, but don't forget to soak it all in for soon you will be in America again! P.S. I better not find out that you've lost your cute little girl spunky spazzy fun side or ELSE!!!!!
Okay, end of my Sermon on the Mound (of pillows on the couch!). Haha I'm so funny! I had two other feelings that were pretty strong that I wanted to share with you. The first is when we went to Girl's Camp this week for Bishop's Day. Dad let me come along! Anyway, it was a really fun day full of games and food and chatting and testimony meeting, of course! They were crying and crying, and it was very sweet, but the sweetest things I saw that night were a couple of the mothers’ that had daughters there, who came up to them and hugged them or sat on their laps and cuddled. It was almost heart wrenching at first to see. I got choked up the first time it happened and by the end of the night, I found myself looking for those mother/daughters to get the good feeling of seeing them together. It made me long for you in a way that I haven't felt at all since you've been gone. I truly feel like Heavenly Father has put a little cloud of forgetfulness over my head in that area so that I won't miss you that badly. Don't get me wrong, I miss you badly, but not enough to cry myself to sleep like some mothers do. Sister H cries when I talk to her about her son being gone! Anyway, you are my precious little baby girl and my heart has the most tender spot in it for you and for our relationship. I hope that will never change! I love you with every tiny bit of me!
The second is the Sacrament meeting we had today. It was the most spiritual one I have felt in a long time. It started as normal and instead of the speakers giving talks, they took 2-3 minutes and told us why they loved and chose a favorite song and then we sang it. There were 7 short speakers and 7 songs. It was really cool to be able to sing so much in sacrament meeting! The Spirit has a great capacity to teach through the hymns and I think it is often underutilized. Often the hymns are rushed or cut down to only one verse in some of our meetings due to speakers or teachers going over time, but I say, the speakers and teachers need to end on time, so we can get to the hymns!!! There is nothing extra they need to say once their time is up that is so important that we need to skip singing time! Can you tell I'm a bit passionate about this? Anyway, I saw Dad get very choked up singing Abide with Me Tis Eventide and that made my goosebumps get goosebumps. I never see him like that. He is a very spiritual man but he is not prone to tears and neither am I so this was surprising. This was an excellent meeting and so many people made comments that they loved it too. A couple even wanted to know when we could do it again! Also, I was the first speaker and I chose to sing Called to Serve in honor of you being on a mission and because I miss you! Oh, and I wore that royal blue maxi dress that I wore for our date night a few weeks ago and got so many compliments on it and it being a really good color for me! I think I will be wearing it
every week from now on!
The rest of my week was just the same old stuff as far as I can remember!
I feel like you had a hard week last week and didn't tell us. I think it was mostly the "tone of voice" used in the group email that made me think that and then the super short unfinished email sealed the deal on those feelings. I can't be sure because I haven't been able to ask you about it yet, but I had a few impressions that I wanted to share with you that came as I was listening to your voice message:
You can try to be perfect, but you can't be perfect now. You are such a wonderful girl and have tons of really good qualities and I appreciate all that you are doing in your life to be a good missionary, a good daughter and a good person and Heavenly Father can see that. I hope you make sure that YOU can see that! It sure is nice to be happy all the time, but that is not reality. Everyone has bad days, and everyone stumbles now and then. You are like me in the way that, when I am having a bad day, I don't want to ruin anyone else's day, so I try to smile and put on a happy face, even when I don't feel happy at all. I notice that the older I get, the less I do that and the more I just let it happen a bit. I think it's okay to let people in when we are having a hard time. It makes us human and it makes us relatable. These are two very important qualities to have as a successful Relief Society President. No one can relate to a Molly Mormon! (Also, remember that not everyone is going to like you or what you have to say, but that's okay because they are dumb! The people that know you, love you because you are the BEST!)
Quotes:
--Imperfect people is all God has to work with. That must be terribly frustrating to Him, but He deals with it. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
--God is fully aware that you and I are not perfect. Let me add that He is fully aware that the people you think are perfect, are not. And yet, we spend so much time and energy comparing ourselves to others - usually comparing our weaknesses to their strengths. As a result, we never celebrate our good efforts because they seem less than what someone else does. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
--Don't you give up. Don't you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying. It will be alright in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come. Jeffery R. Holland
Be cautious of pride. I'm not talking about the major sin of being prideful. I'm talking about worrying about what others think too much. About accepting that we aren't perfect yet. I'm talking about the pride that causes us to hide our true feelings in order to seem perfect now. It's way too much pressure! Plus, I already think you are perfect, so you don't have to worry about that one! You are my little angel!!
Quotes:
--Pride creates a noise within us that makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. Henry B. Eyring
--Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others. Gordon B. Hinckley
--Christ is a gentle teacher. He is gentle with us, and we also need to be gentle with ourselves. Acknowledge you are doing the best you can. Be accepting of your good efforts!
Do not run faster than you have strength. I remember your freshmen year, you calling me up crying that you were just so stressed out and exhausted and weren't sure how you were going to do all that you had to do. You had severely overbooked your time and were wearing yourself out! I love that you have a massive amount of energy and that you put every ounce of it to good use, but remember this scripture:
" for it is not requisite that a man [or a woman] should run faster than he has strength. And again, it is expedient that he should be diligent, that thereby he might win the prize; therefore, all things must be done in order." [Mosiah 4:27
There is a limit as to how much a person can physically get done in a day, a week, a month. Make sure that feeling peace and feeling joy are among them.
You need time to be a girl too (not just a missionary). Have you ever heard the saying, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"? I'm glad that you went to the aquarium this past pday!! I have been hoping for you to do a bunch of touristy type things and really SEE the beauty and sights of Germany! You've been there long enough that it probably feels a bit like home, but don't forget to soak it all in for soon you will be in America again! P.S. I better not find out that you've lost your cute little girl spunky spazzy fun side or ELSE!!!!!
Okay, end of my Sermon on the Mound (of pillows on the couch!). Haha I'm so funny! I had two other feelings that were pretty strong that I wanted to share with you. The first is when we went to Girl's Camp this week for Bishop's Day. Dad let me come along! Anyway, it was a really fun day full of games and food and chatting and testimony meeting, of course! They were crying and crying, and it was very sweet, but the sweetest things I saw that night were a couple of the mothers’ that had daughters there, who came up to them and hugged them or sat on their laps and cuddled. It was almost heart wrenching at first to see. I got choked up the first time it happened and by the end of the night, I found myself looking for those mother/daughters to get the good feeling of seeing them together. It made me long for you in a way that I haven't felt at all since you've been gone. I truly feel like Heavenly Father has put a little cloud of forgetfulness over my head in that area so that I won't miss you that badly. Don't get me wrong, I miss you badly, but not enough to cry myself to sleep like some mothers do. Sister H cries when I talk to her about her son being gone! Anyway, you are my precious little baby girl and my heart has the most tender spot in it for you and for our relationship. I hope that will never change! I love you with every tiny bit of me!
The second is the Sacrament meeting we had today. It was the most spiritual one I have felt in a long time. It started as normal and instead of the speakers giving talks, they took 2-3 minutes and told us why they loved and chose a favorite song and then we sang it. There were 7 short speakers and 7 songs. It was really cool to be able to sing so much in sacrament meeting! The Spirit has a great capacity to teach through the hymns and I think it is often underutilized. Often the hymns are rushed or cut down to only one verse in some of our meetings due to speakers or teachers going over time, but I say, the speakers and teachers need to end on time, so we can get to the hymns!!! There is nothing extra they need to say once their time is up that is so important that we need to skip singing time! Can you tell I'm a bit passionate about this? Anyway, I saw Dad get very choked up singing Abide with Me Tis Eventide and that made my goosebumps get goosebumps. I never see him like that. He is a very spiritual man but he is not prone to tears and neither am I so this was surprising. This was an excellent meeting and so many people made comments that they loved it too. A couple even wanted to know when we could do it again! Also, I was the first speaker and I chose to sing Called to Serve in honor of you being on a mission and because I miss you! Oh, and I wore that royal blue maxi dress that I wore for our date night a few weeks ago and got so many compliments on it and it being a really good color for me! I think I will be wearing it
every week from now on!
The rest of my week was just the same old stuff as far as I can remember!
P.S. Voice messages are so wonderful. They are also hard for me
because I hear your voice and I just want to see you and hug you so badly! It
makes my "homesickness" for you even worse in some ways!
I love you a million little girl hugs and snuggles and a million fabulous spiritual Sacrament meetings all rolled up in one like a burrito! (which I love you a million of those too!) Love, MOM
I love you a million little girl hugs and snuggles and a million fabulous spiritual Sacrament meetings all rolled up in one like a burrito! (which I love you a million of those too!) Love, MOM
Pt. 2 - (Jul 29 - Week 60)
As mysterious are sometimes the ways of the Lord, what is certain is that He will fulfill His promises.
As I shared my favorite scripture in Job last week, I wasn't sure what the Lord had in store for me when He promised that "good things shall come unto thee", after significant trial. Little did I know, God was about to bless us richly.
I want to show you a small glimpse of how the Lord of heaven and earth works with us, small and unprofitable servants.
Just about 9 months ago, I met Joseph. He was so prepared to receive all that God had in store for him, and we got the chance to see him convert to the Lord. He told that he would take the gospel to all of his friends, he knew how it felt to be without!
Wednesday this week, we receive 4 rapid texts and an email all at once. It was a referral! For a family! I was completely astounded to see that this family was sent to us by a recent covert in Elmshorn - Joseph!
We met with the family quickly after, and discovered that they too are ready to accept the gospel! The daughter, Mishell, who is about our age, has already accepted to be baptized!
This is no coincidence. I can see exactly how God has mapped this out, and it's beautiful! He has a plan for every single one of His children, and that includes allowing every one to receive all of the blessings He has in store for them. How beautiful!!
P.S. the rest of the week was amazing, I'm so happy we survived because it was like 1405 degrees outside (my farmers tan is WILD!)
Love you all! Show your loved ones how much you love them this week!
Have a happy week! Sister Macey Ingalls
Your Beautiful Email Touched Me - Jul 29
Ohhhh Mom you just
know me too well. You are just too good at your job 😉
Thank you first of all for that beautiul email, that really touched me. I needed that and you said exactly what I needed to hear. Im happy to report I've had a fantastic week this week!
Last week was a hard week, I know I can’t be happy all the time, but I want to! Feeling homesick is a real thing. Several Angel mothers came and talked to me and cheered me up and really gave me the strength I needed. I love my mission and I want to be here more than anything else, but there just the times I want to talk to you haha. That’s why I was so grateful for these angel moms that literally surrounded me. I love these people with my entire hearts.
Buuuuuut they aren't you. I was explaining this to Sister Baldock on Saturday morning when I just kinda woke up in a funk and wanted to talk to you. Sister Baldock is my best friend, seriously I love her and we are going to be lifelong friends. But she isn’t you. And she isn’t the type to ever bring anything up if she can see I’m having a hard time, like you would. So when I feel bad or sad, you know how I am, I just have to talk through everything out loud! And that’s why we could talk for hours (and probably way more now!) because we are both pretty similar and like to talk!! You just have this crazy gift of always knowing exactly how I feel and talking me through it and counseling me. I NEED THAT!!
So Sunday night (well I guess last night) Sister Baldock and I sat down and we talked for 3 HOURS hahahahaha it was the best thing in the world!!! I just needed that so much and so did she. We really bond over hard things on our missions and really beautiful things we’ve learned. It was so nice to just talk mom! She was like wow I forgot what it’s like to open up! It was awesome. Love that sister.
It was so nice to have someone to talk to, if you know what I mean! I know I’m a perfectionist, that weakness has been with me for a loooong time! I wonder if I’m doing enough, if I am speaking the language well enough, if my family will be proud of me, if my testimony has grown enough… I honestly wouldn’t trade a mission for anything, but it is hard, especially if you are hard on yourself already.
Sorry this is just how my brain is running right now, a mile a minute and way faster than I can type!
So thank you Mom, for being who you are and loving me. That’s really all I can ever ask of you. I love you so much more than I can even put into words. You’ve changed my life and picked me up off the ground so many times. You’re my coach! And the greatest mentor I could have.
I completely miss you so much and want to be with you and the family. Like c’mon, I’d be crazy if I said I didn’t miss little fuzzy watermelon head Nash! I love my family!
But seriously Mom, God is so good. He really loves me a lot and is taking care of me. Remember that scripture I shared in my last weekly email? Well, the promised blessing was fulfilled! We just had miracle after miracle happen this week, where we would look at each other with wide open mouths and shock! Like, is this even real?! This is the Lord’s work and He is caring and leading all that are involved. I hope so much to see Mishell be baptized soon! (I’ll explain that in my weekly email!)
You know, I think you will see that I’m different when I get home. Have you noticed any changes in me from emailing over the past 14 months?
I know that I feel more confident in helping people. I really have innovative ideas that come through the Spirit. Heavenly Father just never lets me run low on ideas! There is always a solution and I just see it map itself out in my mind! I know that’s a gift from God.
I was reading my patriarchal blessing earlier this week and wrote new things I noticed down alongside what sister Baldock wrote down in my comfort blessing last week. I noticed that there is one common denominator: my gifts and talents are given to me in order to bless the lives of others! Everything it talks about in my patriarchal blessing is somehow linked to how I will use it to help someone else. I hope I can always live worthy and humbly enough to do that. I love being an instrument, however weak and rusty, in God’s loving hands.
Oh, my goodness it’s so hot outside. I drank 3 liters of water every day this week!! It’s so much water hahaha. Thanks for sending me with those really light Forever 21 skirts! They are keeping me alive r.i.p.
Hey, I love you a million, just a millionth reminder :) I’m sorry I’m not always great at emailing and pictures, its slightly stressful but I do it because I love you! Have a happy week mom!!
Sister Ingalls Jr.
Thank you first of all for that beautiul email, that really touched me. I needed that and you said exactly what I needed to hear. Im happy to report I've had a fantastic week this week!
Last week was a hard week, I know I can’t be happy all the time, but I want to! Feeling homesick is a real thing. Several Angel mothers came and talked to me and cheered me up and really gave me the strength I needed. I love my mission and I want to be here more than anything else, but there just the times I want to talk to you haha. That’s why I was so grateful for these angel moms that literally surrounded me. I love these people with my entire hearts.
Buuuuuut they aren't you. I was explaining this to Sister Baldock on Saturday morning when I just kinda woke up in a funk and wanted to talk to you. Sister Baldock is my best friend, seriously I love her and we are going to be lifelong friends. But she isn’t you. And she isn’t the type to ever bring anything up if she can see I’m having a hard time, like you would. So when I feel bad or sad, you know how I am, I just have to talk through everything out loud! And that’s why we could talk for hours (and probably way more now!) because we are both pretty similar and like to talk!! You just have this crazy gift of always knowing exactly how I feel and talking me through it and counseling me. I NEED THAT!!
So Sunday night (well I guess last night) Sister Baldock and I sat down and we talked for 3 HOURS hahahahaha it was the best thing in the world!!! I just needed that so much and so did she. We really bond over hard things on our missions and really beautiful things we’ve learned. It was so nice to just talk mom! She was like wow I forgot what it’s like to open up! It was awesome. Love that sister.
It was so nice to have someone to talk to, if you know what I mean! I know I’m a perfectionist, that weakness has been with me for a loooong time! I wonder if I’m doing enough, if I am speaking the language well enough, if my family will be proud of me, if my testimony has grown enough… I honestly wouldn’t trade a mission for anything, but it is hard, especially if you are hard on yourself already.
Sorry this is just how my brain is running right now, a mile a minute and way faster than I can type!
So thank you Mom, for being who you are and loving me. That’s really all I can ever ask of you. I love you so much more than I can even put into words. You’ve changed my life and picked me up off the ground so many times. You’re my coach! And the greatest mentor I could have.
I completely miss you so much and want to be with you and the family. Like c’mon, I’d be crazy if I said I didn’t miss little fuzzy watermelon head Nash! I love my family!
But seriously Mom, God is so good. He really loves me a lot and is taking care of me. Remember that scripture I shared in my last weekly email? Well, the promised blessing was fulfilled! We just had miracle after miracle happen this week, where we would look at each other with wide open mouths and shock! Like, is this even real?! This is the Lord’s work and He is caring and leading all that are involved. I hope so much to see Mishell be baptized soon! (I’ll explain that in my weekly email!)
You know, I think you will see that I’m different when I get home. Have you noticed any changes in me from emailing over the past 14 months?
I know that I feel more confident in helping people. I really have innovative ideas that come through the Spirit. Heavenly Father just never lets me run low on ideas! There is always a solution and I just see it map itself out in my mind! I know that’s a gift from God.
I was reading my patriarchal blessing earlier this week and wrote new things I noticed down alongside what sister Baldock wrote down in my comfort blessing last week. I noticed that there is one common denominator: my gifts and talents are given to me in order to bless the lives of others! Everything it talks about in my patriarchal blessing is somehow linked to how I will use it to help someone else. I hope I can always live worthy and humbly enough to do that. I love being an instrument, however weak and rusty, in God’s loving hands.
Oh, my goodness it’s so hot outside. I drank 3 liters of water every day this week!! It’s so much water hahaha. Thanks for sending me with those really light Forever 21 skirts! They are keeping me alive r.i.p.
Hey, I love you a million, just a millionth reminder :) I’m sorry I’m not always great at emailing and pictures, its slightly stressful but I do it because I love you! Have a happy week mom!!
Sister Ingalls Jr.
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
I Will Finish This Email with a Voice Message! (Jul 22)
Mommyyyy!!
I am running out of time to type so I will finish this via voice message!!!
Sister Macey Ingalls
P.S. I have no more google storage space... what should I do? I can't upload pictures..
[You can tell she's been on her mission long enough that emailing is getting redundant. She's sending more voice messages than usual, just like Logan did! --MOM]
Haha it sounds like you had a busier week than I did! What an exciting week!
First of all, I LOVE that blue dress in your date night pictures! Is that new? Wow that is so cute! Was it a normal dress and just a maxi dress for you or was it a crazy long dress and you had to cut a bunch off to not trip on it? ;-) oh shortie.
Those pictures were all so cute! It's so funny, I knew exactly what you were all doing at the end of the night to clean up (since I used to work at Yogurt Sundae). I feel like I could do that stuff with my eyes closed! If the Konnads want help until I go to school.... 🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️
Gosh that little melon head baby is so cute! Nash looks so sweet. Was this experience a lot easier on Sara? Is the 2nd kid generally easier than the first because you kinda somewhat know what you're doing?
I didn't know Tanner was unemployed? I thought he was still starting up the business, what's going on with that? And is the rumor true that Dallin is starting a business as well?
Sister Macey Ingalls
P.S. I have no more google storage space... what should I do? I can't upload pictures..
[You can tell she's been on her mission long enough that emailing is getting redundant. She's sending more voice messages than usual, just like Logan did! --MOM]
إن شاء الله -- Jul 22
Some weeks just don't go as planned, folks. The Lord knows us perfectly, and gives us the experiences to help us grow!
This was just one of those weeks.
Don't get me wrong, AMAZING miracles came our way this week. However, they all came through hardship. After 3 lessons falling through in a day and getting dropped, we met a girl completely searching for the truth. After the most sincere fast of my life, our friend decided to take a leap of faith and make a very hard, but good decision.
Well, Sunday was the grand day of learning. It was a HARD day. After struggling through the entirety of church, I asked the elders for a blessing. This means that through the priesthood power of God, we can receive God's direction and help. Among promises and words of comfort, I was told to be at peace.
I studied in Job later that night and found those words once again burning in my heart.
"Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee."
God is mindful of every second of our lives. The learning, the good and the fulfillment of promises will come. Life is good, I love what I'm doing! I love you all! Sister Ingalls
Don't get me wrong, AMAZING miracles came our way this week. However, they all came through hardship. After 3 lessons falling through in a day and getting dropped, we met a girl completely searching for the truth. After the most sincere fast of my life, our friend decided to take a leap of faith and make a very hard, but good decision.
Well, Sunday was the grand day of learning. It was a HARD day. After struggling through the entirety of church, I asked the elders for a blessing. This means that through the priesthood power of God, we can receive God's direction and help. Among promises and words of comfort, I was told to be at peace.
"Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee."
God is mindful of every second of our lives. The learning, the good and the fulfillment of promises will come. Life is good, I love what I'm doing! I love you all! Sister Ingalls
Thursday, July 19, 2018
An Inspired Watermelon, a Late Night Sprint and a Surprise Translation - (Jul 16 Group Email)
*MoTab begins singing Hallelujah chorus* Sister Baldock and I are staying together in Neukölln for another 6 weeks! WE ARE SO RELIEVED! It's going to be an amazing transfer and we are excited for what's coming.
1. On Saturday, the ward was playing soccer in the morning, but we couldn't play with, so what do we do? We bring a huge watermelon at the end of the game! It was so fun, and I never realized how much joy a watermelon could bring a bunch of (very) sweaty Germans! President Leimer was 100% inspired to encourage us to give more meaningful service to our members.
1. On Saturday, the ward was playing soccer in the morning, but we couldn't play with, so what do we do? We bring a huge watermelon at the end of the game! It was so fun, and I never realized how much joy a watermelon could bring a bunch of (very) sweaty Germans! President Leimer was 100% inspired to encourage us to give more meaningful service to our members.
2. Later that day, we get a call from the English sisters, having a bunch of things randomly come up on them and needing help. We went on splits and I suddenly found myself at President Leimer's house again, helping teach some of their friends with Sis. Wood! It was such a spiritual good time, but I started getting nervous around 9 o'clock because we needed to go home. Long story short, the sisters ended up needing to overnight with us (🎉🎉🎉). We walk to the bus stop at 9:35 met the other sisters, and then realize Sister Wood left her tablet at presidents! So what do we do? T-minus 8 minutes until the bus comes and we SPRINT. We had some God-given speedy powers to run at the end of the day like that. Oh man, it was so much farther than we thought! We grab the tablet, puffing out a mere "Gute Nacht!" to President, and sprint back. As we round the corner, we see the trusty M11 bus already pulled up. We still can't see the sisters, but with whatever breath we could still muster, we screamed, "GET ON THE BUS!!!!", rounded the next corner and practically dove into the bus. Geschafft. We were feeling pretty accomplished (and extremely sweaty!) that night. We still can't believe we made it 😂
3. Emmanuel was baptized on Sunday! It was so exciting, he was truly prepared and ready to follow Jesus Christ and make a covenant with God. The lovely brother is from Ghana, so I offered to real time translate. I got up and stood next to the speaker, and he starts talking in English. I jokingly translate it into German, then expect him to start actually speaking. No, I misunderstood and he wanted to speak in English and I translate into German! It was all just a funny scene. I ended up doing it and it was super fun! That was definitely a first though!
4. Just as a nice bowl of cereal starts my day off right, I love to start off our work time by simply getting chances to share my testimony on the street. It brings the courage I need for the day, like ripping off a bandaid! Well, that didn't happen on Friday because of meetings and quick visits. That is, until 1 pm. I was feeling pretty bad (and also pretty hungry, it was lunch time!). We then decided we weren't going to eat lunch until we could share our testimony with someone. We start walking, and for some reason, there was not a SINGLE person on the street. We walk for 5, 10 then 15 minutes nothing. What kind of huge city with millions of people are you, Berlin?! I gave Heavenly Father my entire heart in prayer, begging for this experience. Finally, on the way to the church 20 minutes later, we met Julia. She was so open and we had an amazing discussion about God. She was so excited to read the Book of Mormon, and we both left grinning ear to ear. I love getting to share my testimony! Love it! Lunch tasted much better after that.
Sorry this is ridiculously long AND I don't have pictures this week so I'm sending a couple more from pday last week... Well, if you read one thing, it's this: I LOVE YOU ALL AND I KNOW THE BOOK OF MORMON IS TRUE!
Sister Macey Ingalls
I Love Focusing on my Savior (Jul 16)
Note from Jul 16: Our pday has been changed to tomorrow because of transfer day now being on Monday. We are both staying!!🤩🎉 We are so excited and relieved haha! I'll talk to you tomorrow, I love you both!
Maaawwwwwwmmmm! (July 17)
Oh man I'm tired haha! An 8 day work week including the craziness of transfers takes a toll on me, I'm not feeling so great today. But that's okay because I get to write you! But my writing skills and content might be influenced by my tiredness just a heads up hahah.
That beautiful, sunshine sounds great! We've had interesting weather here the past week. It's either really sunny and hot or it poured rain or it was windy and cold! Like make up your mind mother nature! The nice thing is its nice every morning so we are always able to go out for a run, that's a perk.
What are Rockports? Are those my brown shoes you called my granny shoes?! Those are absolutely destroyed! That girl said they'd last my whole mission but I don't think she took into account I walk everywhere. I see group emails of my friends in the states and their shoes or clothes never look battered because they are always in cars! lame! They look like they are in a fashion shoe, and here I am just trying to keep the soles on my "missionary-grade" shoes haha! Ohh I love it.
The Twins game sounds so fun! Yeah, I don't know why they were intimidated by you, you're just a really funny little pip squeak! I'm glad you could have a good time with Dad. Its important to still go on dates and spend good quality time together, so I'm glad you did some fun stuff this week.
I totally want to hold all of those adorable little babies in the Blaine ward.. its so funny, our ward mission leader has a young family, boy and girl. You see pictures of adorable little Amelia all the time, we are pals. But now I have to be careful. You know when you bend down to pet a dog and then it jumps on you and licks you and is all crazy? Well, the similar happens with Amelia, minus the licking. She keeps climbing all over me and she's a strong little thing and will not get off! Its so funny and I secretly totally love it, but I promise I'm trying to get her off of me! I love the little kids in the ward.
You betcha that bulletin board looks awesome! It all started with the cool small binder in Relief Society that you started. You have good ideas! Its funny how I find myself becoming more creative. I think mine is more problem solving and inventing a little, whereas I still haven't developed the "making everything look cute and perfect" talent like you. For example, our bananas were going bad so easily, so I found a way to hang them from an upper cupboard down to a normal height and they are great! Or planning. I don't know. I feel like I've just learned so much and developed so many talents! I even accompany on the piano pretty often, like I did this last Sunday! It was a bit rough but I did it!
I have to say a double thanks for the Lara bars! Yesterday we went to the Fischers for FHE again, and I brought a few of those with. We talked about genealogy and br Fischer showed his family tree and shared some stories, it was really good! This family is like our family. I think I've told you about them before, but brother Fischer is no longer a member. We don't know much of the reason why, but we've developed a relationship with him. He is like our dad! He even says it sometimes too haha! They are the best, we love them. He opens up a little bit more every time. He loves teasing us too, but he was visibly so relieved when we said we were both staying so the teasing is all jus a little façade. I'm so grateful for this family. They just love us and feed us delicious healthy food and take care of us and tell us to come over whenever we have a bad day (and we don't so then they just invite us over haha!) I've really enjoyed getting close to them.
I feel like the rest I can tell in the group email or in a voice recording haha! Oh I'm so sorry I'm really trying to keep writing lots of things to read but its just getting hard. My weeks are similar and at the same time super exciting!! I love this work with my whole heart, I'm giving it everything I've got!
I love it here, I love focusing on my Savior. Thank you for giving me this wonderful chance to serve and raising me in a way to help me make the decision for myself. I love you!
Have a happy, happy week I love you a million transfers in the beautiful city of Berlin!
Love, Sister Ingalls
Maaawwwwwwmmmm! (July 17)
Oh man I'm tired haha! An 8 day work week including the craziness of transfers takes a toll on me, I'm not feeling so great today. But that's okay because I get to write you! But my writing skills and content might be influenced by my tiredness just a heads up hahah.
That beautiful, sunshine sounds great! We've had interesting weather here the past week. It's either really sunny and hot or it poured rain or it was windy and cold! Like make up your mind mother nature! The nice thing is its nice every morning so we are always able to go out for a run, that's a perk.
What are Rockports? Are those my brown shoes you called my granny shoes?! Those are absolutely destroyed! That girl said they'd last my whole mission but I don't think she took into account I walk everywhere. I see group emails of my friends in the states and their shoes or clothes never look battered because they are always in cars! lame! They look like they are in a fashion shoe, and here I am just trying to keep the soles on my "missionary-grade" shoes haha! Ohh I love it.
The Twins game sounds so fun! Yeah, I don't know why they were intimidated by you, you're just a really funny little pip squeak! I'm glad you could have a good time with Dad. Its important to still go on dates and spend good quality time together, so I'm glad you did some fun stuff this week.
I totally want to hold all of those adorable little babies in the Blaine ward.. its so funny, our ward mission leader has a young family, boy and girl. You see pictures of adorable little Amelia all the time, we are pals. But now I have to be careful. You know when you bend down to pet a dog and then it jumps on you and licks you and is all crazy? Well, the similar happens with Amelia, minus the licking. She keeps climbing all over me and she's a strong little thing and will not get off! Its so funny and I secretly totally love it, but I promise I'm trying to get her off of me! I love the little kids in the ward.
You betcha that bulletin board looks awesome! It all started with the cool small binder in Relief Society that you started. You have good ideas! Its funny how I find myself becoming more creative. I think mine is more problem solving and inventing a little, whereas I still haven't developed the "making everything look cute and perfect" talent like you. For example, our bananas were going bad so easily, so I found a way to hang them from an upper cupboard down to a normal height and they are great! Or planning. I don't know. I feel like I've just learned so much and developed so many talents! I even accompany on the piano pretty often, like I did this last Sunday! It was a bit rough but I did it!
I have to say a double thanks for the Lara bars! Yesterday we went to the Fischers for FHE again, and I brought a few of those with. We talked about genealogy and br Fischer showed his family tree and shared some stories, it was really good! This family is like our family. I think I've told you about them before, but brother Fischer is no longer a member. We don't know much of the reason why, but we've developed a relationship with him. He is like our dad! He even says it sometimes too haha! They are the best, we love them. He opens up a little bit more every time. He loves teasing us too, but he was visibly so relieved when we said we were both staying so the teasing is all jus a little façade. I'm so grateful for this family. They just love us and feed us delicious healthy food and take care of us and tell us to come over whenever we have a bad day (and we don't so then they just invite us over haha!) I've really enjoyed getting close to them.
I feel like the rest I can tell in the group email or in a voice recording haha! Oh I'm so sorry I'm really trying to keep writing lots of things to read but its just getting hard. My weeks are similar and at the same time super exciting!! I love this work with my whole heart, I'm giving it everything I've got!
I love it here, I love focusing on my Savior. Thank you for giving me this wonderful chance to serve and raising me in a way to help me make the decision for myself. I love you!
Have a happy, happy week I love you a million transfers in the beautiful city of Berlin!
Love, Sister Ingalls
Monday, July 9, 2018
Two Weeks Worth of Pictures + Boat Tour!
Boat Tour
My District
Modeling the clothes that Mom sent me! I love them all!
Mary Fosvick made a doll that looks just like me, right down to the bag and set of scriptures!
Berliner Dome Tour
Hoping these shoes will hang in there until the end of my mission! Rockports are the best and are supposed to last! Shows you how much we wear them out on our missions!
Rockports, Under Armour socks, sweats and a t-shirt - typical pday?!
Where Do I Serve and Who is My Comp? (Jul 8 - Group Email)
What a week! Between MLC and exchanges, Sunday was the only day I spent in Neukölln, so it was quite the adventure!
I've learned some amazing things from the sisters I serve. Man do I love them!
We sang very very patriotic songs on the 4th of July for District Meeting, haha which also happened to be our lovely Brit's 1 year mark. Sorry Sis 😉🇺🇸
It's official and my Arabic nametags are ordered 😱
Uhh I have no more time BUT I have you all so much love, I love these Germans, I love sharing the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, I love the scriptures, and especially especially, I love my God in Heaven and His Son and my Savior, Jesus Christ. (Talk about spreading the love!)
Love, Sister Macey Ingalls
ماسي إينغلس
We visited the Berliner Dome today!
Last district meeting
The amazing Sister Wambolt! (She said we had to have these because they
remind her of the Best Two Years movie haha love it)
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