Happy New Year's!

Date: January 5, 2010


Hello Family!

Another week has come and gone. My goodness time flies by. Well thanks for all your insights mom. They are good to hear. I especially loved the quote by Joseph Smith how the blessings of this gospel are unsurpassaple. The trick is helping others to see that. I liked what Ritchie said in his email, I guess he was quoting Chris, that nothing else makes sense. This gospel is the way that makes sense. I was talking with a lady on the train yesterday and she asked me if we believed in reincarnation. I told her no, that we believed in the resurrection. She said, "oh, well I like the idea of reincarnation because you get to live again and keep progressing and becoming something better. Heaven and hell just doesn´t make sense." I said, "yea, we believe that there is more than just heaven and hell. We believe in eternal progression. Because of the resurrection we can have our bodies back and keep progressing. We also believe in eternal families. With the resurrection we can still be in our family unit and live together. With reincarnation you don´t have that." She said, "Yea, that makes sense. If there was reincarnation we wouldn´t be in families. I never thought of that before." then I said, "I´m grateful that God prepared a plan for us so that we could live as families forever and be able to become better." Then I had to get off the train, so I gave her a pass along card. But yes, this gospel makes sense, because it´s true!
Anyways, Ritchie, that is awesome that you were able to baptize someone. I pray that she will continue on the gospel path. Thank you for showing her the way.
Well I don´t have a lot of time today, but I wanted to share with you what a German New Years is like. So at about 11:50 pm on New Years Eve "Sylvester", they started lighting fireworks, and they were right in front of our window. We woke up and were able to watch them from our beds. I was pretty sleepy so I didn´t see very many, but it was really fun. Then the next morning our President called it "Winter Cleaning Day" so we just stayed inside and deep cleaned our apartment. While we were cleaning we heard some marching bands and so we ran to our window and there was a marching band right down our street. They were all dressed up in colonial style uniforms and the band consisted of drums and chimes. It was a parade! But they weren´t all together. One band would come by at a time. And that was the parade, one marching band after another. Every band was dressed up differently but in colonial style clothes.I felt like I was in George Washington´s time, in Germany. It was awesome. Also the bands consisted of all ages old men and women, teenagers, and little kids. It was so fun to watch. In America there is a lot of advertising, not here. It was pure talent and families. It was a neat experience.

Well I better go. I love you family. And I hope all is well at the begining of this wonderful new year of 2010!!!

Love,
Sister Fitzgerald