The warm weather has moved over here as well! It is sooo nice outside today. We're going to go down to the river and play volleyball and eat some stuff with some other missionaries, which should be fun. Let's hope this weather will last. When the sun is out, all of the people are so nice and friendly. I went outside without a coat on for the first time today, and it was nice and weird.
Sounds like a lot is going on! Hope Lauren didn't make out with her date too much, haha. Tell Sarah and BriAnne that I love them and miss them! I know everything will work out fine with them. I told Sister Mosher about you guys, and I told her about Robert and realized that he doesn't have that much longer until he's able to serve. I told her that he's going to go to some crazy place with crazy stuff, and I said something like, "It's a good thing Heavenly Father knows me well enough not to send me to some crazy place, because I don't think I could handle it." And she looked at me and said, "No offense...but I agree." Lol! She already knows me too well. She's such a good missionary and a really good example. I'll be sad when we're split up in a couple weeks.
Also I got crushed by train doors for the first time the other day! That's always like a milestone here for a missionary. You walk through the train stations or the subway stations and see people just like doing the death sprint because they're going to miss their train. I've done that a couple times, but I got crushed the other day for the first time. The doors don't open again once they're closing, so Sister Mosher slipped in and I tried to, too, but they crushed me. Luckily there was this guy who helped Sister Mosher wrench the doors open so I could get in. Haha, it was really funny! It didn't hurt or anything at all. It's just funny to see that happen.
Glad Prom was fun! It's crazy to think that it's that late in the school year already. And I'm so glad your lesson went well, Mom. They say this all the time to missionaries, but I think it's true to any teacher in the church. The teacher is the Spirit, and you're just there to facilitate it. And it's up to the people or the students to choose whether they want to be edified and taught. That's something I never really understood until I got out here. No matter how much you just want to force people to listen and accept, you just have to pray that the Spirit will be there and touch them.
We're doing a ton of member work right now. Präsident wants us to focus on getting member referrals and getting the members involved in missionary work. But the members are German, so it's a lot of work! Haha. Luckily our Ward Mission Leader is really, really cool and helps us a lot. We're also focusing a lot of time on the Young Single Adults in the ward because Präsident wants us to do that as well. So we're at FHE and Institute during the week. But we're teaching a woman named Magalee. She's progressing, but we just need to take it slow, haha. And we were out street contacting the other week, and this guy with tattoos and piercings and a cigarette and a beer came up to us and asked us for money. We're not allowed to give out money, so we had to say no, but then Sister Mosher was like "WAIT, we can't give you money, but we can give you something else." Yeah, hopefully we can meet with him sometime. I'm not sure, but we got his number. He had a really hard life with lots of deaths in his family, and he said he moved to Frankfurt to get away from drugs and all this crazy stuff. Hope we can meet with him soon! The Gospel would really help him.
It's just been a crazy last week. The Sisters living with us got assigned to their area, and then two more sisters came and became their companions, so it was just hectic getting everything situated, and then they moved out, and now it's Zone Conference tomorrow so Sister Mosher's trying to get everything ready for that and stuff. Yeah, just another crazy week. But I have a good feeling about this week. The weather should be nice, which means happy people who are willing to talk to us!
Sorry I don't have any pictures this week! I'm really bad at taking them. I promise I'll be better and have some fun ones for you next week. Glad everything is okay over there. Goodbye, little Nissan! It was a good little school car. Are you going to get a special space car like Mrs. Gillman? Haha. Thanks for the addresses and all the emails and support. Love you all lots!
Sister Shipton
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