Familie!Hi! Thanks for the letter, and thanks for getting one to me by Saturday so I wouldn't be lonely on my Pday! It's been a crazy, crazy couple of days. I guess crazier than usual. Even Sister Mosher was like, "What's going on?? This is crazy!" On Thursday Präsident called us and was like, "Sisters, I just got a call that we'll be receiving new sisters in just a couple days!" He didn't have anywhere to put them, and we have an extra bedroom and are here right in Frankfurt, so he had them stay with us. Then he called us like three hours later and was like, "Sisters, they're coming tonight!" So we had to like suddenly get ready for two more sisters. They're here from the Berlin mission. It's crazy. They seriously got a call one morning and were told they were being transferred that day to the Frankfurt mission. Man, if that happened to me I wouldn't be handling it that well. But they're both really nice and fun and hard workers. Sister Prince and Sister Moon. Sister Prince and I wandered around a little town called Bad Vilbel today, looking for this family. Some people gave us some crazy directions, and we walked around for like an hour and a half. But it was really fun. When Präsident gets back to Frankfurt on Sunday he'll interview them and decide where they're going.
Thanks for sending whatever you do!! You're right, I can get stuff like that here no problem. I'm right in the middle of a huge modern city, so there's like nothing I can't buy. But it's all just a little more expensive here. And just those packages are awesome!! Thanks so much in advance. :)
Give Papa and Grandma and Aunt Valerie and everyone else all my love. I've been thinking about Aunt Valerie a lot over the past couple days. Hope she's doing okay.
Yeah, German will just come. I'm trying not to worry too much, but of course I do. If I'm not fluent right now then I'm like argghhh whyyyy. But Sister Mosher is awesome and won't let me be sad. I just have to practice and stop being afraid of making mistakes. And it's still really cold here, which is not so fun, but we're keeping pretty warm. They just found and bought a new apartment just a couple streets away over a döner shop, so we're calling it the Döner apartment now. Oh yeah, I finally had one the other day! Mmm döner. They're like this Turkish sandwich thing that the Germans have embraced, and they're really popular over here. Also delicious and fattening. It'll be dangerous living above a shop. Not sure when we're moving there, but probably in the next couple weeks.
We're really working with the ward here and trying to kind of just get things going. They're all really awesome, but they're just so busy, so it's totally understandable. And lots of them live like an hour away with the train, so it's hard to go see everyone. People here are really nice, just set in their ways. But we're trying hard to find people! Easter is just a fun time to close down stores and have a little holiday here, haha. But they hang Easter eggs from trees, so that's fun to see. We have an eating appt. for Sunday night, so hopefully it'll be delicious. I had another interview with Präsident Schwartz on Tuesday, I think it was. Man, he's awesome. He goes around trying to interview everyone, and Church headquarters have told the mission presidents that they can't take too long with interviews because so many missionaries are coming in, but Präsident Schwartz is like, "No, I can't do that. We must talk and talk and see how we can help one another." So there are regularly-scheduled interviews with him, and it takes forever because he loves the missionaries so much and loves to talk to them. His interview really, really helped me. I have a feeling that every single one will, haha.
I saw Kaitlyn Sprouse the second day I was here! She came to pick up her Golden. It was crazy. We were like...hiiii! I think she's going home in a couple months, though. Sarah, you can just write her an email I think or just send her a letter using the mission home address, and then it'll get to her.
Sounds like life is going well there! I told the new sisters all about you the other night. I talked a lot, haha. They probably think I'm crazy now because I just had so much fun and cool stuff to say about you all! Hope you all are having fun with your different sports and crazy lives! It's way awesome here. Hard, but really awesome! Thankfully Sister Mosher is just like helping me through it all. Also, Mother's Day is coming up really soon, oder?? Soon we'll have to coordinate Skype calls! Wow crazy.
Okay, love you all so much! Have fun and be safe traveling, Mom, and if there's one thing I've been thinking about this week it's that the Lord really knows each of our personal needs and directs our lives to better us. We just have to trust Him and do what He asks. Remember the 2000 Stripling Warriors obeyed with exactness, and they were all saved.
Liebe Gruße,
Sister Shipton
PS, No one's ever told me what's wrong with Molly! Is she okay now?? I hope so!! She needs exercise I guess, just like I do, haha.
PPS. Sorry the pictures aren't anything way cool. That was just me saying goodbye to the Sisters from my MTC district at Hauptbahnhof. And the third one is a picture of our last night at the MTC with my entire district and our teacher, who's the tall skinny guy on the right. I look like a polygamist monster, so don't mind me too much. Hopefully soon I'll have some fun pictures of Germany to send. We've just been crazy busy here!
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