We're certainly feeling the summer here. Also Germany doesn't believe in Air Conditioning...that's something different here. But yeah, I'm here in my new area with my new companion. It's so crazy! But it's really good. The ward has been sooooo excited for us. They haven't had sisters for over ten years, so everyone was really excited. They like all went and decorated our apartment for us and hung up curtains and made us cupcakes and put cute little notes and flowers everywhere. And on Sunday they were all running and hugging us. They were very excited, lol. But it's way cool to have a ward so enthused! Sister Wilson and I are really lucky. We have a really cool ward and a big area to work in. It takes about two hours to drive from the south part of the area to the northern part, but it's cool because we can see the countryside! We were both in really big cities for the last two transfers, so it's really cool to drive around. It seriously looks like the Shire!! There are just beautiful green hills everywhere. I'll take some pics this week and send them next time.
So when we got to Hanau one of the ward members came and picked us up, and the first thing that she asked was if we could sing. And we were like...yeah, we can a little. And so she was like come sing in my choir!! So she has this little old lady choir she directs, and she asked us if we could come sing in her concert on Saturday, and we said okay because it was service and hopefully we could get referrals or something from it. Anyway, we drove up and went to this little church, and there were a bunch of old ladies and they were singing pretty easy choir songs. So we practiced for a little bit and it was super weird...Haha. Then we all went out and drove some more, and after speeding away from this huge bull that was guarding the road we got to this other huge church, and it was like some party there! There were a lot of people and all these drinks and this fancy weird jazz music playing...and we sang there. And it was sooo weird. Haha! We didn't get home until like 10:30. It was quite an experience. We had no idea what was going on all night. Oh man...I feel like those situations happen more than not on missions. You're just suddenly there and you're not really sure how you got there or what's happening. Lol
Anyway, it's way beautiful and awesome out here! Sister Wilson and I are excited to get started opening this area. There's so much potential, and our Bishop is awesome and we just got a new ward mission leader, so we're hoping that everything will just explode in this area and we can start bringing people to the Gospel. It's been a long, crazy, awesome week, and I hope you all have a fun week!
Liebe Grüße,
Sister Shipton
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