It's been a crazy week. I went on a split at the beginning
of this week with the sisters from Mainz, and it was really really crazy.
Sister Imbach and I traveled down on Monday night, and it's about an hour long
train ride. We get there and split, and the new sister (Sister Fuller) and I
rode back up to Frankfurt together while Sister Imbach stayed in Mainz. Sister
Fuller and I were about five minutes away from the apartment when I realized I
didn't have the keys!! Ugghhh Sister Imbach had the keys and they were still in
Mainz. It was already like 9:30, which is the time that we have to be home, so
we got off a train right away and caught one heading back. But then Sister
Fuller thought she had lost her name badge at the last stop so we had to get
off again and go back another stop and look. Then she found it in her pocket.
And so it was almost 10, and I called the zone leaders and told them, and they
told us to stay with the sisters that are over the International ward here in
Frankfurt. Or if we can't, we have to call President and tell him what's going
on, haha. So we decided to stay with those sisters, and that included hopping a
fence in a skirt to get to their apartment. It was so nice to have somwhere to
sleep, but that meant that we had nowhere to go all day long. Poor Sister
Fuller had to carry her overnight bag around Frankfurt all day, and it was one
of those days where we were running for trains and busses and streetcars all
day long. And then the sisters weren't able to make it from Mainz to Frankfurt
until like 10:00 that night, so we had to sit at the church for a couple hours.
Blehhh. It was a long day. Poor Sister Fuller! Not a very good experience in
Frankfurt, haha. But it was good. We learned a lot! Like always make sure you
pass the keys off to your companion.
I think Sister Imbach and I have too much fun sometimes,
haha. Transfer calls are this week! I think we'll be together at least one more
transfer, though. But it's sooo crazy. How have 6 weeks gone by already?? I've
learned a lot from this transfer, and it's definitely been really fun.
We were dumb and didn't budget our money very well this
month, so we had hardly any food this last week. We had a bag of potatoes and
some milk and some applesauce and some cheese...and that's about it, haha. We ate
a lot of potatoes. Good thing I love them! Also a member fed us sushi last
night. BLEH. I do not like sushi. I ate it all, but...noooo. Never again.
Sister Imbach loves it, though, and the lady was like, 'Hey, come back sometime
and we can make sushi again and you can have more!' And I was dying inside and
the raw fish in my belly was like swimming around. Grosss. But now we have
money so we can buy food, and we'll be better at budgeting. We have learned our
lesson, haha.
Today for PDay we're going up to Hanau, which is the Grimm
Brothers city I guess. I'm excited. I should get some pictures there and have
pics for next week! Hope that creepy guy doesn't come back, though. Ugh
creepers. Also HAHA. Four eyes...hehehe. :) No you'll look beautiful with glasses!
I'm looking forward to the picture. Sounds like everyone is doing really well
over there! (Besides Josh, I guess, who looked like he was dying.) Hope you all
have fun in Oregon. Give hugs to everyone from me!
The German is coming along fine. A lot of mistakes, but I
can't learn any other way, I guess! Haha. It's just a lot of speaking and more
speaking to get the sentence patterns down and the conjugations right. But I'm
definitely a million times better than I was in the MTC! Jade isn't there anymore,
is she? I think she should be out in the field by now. I hope she's doing
well!
If there's one thing I've been realizing these past couple
months, it's how perfect the Atonement is. It is amazing! I think I'm just
barely beginning to scratch the surface of it all, but seriously, how amazing
is it! It's the thing that ties our whole Gospel together, and it's the thing
that allows people to change and repent and be forgiven. It's so crazy to think
how merciful God and Christ are, and everyone is constantly sinning and
thinking that they know better. But They still love us anyway!! haha. I think
of that thing Elder Holland said at the last conference, 'Except in the case of
His only perfect Begotten Son, imperfect people are all God has ever had to work
with. That must be terribly frustrating to Him, but He deals with it.'
Everything God and Christ done has been and will be for us, but even then They
know that we are going to make mistakes and do stupid things, and even then
They gave us something else--the Atonement. Crazy!! I am so grateful for it and
so glad that I get to spend this time just focusing on things like this and
spend my whole day trying to understand and studying amazing aspects of the
Gospel. It's true, okay??
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