Hi! We are so excited for this new week/new month. Now we have money and train tickets and miles on the car, so we can actually go do some misisonary work! Haha. No, it's been good. We are just glad the week is over. It ended on a really good note, though. A member took us from church up to this town called Fulda, which is about 45 minutes/an hour away from Hanau, so we got to see a lot of our area, and it is soooo beautiful. I tried to get some pics/videos, but you can't really tell how pretty it is through a stupid little bad-quality lens, haha. It is so gorgeous up here. Anyway, the member was this super, super nice Armenian lady who has two daughters out on missions right now, and a son whose papers are almost finished. So she loves missionaries! She fed us way too much food and then tried to feed us some more, and then she took us around Fulda, and we got to see some really, really gorgeous stuff! Fulda is one of the most Catholic cities in Germany, so there were these really pretty churches everywhere, and a really beautiful Dom (I forgot the English word--it's just like a giant, giant Catholic church). We also saw the castle and walked around the gardens. It was really pretty. I forgot my camera, but I'm sure you can look at pictures of Fulda online. It's way beautiful.
Anyway, we have so many things planned for this week, so we are way excited to get to work. I also get to go on a split with Sister Imbach, so I am wayyy excited! I miss her, and this next transfer is her last one, so I am so sad she's leaving! But it'll be fun to work with her a couple more times. I'm just glad we're still in the same zone. Oh, I was also on a split up to Frankfurt this last week, and it was way cool to be back there for a day. Haha, so this new sister was just arriving from the MTC, and we were supposed to pick her up from the office, so we were studying, and we get this phone call, and I pick it up and it's President Schwartz, so I answer and am like, 'Sister Shipton spricht.' And he was like, 'Oh, hello Sister Shipton. I was just calling to let you know that you are to pick up the Golden missionary at 11:30 today from the office.' (You just have to say it in this really thick German accent and then it's funny) And I was like, 'Okay, President, we'll be there.' And so we studied for like ten more minutes, and then he called back and was like, 'Sister Shipton....what are you doing in Frankfurt??' Haha. It was funny. He was like, 'Are you on a split today? You are? I was just sitting here at the airport very confused, and then I wondered if you were confused...but alles klar.' That guy is so cool and funny. I love him.
I am learning to like a lot of things I didn't like before. My next quest is to like tomatoes, because Germans LOOOOVEEE LOVE LOOOOOOOVE tomatoes. Like seriously love tomatoes, and they are in EVERYTHING. I'm trying, but it's super hard because they are disgusting. But the Lord will give me strength! Haha. I'm just a baby, and the Lord knows it, which is why He sent me here to love tomatoes instead of to Africa where I would have to love to eat bugs all day.
So since Sister Wilson and I have been out the same amount of time, my German is really coming a long a lot faster. I used to be able to rely on my other companions because they had been out for a long time and could speak good German, but now that that's not possible, we are really learning fast. It's coming along really well, now, and I feel really comfortable holding a pretty normal conversation with people. I can't believe it's already week four of this transfer!! We both think we'll be staying in Hanau another couple cycles, so we are doing our best to learn everything quickly so we can be more effective.
We are both excited for the Fourth of July this week! Haha, we decorated our planners and bought ground beef to make hamburgers, and we also splurged just a little and bought some corn on the cob. Also a couple weeks ago there were random fireworks in the middle of the night, so we watched them from our window and pretended it was the Fourth of July fireworks, lol. We were hoping some half-American family would invited us over for a barbeque, but I think they've all become too German! It's sooo funny to drive by American military bases, because you can definitely tell they're American. Everyone is out grilling food and playing football and stuff. Hope you all have fun this week. "I normally don't have a burger, a brat, and a steak, but...it is Fourth of July. I need the energy if I'm going to be blowing crap up. It's what the Founding Fathers would want." AMERICA!!!
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