We got up at 5:30 this morning because we'll be heading off to Nürnberg in a couple hours for our PDay. Five hours on a train! But it'll be worth it, cuz it's Bavaria, and at the rate I'm going, I'm never getting out of Hessen. Which is fine, because Hessen is LEGIT. There's going to be a way awesome Christmas market, and we're going to hang out with our awesome district all day, so it's gonna be good.
It's definitely not as cold over here as in Vernal. Thank goodness! And no snow. Just a lot of cold gray days. But the Christmas spirit keeps our hearts warm!! Haha, how was that?? I'm pretty poetic. It's been a crazy, good, long, amazing week! Lots of miracles. We have so many hopes for this transfer! And Zone Conference is this week! YAAAAY! We're stoked. Also we have a split this week too. That's going to be way fun. Christmas in Germany is so fun here--a little too fun. I haven't weighed myself in about...a month. I'm way too terrified. I don't think I'll touch the scale until the end of January, when the season is over and I've had a couple weeks to try to work it all off. But it's getting really hard to get up in the mornings because it's so cold and dark! I just want to curl up into a nest and hibernate sometimes.
Our ward had a Christmas potluck yesterday. That was so fun! I love this ward so much. Also they feed me too much food. But that's okay, it's their way of showing love sometimes. I made pumpkin cookies with the pumpkin I bought. It was way fun. I think they were delicious. I don't know how they liked them, but I made a huuuuuge plate and they were all gone at the end of the potluck, so hopefully people enjoyed them. I couldn't make pie because there is no such thing as a pie tin here, and the recipe I had called for evaporated milk, and I couldn't find that at the store last week. Anyway. The driving is good here. I got my German drivers license a couple months ago. They stole my US license! That's okay. We just drive on the Autobahn all day. Sometimes it's really scary. They have these things called blitz boxes here. Basically they have this horrible-looking box that's next to the road, and if you're speeding there's this flash of horrible light, and they take a picture of your license and a picture of your face, and then they just mail a speeding ticket to the address the car is under. Horrible, right?? Once upon a time I got blitzed...it was bad. But not too bad because the fine wasn't too bad. Basically we need to slow down. Sister Beck has been blitzed too. They're everywhere!! And sometimes they paint the boxes to blend in with the background or hide them behind signs. Isn't that mean?? We're trying to be careful now.
So I guess the big news here is that our bathroom is COMPLETELY kaputt. It just like exploded everywhere. Not really. Well, the toilet has been dumb ever since I moved into that apartment over six months ago. It just leaks water all over the floor. No big deal, we can deal with that. So we called the landlord and he came to fix it, but then it broke again, and we're like whatever, we have no time to deal with this. But then a week or so ago Sister Beck got really angry at the shower, because it was clogged up just a little bit. Not like too bad, but seven months' worth of Sister hair sometimes will do that to a shower, yaknow? So she got all fired up and bought some Drano at the grocery store and dumped that sucker down the drain. And then it was BAD. The Drano was a devil. So I took a shower, and the water was like almost up to my knees. So we waited about two or three hours, and then it hadn't gone down, so I had to bucket out all that nastiness into the toilet so Sister Beck could shower. Then she showered, and we left ALL DAY. We were probably gone six or seven hours, we come back, and NOOO the water is still there. It's gone down maybe...an inch. Probably less. So we bucket out that nastiness too. Just to see if the Drano was the cause of all this, I put some in the bathroom sink. BAD IDEA. The bathroom sink decided it hated Drano too and became a crazy water-collecting devil as well. So we put a bucket underneath the sink and I pull the pipe out of the wall. Oh man...my eyes are burned from what came out of that pipe. That was pretty gross. And when I say gross, I mean like...no one ever needs to see that. So then we call the district leader and we're like...yeah, nothing in our bathroom works, and he's like, call the office elders, and we're like...they won't help us. So we do, and we tell them to story, and they're literally like, 'That's a nice story. Call us back when you've called the landlord and he's done something about it.' Click. Also in the meantime we have bought a plunger and Sister Beck has probably spent about two hours plunging that sucker, and all I hear most of the time is like hysterical praying, but that doesn't help at all. So we call the landlord, he comes, looks, is horrified, and is like...I can't fix this right now. So he left and hasn't called back. So basically we've been showering in the sink for a week. Yeah, that's right. I got pictures to prove it. Sink shower time!! Hopefully it'll all be fixed. Soon.
We are now at a creepy internet cafe in Nürnberg. Nürnberg is SICK. It is so legit. I have no time here, either, but just so you know I got a ton of cool pics and will try to send them next week. We're having so much fun, and I've seen sooooo many missionaries today. It's a party here in Nürnberg right now. So fun!!
