Happy December!! Yesterday was First Advent here in Germany. They have Four Advents leading up to Christmas. It's the four Sundays before Christmas, and they all have these Christmas wreathes with four candles on them, and every Sunday they will light one and sing Christmas songs. Sister Beck and I made a wreath for a nonmember. I'll have to send the pic next week--luckily it's on Sister Beck's camera! But it's a really cool tradition I think. Also it is now officially Christmas market time!! This PDay I think we'll be going to the one in Frankfurt, which is apparently the best one around. Woooo!
We went to a Young Women activity this week. These young women are soooo cute and awesome. They made cookies for the ward, and the ward members donate money so the girls can buy blankets for the homeless. It was super fun and they are all so cute. We also had Thanksgiving dinner with our RS President. They are way legit. And vegetarian! (like everyone in Germany) So we had potatoes and brussel sprouts for Thanksgiving. But that's okay--it was really good!! Also we sang with that old lady Evangelisch choir. The ward is doing really well out here. Church was so good yesterday! They had the Visiting Teaching conference. And it was awesome! So pretty much visiting teaching is super important. And the testimony meeting was really good, too. This ward is trying so hard to follow the Lord and do missionary work. It's so inspiring. Sometimes I feel like they give away more Book of Mormons than we do! Lol. But that's okay--that's how it should be. I think that's how the Lord wants His work to be hastened--through the efforts of the members. It's so inspiring to see.
This month is going to go by soooo fast. I'm so sad already, haha. It's pretty cold here, too. I dunno if it's as cold as in Vernal...but it's still chilly. And TONS of fog. That is so crazy. Sister Beck and I spent a couple nights last week driving around the wilderness to appointments, and the fog was SO THICK. We couldn't see anything. It was so crazy and sometimes pretty scary. Especially because the roads are soooo tiny here and there are no street lamps in the boondocks and the Germans love driving crazy fast speeds on these tiny little roads. So that was pretty scary. But we are still alive, and the car is too, luckily.
The work is coming along well! And hopefully my German, too...haha. I think I've hit a plateau with it right now--so I need ideas on how I can get better with it. I mean, it's not horrible (hopefully)...but it's not as good as I want it to be. So I'll see what I can do to make that better. Also all my district is gone! I'm sooo sad that they all went somewhere else. But hopefully this new district is just as awesome. I think that's everything I have to tell you for this week. It's been awesome! And ZOKO is coming up in a couple weeks!! (plus like Christmas and stuff...) I love you all a lot and I love the emails!!
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