It's been a really cool week, and I have plenty of pics to accompany it, I think. Starting off with the usual weather bit, it was SO NICE these past couple days. I carried around my jacket mostly, and felt really nice in my cardigan and not-so-thick tights. Apparently this is one of the warmer areas of Germany, which is perfectly fine with me. I haven't worn my giant black coat in like two whole weeks. Wooo!! That's exciting. I will gladly mow the lawn when I get home, though...I miss mowing lawns, haha. Germany isn't too big on stand-alone houses, and even then their lawns are a lot of the time mostly landscaping with not a lot of grass. I mean there are always exceptions, but that's a lot of what I see. Anyway, on to the past week of my mission!
PDay last week was REALLY fun. After we emailed we found our district in a restaurant, and a couple of Elders had ordered SUPER spicy currywurst. Currywurst is basically cut up sausage with sauce and fries, and it's pretty good. Anyway, they ordered some that is way way WAY spicy, and to order it you have to be at least like 18 I think and have to sign a waiver. So that was really funny. I ate one piece. It was SPICY. I can do spicy usually, especially here in Germany where they DON'T do spicy...but that was really, reaaaallly bad spicy. Haha. I thought I had burned a hole through my tongue. The spicy level went 1-8, and the Elders had ordered a level 6. Sister Lehman got some really good action shots of them eating the last few bites, haha. THEN a lot of the Elders conquered another one of their fears and rode the Ferris Wheel!! Good for them, lol. It was waaaay fun. They were really scared, poor little guys, haha!! We rode the Ferris Wheel then went and walked around the booths and carnival. I ate probably too much...but it was all delicious, except the Dampfnudeln. It's a local specialty here, and it's just like salty bread. Most people really like them. I didn't like them as much, even with the sauce. But I ate enough other delicious stuff to make up for it. It was a really fun PDay, and it was fun to hang out with our district again. Fasching WAS really intense. The Mannheim Elders were out for a little bit on Tuesday night, which was the huge party night, and they said it was just like a wall of people drinking and puking and partying...wooo, fun. Sister Lehman and I were headed home around 5:30, and the trains were already picking up crazy drunk people in costume on their way to the Innenstadt to party. We were safely tucked away Tuesday night, and we made a lot of plans AND made cinnamon rolls. Those are such a pain...never again!! But they tasted really good, even though we didn't have proper brown sugar. But it was a really fun night, even more fun that being attacked by drunk people! (which happened to us again a couple days later at like 4:00 in the afternoon...Germany, what??)
Way stoked for ZOKO next week! ZoKos are super, super fun! They're basically this all-day spiritual feast where President just gives these awesome lessons plus makes his cute little German jokes and sometimes shows us funny clips from Finding Nemo, and then we have delicious lunch together and get to see all of our old friends from old areas/zones (or old companions!!!), and then we go back and have more themas, and it's really fun and sometimes we get to travel to places! Like this time it'll be in Frankfurt, so I get to go back. Yessss.
ALSO we did go back to Frankfurt on Saturday! The other Sisters in our district and we took a quickly-planned trip to the temple in Friedrichsdorf. That was soooo fun and really good. WE SAW THE NEW SESSION. It was amazing. It was sooooooo cool. I cried pretty much the whole time, lol. I learned so much. It was amazing!! It's all I've been thinking about the past couple days. I want to go back so badly and see it again. Anyway, it was the highlight of our week. The temple was much needed, and it was so fun to hang out with other Sisters for a while.
And for the German scriptures, they give us a set the day we enter the MTC, so I have a set of German scriptures. They don't have any quads or anything, but they do have a triple, so I have a German triple and a big red German Bible, haha.
It was a really great week and I guess I had a lot to say. Things are going really well over here. I'm so blessed and happy to be where I am, even if it's really hard. Mannheim is a city of miracles! I know this is where the Lord wants me to be right now. I love you all so much and hope you have a great week. Thanks for everything!!
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