March 31st!!
Maaaannnn how? I was actually
way nervous for March because there wasn't too much going on except Zone
Conference, so I thought it was going to drag on, but it's seriously gone by
faster than like...all the other months. Except maybe December. But still, it's
over already! It was soooo nice last week. Again, cardigan weather! Today we
wanted to have a picnic on the river with the other Sisters in our district,
but we woke up to overcast skies...We'll see what we end up doing, haha. The
Zone went down to Heidelberg again to see the castle (AGAIN snoorreee been
there done that). Okay that's probably mean...but seriously, every PDay the
Zone plans is like HEIDELBERG SCHLOSS! Also since Sister Lehman and I don't
have tickets to go down there we were like...yeah no. And one of the other
Sisters already served in Heidelberg so they were more than happy ditching that
PDay with us and making up our own, haha. Conveniently, the Zone Leaders serve
in Heidelberg so they don't have to travel/pay personal money to get
there...how convenient...haha.
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| Staying together for another transfer! |
Sister Lehman is staying here
at least one more transfer. We were positive she was leaving. Wooooo no
changes! Two three-transfer comps right in a row! No, it's way good. I love
Sister Lehman so much. We're actually waaaay happy with how it turned out. Also
I have this suspicion that I'm going to die here in Mannheim. I mean, when
Sister Lehman leaves I'll only have two transfers left, and I still have to
introduce someone to the area, so that's only one transfer. So unless they
randomly ship me off to somewhere for a random six weeks...which is unlikely
and weird and doesn't make sense...I think I'm dying here. Another five
transfers in one area! That's okay. I can totally do that. It goes by waaaaaay
fast.
Interesting things that happened
this week...hmm. Oh yeah. So guess what was this week?? Zeitumstellung.
Daylight Savings. And guess who were misinformed? Oh yeah we were. We knew it
was the weekend, but we weren't sure if it was Saturday night or Sunday night
that we were supposed to change the clocks, so I called our District Leader and
like triple-checked with him and he assured me that it was Sunday night. PS it
wasn't. So we were heading to church the next morning and were like, 'Hmmm, how
strange...the Elders aren't getting on the train with us.' And then it was
stranger and stranger. Then we saw the time on the bus. Yaaaay an hour late to
church! Even better because it was ward conference so we had a ton of Stake
visitors. Totally being an example. lol. Mostly the ward members just laughed
at us. Oh well. You would think that the Elders would have called us when we
weren't at church by 9:30...again, 19 year-old boys, haha. One of them is dying
this week. He's finished with his mission. It's weird to see him go.
I had a split this last week,
too. That was fun! Got to have a nice train ride up to Darmstadt and back. Oh
yeah the train had a delay of around 45 minutes when we were trying to get
home. That was way great, standing in the cold in Darmstadt and waiting for our
train. Deutsche Bahn!! Bane of our existence. Speaking of more Deutsche Bahn
bane of our existence, remember when I told you that the mission took away our
really, really nice train tickets and gave us little stupid ones? Last PDay as
we were heading to go hang out with our district, the people come to check our
tickets, and we were just a little nervous because we were not totally positive
that our tickets covered all the way out there. I mean we were like 99% sure,
but still...Anyway, we had some shifty eyes apparently, because the mean one
came over and asked to see our tickets, and then he started ranting about a
blue card and how our tickets weren't valid. And I was like, 'I have no idea
what you're talking about. No one has said anything to us about it.' He said
that our tickets needed like some special number from a blue card, and I told
him that we've had these tickets for almost an entire month and literally not
one single person (including other ticket checkers) has said anything. And he
was like, 'Pech gehabt. 40 Euro.' So. Rude. Most of the time the ticket
checkers are pretty nice and understanding, but that guy was having a bad day.
Anyway, he gave us these little crumpled-up papers for us to fill out our
information, and I was really mad and wasn't listening to what he was saying,
so I was writing down my info, and then later Sister Lehman and I were mad and
talking about it, but then we realized that we had both put down like way bad
info, lol. I assumed it was asking for my USA info, so I put down 'Alison
Shipton, birthplace: Roosevelt, Utah, USA.' Then it asked for the street and I
was like...I have no idea what street the hospital is on. So I wrote down
'Hospital.' Then we gave the slips back and got off the train cuz it was
finally our stop. Hahahahahaaaa. I don't know if you think it was funny, but we
were talking to our district about it and just laughed all day. Basically I
don't think they'll be able to find us, because I gave them Hospital, Roosevelt
as my address, and Sister Lehman isn't registered in Mannheim, plus her last
name is super common here...so...woops! So we went to the Deutsche Bahn travel
office and told them the story so we wouldn't get ticketed again, and they just
like pulled out this little blue card and gave it to us, simple as that.
Grrrr!!! NO ONE told us, not the office elders, not the other Deutsche Bahn
people...no one. But I guess we know now, plus I doubt that that 40 Euro ticket
will find its way over to Hospital, Roosevelt.
We had a really, really, busy week again. On
Saturday we played soccer again, and a bunch of German YSAs from the university
came and played with us. It got waaaay intense...Mostly I just watched, haha.
Luckily Sister Lehman is really good at soccer, and a companionship is a 50-50
relationship, so basically 50% of her playing was from me, too. We are way
stoked to stay together another transfer. I can't believe it!! The Gospel is really what makes us happy, for reals!!
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