Happy Birthday America! 6/30/14

Happy Fourth of July!! When you get there, I mean.

But things this last week were really great. I'll just go day-by-day I guess. I think the closer I am to the end the more boring I feel in my emails. So sorry if they get less exciting the closer it gets. If it's possible for them to get less exciting, lol. I feel way boring whenever I email you guys. But I really love getting updates from you though!! So anyway.

The bike ride was really fun! We rode a lot and I got a comfy bike this time so my booty wasn't sore beyond measure the next day. I was just soooo exhausted afterward. We rode around a forest and there were these like little animal exhibit things and stuff. And a bird park, which was cool. After PDay we went to a members house, and she fed us delicious Turkish food. Sooo good. Tuesday we had investigator appts. Wednesday we randomly got to go on a split with the other Sisters in our district! They have been companions for five transfers as well, so we've all been in the same district for that long. I got to go to Speyer and have an exciting day there which included getting lost for almost two hours and teaching in weird places and then being locked out of our apartment because the other Sisters had the key and weren't answering their phone. But it was good anyway. Thursday was ZOKOOOOO! It was so fun and so sad. We were a little late getting there...oops. But that was the train they told us to take, so it's not as if we were lollygagging or anything. But ZoKo was so good. And so sad. :( Goodbye President Schwartz. It's a bummer I won't have my exit interview with him, but naja. It's okay. I heard the new mission president is really nice. We actually have a ZoKo with him this Wednesday!! So that's exciting. We get to go back to Offenbach!! Woooo! But ZoKo last week was good too cuz I got to see a lot of people I haven't seen in such a long time. Plus I realized that I didn't know a ton of people there because they were all new Goldens. It's weird how you can see the shift. Most of the missionaries I know are dead. Okay not most of them...but a really big chunk have passed on to the other side. So it's weird to see. Also we got to see the Deutschland gegen USA soccer match on Thursday night. Zzzzz...really boring game. I mean I'm not a huge soccer person, but I was expecting more action than THAT. But it's okay--even Sister Lehman was way bored and said the teams were playing really sloppily and slowly. USA lost 0-1, but we still get to advance out of the first round. We'll see how far they make it. Friday was appts and a Relief Society activity. That was fun. Saturday we played soccer and visited some more people, haha. Then Sunday was really good and we had a good time at church with everyone. I'm gonna miss the members so much! I love them.

We're splitting up our PDay today because of times of things, so tomorrow will be the rest of our  PDay. I think we'll buy souvenirs then, so just fyi. I'm not sure exactly what we're doing. Hopefully strawberry hunting. :) It looks way fun. If there's one thing Germany loves, it's strawberries. Also asparagus?? They have this weird obsession with white asparagus, lol. Also as far as the baptism, we pushed it to this week because of scheduling conflicts, and this week works better for pretty much everyone. But we met with her this morning, and she's doing SO solid and is so prepared. She is soooo cool. I love this woman. She's going to be just fine. And she wants to get to the Temple asap. That's so cool. Today during the lesson it was basically her just bearing testimony, lol.

I don't have too much time left here in Germany, so I'm trying to suck it all in. It's been awesome. I'm so happy for July. It's going to be an awesome month!  I think we'll just try to eat hamburgers somewhere or something. Last year I got to go back to Frankfurt on a split and eat delicious hamburgers. It was way fun. And I wore red, white, and blue, and that will definitely be worn on Friday as well.