Cassidy Nichole: Monday January 12, 2015 Halle, Germany

A Week Before Transfers

Montag- Chocolate Factory!! SOO cool! Except we picked the worst day to go because there was another holiday! Everyone has to take like 3 days off for holidays. So there wasn't a tour and also no samples. But we did spend like 30 € on chocolate! Woops... ha! And we accidently bought sour chocolate! What?! It had like sour sugar stuff on the outside and it was interesting!

Deinstag- We had an appointment with Frau Hellwig fall out. Sad....I hope she really will meet with us next week. Oh! And this day was the real holiday. It was the Heilige drei-Königen (3 wise men) holiday. Which means everything is closed and the bahns only run like every hour! Ugh! And it made it hard for us to go finding because no one was out! We did get to eat with the Müllers and we ate TACOS!!! With hot sauce!! Ah!! So so good!!!

Mittwoch- We had a cool opportunity today to do some service for people in the Middle East! These Syrian people gathered clothes and bedding and stuff throughout the month and what we did, is move it from the like 5th floor of this building into a big semi-truck! Pretty cool and it took like all day! I was really sore the next day. We did take a break though and taught David! Oh he's SOO cool!! He is so excited to learn. He had Deutsch class before we had our lesson and he was really excited to show us what he has been learning. We taught him the plan of salvation or happiness. We also found out a few words in French and tried to say them so we could help him to understand what we were teaching! Gift of Tongues is real! Ha! Also, normal Markt Platz is here. There is like 20 food trucks there! So cool!!

Donnerstag- like 1 million people called us today and we had to re-plan our day like 7 times! We also did weekly planning for the next week this day so we were in our apartment for a lot of the day! I hate weekly planning. I just want to be out of the apartment. It also rained SO hard as soon as we were left the apartment. I was soaked!! But warm because of my coat! We also got in contact with Frau Hellwig! But she was eating...so she wouldn't let us in! Ha!

Freitag- We went to DRESDEN again for a zone/mission tour! We got to hear from Elder Kopischke (something like that) and his wife and our President and his wife! I LOVE when we have conferences! One of my favorite things that was said was that we don't take credit for our success, and we also don't take the blame for our failure! I love that, because even though I know that numbers aren't what shows our success it still is nice to see a little success!

Samstag- We had soup kitchen today with the nun who doesn't like me very much because I can't understand her! She is very German to say the least! However, there was another lady there this day and she was SO nice! She asked us all about what we do here. Pretty cool! Also, our appointment with Abdull fell out! He wasn't home! He's the one on Tauf Datum! Sad! Cause now he isn't going to be baptized on the 24th! We also got our transfer call. I'm staying here with Sister Lisonbee! (YES!) The Elders stay also! We get a new Elder in our distrikt though!

Sonstag- We had church and David was there again! AND...He asked if there was any other meetings for church that he could come to! Who asks that?! So we told him about Priesthood! He's Golden to say the least! After church we went to the Jentzchs! (Bishops familie) We had rice and gravy, because people LOVE their gravy! While here I’ve become a huge fan of mushrooms! They eat them a lot here, and they are HUGE! Ok, but my favorite part of eating there was that I asked Bishop about his guitars because he’s the one with like 50 guitars! He got SO SO excited and told me the history of a bunch of his guitars! Dad....I really found your best friend in Deutschland! He told me to bring you to his house so he could talk to someone who was interested in guitars! K, you should look up the history of guitars in Germany and Europe! Also, there is a music museum in Leipzig! Look it up! Also, I have an idea! You should send me some of your music over email! Please please please send me any of them that aren’t romantic! That would be great! Thanks!!

Well, not much time left! I'll send you some pics! Love you so so much!!

Sister St. John