Cassidy Nichole: Monday February 16, 2015 Halle, Germany

Familie!!! Hallo! To answer some questions, Yes, after we were done eating at the African guy’s house we just got up and came out! It was awkward, but I’m pretty used to awkward by now! Dad, I am getting your music. Thank you! It is adding a good variety. I have found use for my semi-piano skills.... I should have practiced more. I play for the Relief Society every week because no one else can play that doesn't have a primary calling. Not a lot of members can play, but a few can. I am SO excited for Savannah!!! And also Jared! I knew he would go to Taiwan! He will be great! And also Rachel! And.... I'm SO SO excited that Natalie and Ricky are moving right next to us!! Let’s do something really cool with our back yards! Ah! SO exciting!

So, Montag: We emailed, and then Sister Lisonbee got a coat just like mine, because mine is SO warm. But hers is green.

Dienstag: We had a plan to go by on some less actives in Wolfen, a small Dorf, (not to be confused with dwarf) so, we bought our tickets and were on our way. On our ticket it said our stop was Wolfen (Bitterfeld). The () usually mean that we go through that stop to get to our stop that we need. (At least that’s what sister Lisonbee thought!) So we get to a stop that says Bitterfeld. I feel like we need to get off, but sister Lisonbee reassured me that our stop should be in just a few more and that Bitterfeld isn't our stop. Long story short about an hour later the train guy says...."Wittenberg! This is the last stop, please everyone get off"(except, he said it in German) So... we get off, SO confused. Called Elder Silver because he's our District leader and we didn't know what to do, and we felt like we shouldn't be there. So we called and asked if Wittenberg is in our area! "You are where?!" Was his response! Wittenberg is not in our area! So...we kaufed a ticket back to Wolfen. We got to Wolfen finally!! We found a map at the post office, weird right? But I felt like that’s where they would have one, so we went there and the lady just gave us her personal one. So come to find out the less actives actually like live 3 hours away by foot and we had one hour until our train back to Halle came. So we just went finding. We checked the train time back to Halle and the train came on time. However... 30 minutes later we hear Leipzig. What!?!? Again...that is NOT in our area!! How did we get on a train to Leipzig? We have no idea! But we had to call the Zone leaders twice that day because we were out of our area! Elder Thorly just laughed and told us to get back to Halle! We gladly did that!

Mittwoch: We had a lesson with David! He's doing great! Learning Deutsch really fast! We talked to him about the Holy Ghost. He is awesome! We also got re-invited to Ward Council. I guess Sister Lisonbee's last companion got mad at the ward or something so we got kicked out! But...I guess they trust us now because we were invited back. It was good to be a part of it.

Donerstag: We met with an investigator Jessica to try to help her with her family history. She is awesome! But has no real interest in anything other than family history! We are working on it!

Freitag: We went to Leipzig for Zone training meeting and interviews! President is amazing! He did like 250 interviews in 2 weeks! A few things our Zone needs to work on is 9am bis (to) 9pm Deutsch! Exercising (except for I do that every day because I need to! I'm pretty sure I’ve gained a couple pounds... ugh!) But President wants us to run a 5k three times a week! Yep! Three times a week! In a half an hour at 6:30 in the morning! He told us we complain about it being cold, but that he will take us to Siberia and show us cold! So...we agreed to go running here! During interviews I also found out that Sister Lisonbee and Elder Silver will be leaving Halle next week! :( SO SO sad!!!

Samstag: We went running this morning! I don't know if we did a 5k! But we went running! We also had the Supe Kitchen! There is a lady there who loves us and always volunteers when we do. This day she asked us a lot of questions about what we believe, so that was cool to share with here while serving. We are going to invite her to church next time. We then had an appointment with Trang! I teach her piano for 15 minutes and then we have a lesson. She's so cute and just got a calling in the primary. Then we did weekly planning.

Sonntag: We went to church. David was there and he told us he read every day this week and prayed every day, and has been praying about the Book of Mormon! AH! Yes!! Then we ate at the church with a few other members that don't have families. We then went by on some less actives! And we talked to at least 30 people! That was our goal for that day!

Today is a holiday here. Not sure what it is...it’s called Rosen Montag, it has something to do with spring! Anyway...people are dressed up and loud music all over the city! Weird!

Love you guys so much! You guys look like you had fun this week! I did get your package right in time for Valentine’s Day! I missed our dinner! But hey! Those hand warmers work SO well! They are so cool!!

Thanks for all you do! Love you so much!

-Sister St. John