Monday May 18, 2015 Stadthagen, Germany

I’m apologizing right now...this letter will be short! I will make up for it next week. But GUESS WHAT?!  We are closing our area! SO sad! To say the least it was kind of like leaving my home ward...sad. But...WE GET TO STAY TOGETHER!!!! If you can’t tell... I’m excited! And we are whitewashing in Gera. A city in the new Erfort area of our mission! President Kosak’s nephew is going to be our bishop! The interesting thing is that we are taking over an Elder’s program. So we come in both not knowing anything and also living in an Elder’s old apartment! We also have to get almost everything out of our apartment! (Sisters leave EVERYTHING when they go home!) It has been a pain, and some very late nights since we found out only on Friday. I’m very excited though! I don’t know why President trusts us to do this, but I guess the Lord qualifies his servants for the work right? 

This week has just been crazy! We handed off our investigators to the Hannover Sisters, and to our Elders. We met with Elmis, He had TONS of questions! It was cool! He said he would read the Book of Mormon in 2 days. He came to church and sat by the Elders. Turns out...he read the whole book, in 2 days! Who does that?! What a golden investigator! The elders will do good with him! Also, we got a referral from the buro, went by on her! She was friends with some members (do your member work!) and she wanted a Book of Mormon! She has 2 girls! Sad that we don’t get to teach her! But fun that we got a referral! There is not much to update other than that! I have a lot of pics to send! And they are all worth a thousand words! 

PS. we have 4 member appointments today, and one of them is taking us to a castle! That will be fun! 

Love you!! Hope you have a great week! Thanks for your emails and pics! Oh! And tell Savannah that the weather here is really nice! I usually just have to wear a cardigan. No tights. Sometimes it rains, but not often! It’s like in the 60's! 

Love, Sister St. John 

Note from Mom: There was recently some realigning between the two missions in Germany. The Berlin, Germany mission received a few cities that are at the bottom of this map and make up the new Leipzig Sud area. This was especially exciting because Cassidy's Mission President's father and siblings all live in this area! Cassidy will be in the "pink" area in the city Gera.

 Our apartment. Don't judge. We are a mess these few days.

Sister Peters & us.

Some of the young men. 

Typish German! Last P-Day was fun!