Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Monday January 18, 2016 Hamburg, Germany

Monday January 18, 2016

Hallo!!! Well.... this email is going to be a little different today because I don't have a lot of time... and also cause Ich hab einfach keine lust. I don't really want to write a huge long email today. I'm exhausted. 

So. This week we had Tausch again. The Kiel sisters came to us, they both stayed in our tiny apartment. I went with Sister Cady and we had a blast trying to navigate ourselves around Hamburg. We met with a few less actives. It was cool because the missionary department now wants everyone that goes on tausch to come to the leader’s area because we are supposed to have a "model" area. (Key word supposed to) and so that's why the sisters came to our area! It also made it so we got to have a double booked day. We got to go to lessons at the same time. Sister Cady and I went to YW's while Sister Sorensen and Sister Kemsley went to institute! It was good. Also, we had an appointment with a less active and when we walked in she had an AMERICAN basketball game on! Carolina and Syracuse I believe! I have never been so tempted to tell someone to just leave the TV on during our appointment!!  But...I decided to ask her to turn it off. 

We also had Sister Garcia and Sister Reed came and slept over because they came to the Spanish talent show! This is one reason I'm way tired. We stay up way too late "pillow talking" when sisters are here. And we have sisters over ALL the time! It's fun! Just tiring!

While the sisters were over on Friday night Sister Sorensen got a call from President. He called her to be the new Sister Training Leader Trainer in Berlin. (They are basically Sister AP's. They go to all the conferences, important meetings...etc.) And she had to be there on Sunday night for a meeting. So, she had 1 day to pack and say goodbye. :( I was really sad! But I will get a new comp. on Tuesday. She's from Germany and I love her!! She was my sister Training leader for a while when I was in Gera! She goes home in 6 weeks so I will be sending her home! I am also the ONLY sister Training leader in the companionship! So that's also something new and interesting! 

Also, a lady from Turkey called us and wants us to teach her kids English! So we had a little English class and the kids were so cute and well behaved! They are 2 boys about 7 and 9. It was one of my favorite parts of the week! 

This week the Elders had a baptism! Koroush from Iran! It was probably my favorite baptism that I’ve ever seen! He has had to wait a few months for visa reasons to get baptized and he was SO happy that he could finally be baptized!!! I was so happy for him! 

I’m going into the last 12 weeks of my mission and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I dropped off 2 sisters at the train station today that are going home and I almost cried just thinking that I will be doing that soon. I try not to think about it too often though!  

I watched the CES devotional from Elder Nelson this morning and it was amazing!! I love how much we can learn from just an hour of an apostle teaching. He does something really cool at the end of his devotional. He says that he blesses everyone who listens to the devotional as if he has his hands on our heads. It always amazes me how powerful the priesthood is! 

Sorry my email was all over the place today! But I love you all and I hope you have a good week! Pray that Sister Kronwitter and I will have a great week and that we can find our way around this huge city!! 

Liebe Grüße, Sister St. John

 Hadi and Koroush!
 The ward missionaries and a YSA who really likes us. She liked our song we sang on Christmas Eve and called us the hipster band. Hence the "hipsterish" photo!
 Spanish talent show night!
 Only in Hamburg!
 Me with Sister Garcia! We roomed together in the MTC!
Sisters at the Spanish night!

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