Crazy Week (Week 13)

Goodbye to Sister Porter

Well..
Highlights:
My new baby (companion) is Sister Courtney Fulton, from
LA/Phoenix/North Carolina! She did 2 years at BYU (made it to 202 in
German), swam there her freshman year, and is super awesome.
Last Pday we got burgers as a district for Elder Draper's last Pday.
Sad day. (The burgers were good and it was super fun). Also, sisters
Porter and Sommerfeld left, so it was a mini goodbye party for
everyone.
At Persian pals last week, Farshid said, "are you ready to train?" I
said no, and he said, "I knew it!!" Haha Farshid.
Sister Porter and I made s'mores at 9:45 on Monday night (we made a
plan to do that this Friday, but then transfers happened and it was
our last chance!) We bought expensive marshmallows and sugarless sugar
cookies and milk a chocolate, and roasted the marshmallows on
chopsticks in our oven. (Totally safe). They were so good and it was a
good last hurrah. I love sister Porter.
Tuesday, Sister Willis and Mogenson and I went to Berlin. (We are all
only 6-weeks old and training new missionaries. And Sister
Lichtenberg, who is now our STL. All the other trainers are older.
Crazy!) some sisters met us there and helped us get to where we were
going (except they put us on the train going in the wrong direction
and so we made it 35 minutes to the end of the line, then 35 minutes
back to Berlin hbh, then 30 minutes to our actual destination.) We
overnighted with sisters there, then went the rest of the way to
Freiberg on Wednesday. After we got our trainees, we went all the way
back to Hamburg... Longest train ride of my life. Probably worse than
the plane from Chicago to Germany. 6 other missionaries (so 8 total)
slept at our apartment and I had to get them all there (and 4 sets of
luggage) = the most stressed I've probably ever been. But we made it.
If you're wondering, the hardwood floor is not super comfortable to
sleep on.
After that, it got much better. I tried really hard to get up
appointments but none of them worked out, so we did a lot of klingling
and contacting.
 Sister Fulton is super motivated and I am so thankful for that! Our
German is about the same level, but her grammar is way better and I
can communicate/understand better (for now). My German has improved
more in the last week than probably the last 12 combined. Haha. I have
felt so so blessed this week. We are together for a reason and He is
helping us. It's going to be a good 6-12 or more weeks.
We had stake conference this weekend. They reorganized the stake
presidency and 2 people from our ward were called to serve (including
our bishop). So there are changes to come.
All is going well. We are in the Lord's hands.
Love you all!
Sister Simpson

S'Mores in the oven

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