Ustach M&M's: M&M Letter #21

November 17, 2012
dear family,

Ok well as you can see today is saturday not monday...dont freak, im not a bad missionary, we are just out of town for p day because we are having an american thanksgiving day in another city. the senior couple there is cooking us turkey and the whole works and we are playing football...american football that is. really cool. so we wont have time for emails on monday so we do them today :)

well this week has been crazy. loads of fun and lots to do. but first notes and such,

Ok so first BIG news!!! we are getting 36 new sisters in may!!! 36!!! thats more than we have in the entire mission right now. so that means that whne they show up every sister has to train and even then there will be an imbalance of golden sisters to older sisters. do we have no clue how its going to work out. maybe it will be 2 golden sisters to one trainer...we have no clue. its scary though. that many new sisters...scary and not 21...19 years old. they are opening 18 new areas!!!! thats a ton. so we are getting atleast one new area here in oldenburg so aht means atleast a new sisters pair and possibly another or another elder pair. thats atleast 4 new misisonaries. crazy stuff. oh and for new things here in oldenburg adn not as far away as may, we will be getting asenior couple here in olenburg. yay!! im really excited for that. it will be nice to have some more non germans in church every sunday.

ok so look up "Ill make a man out of you" in german. the song from mulan...LOL its so funny. "sei ein mann" is what they say instead of be a man but just the way they say it in the song is so funny. another random thing...banana juice is the most amaying liquid on this earth!!! i buy a new bottle of it every other day. i would buy more but i dont have money, well i do but i cant waste it on bana juice. lol. ill send a pic of my favorte kind. maybe its an international brand and i cna buy it at home.

oh question. is there an airforce base american or german new oldenburg? we had fighter jets fly over wednesday and it was realy loud and really low. so idk where they were going or where they came from because i have never heard anything happen in the world that would require a random jets flying over. idk. just wondering if we have an airforce base near us.

could i possibly get nana and papas email address? i would love to email them. ok so dad i already mention the steam loco in emden. it doesnt work but i still got a pic in front of it. i will send it with this email. so sweet. as soon as i saw it i was like ok i need to get a pic in front of it so we did. i also will send of pic of me next to the sailor guy. idk but i wanted a pic with him so i did. kind of funny.

ok so for this week. tuesday...not much, we just found a lot and walked around and went to the munzers house to use their computer for photos and stuff because elder james leaves soon. and badminton was such a blast. i wasnt sick this time so it was so fun. i was sweating to bad because of how hard it was because we were playing against an investigator "martin" who is a badminton pro. he is crazy. wednesday not much. we went on exchange witht he zone leaders which is nothing special because we live together, but it was still good. we went bye this one jewish lady who was really nice. she was really cool and we gave her a book of mormon. she said that she coudknt read it in the first week or even possibly the 2nd but she said she would have it finished in 3 weeks. lol. we were so excitied because even some members cant read it in less than 6 months! lol. needless to say we were stoked for her. that night elder popp made hot chocolate. it was sooo good. it was made from milk, chocolate, and sugar. yes the milk screwed me up that night adn the next day but i didnt care. i wanted deliciousness. i was willing to suffer :) lol. thursday we woke up with ice all over the car, grass and everywhere. it was way cool there were icicles to. no snow yet though. that day we chummed. we had no meetings or apps so we ahd to find to fill the day. we stamped about 2000 cards and went door to door just dropping a card in each mailbox. thats why its called chumming, no real contact but we potentially contact a maximum number of people. it was fun actually and we did talk to a few people asking who we were and waht we were doing. lots of fun. that night we had fog. not just normal fog but really thick fog. it was really creapy. as the sun was going down it got really really cold. like we could feel the temperature change it was so cold. just out of no where and on the horizon we could see clouds coming our way in the sunset. so we were excited because we thought it would be snow. nope. 30 minutes later fog roles in. then it get thicker and thicker and thicker. really creepy. we walked around a little in it and i was soaked when we got back to the appartment from walking in it. crazy stuff.

then today just the transfer call. its a mass conference call with about 110 phone in all becaus every companionship has a phone and we clal call in at once to listen. next transfer they are changing it though and only calling the elders who are getting moved so as to not waste the time of other elders and so to have less drama with everyone knowing who is companions with who and all that stuff. nothing changed except for elder fuller, the elder i live with who is a ZL is getting elder clayton as a new ZL and companion. everyone says he is way cool. lots of fun and a really good missionary. im excited to meet him.

alright well i think thats all for now. no snow yet although its really cold and definetly cold enough for it. i will tell you guys next week how monday goes with thanksgiving. and football. and the new elder in our appartment.

no package yet from dad or from anyone. i think dad sent it 8 days ago? or was it 15 days ago? sorry i cant remember. but no package. hopefully this next week. if it was 8 days ago then tuesday it should come. thats how fast the other got here.

ok thats all she wrote. well i wrote haha. sending some pics now and all is goot until next week. love you all loads.