So monday was the last p-day in berlin. it was great! we got burritos with the sisters and wichian. one of their gators. we then went to the zoo!!! i have been waiting 7 months to go to the berlin zoo and it was so cool. i love the zoo. we saw so many cool animals and had a lot of fun. we then had some fallen out appointments so we just went home to pack and elder jon could sleep because he was still a little sick.
tuesday we went to the bahnhof and met other missionaries there. took some pics and then elder jon and some other elders and sisters put me on a train. elder jon almost got stuck on it with me. haha. the sisters and elder jon all ran along the train waving as i was leaving. i got a compartment seat which was nice. the train was super empty. i just wrote letters the entire time. to anxious to sleep. I finally arrived in leipzig to find the zone leaders, one of them being my old friend from the mtc. elder whitehad. then sister jensen and i got on a train to zwickau. there we met our companions and then we all got on another train to shwarzenberg. a long day and it was only 3 in the afternoon. we got home and organized and shopped and then went to ward mission councel. It was really good. we have a super old ward mission leader, but he is supportive and an assistant who is an RM of 2 years. really cool guy. We have good chances to work with him.
wednesday was district meeting. i met the district which was cool. its deffinetly a lot different than my last district. this one is very ...odd. jsut odd missionaries in it. haha. We had lunch together and then E homan and i went home to study and then went finding in AUE. that is where we live. very cool city. they have a soccer team there. im going to get some fan stuff from them. The stadium is right next to our house. We had no luck as we talked to people on the street but it was fun. i got to know the city really well. that night we had FHE at the church which was a blast. just a bunch of old people. lots of fun.
thursday we had just a lot of time finding the entire day. we went out to a city called schneeberg. or "snowy mountain" in english. its a cool town up in the higher mountains. well, higher than aue. they have a huge church there.
friday was good, we had weekly planning which went well and then we went to visit an innactive and also to go to english class. a member bought us döners because we helped him clean the church. that was nice.
saturday was bockau day. we went to a small town called bockau and went dooring. after that we went to sosa. you should really look at a map and see all the towns we go to in a week and how small they are. haha. we had fun and got some good pictures of the hills and mountians. we had our first session of conference that night. it was great. we had to watch it in german though.
sunday was conference day! we were at the church the entire day and at a members house for food. it was a great day.
well the area is like lauenburg becuase of all the tiny towns all over the plac. they are all spread out because they used to all be old mining towns. we are in the area of germany called "erzgeberge". This is where all the handmade wooden stuff comes from. its a very old and traditional part of germany. a lot of stories of dragons and knioghts and stuff here. the reason its called schwarzenberg is because back in the day a dragon would always come to the town and burn everything. all of the hills and town. finally a mighty knight killed the dragon, but now the rocks are black...seriously. the rocks are black. hence "schwarzenberg" or in english "black mountain". cool stuff. they have some cool train stuff here as well so i am excited. just tons of hills and valleys here. i will definetly lose weight. we walk so much. just up and down HUGE hills all day. we run 3 days a week as well, also up and down hills. my calves will be huge after 18 weeks here. haha.
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