Friends are Friends are Forever . . .Right?

Lunch with Sis. Hart (Elder Hart took the picture

(Christmas) Breakfast with Zeynep and Caroline (Zeynep is on the left

next to Sis. Knutson)

 This week was really fast, and really long. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday morning flew by. But Thursday day, Friday, and Saturday dragged on for what felt like forever. Even Elder Clawson agreed. I'm pretty sure it had something to do with Sister Knutson leaving. Which she did. She is now home and it's weird. I miss her so much. So much more than I thought I would. And taking over the area is way hard. And having a new companion is super weird and then it's even weirder because she goes home at the end of the transfer in six weeks and basically this week was super stressful. But Sunday was awesome, and I love our ward and our Zone Leaders are super cool and life is fantastic. It's stressful, but it's good.

Stuff that happened this week was that Sis. Knutson went home. And Sis. Montgomery came! Also, we ended up four missionaries in one companionship for a day! That was a party. Sis. Riser sent her companion, Sis. Peterson, off to Dortmund so she spent the day with us before going to Frankfurt the next day. But the same day we said good bye to Sis. Peterson, we picked up Sis. Montgomery! It was super crazy, but it was a lot of fun. And companionship study the next morning was really cool with four people all at once. :)

Me and Elena

After that.... Not much has happened. We've had a lot of weird appointments fall out this week. Weird meaning that appointments that almost never fall out, fell out. It left me feeling like I wasn't doing enough and that I must be doing something wrong because these things never happen. At least, I felt like they wouldn't have happened if Sis. Knutson were still here. But, I know that there is a reason and it's not that I'm not doing my part. We have done so many go-boy's the last few days and (tried to) do so much contacting. Neither Sis.Montgomery or I are very good at that. It's good, though. It just means we get to work on it some more. Anyways, long story short, we are going to be fine. I am going to be fine. It is incredibly tough. But it's going to work. I am literally on Heaven's side and working for good. No matter what happens, everything will work out because we are missionaries called to teach the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. And that's pretty darn cool. :)

I love you all. I'm sorry this letter is so short. I'll add some pictures to make up for it. I'm behind on sending those anyways. We're going to the Dokumentationszentrum today and I remembered my camera this time so hopefully I'll get some really awesome pictures. I love you! Have a fantastic day!

Love Always,
Sis. John

P.S. Sis. Montgomery pointed out that there is a post office like, 1.5 minutes from our apartment. We're going to try and get some stamps today during our copious amounts of free time. :P