Monday: It was a crazy pday that is for sure! We had to get
everything done so we could pack on Saturday. Pictures, dry cleaning,
alterations, more German books, etc. Later that night in class we
started district teaching. This is where we teach each other and we
pretend to be investigators. We also mix it up from our companions. My
teacher assigned me with Elder Luening. It was a fun take to teach with
an elder instead of another sister and he is nearly fluent in German so
the pressure was no longer on me. It was fun!
Tuesday: It was an extremely chill day. We only have one class on
Tuesdays and for this week we had a rare day of no German. Yay! haha.
Finally a day with no headache :). After class we had a workshop and a
fireside. Elder Gibbons of the Seventy came. It was kind of boring so I
have nothing to report on it ha.
Wednesday: I got to be a host! This is where you get to show the
brand new sisters around. They get dropped off by their family and you
meet them 30 seconds later. I only had 2 girls on Wednesday to host. My
first was Sister Wild from London. She is 30 and going to Bulgaria! She
was a sweetheart but ended up being every host''s worst nightmare haha.
After getting all of her packets I escorted her to her room to put her
luggage down. I told her she needed to bring scriptures and paper for
her next part of the day. She walked over to her bags to get the
materials but stopped.....and fell to the floor......bawling. She had
just finished telling me earlier how she cant handle how Americans are
always wanting to hug her. Well shoot.....I have that running through my
mind and I have a pile of sister Wild on the floor, those two don't
mix! After 20 minutes of us talking and calming her down, we were
finally able to get her to class where she needed to be. Now that I look
back on it, it's pretty finny. Needless to say, I was a little
frightened for what the second sister would bring. Her name was Sister
Pehrson. She is a BYU graduate from Ohio. She is 24 and stellar! We have
actually become really good friends here, I am sure I will see her
after the mission. She is so cute and thankfully didnt bring me any
added tears that day! Hosting was a blast!
Thursday: This was our last normal day of class......crazy! We
taught Andraes for the last time! He got baptized on Saturday. (not
really because they are fake investigators but you know still cool!) It
was my first lesson that I didn't even speak one English word! That's
right....straight German no English fillers! Such a breakthrough! We
also had a 3v3 basketball tournament with all the sister.....yep the
fierce German sisters swept it.
Friday: We had in-field orientation on Friday. That is where you go
from 8am to 9:20pm just in different hecka long presentations. There
was a lot of really good things taught and said but it was a VERY long
day of sitting.
Saturday: I started out with a half of a P-day to get all packed.
We did all of our laundry and got on to weighing our bags praying for
them to be under 50lbs. After that we had 6 hours of class to complete
our day. We finished what is called the "dooms day of German" because of
how hard the concepts are to grasp. I understood it all :) such a
miracle! We spent a few hours with each teacher just asking questions
and drilling them about what to expect when we get to Germany. Not only
did that happen, but we took the dreading grammar assessment. Only this
time, the result wasn't so awful. I got a 33 and scored higher than a
lot of people in my zone! Seriously to go from 0 to 30 in 6 weeks is
such a miracle! Especially since I am the only one besides my companion
that had less than 3 years previous experience! My teacher who is
considered the best speaker only got an 85! That made me feel so much
better about where I sit with German. It was such a fun day!
I seriously can't believe that the next letter I will write will be
from Germany! Ah! So stoked! I am going to so sad to leave all the
friends I have made here though, but I know I have more friends waiting
for me in Germany :). Thank you all for all the prayers, love, and
support throughout the last 6 weeks of my mission....it has been felt. I
am so nervous to embark on my 26hr trip to Germany because as we say
here....life is going to get real real, real fast ha. Until next Monday,
peace!
-sister linford
once again my address will now be:
Germany Berlin Mission
Sister Jessica Linford
Zerbster Strasse 42
12209 Berlin
Germnay
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