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April 25, 2016 - Leipzig



Hallo!  

This week was pretty great.  On Monday we visited some shops around town which was pretty fun.  We found the American section of the store and not gonna lie, it was kind of really exciting to have baked beans.  Pretty much just because it was something other than casserole packets.  We also went to the DDR shop which was super neat.  They just had a bunch of really old things from DDR times which was pretty cool.  Monday night was also Family Home Evening but it wasn't at the RIZ [institute] and we couldn't find the place so we just went finding downtown instead which I'm really pretty bad at.

Tuesday we didn't do much but we went to institute for the first time which was cool.  I had to play the piano so I just sat on the front row but that was actually a terrible idea because I had no idea what the teacher was saying and all I could do was follow along in the scriptures.  But he kept calling on me to answer questions and stuff and it wasn't very good at all.  But institute is fun and everyone all hangs out and eats food afterward which is so fun to meet and get to know all the kids our age here. 

Wednesday we went and visited our investigator Sophie.  We ended up having a pretty good ping pong tournament with her and her friend.  But I'm actually really terrible at it.  We have also been doing these power visits to get to know the members better where we just share a message and get to know them.  So we had one at Schwester Pfeffer's house but she made a big deal out of it and got cake and cocoa and everything.  She's seriously the cutest.  But it was also awesome because she invited her nonmember friend and she really enjoyed it!  

So Sunday was stake conference in Böhlen.  Saturday night Sister Leavitt and Sister Günter stayed over which was pretty fun.  While we were at Bahnhof with Rene waiting to go to stake conference the Elders had told us to meet a member for them but we didn't know who he was, so Rene decided just to talk to a guy he thought was the right one.  He invited him to stake conference but he had to catch his train in the next ten minutes but it was pretty cool because we looked over and he's giving him a pass along card.  So we went and talked to him and invited him to church on Sunday.  If we would have had more time we would have talked to him. But stake conference was pretty great.  

Well I love you all! Tschüß!  

Leipzig Street

Park Downtown Leipzig

Panorama

On the way to visit Sophie

So American recipes + German ingredients + the metric system don't work. At all.

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Location: Leipzig, Germany

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