6-10-13

I am getting transfered! Surprise! (6-10-13)

I am going to a place called Forst. It is to the right of Cottbus (Cottbus is south,southeast of Berlin, north of Dresden). I'm gonna be right on the Polish border. :P I will also be serving with my favorite Missionary, best Mission friend Elder Thorkleson. I am so very excited. X) (try searching for him on the current mission blog and on the old one, should be able to find pics (old one:http://germanyberlinmission.blogspot.de/)) We are whitewashing in. That means we have both never been there before. We are stoked.

Whitewashing doesn't happen all that often. Forst is really pretty. :) Small and nice, and the ward is really big for Germany, and for how small the town is. I haven't noticed a pollish accent at all, but they have a bit of a Sechsisch accent here. Not too bad though. (About the same as in/as bad as Köthen, but with a bit less influence from the Berlin area.

The ward is wonderful. They are very good to us, good about joint teaches, and all very active, strong members. When they found out that my birthday was coming up, a family approached us and told us that we now had an appointment with them that evening. :P Was funny. Excited for that. And to bake my cake that day. :)

Elder Thorkelson and I are both rather musical, so we are planning on doing some musicl numbers together for the ward and for missionary meetings.

Oh! There is a senior couple in our District that keep a blog: thegorlitzdistrict.blogspot.com.  Görlitz is the name of the city where the couple is serving, and where the District Leader is. We have district meetings at the couple's house. Because the District Leader is in Görlitz, we call the District: District Görlitz. The couple's name is Bauman.

I used to go to bakeries more in Berlin. I love getting the simple jelly-filled doughnuts (often called Berliners) and another pastry that is wide and flat and dense and has crumbs and drizzled glaze on the top. :)

Those really are their staples. Bread, meat, cheese. They don't eat it for every meal, but it is a common thing. And they have enough variety in those categories, that it doesn't get boring. :) It's kinda like how often we eat sandwiches for lunch. They do bread meat and cheese, and eat it for dinner.