Hey, how are ya?? (name that movie...ok I know you don't know, it's Sahara...funny stuff...)
ANYWAY, so Nordhausen is actually bigger than LA, people wise. Maybe similar a bit to LA and WR packed together area-wise, but with 35,000 or so. So I have heard. No idea really :P
Elder D is great. This is his third transfer here, now with me, so he was here for about 3 months before I got here. Time flies. Man. There are about 12-15 members, something like that. We have a senior couple set of missionaries, the Ms (sounds german but they're Amis...uh, Americans), and elder M. is the br. Pres. and Elder D is the first C. I will prolly be made 2nd C. sometime. Several old ladies, a young mother and two kids, and a guy or two who are partly active. It is a nice area though. The city is big enough to have all the comforts a missionary needs, and Elder and Sis M. take care of us right dandy. so it's good. And Elder Downing is a blast. His good old farty laughy self, but he can speak German this time! So it's alllll good.
You people are hilarious. Thanks for passing on your humor ;)
The Chirstmas party was a blast. The three lower zones all met together in the Leipzig stake center, and that was like 70 missionaries, and many of my good pals were there. Elder Ca and Elder Cl and I all hung out the whole time and exchanged witty banter and the like. It was a nice program and I met a lot of the newer missionaries down here in the training grounds, as it were. Up in Berlin we always joked that the skilled and veterans got to come to Berlin zone, where we were the cream of the crop, etc etc, and most of the new Goldens were sent down south at the beginning, to get their baptism of fire and prove their mettle so they could come up to Berlin. Haha so there were plenty of newer missionaries that I had never met before and it was fun getting to meet them and chat and stuff.
So did you get an email from the Pls specifically about me? Or was it one of those group things? Guess I'll just ask you when we talk later this week!
It hit -20°C here the other evening. Like around 18 or 19 'o clock or so. The thermometer in the phone in Elder D's pocket registered -11°C. FUN STUFF! We're doing our best to stay warm ;)
Em, I had a surprise A or two as well in my time at the Y. Like my Poli Sci 150 class. I hoped to pull a B...and at the end, BAM! Some sort of a 94 or 95 or whatever. Crazy. I for one ain't gonna ask questions...
Primary sounds like fun, Pops! better not get toooo comfortable there!I pulled out some money in Brandenburg (100 € =$147??? Freak!) to cover some Christmas costs, which ended up helping me get out here to Nordhausen, as the mission reimbursements system is jacked up lately, and then yes, I bought a new camera. It is beautiful. I wasn't thinking about the exchange rate so much, 150€ sounded a lot better in euros...but all my old camera equipment works with this new one, cuz it's also a Samsung, and overall it was a nice deal, I believe. I am quite satisfied with it, which is big for me and my buyer's regret syndrome. I just really needed a camera, especially over the holidays here...
Got your stuff at the party! Thank you! I may or may not have felt the Cd in the big envelope and fished out my jazz cd...and the other things. But I'm leaving the box 'til Christmas.
Speaking of Christmas, I have stuff for you all. Some nice stuff, I think. Noooooootttttt really gotten around to shipping it yet, cuz I only finished, uh, acquiring it all. I'll give you one clue though: 9 GB of pictures! Freut euch!
I love you all, but I need to write Präsident, and we'll talk on Friday anyway. And that'll be more fun than writing emails. So take care til Friday, and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Love y'all. Be good. Tschüß!
Kraft und Ehre,
Elder Sterling Mason
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