I am curious to know how her zone leader learned about how rabbits count.
Well.
I'm leaving Leipzig.
Moving to Altona (the
west area of Hamburg).
Opening a new sisters
program there.
And training a new
missionary again.
Here we go round 2.
Even though I was kind of expecting to get transferred, I'm
still sad to leave Leipzig. I love this place. And now I am just going into the
great unknown, where no sister has served before. Step one of opening a new
area and training: locate your apartment (we already have the address—we just
need to locate it). Carrying all of your belongings. As your new missionary
struggles to carry all of hers. I'll let you know how it goes. I was a little
overwhelmed by all of that responsibility at first and there is so much to do
before leaving, but...just bring it on! I'm going to Berlin on Thursday to pick
up my new missionary and then we'll head on over to Altona. Westward. Away from
DDR style housing and culture. Weird.
My zone leader Elder Barr shared a fun fact about rabbits this
week: they can only count to four and everything more than that is converted
into a thousand in their minds. Therefore, to test your think-unlike-a-rabbit
skills, this email is going to be a bunch of stats/numbers. Because I still
know how to count past four.
1 traumatic transfer
phone call on Friday (while I was on a tausch (exchange) in Chemnitz)
9 laps around the
apartment screaming after previously mentioned phone call
12 pfannkuchen eaten
during the last week (this is a crepe-like
German pancake)
1 Tausch to Chemnitz and
viewing of Karl Marx's head (not his actual head, but sculpture style)
47 flights of stairs
climbed to help someone move from the top floor of one building to the top
floor of another.
0 lessons with our
African friends :(
1 production viewed of
Die Schöne und das Biest in the Leipzig opera house, with the permission of our
mission president
2 suitcases that still
need to be packed, trying to fit in all that I own
3 trainers coming in or
out of Leipzig (Sister D is training here and Sister Wallin from Colo
Springs is also coming to be a trainer and open a second sisters program here)
4 elders and an Ehepaar (the married couple serving in Leipzig) that I will dearly miss. Don't even get me started with how much
I will miss my comp.
987 predicted tears shed as Sister D and I part ways.
Quote of the Week
Duol (our Muslim friend
from Iraq): "Wait, we don't get holiday tomorrow?"
Us: "No, we don't
really get holidays..."
Duol: "You stupid,
stupid girls. Now I know you are crazy."
Meh. There are enough holidays to celebrate throughout the rest
of my life.
Das Wunder der Woche PSYCHE! I
mean Das Wunder die WocheN
I've loved my past five
months in Leipzig and have seen so many miracles here and have learned so much.
I've been thinking of the hymn ''I'll go where you want me to go, dear Lord''
this week because I know He sends me where I need to go. I learned a lot here.
The phrase "following the Spirit" didn't mean as much before coming
here. I learned about planning to meet and meeting peoples' needs. About the
Atonement. About how to get to work and how to have fun. About obedience. About
public transportation and taking the right trains.
It's been great. And to top it all off, we called a Hungarian
lady last night because she wanted to learn English. Except as we talked, she
decided she wanted to learn about the Gospel. She was so sad that I was going
to Hamburg this week and asked some questions about faith and hope and prayer
and we talked for a while. At the end of our conversation, she said, "Wow,
I feel so good right now. I had a really hard week and I am so thankful to know
that you remembered me and were thinking of me. Thank you for sharing your hope
with me and giving me the strength to carry on." I love this lady and I've
only met her twice. She said that we answered her prayer of need with both of
the encounters we've had with her. I'm so thankful God answers prayers.
Wish me luck on my
travels and training and trying to figure out what the heck I'm doing in a big
city with new kinds of public transportation. It will be okay J.
--
Sister
Claire Michelle Woodward
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