Karlsruhe

well i'm in my new area... karlsruhe is beautiful! i absolutely love it down here! sister barnhart is great! she's from Everett!!!! we clicked from the beginning.

unfortunately we have absolutely no investigators. so guess what we get to to do every day. finding time! it's SO cold outside and everyone is out and about at the christmas market and so people aren't really interested. no worries i'm doing alright! it's crazy even though we have no investigators i'm SO excited to find new ones and to start teaching people. i have this feeling that there's someone here in karlsruhe who's ready to get baptized this transfer. and sister barnhart really wants to get another baptism before she goes home so hopefully we can do it!

i like the ward so far. it's mostly older people. not a lot of young single adults or anything. no outreach center (bummer!) but there is a university here in karlsruhe! i'm excited to get some work there.

our apartment is the smallest in the mission. not to mention the grossest (is that even a word?) i've talked to the appartment directors because elder lange and i are friends. he won't do anything about it! so i'm trying to bribe him with cookies and cakes and we'll see what i can get lange to come do for us. i'll have to take pictures. our bathroom smells like someone smoked in there... all the time. and then the smoke smell comes all over the appartment. it's not strong enough to make us smell like smoke but i'm pretty sure it's not healthy! i think the smell comes from the vent in the bathroom. anyway...

i'm trying to be a good missionary and be diligent and work hard. i'm excited about my new area and for everything that i'm going to learn here. we have an appointment with a woman we met on the street last week. her mother is american and her father is german. she's searching and good thing we have exactly what she needs! i really hope the appointment goes well and then we'll have an investigator! pray for us please!!!!

we went caroling last week with a woman in the ward. she took us around her neighborhood and we sang to people she knew and passed out Joy to the World dvds. it was awesome. then on sunday she bore her testimony in sacrament meeting. she said that she had really thought about calling us day of and cancelling. she thought that it maybe wasn't a good idea anymore, etc. but she had this peaceful feeling that she shouldn't call us and cancel. so we came over and we practice some songs with her and we went caroling. she bore her testimony and said that she was so greatful that she listened and didn't cancel. she told the ward that they would be wise to have us go caroling with them to their neighbors. it was awesome! after the meeting we had some ward members come to us and asked us if we'd come to them and go caroling. and some asked if they could go caroling with us when we go. i love christmas time!!

meg: of course i don't mind! i think that's great and tell them that i say that you're amazing and they should be lucky to have you watch their kids!!! good luck with finals sweetie! love you!