Sometimes you go to Leipzig to meet someone you knew in Kiel... Jan. 13, 2014

Well it starts of by missing my train. I missed my connecting train from Hamburg....so...naturally, I found a group of missionaries and jumped on a different train. It was probably more like a blessing than anything else, or I may have been alone with all of my bags! But I got to ride with missionaries from Hamburg to Hannover, and then down to Leipzig! The German country is BEAUTIFUL. Yeah. 3 and 1/2 hours of pure awesome German land. 

I did some family history and I was looking around on mom's side of the family with grandpa...and I think I may have run into an ancestor...Charlemagne?! I am really hoping that was accurate!

Anyway, I LOVE LEIPZIG. It is the city that Bach played in! Speaking of which, I was privelage to go to one of the churches that he loved to perform in for a concert! It was a boys choir and organ, oh man, it was great! Loved it! This is a perfect city for me! Woo!

It is really great to be in a new area and be working just as hard....or HARDER. I mean...more diligently. Yeah, I actually taught 10 lessons this week, and I could totally do more! It was amazing! WOW! This city is showing me what a mission can be. We have some many people that could be baptized soon!

Crazy story, my second day here, I was walking to an appt and this girl stopped me...she recognized me from Kiel! She had visited the ward with her friend and remembered me, and now I am in contact with her! I hope she will get baptized, she is legit!

I have had a great first week, and I love my companion, Sister Lartey! She is super funny and sassy and such a diligent and hard worker! I already feel as if I have known her for a while. Ha. That's always nice.

I am totally teaching some Jehovah Witness' here...I will probably jus wreck them and then they will be baptized. And when I say wreck, I mean convert. And when I say I, I really mean the Holy Ghost. :P

I live in Innenstadt, so central to just about everything except for the church. So like, Bahnhof, the store, the RIZ, the old churches and STRAßENBAHN. I love Straßenbahn. They are the best things ever!!

I love you all! And farewell until next week, I better be getting some letters....sooon....haha.

Transfers Jan. 6, 2014

Well... New Years...people in Germany are crazy. Let's just say, when I woke up at 12 to see the fireworks...it sounded like the Revolutionary War. People are drunk and there is no silence, what so ever. Drunk people even think that it is safe to shoot bottle rockets at each other. Hmm..how pleasant, until someone loses an eye.

I don't really remember what happened this last week...probably too much to write about. Ha. 

ANYWAY, the news that you really want to hear that MOSTLY everyone already knows anyway is that I have been transferred to Leipzig. LEIPZIG. I called it, I will have you all know, that I called it. ANYWHO. Apparently, it is very large and people there talk funny. Yes...my favorite. I will also be serving with the Andrus' so that is really neat! Such a tiny Mormon community when someone gets to serve with their sister-in-law's parents. It is just great, I am excited and sad. And not happy about the 4 different trains I have to take to get there! (it was the cheapest ticket however, oh well, I will get really buff muscles)

But yeah, I have basically had everything packed since Saturday. Church was great, our prayer was answered...one of our investigators came to church...we previously thought that he may of died....so...that is good news. I also had the privilege of hearing a baby blessing in German! That was super cool and stuff. Many of my adorable ward members came up and told me how much they appreciated the work I did, even if most of it was playing the organ. Na ja.

I got to take a lot of pictures with the people I love, so yeah. I am totally coming back to visit. No worries.

Well, as I start this new chapter in my German journey, please be sure to sent encouragement via snail mail. Speaking of which, here is my new address:

Sister Stephanie Rimmasch

Gerber Straße 18

Apartment 916

Leipzig 04105

GERMANY

I love you all and hope you have a great time!

Love your Sister Rimmasch

PS

I made my own scripture bag out of some extra material

and I got a Han Solo card! YEAH

With the ward mission leader, Silvan Timm

The Week of Eating every day... Dec. 30, 2013

Well...Christmas is come and gone and now I must barricade myself in my apartment and face the perils of a German New Years. There may be blood, and I may go down in a blaze of glory, but at least it was awesome.

Christmas Eve was spent at the Timms house. I love it there. So nice and such. They are have a cool fireplace! Loved it there! Later, I had to play every instrument I know how for the Christmas Eve church meeting. Piano, Organ, and Violin. Woo hoo. So awesome. I got a little stressed, but I made it in the end.

Christmas...opened some presents! Thanks to my comps mom, my comp and my family\myself for making Christmas just fabulous! I have never had so much candy in my life. I am not going to eat it all lest I should get super fat and die. Ate dinner at S. Granc and tried duck for the first time in my life. That reminds me, my companion is a Duck Dynasty fan and got a blanket, t shirt and quote book from said tv show.

Christmas day two (because there are three days of Christmas in Germany) was spent in Eckernförde and after that....went to....THE NUTCRACKER!!! YESSSSS....that was after the hilarious incident of another sister splitting her skirt and switching skirts in the Opera House. Quite hilarious to be sure. I was amazing and we had a great time!!

It was super hard to get back into the swing of things, but I realized my mission is awesome. I basically go around visiting people and chilling out with them teaching the gospel. And when we don't have people, we are looking for people that we can visit and teach. Quite funny.

We had a 'Christmas' district meeting...AKA we ate dinner together...AKA we ate Mexican food. hahaha. 

Church was great...I gave a talk...but that was after and Austrian translated it and an American and her linguist husband correcting it. I was not gonna give a talk and sound lame sauce...it went well. Short but well despite that it was super hot...maybe cause I was still wearing my scarf. Haha. We had a 5th Sunday Potluck and it was pretty good. What did we bring you ask? Chopped up granola bars from America. Thank you Quaker Oats. Thank you.

I received a package....of...DOCTOR WHO STICKY NOTES!!! (Thanks Jamie!!) They are just about the best thing ever at this point in time. Wooo!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I will hopefully be sending cards home soon!

LOVE STEPH