Hey everybody!
Pretty quiet week here in Langen as
well, so we're in the same boat there. But it was still good and had some good
stuff happen. Just keeping it going haha.
We had a pretty solid dinner
appointment last night. We went over to a couple in the ward who are way cool.
He is American, retired from the Air Force, and she is from here, maybe
Austria... I don't know, she speaks German though. But they made us the biggest
steaks I have ever seen in my life. I ate a LOT of steak and I still had like a
fourth of it left. So we'll be eating those for lunch when we get back to the
apartment. But she made some delicious potatoes and salad too so it was pretty
solid. And he had gotten A&W Root Beer, either from a base here or from
America, but anyways, we had it and it was wonderful. And he gave us a couple
to take home so those are also waiting for me. They are way cool though, so
yesterday was a good day.
Stonebriar... it's going to be crazy
going there and NorthPark again because Germany does not have that kind of
mall. They have little malls every now and then, but nothing like those places.
Most shopping here is done on the Fuß, which is kind of like a big outdoor
pedestrian plaza, kind of like the Southlake Town Centre.
Germany doesn't do anything really
around Thanksgiving that I know of. Except our Elder's Quorum is having a
Turkey dinner on the 29th for a Voradventfeier... Advent is the beginning of
December as far as I know. I'll get my holiday knowledge straightened out here
sooner or later. But as you read in that article you sent me... Germany takes
Weihnachten seriously. I'm pretty excited.
I haven't seen anything too
historical or crazy since I've gotten here, but one little sobering but kinda
cool thing they do here (Germany that is) as a memorial for the Holocaust, is
in front of houses where Jewish people lived during the war, they have little
tiles on the sidewalk for every person that say if they escaped or were killed
and when they were taken from their homes and stuff. So that's a pretty
eye-opening thing to see when we come across them.
Too bad about the BYU game... I'm
pretty sure I've given up expecting the football team to come through so I'm
not as devastated as I would be before. My mind has shifted to basketball now
haha. March Madness is coming up again! In like 4 months but whatever!
The work is going well. Pretty slow,
and kinda frustrating at times, but it goes forward anyways. The branch is really
cool and I love the members. We'll keep
going haha. I'm having fun, and time is flying. I can't believe it's already
the middle of November.
The language is going good, by the
way.
But... anyways, that's about it from
my side. Hope everyone has a great week, and know that I love you all!
Tschüß!
Elder Brown
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