Hey everybody!
Well... let me just start off by
giving Germany some props. Germany goes hard on Sylvester (New Year's) haha.
Elder Langford and I did indeed ring in the New Year at midnight because it
literally would have been impossible to sleep through it. Literally everyone
was setting off fireworks. We could lean out our window, and see people lining
the streets for as far as we could see. It was pretty sweet. And that went on
until about 1, so we got to sleep around then. The streets the next morning
looked... and smelled... like a war zone haha. So that was fun.
But the winter definitely hasn't
been bad so far. I'm sure it's not far away though. Snow will be around pretty
soon I'm sure. Not really sure if I'm looking forward to that, although I kinda
like snow. It'll lend some variety to the scenery haha. But it's been pretty
mild so far. It gets kinda cold with the wind sometimes but that's about
it.
But it's weird now that all the
holidays are over. Life is just back to its old boring self haha... jk things
are always exciting, but it does kind of have a "well.... what do we do
now?" feel to it. We're excited though. Oh, and on that note, we did have
something exciting happen... transfer calls! I'm going..... nowhere! I made it
through a whole transfer without getting moved again, it's pretty nice. Elder
Langford and I will be staying together, which I'm really excited about. We get
along really well. But one of the other elders here in Oberhausen got
transferred… to Solingen! Haha I was pretty pumped for him. I talk about it all
the time too so hopefully I didn't get his hopes too high. I really did love
that place though and it was cool to see someone I knew go there. But the new
elder coming is younger than Elder Langford... so now it's me, Elder Smith
(from my MTC group,) Elder Langford, and Elder Blackhurst, who's younger than
all of us. 4 elders and me and Elder Smith haven't even hit 10 months yet haha.
So that'll be fun.
But we did have to be in on New
Year's at 6 o'clock, I think that's like a worldwide thing... could be wrong
though. Elder Langford and I bought a Christmas tree for the apartment... we
haven't taken it down yet... it'll probably be up for a long time. It's a real
one though so it might start to symbolize the distance of Christmas more than
its presence over time haha.
But things are going well here,
we're excited for a new transfer and a new year. We've got some sweet members
here who want to help get things going so I think some good stuff is ahead.
Crazy that I hit my 10 and 11 month marks this transfer as well... this first
year has gone by very very fast. But we're having fun... trying to keep it
under control though, don't worry. Haha.
Hope you all have a great week!!
I'll try to do some cool things this week and maybe have some new pics for you
next week or something. No promises though! :)
Tschüß!
Elder Brown
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