November 19, 2012

Whaaaat?! Thanksgiving already? yeahhhh we don't really have that here :P Which means that Christmas starts earlier and is a bigger deal! We have already started hearing the explosions of fireworks every once in a while! haha. It's great. The Christmas markets aren't quite all the way up yet, but I can see them slowly building and it is super exciting!

Elder Marshall and I have been invited to sing/play in the Christmas celebration in the ward. Aparrently I will be singing with the young women and Elder Marshall will play piano for us. Super cool. We have practiced once and it went super well! The celebration is on the 8th of December, so it's a little early... but still super awesome. We have been inviting everyone to it, so hopefully we have a good turnout!

Transfer calls came this last Saturday! annnnnnd--- Elder Marshall and I are staying together here in Spandau! (usually the trainer stays with the Trainee for at least 2 transfers, so no big surprise there). A lot of missionaries in the rest of the zone have been switched around, so it will be exciting to see all of the new faces coming in.

Shawn has already been asked to 2 dances?! that's super awesome. goodness-he's too much of a stud. Definitely a good thing for the missionary age to be 18 :) Soon that will be Riley! ahhhhhh! 

There is a HUGE increase in missionaries coming at the beginning of this next year! In March we will be recieving 36 ADDITIONAL Sister Missionaries and an estimated 4+ Elder Missionaries. President Kosak says that we will have approximately 270 missionaries in Berlin mission alone! ahhhh! so cool. He also explained that they are expecting to have 90,000 total missionaries in the field! ahhhh! I love it. Being a missionary is the best experience in the world.

I don't know really what else to say....
Additions to Christmas list:
more Zebra-301 Pens... I love them...

Love,
Elder Braden Thorkelson