My first
area is Kaiserslautern a.k.a K-Town and my trainer is Sister Williams!
Kaiserslautern is right next to a military base so there are 3 American wards
and a German Branch. We are assigned to the German Branch. There are about 60
members and about 40 of them are active.
For such a small area there are a lot of missionaries, a set of sisters and elders for the Germans and the Americans. So there are 8 of us in total. We see each other A LOT since we live so close to each other. We also get a lot of people that say that they've already seen a different set of missionaries that day. I've already seen people multiple times randomly on the street when we're contacting between appointments and it's only been 6 days! Imagine at least 12 weeks!
Sister Williams is awesome! She did a good job making sure we got to Kaiserslautern from Frankfurt. However, the rest of my first day didn't go as smoothly. We missed a couple of buses and trains on our way to an appointment. We've been so busy that I didn't really have time to unpack for the first 3 days. But everything is great! Sister Williams has been out for 5 months and took 4 years of German so it's much better than some people who've been out much longer. She's been great at pushing me out of my comfort zone and (attempting) to talk to
people in German. Although it doesn't help that people keep replying back in English. Speaking of other languages!! On Thursday we had a street display in Stadtmidta (the shopping area in the middle of town) and we gave out a Book of Mormon in English, German, Russian, Arabic,
Serbian, Albanian, French, Bulgarian, and Spanish. There are so many people from all over the place that hardly any of my lessons are actually speaking German to each other. They're either all English (as the Untersucher's second language) or with a translator.
The first couple days have been hard, but I love it so much!
For such a small area there are a lot of missionaries, a set of sisters and elders for the Germans and the Americans. So there are 8 of us in total. We see each other A LOT since we live so close to each other. We also get a lot of people that say that they've already seen a different set of missionaries that day. I've already seen people multiple times randomly on the street when we're contacting between appointments and it's only been 6 days! Imagine at least 12 weeks!
Sister Williams is awesome! She did a good job making sure we got to Kaiserslautern from Frankfurt. However, the rest of my first day didn't go as smoothly. We missed a couple of buses and trains on our way to an appointment. We've been so busy that I didn't really have time to unpack for the first 3 days. But everything is great! Sister Williams has been out for 5 months and took 4 years of German so it's much better than some people who've been out much longer. She's been great at pushing me out of my comfort zone and (attempting) to talk to
people in German. Although it doesn't help that people keep replying back in English. Speaking of other languages!! On Thursday we had a street display in Stadtmidta (the shopping area in the middle of town) and we gave out a Book of Mormon in English, German, Russian, Arabic,
Serbian, Albanian, French, Bulgarian, and Spanish. There are so many people from all over the place that hardly any of my lessons are actually speaking German to each other. They're either all English (as the Untersucher's second language) or with a translator.
The first couple days have been hard, but I love it so much!
Today we went to Landstuhl to go see a castle and play ultimate Frisbee!
Liebe,
Sister Luymes
Liebe,
Sister Luymes
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| View from our apartment at sunset. |
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| Landstuhl Castle. |
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| The view of Kaiserslautern from Lanstuhl Castle. |
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| Lunch!!! A sandwich our Ward Mission Leader brought us. YUM! |
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| Me and my new Homie - Sister Williams from TX. |
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