A day in the life

Okay time is short! 

Morning:
Wake up at 6:30. Hurry and get ready. Walk down four flights of stairs to get down. Go to the park and exercise! Come home, plan with my companion every hour of the day. Then I have a free hour to eat breakfast and get dressed. Then personal study for an hour. I LOVE the mornings!

Go to the church. We take a bus for about 15 minutes. My companion is REALLY top notch and good at keeping me accountable for talking with people. Every time we are on a bus, we are talking with people. I hate it, but sometimes I love it. 

Our church building is MASSIVE and really cool. Not like a US church that's for sure. We have little office classrooms downstairs. We do companion study outside. 

Sometimes we have lessons at the church. Sometimes we will walk around parts of the city on the streets and talk to people. Sometimes we visit people in smaller subcities away from Dresden. 

We go home for our lunch hour, and always cook something together. My companion is good at eating healthy and yummy food. I need lunch ideas!!!

We go back to the church, do language study or my training stuff. I have online courses that I take. 

We meet people at the church. Most of the people I meet with speak Spanish. 

Then we have events:
Distract Rat (council) meeting 
Zone Conference
Training meeting with a mentor
Sprach cafe- German class 
Etc.

So every day is different. 

My companion is STL with the other sister in my apartment, so I'm often with her companion foe the day when they do exchanges. That is usually interesting. She gets a little more stressed than I do. I don't ever really feel stressed. We tend to get lost on public transport without our companions. 

My companion is awesome. She is STL for our zone. She is really fun and down for anything. We are actually pretty similar in a lot of ways (like being really fun and awesome). Her mom is stake RS president and dad is bishop, and she has learned how to be a great leader. I enjoy learning from her. And we laugh a lot. And grab each other's arm like how mom does. 

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