A Talk, a Tausch, and a Taufe

Howdy friends!

Another week, another email! Hope everyone is doing well! This week kinda flew by so I'll just give some highlights.

On Sunday I gave my first talk auf Deutsch! Wiiiild. I was stressing cause we got the text about it the night before and I'm not the most confident when it comes to my German, and by that I mean I have zero confidence lol. BUT I DID IT!! I wrote it in English and translated it all by myself with minor corrections to adjective endings by my STL. Then I gave it without puking out of nervousness which I definitely consider a dub. And after church my ward was hyping me up! They all just told me that I've improved so much since coming here and that my German is way good considering I've only been here for less than three months. It was really nice to here and hopefully this experience will help with my confidence moving forward. 

We also had Austausch again this week. This time I went to Essen and got to live my best quad life. It was a total party! And then when I got back to my apartment there was a stuffed dino on my desk from the other STL! It needs a name though so if y'all have any ideas please send them my way. As of right now I'm thinking Decker but I'm not sure and need some input. Thanks in advance lol

But my favorite part of the week was Henry's baptism!! Henry is an eight year old boy from possibly my favorite family in the ward. He's the cutest kid ever and reminds me a lot of Berek, my little brother. It was really special to see his baptism because I'm going to miss my brother's later this year. It was also cool to see how happy Henry was after! He was so proud of his decision and asked me a solid 5 times if I thought the service was beautiful. And it definitely was!! 

His baptism and his excitement and pure joy just reminded me of how much joy I find in this gospel. The knowledge of Christ and my divine purpose on this earth is one of the biggest blessings of my life and I love being able to share that with everyone here in Germany.

Love you all!

❤️ Sister Downing

My desk was taken over by this Tschüss Buch for a solid two weeks


I have 15 attempts of making this video and I still don't like one enough to post it

Henry wurde getauft!!

Always lots of laughing with die jungen Damen

I told her not to eat the confetti and this was the look I got

Got a text Saturday night saying I was speaking in church the next day 😬

Austausch snack 🥨

My new dino! Currently taking name suggestions

Nutella croissants 😋

My new bag 🤩

Silly faces with the boys

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