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sorry that i haven´t been blogging latey but my schedule has been really full i will write asap!
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SWEDEN!!!!!!

So I was able to purchase a flight to Sweden and I am excited for this next adventure in my life. I have always wanted to go to sweden just as my siblings did before me to expirience things that I can only expirience in Sweden. As I now prepare I have to hold myself back and tell myself that it wont be perpect but it will be worth it and to trust my feeling and the quite whiperings of the Holy Ghost who is there to help and guide me. I will take tons of pictures and write everything that happens to me down so that I will never forget it. Thanks for all of those who made this dream come true!

General Conference

I had the chance to watch the first three sessions of General Conference and it was so nice and I am grateful that we have a Prophet on the earth today to lead and comfort us. I am also gratiful for the Apostles and members of the Seventy they are also examples of the lord our God and Jesus Christ. Many words were said and I hope that everyone listened with real intent to hear and follow the teaching that were taught this weekend. I am thankful that we have a church like ours that strength us and never try to make us do something that we dont want to do.

tickets...grrrrrr

I have to release this frustration or I will explode!
For the past I dont know three days I have been trying to buy a plane ticket to Sweden so I can spend my easter holidays with my familys old exchange student from there when I was real little. However every single time it says that the planes are full! Right now I am on the phone with travelocity to have them help me get a flight hopefully they are cool and can do it under $200. We´ll see.

And you are...?

So I am sitting here in the living room of my host familys home and checking the usuall things such as e-mails, Facebook, and blogs. As I read what is going on at home I wonder to myself how different is my home going to be when I return. I know there will be new buildings new people to get to know and such. But what about the people I know now. Are they the same peole I hung out with before or have they change in positive/negitive ways? Will I be the odd one out or looked over? Who knows, however when I do finally come home it will be another adventure to find myself at home.

The Best News!

The best piece of news came to me from a friend today. This particular friend was with me in the beginning of my journey in Germany. I was hotel roommates with her in Washington D.C. and in the same language class during our three week language camp. Now during the last week of Language class she had been having trouble with her hostfamily and with pondering and asking for opinions she decided to go home. Not all were very happy about her decision however she was and thats what mattered. During the first couple of months we had a small amount of contact with one another, but shocked my world when I received a email from her today. One week ago she had been baptised as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. She is now a mormon!
As I read her email a sense of graditude and awe came over me and now I know that Heavenly Father puts certain people into our lives for a reason and even if its a short or long time we should always give them our best and show them the gospel through being a example. As I finish today off with this small note I just want to say to that wonderful daughter of God how proud I am that I was able to know her. I love you miss Washington!

Sweden Trip??!!??!!?

Planning trips hasn´t always been a good talent of mind, but this trip is really important to me. I am planning a trip to Sweden for a week and I am super excited. But first I must have permission from my Exchange Program to go. Since it is not part of their program they need a release form, which I have sent in, and what dates your going to be gone. If all goes well I will spend the first week of my spring break there seeing the sights and touring. Right now all I can do is wait. Once I get the green light I am going to buy my ticket which will totally take most of my money. I am a poor student and I cant have everything. Well wish me luck!

My Goal

I have made the goal to try and write a minimum of a paragraphs every couple of days or so. So that those that read this blog dont miss out on the everyday and simple things that I expirence. Hopefully I can remember to do so.

A Day of Thoughts

I received a email from my mother a few weeks ago and she said that I should add some more of the not os nice aspects of my stay. I couldn´t think of any not so good things to say until last Wedsnday. I had stayed home from school because I was sick and I had just woken up from sleeping in for a few extra hours when I turned on the TV and the first thing that caught my eye was s breaking news report on CNN.
There had been a school shooting a small town called Winnenden, closed to Stuttgart which is only a few hours away by train. I immeditly sent a text to my host sister to see if she knew what was going on and was okay. For the next couple hours as I waited for the safe return of my host mom I watched CNN report on the event. Many thoughts and fears ran through my mind and many weren´t nice ones. For one I never expected that there would be a school shooting in Germany at the same time I was here and that it would be so close.
A former student had taken a couple guns form his parents legal statch (I say that because they had a massive amount) and went to school. Where he shot and killed eight students and three teachers. On the run from the school and police he shot and killed three cilivians and then himself. Hearing this death toll get larger and larger it created feelings of sorrow and spiritualness. Those that have passed away now are expirencing a new life and those who were left behind are now searching for answers. Answers that will hopefully come from the teaching and examples of others.
For myself I am fine and wish for anyone to not worry about me, but to give your prayers to those who need them in this time.

Weimar American Reunion

So here I am in Weimar where there is tons of history like Bach and Schiller and such. Also I am with the rest of our Washington D.C. Group and it has dwindled to a perticular smaller size which makes me really sad cause there were a lot of people that I enjoyed being with and they are no longer here. :-(Tear. But at the same time I see who has stayed and I rejoice that I still have friends here expirencing Germany in all its Craziness. Yesterday we took a small tour (walking of course, dont be surprised when I come home and walk everwhere) of a small castle that is right below our Hostle. I took pictures of course. Yesterday night we as in Kate, Bre-anne and I stayed up late playing this awesome fun game that I will totally teach anyone who is willing to learn. Its a cross between Uno, Solitare and War. Its intense. Also yesterday when I was trying to come to Weimar one of my trains was late so I missed my other conection so I had to find a whole new way to get to Weimar. Not that fun with all the stress and running. Anyway I am here now and I am going to make the most of it and take tons of pictures and hang out with my American Buddies!!!!!! Tchüss!!!!

KARNEVAL

Karneval. Do you reallly know what it means. I didn´t until I expirenced it myself. Karneval means dressing up in crazy costumes and going to parties where there are comedians, performers, dancers and much more. It means bar hopping (not that fun, was there for one and left right away). It means going to parties for the whole month of Febuary. It means going to school in even more crazy costumes. It means parades after parades. It means crazyness. And I am glad it over.

Boredom!!!!!!!

Yep it has happened. I am bored. I dont know what happened but it has happened. What I came here to do has been accomplished and there is little left to do. Now its just attend school, particapate in Karnival, take my Language course at the local community college, and wait till spring break when I can go to Sweden, hopefully. Any suggestions. I am going crazy here!

2008/2009

So I promised I would write about my last day of 2008 and my first day of 2009, now I have time to.
Okay, last day of 2008.
I traveled with a friend from church to Rheinbach a small town to another members home. There we meet up with other young single adults. We ate pizza and watched two movie to pass the time. Then it was thirty seconds to midnight. we counted down and set off fireworks. Here they have firework that go way up into the sky it was amazing.
First day of 2009.
Once we had finished setting off our fireworks like around two in the morning we watched more movies till 8 am. We then sleep till ten am and watch more movies till two pm. My friend from church and I went back to her house where we hang out and slept.
And that was about it. those were my activities. fun huh!?.

Just a Note

So its about thirty minutes to midnight here in Germany and I am not tired or want to go to bed. As of right now I am in Gummersbach a small village for a Whas Happens After Public School Seminar and I am bored outof my mind. During the lessons I just sit there and look like I am interessted but I have no desire to be here. However it´s but of the school event schedule and we have to be here. The only good part of this is I have my own room and it inculdes a TV, bathroom, desk, and wardrobe. Hopefully this weekend I will have a meeting with a friend of my host moms you is a Freisurmeister (Hair dresser) and we can plan out my makeover. I haven´t seen Twilight yet, i think i will go by myslef this weekend too. Mira saw it the night before we left and she didn´t even mention she was going. anyway, my college application is complete and now I am waiting for either a accaptance or denial to BYU provo and/or Idaho. If i don´t get into provo now but i get into idaho i will most likey transfer because provo has the german teaching program. in idahp i take my general studies plus some extra fun classes.wellthats my plan anyway. well the teachers are tellling us to go to bed now so I have to leave you on this nail bitter of a blog.

The Temple

....and now the continuation......
The Temple.....
I am so glad that there are temples in the world today, especially since they are so close. I wish everyone had a testimony about the temples and are able to go and experince them in anyway possible. As I look back at the days before I visited the Temple, I realise that my life had been missing something. I dont know exactly what it was missng but it was crucial to my life.
I woke up early Saturday morning to the sound of a door bell. I jumped out of bed mumbling and growling. My ride to the Düsseldorf Intisitute Building where everyone going was to meet, had arrived and I wasn`t even awake yet. Thankfully I had packed the night before (thank goodness I had bought white underclothes just in case i actually went to the Temple, see it pays to be prepared) and all I needed to do was get dress, which I did at a amazingly speed.
After picking up another Temple Traveler (that is what I will call oursleves in this narration) we arrived at the meeting point on time and ready to go. Once all the Temple Travelers had arrived we squeezed oursleves into two small cars and headed off. It took us around two hours to drive to Frankfurt. There we meet up with all ten to thirteen Temple Travelers. We visited and waited for our Temple Guides. There were three American girls including me. We had our own Temple Guide, how nice.
After a few minutes of preparing oursleves for the Confirmations and Babtisims, we were ready to go. During the Temple Work I felt a overwelming peace settle over me and my Testimony of the Temple became stronger then ever. All I could do was sit with a smile on my face in silence. I couldn´t even read my scriptures I was so happy. Then it was my turn. I cannot put into words everything I felt that day, however I can say that the Temple is cared and shouldn´t be taken lightly. I am proud that Annette and Kent were prepared to enter unto the house of the lord and make bonds and covenants into the lord for all time and eternity. I am proud that Cory and Quinta are about to enter into the same covenants. I know that one day it will be JKens, Viktoria´s and mine turn to go and receive the same.

Once again I love and am proud to be with you all.
Love
Lynn Kjerstin Johnson
Member of a Heavenly Family

The Missionaries

The Missionaries....
Who ever said missionaries were messengers of the devil are seriously handicapped. HELLO!!!! They are the coolest people in this world. They give up two years to serve the Lord can you do better then that, i think not! Anyway as you can tell i had a blast making dinner for the missionaries. I made mom´s hamburger pie and it turned out way better then i expected they even wanted seconds. We talked about the work over here and what the major differences are in the church and the world compared to here and america. After dinner we watched half of the film Gordon B. Hinckley a Gaint among men. we plan on finishing the next time they come over. which is going to be soon because one of them is leaving for home soon, like in febuary, jjjeeeaaalllooouuusss!!!!!!

The Temple......
....to be continued.....

2009!!!

I know this i.s a little late however i wanted to wish everyone a happy new year and I will soon tell you of my adventure on the last day of 2008 and my first day of 2009