Letter # 27

Family,

Well it finally has snowed here in germany and real snow. it started thursday night and it snowed all day friday and then off and on saturday, none sunday but now a little bit. Really cool. It got down toa round -10 last night is what we heard. so thats like around 10 ° F or so. cool stuff. its about 2-3 inches of snow is all but its sticking and like none of it is melting. its really cold outside all day so it doesnt melt.

ok well tuesday was a little boring, we went by some contacts and we planned on going to guben but it didnt work. so tuesday was kind of a dud. then wednesday we wake up bright and early and catch a train to gorlitz for district meeting. first time meeting the senior couple there. they are sister and elder baumen. way cool. really nice. elderbaumen speaks german and sister baumen cant speak a single word of it LOL. she is way funny though. elder baumen served in germany on his mission. he is older than dad though so he wouldnt have served at the same time. Right after district meeting elder carter and i stay there and teach an inactive with the baumens. we play a game and have a good time. then we go by some contacts in gorlitz and such and teach some more people. this really old couple who are inactive let us right in and were happy to see us. the guy played guitarre for us and sang for us. so funny to see an 80 year old man or older play the guitar like a pro and sing. so cool. taht night we got to visit another member. way cool dude. he is patriarch lehman. he is like 90 years old. crazy. he is way cool. he is the first patriarch for eastern germany. he was set apart by president monson!!! if you look on page ...84 i think in president monsons book it ahs a picture of president monson is germany with two other guys. well the guy on the right is the guy i met and talked to. way cool. maybe go to desseret book and check it out LOL.

Friday wewent to...dang i cant remember and i forgot my planner. oh well. saturday was a district finding activity in spremberg. we found a lot of people actually and itwas loads of fun! elder taylor and i ran across the street to talk to this one guy. it was a random idea by elder taylor to do this, but we taught him a little about the BoM and elder popp and i have an appointment on thursday becuase of it. so cool. sunday, edler popp gave his talk and it went great. we talked to a bunch of memebrs and we have an eating appointment everyday of the week this week. insane!!! we went grocery shopping earlier and we bought like basically nothing. so funny.

well thats it for the week. some notes. i helped an old lady cross the street again!!! woohoo. so good. Elder popp is excited to come to balloon fiesta and said he would be happy to come. only problem is rememebring. he says he wants to keep in touch when he gets home so i can remind him over email when octobert gets close. oh and he siad he would come if you came to his home coming. i need to get an exact date for it but he said he would enjoy having you guys there. you guys could make aa trip out of it and enjoy vegas.  Oh did you guys see the enw mission map and print it out? we got somenew zones and some changed.

oh so elder carter has these things called "click heat" they are the coolest thing ever. basicallyreusable hand warmers. hard to explain but look it up and if they arent to expensive send me some please!!!!!!

oh and i have a talk next sunday in church. wish me luck LOL. thats it for now. love you all loads and have fun this week!

elder ustach