dear family,
wow so this week was interesting. two days in a row elder popp and i are about to go to bed and think"where did today go? and where has the last 3 weeks gone?" dang!!!! crazy how time flies when your having fun. haha. but seriously im almost 6 months old and i cant believe it. i will be home before i can even imagine. time flies when your on the lords errand.
ok so monday was good. we prepared for our English class the next day....tuesday, nobody came to english class... :( sad day. lol. we tried to go by some people who werent home and we met with a crazy old guy...who we are not meeting with anymore lol. then English class that evening was a dud. oh well. Wednesday was district meeting which was cool as always. did i send you the info for their blog. it will have pics and activities of what we do in gorlitz with them. thursday nothing exciting. but we got a new investigator that day. cool stuff. friday also not much.weekly planning. yay. lol. saturday we had a good eating appointment with an old lady in the ward and since she is alone we need another priesthood holder to come with us so a young man came (priest) and it went well. then on sunday that same young man come up to us and is talking adn in the middle of our conversation he stops and asks his dad (standing near) if he had anything going on next saturday. he said no, so he turns back to us and asks if he can come work with us on saturday...LOL. this ward is amazing. we dont even have to ask or push this young man to missionary work. he is volunteering and basically signing himself up. so cool. then today we went to the zoo!!! so cool.
so quick update on weather and then back to zoo. it was sunny on saturday and then the sun has kind of been out the last few days and today it was out for a while. so today was a little warmer which made the zoo bearable and the animals happier but the ground was still covered in three inches or more of snow. LOL. ok so zoo. ya it was still cold and stuff but way fun. we went to the elephants to see them getting fed and as we were looking at them the elephant trainer came up and asked if we wanted to feed them. so she let us through a back door and we had a bucket of bannanas and apples and bread and we fed them throuh the fence. actually really scary. lol. so cool though. like elephants are way cool and a lot bigger than you think. then their trunks are really strong. one elephant kept sniffing and grabbing the trainers hand and pulling her into the cage. the trainer was totally unphased by it and just talked to the elephant as if it were her child and told her to let go...the elephant let go. so cool. but like two minutes before that the elephant was breaking huge branches with its trunk. so cool to see and a little scary. then the trainer was talking about how one of the elephants were fat and she just walked through the abrs of the fence and started showing us. totally cool, usually you dont grab animals, especially dangerous and larger animals in palces she did but she jsutwent for it adn started to show us her fat and stuff. it was sooooo funny. she told us they have her on a diet and try to get them out more. but tis hard with it being so cold.
then we went to a ton of other animals. there were some monkeys where their cage is super close to where you stand and yu can touch the cage with your hand. so we would stick out our hand the the monkeys would give us high fives and shake our hands. so cool. funny little guys to. the leopards were way cool. you could tell they didnt like the snow but they had to deal with it. then we fed some goats and saw the rest of the zoo. way cool zoo actually. i would totally want to go back when its warmer if i get to stay here in forst.
but before the zoo there is a park across the street that is HUGE!!!! the guy who owned it built three pyramids and one is a water pyramid a land pyramid and a forest pyramid and they are each about 60 feet tall or so. way cool. we climed to the top of thew ater pyramid. normally its surrounded by a lake so you cant get to it unles by boat. but the lake was frozen so we walked across and climbed to the top. so cool. lots of pictures from that. the guy who built these things was so rich that he decided to build a castle for his house and this castle is also in this part. by the way this park is HUGE!!!! lol. way cool. only sad part was i lost my ctr ring by throwing snow balls at the sisters. haha. its not the new one. my older on from before my mission. really sad acutally. i liked that ring and it was my birthday present from last year. oh well. you guys sent me another.
ok so notes. got my football on wednesday. so coo.. just need to blow it up now. the lady beneath us gets all our packages because she is always home. haha. she is nice though. the ward is awesome. hopefully it will warm up here soon. last week was our coldest and our warmest week in the last month. but to around -10 or lower one night and then today was about 6 or so. way cool.
love you all loads. thank you for everything.
elder ustach
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