April 22,2013

hello family,

well this week was awesome! we did a lot and talked to a lot of people and it was warm this week!!! hooray!!!  

well monday we went to hamburg and played football in city park as well as some soccer. when we played football we had quite the crowd watching...a random guy or couple stopped to watch once or twice :) lol. wierd americans playing an unknown sport. haha. then we just went home and talked to people on the streets on monday. we talked to a nice british couple on the train who were there for a birthday. really cool. fun to talk to them in english. tuesday we  tried to get an oil change but it failed because they told us we only can get an oil change every year or 30000 kilometers. thats insane!!! i was appaled at that especially because i worked at jiffy lube. but still. once a year oil change?!?!?! crazy. we did a lot of doors and suich on tuesday and we met with our friend walter. he is not doing well. he fell the other day and he was in extreme pain but would not go to the doctor. wednesday we did some doors in lüneburg and then went to an eating appointment with an old single lady in the ward. we took some members along so that we could visit the alone member. really cool lady. jsut old and doesnt do much which makes her sad :( we then had english class, which nobody showed up to. that made us sad but we palyed ping pong for a while and then went to our weekly missionary ward leader meeting. thursday we had a nice brunch with a member family and then we doored a while and then tried to go by some contacts but it didnt work. nobody was home :( we then did some more doors in another city and we met a ton of people! it was awesome. actually the entire week was good because we met so many new people. thursday night we did an exhcnage with the zone leaders.  friday we had a good tausch. we walked the streets in geestacht and met some cool people and actually met an investigator walking the streets. it was cool. we then did some more doors and then picked up a member for a joint teach. we had our appointment with mona. i think i already explained mona, but she is really cool. totally awesome. our appointment went well and we just taught her all about life before this life as well as the creation and adam and eve. our joint teach went a little deep but thats ok. we then switched back and elder G and i went by an innactive and had a good lesson with him. saturday we talked to some people on the streets in schwarzenbek and then we had a really good eating appointment with familie brahn. that was awesome. then we met with walter again because he wanted us to come back and give him a blessing. the one he refused on tuesday. so we came over and talked and taught the plan of salvationa nd gave him a blessing. good stuff. we then just had weekls planning. sunday was good. church was good. we got called up to give our testimonies and explain a little about how the work is going in sacrament meeting. it went well. i was excited actually even though it was spur of the moment. the talks were really good both by the bishop and the stake presidents councelor. good day at church.m we then had a good eating appointment by the familie waterböhs. cool family. they fed us chili. loved it. we then went by some contacts and they were actually home and we taught one lesson and made out a ton of appointments for this week. it was awesome. tons of kids out playing on the streets.

germany is a totally different polace when it warms up. uin the winter everyone is cold and boring. now that its warm everyone is outside and palying and ahving fun. good stuff.

i love that its warming up. its jsut a happier time and we are all very excited for the work. im not sure if i told you but we are getting sisters in lüneburg so now we will have 4 missionaries in this ward. 

thats it for this week. some good pics this week. we had fun in the car lol.

elder ustach