Letter #36

Liebe Familie,
wow this week was good. just a quick day to day, monday we went to minature wunderland. it took about two hours or more and we rushed through it!. i took over 400 pics!!!! crazy. then we had a FHE with a family and all was good. tuesday we had a big day planned that crashed a burned. very disapointing but still good. we planned to have lunch with a member and meet one of his friends then take him on a joint teach to a very promising lesson. well we had lunch (very fancy restauraunt) but the friend was busy. then we went to the members mothers burial site and had a nice peaceful time at the friedhof. then we took him to our lessona nd the woman wasnt there. very dissapointing. then we had a lesson with one of our baptisimal dates but he ditched us because we didnt have time. our other lessons also fell out so we did a lot of doors that day and we actually found a really cool young guy who we are going back today to visit. we had a great dinner and lesson with a part member family which was way cool. wednesday we had DCM and then i went to hamburg on  exchanges. all the appointments there fell out but that was ok because we then went and talked to people on the streets of hamburg for about 4 hours with it being about 15 degrees or so. so warm and so nice. didnt need a jacket or anything. sun was shining and it was beautiful. we walked around the city park talking to people. that was so nice. thursday i went back and had a good lesson with a man from the carribean. elder gochnour was sick so we chilled a lot and he took a 3 hour napö. slow day but all was good. friday wemet a really cool older german man who let us in and proceeded to give us drink and showed us pistures of his ski trips in utah and in italy. so funny. we talked to this man for an hour and a half. insane. he finally brought it back to religion at the end but he doesnt really ahve interest but he respects us. so it was a nice hour and a half break but nothing came of it. oh well. cool to see his pictures and such a nice man. then we went and played squash with a member and his friend. it was super cheap and we had a blast. they were expecting us to suck becuase we were american and elders who dont play squash...well they were surpirsed. both elder gochnour and i have played raquetball (ver similiar) back in college so we demolished them.  the match with his friend was really close but i still won. elder gochnour was still a little sick so we didnt do to well. saturday we ahd the baptism. it went really well and mirco, the man being baptised, is so funny and made the whole thing hilarious and fun. it was a great experience and my first "official" baptism. elder baker (elder gochnours former comp) baptised mirco. he came from leipzig and they left their apatment at 4 am that morning to get there in time. it started to snow on saturday to which was depressing. three days before it was so warm. sunday we wake up to about 6 inches of snow. and its still snowing outisde. church was really good and really cold. the wind was insane. we ahd a great eating appointment. the daughter of this family is about to turn 19 and going to go on a mission. way cool family. they plan to visit america in 3 years or so. way cool. continued to snow all day and then today we woke up to about another 6 inches on our car and everything from sunday had turned into ice. so we had a couple inches of ice and 6 inches of snow on everything. awesome!!! luckily the germans are good at clearing roads so driving is not a problem, however i do feel unsafe sometimes when elder gochnour drives and brakes or turns to hard when its icy and snowy. 

the most amazing random peice of info this week...i bought the winnie the pooh on cd. in german!!! so cool. its the "big adventure" but its in germana nd its only the words. super cheap and it helps our german. so funny. im going to buy more so i can listen to the lion king, tarzan, atlantis, toy story, and a bunch more. so cool. i learn a lot of words from them to and the y are entertaining haha.

ok alles gut. until next week. sorry this week was short and not much "chat" like mom said but i need to go soon to catch a train to go play some more dodge ball and hockey. woohoo. love you all

elder ustach