Letter # 38

Family,

Well this week has been interesting. lots of fallen out appointments but thats ok. we learned a lot this week. were motivated so much and had lots of fun. so monday we had zone sport where we tore it up with hockey for almost three hours. then we ahd two fallen out appointments but thats ok because we missed our train coming back from hamburg so we would have missed them anyway. tuesday we had to fix our car for the lights because both of our headlights were out...LOL. how did we drive at night? with our brights. dont worry we know it was stupid and dangerouse and we tried our hardest to not be out past sundown before we got it fixed anyway. but twice we got stuck a 15 minute drive away from home to late so that was not fun but we got home safely with our brights on the whole way. luckily not to many drivers were on the road. we then did many doors in geestacht. we did over 115 doors in 2 hours or so. loads of fun. we got maybe two return apps  our of it. which ios actually not a bad percentage for two hours of work. then we had more callen out appointments and so we did contacts and met an innactive we had never met before and made out an appointment with another innactive we had never met before. wednesday was zo-co. but before that we woke up at 4 am to catch a train to hamburg bright and early to paly zone sport before the conference. unfortunatly only 6 of us showed up so it was 3 on 3 hockey for 2 and a hlaf straight hours starting at like 6:20 am. fun stuff. we then all showered and went to backery together. then we ahd zone conference where amazingly all of us stayed awake. the zone conference was amazing. sister kosak showed us a film of two missionaries in the car lip singing a song in the car. SOOOO funny. you should look it up. the song it an LDS song adn kind of country to it. the two elders have scarfs on and are totally funyn together. i ahve no clue what its called or what the song was so i cant tell you. maybe just look up funny elders singing on youtube. we got back from zone conference and had our appointments fall out and so we jsut walked the streets and talk to people. fun stuff. thursday we had a companion study with a member int he ward. he taught us so much about missionary work. he is so cool. he speaks perfect english as wella s hungarian and then he is german so he speaks that to. he went to hungary on his mission and he is like 25 now i think. so he trained us on all he learned on his mission. we did role plays and such to practice what he taucght us adn everything. it was great. then we had district finding in bergedorf. that went really well. first person elder von neida and i talked to was totally open and listened to us and we talked to her for like 20-30 minutes on the street. cool lady. she told us she would go home and pray about us and ask the lord if we were worth meeting with and then she guarenteed she would call us oin friday telling us what her answer was. cool lady. there were other reasons for going to bergedorf rather than just doing finding. elder popp was going to be in hamburg for those couple of days and he said he kight ahve time to visit with his father. i sent him an email telling him i would be in the area of hamburg for those hours but he never came. made me sad. that means i wont see him until i get home. oh well. later that day we met with walter and then did some more contacts and such. friday we chummed a lot (putting cards in mailboxes) and then all 6 of our appointments fell out so we went and talked to people on the street and went by less actives and more contacts. it was alright but toal bummer all of our lessons fell through. really slow day to because friday was a holiday in germany. saturday was good. we did a lot ofcontacts. we went by every contact we had in geestacht so that took a while. it was also a slow day. but we did meet a cool lady who is "muslim" but then she believes in christ and mary and just about everything. she is super open we just need to channel her faith of "everything" down to our church and so we need to teach her the restorationa nd hopefully she likes it. sunday was good. we wrode our bikes to church to pick up an investigator and bring him along but he slept in ebcause of the time change so we got to church without an investigator and many members asking us why we didnt ahve a car today and thenw e explained and then they asked where the investigator was and then we explained that to. crazy stuff. we then had a really good eating appointment with a cool family abotu to send a daughter out on a mission. my vote or "call" is temple square. i almost guarentee she will go there. there are reasons why but i wont explain. then we did more chumming and weekly planning and that was it. thats my week. loads of fun right? haha. really slow week but this week looks much more promising. im excited to have some fun this week and see a lot of sucess.

i love you all loads and i hope to talk to you all next week :) well i will but i hope to see emails from you all next week. lol.

elder ustach