Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Letter # 39


family,
well this week was awesome!!! we have seen the lords hand in all that we did this week. he realy does prepare people as i will explain. so this week.  i looked for a enw backpack, beacuse mine is starting to fall apart (after 4-5 years) and i really want a geramn brand one that a lot of elders have. deuter. good brand. coo, packs and stuff. well i thought they would be through the roof expensive but the one i want is only like 45 euro. not bad at all. considering some of the ones elders buy are near 100 or more euro. we went back and elder G and i had lesson with an innactive. that went well. tuesday we went and picked up a member for a joint teach but it fell through so we went and had lunch with him. while we had lunch ( he made us hangarian pancakes) there were some kids outside playing basketball. the memebr told us to go outside and play with them. he may have been joking but when we were done we went outside and palyed with them. its so funny to see kids or anyones reaction when you tell them your from america and then want to play basketball with them....because all americans are good at basketball...i guess. lol. so we played for 30 minutes and talked to them a little. they were 13 and 15 and cool kids. we got back in the car and i looked down...i ripped my suit pants...that didnt make me happy. right on the seem. kind of funny. we then went to another city to do doors and we had two really good lessons. one with a man who at first wanted to give the BoM back to us and didnt want anything to do with it, but then we had a good lessona dn he agreed to read more in it and such. another is with a family from south america or somewhere. they speak english, spanish and german. cool family. it basically was a two hour Q and A though. we cant teach anything because he talks to much and has to many questions. funny guy.that night i fixed my pants and they are still good. a sloppy sew job but i got it done and they work lol.

wednesday we had zone training meeting. we woke up at 4 am to catch a train to hamburg so we could play sport at 6 am and then take showers there after sport and start our training. great day. we had fun and learned a lot. we then just did normal finding and such the rest of the day as well as meeting with our ward mission leader. thursday we started with doors and we met with our eternal friend. walter. then we met with an inactive family who let us in without an appointment and were excited to see us. cool stuff. good meeting witht hem as well. they havent been to church in 2 years but are ready to come back. we then met with our young friend nils. i think i mentioned him in another email. but he took us to a really nice restauraunt in the middle of innenstadt lüneburg. really nice. he used to work there so the chef/boss came out to us and was really nice and it was just loads of fun. friday was probably the best day this week. the night before i ahd no clue what would happen and was not ready for the day. but i prayed so hard for help that the day would work out. idk hopw but it would. and well, it worked! the lord really answers your prayers. its a wonderful thing. we found a new gator in hohnstorf. she is young and really cool. and really interested in the BoM. then we had an appointment fall out but then we had an amazing appointment with mona. well mona is awesome!!! she is from egypt. she is about 35 or so and single with 5 kids. she moved to germany 15 years ago with her man and about 10 years ago they split. she used to be muslim but she hated how they treated muslims and such and so she prayed about it and she had a dream/vision of "a man in a white robe and long white hair" (christ). he told her not to worry and all will be alright. as well as some other things. then right before we met her she had difficult things in her life and she prayed and she had another dream/vision of mary. who told her she will egt an answer soon. well two days later we knocked on her door!!!!. so cool. she is truely prepared by the lord. this was our second lesson with her and in the middle of us reading james 1:5 she gets a phone call. she answers and ends. then she was really sad becuase she explained that she ahd this really good and calm feeling when shew as reading and we were discussing and then the phone call ruined it. well it was amazing to see how she recognized the hols ghost without us even explaining anything about him before hand. then we were discussing something else...i cant remmber and someone came to the door. afterwards she came back and told us she was having that smae feelign right before that person came and now it was gone. i really get annoyed with satan and his influence in the world to ruin the beautiful moments. didnt matter though. mona agreed to be baptised in the comming months and we are really excited for her. the rest of friday was also really good. we went and switched companions again so that elder G and lindermann could go to bielafeld on saturday. 

saturday we had absolutely nothing. but we still had fun riding our bikes around (i have no valid drivers liscense right now, it expired becaus of my visa) so we were with our bikes. we had a full day of finding and we found a really cool and very spiritual guy. cool stuff. saturday night elder G and L got back to late to exchange back so elder V stayed the night again. sunday we exchanged back and elder G and i had a great time at church. we also ahd a wondefrul lesson with nils. he is so cool. he told us of the story of his sister dieing and how he said a little prayer and he felt calmness, no answetr to his question"why did she die?" but he felt calmness. we had a wonderful lesson and he is really making progress. he prayed for us at the end of the lesson eventhough he doesnt really believe in god and hanst prayed for about 10 years. cool stuff.

alright i think thats enough for this email. i love you all. until next time.

elder ustach 

mom, that article you sent me about aprenting...well i finally got that article to the woman it was for. and she read it alst night. this morning she texted us this wonderful sms about how grateful she was for the article we gave her. i told her it was from you :)


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