hello my wonderful family!,
so this week ahs been great. the start of a new transfer and elder g and i are doing great. we now have sisters in our area and actually the same ward so we talk to them a bunch. they are insane!!! well one of them is haha.
on friday we looked at the phone and we called them 14 times and they called us about 20 times HAHA. crazy. they are doing great though for how new they are and opening a brand new area. must be hard.
so this week was good.
monday we had no time for emails but we played some sport and i got my new backpack! then we went to lüneburg to help move everything in...so much fun...well kind of haha. we moved an entire van full of stuff (mostls ikea stuff) up to the 5th floor without an elavator. so crazy. we were wiped out afterwards. it was a lot of fun. elder gochnour and i really did allt he work while the two old guys that were in charge of getting the wohnung put together just kind of helped a little. it was a blast though. so we were there super late at night helping putting stuff together and moving stuff around. then
on tuesday we went super early and drove down back to lüneburg to help continue building it all. we put together everything in their apartment. the beds, couch, tables, chairs, wardrobes. everything. we are pro ikea builders now haha. we finally got the wohnung put together and then the two guys left to go home. they live 6 hours away!!!! there is one guy in charge of alöl the maintance and such of all the apartments in our mission. and he has a job and he has a calling that requires him to be at ward councel every so often. this guy is crazy. i dont know how he does it. then when president calls him and is impatient with him abotu the apartments not ebing ready yet for missionaries to move in he just has to remind pres of all he does and pres backs off...lol. such a cool guy. so we preped the apartment and then we did some doors and found one women with interest. we then came back hoem to study because we didnt get to that morning and then we had an appointment with walter our old german friend. he cooked us backwursten. not the best but no biggy. that was it for that day.
wednesday we had district meeting in bergedorf where we met allt he sisters for the first time. the zone leaders came so that way it was 4 on 4 instead of 4 sisters and 2 lonely elders. it was a good meeting. i already knew sisters hinkle and walker. sis hinkle came from hamburg to bergedorf so i had seen her already and sis walker was in the neighbooring city of cottbus. right next to forst. so i knew her well already. totally cool sisters. both super enw and way cool. before the meeting we picked up all of their luggage. then after the meeting we drove it all to their apartment while the sisters took the train to lüneburg. we met them there and put their stuff in the apartment. we also, before thex came, made them a preseant. their walls looked so bare so we made them a picture. well a collage. its a collage of elder g and i. it looks so cool. well when they got into their apartment they flipped out haha. we werent there but they called us and freaked out on the phone. they loved it. so funny. the rest of the day was booring. we just doored and such.
thursday was really good. so we studied and such in the morning and thenw e needed to go shopping for a few things. so we went to 3 different stores to find one item. well this was insperation ebcause as soon as we walked into the third store we were stopped by a woman. to be honest i was amazed she talked to us. elder g and i were in a rush so we were like running through the iles of the grocery store to get the item and go. this lady was looking at me wierd but i didnt think anything of it. and as i pass her like 15 feet away she calls after me "sind sie die mormonen?" i turned around and naturally talked to her. she had read online the day before about our church and wanted to read the book of mormon and meet with us and come to church. well that just made our day haha. so we got her info and will meet with her...well the next day :). the rest of
thursday was a bust. we were supposed to have a meeting with the sisters and such with our ward mission leader but they missed their train adn then out of no where all of the trains in and out of lüneburg just dissapeared!! crazy right? we have no idea why but for about a 30 minute gap all the trains jsut got deleted and were gone. no trains. wierd. so ya...no meeting.
friday we had our meeting with that woman from Rewe (grocery store). we brought a member along and she is really interested and way cool. our lesson was alright. she had a ton of questions and such which is good...but our joint teach jsut went off and didnt stick to the lesson plan and just went off on her questions and such. he gave a lot fo good info but thats not what she needed. he just flooded her with info. it didnt make elder g and i happy. but we have another meeting later this week which hopefully it will go well. the rest of
friday was good. we did some doors and then the sisters came up. they came to lauenburg so we could show them the church and such but then they stuck around for a member lesson we ahd with an innactive. it went really well and the afternoon was good.
saturday we did garden work at a members house and then we had lunch. afterwards we had a meeting with nils in lüneburg. he is so cool. he says he doesnt believe in god but he is progressing so well in the gospel and his faith. he had prayed once in his life before he met us. now he was asking us if he can pray before his handball game to ask god to help him focus and calm down before a match. so cool. and he is reading. we asked us. is it better to read the chapter you gave me or is it better to ask questions and not finish? we were so happy with this question. he actually reads everysthing and just doesnt skim it like all other investigators. so cool . he is into philosophy and likes to ask deep qeustions so he asked us if it was ok to do that when he read the book of mormon. haha.awesome.taht night we had a meeting in hamburg to go to. it went well. we got home suuuuper alte but all is good.
sunday was awesome!!! the sisters got attacked by the ward haha. they got up and bore their testimonies. way cool. the sisters are doing great. our eating appointment was good and then all we did was weekly palnning. and that was my week.
long week but exciting. now back to normal missionary work. today we were planning on going to one of the old concentration camps in bergedorf with all of the sisters in our district but now its not looking so good with timing and such. but tonight we should be going to PHE in hamburg with our investigator nils. loads of fun.
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