May 13, 2013

hello hello hello!

this week has been crazy. i didnt even realize it was mothers day until the day of and i was sitting in front of the ipad talking to you guys haha. at christmas i was so excited and anxious, this tiem i guys i just chilled out or something. of course iw as excited but i guess it didnt show and i wasnt freaking out about talking to you. i guess its because i get to talk to you once a week and i guess thats good enough for me. not sure. haha.i am working on being meek, which according to the definition in my student manual sthing, that means being the master of oneself and your emotions. maybe i accomplished it and i amstered my excitement...not sure. the sisters went crazy with skype. it was their first time skpying home. fun stuff.

this week like i said was crazy. monday was loads of fun. we finished emails and went to lüneburg to hang with the sisters. we had loads of fun there. we went and toured the innercity as well as some churches and such. it was good. we didnt get to go to hamburg with our investigator because he had somethign else so we jsut stayed in lüneburg and did work there.tuesday we started the day with some doors in an area because we ahd a fallen out appointment. then we had luncha dn then ahd even more fallen out appointments so we did doors in schwarzenbek. no success there but it was good. we then went to an eating appointment with a part member family. so much fun. we taught them about the hols ghost and palyed a little game where the dad hid himself and the kids were blind folded and the mom acted like the "hols ghost" and directed them to the dad. it was cool. we then had a really good bbq. so good. wednesday we went bright and early to bergedorf to help wioth a move. they asked almost our entire zone to help them move. we ahd 8 missioanries there adn tow members show up to help them move. we ahd loads of fun. probably the most organized and well done move i ahve ever seen. they already had everything packed and organized and everything. they knew exactly what they wanted the missionaries to do soe we didnt just sit around. it went to fast and efficiently. so cool. we had fun. we rode a lean abck bike. the ones where you are lying down and the peddals are out front. really awkward but loads of fun when you got it all down. after the move we went by an investigator and he was excited to see us and we had a good lesson. we then had lunch and studied and then we had english class and then our weekly meeting witht he ward mission leader. thursday we had district meeting and there was chaos with that. the sisters in lüneburg missed their train because it was a holiday so the bus wasnt working to get them to the train station. so instead of sitting aorund for more than an hour waiting for them wasting time, we had already planned to have a bbq after the meeting for lunch. so we just ahd a brunch and we started cooking without two of our sisters.  so we had fun with lighter fluid and coals and got it all started. the german coals were having some sisues lighting but then i figured it out and the inner scout in me came out haha. sister walker told me i was such a good boy scout because none of us could light the coals and she was making fun of us becuase we were scouts and we couldnt light some simple coals. i figured it out and so all was well. i had to pull out my eagle scout card to prove to her we were actually eagle scouts and that we know what we are doing. HAHA. we cooked some mean brawts and it was really good. the other sisters showed up and we ate and had our district meeting and it was all good. after our meeting we ahd a lesson with carol (the woman who approached us in rewe) that went well. her friend showed up and ruined the actual "lesson" but it was still a good discussion. after that we just doored and talked to people on the streets. friday we had weekls planning and did a lot of doors and then friday night we had a service project. we went to familie Glück. they live on a farm and so usually we do some hard labor as our service. alst time we split wood for 3 hours straight. this time though they told us we were doign a special job. we started out moving some sheep from one pen to the other. then we grabbed a couple of them one by one and we sheared sheep. loads of fun. i will send some pics. it was a blast. funny thing was when br glück left the heaviest sheep for last. we had to first catch the sheep in their pen, then drag them tot he fence then lift them over the fence and then drag them to the spot where we sheared them. so elder gochnour ahd boot on so he was in charge of "catching" the sheep was was really funny ebcaus they are super fast sheep. then he would catch them and bring them to the fence where i was and i would flip the sheep over to grab the legs and we would lift together to get it over the fence. iwould then drag it to the place to get sheared. so we do taht probably like 12 times and number 13 is the largest of them all. br glück wasnt helping at all by the way...well he would shear them but the lifting he didnt do anything. so elder gochnour goes and grabs the big boy. he has a ahrd tiem adn draggs it to me. we flip it over and try to lift. we get two inches off the ground and we die. LOL. so funny. br glück laughed at us. we counted down so we would lift in unison and then we lifted and together we grunted and dropped the sheep right abck down where we lifted it from. so funny. it took some effort but our second try was successful in getting it voer the fence. so funny. great service though. saturday we did some more service (garden work) at a members house. we then did some doors because we had some fallen out appointments. we studied and then went to echem to visit a contact and they let us in so we talked for about an hour. after our appointment it was pouring otuside. insane! we ran to our car and went to lünebugr to meet our investigator to play some sport. we got there and played some soccer and football with the sisters. in the middle of it two random turkish kids showed up all ready to play soccer, cleat and all, no soccer ball though. they came to play. so we palyed some soccer and had a blast. sunday we had church and we ahd two investigators come to church!!! so exciting. we then skyped with otu families and it was a great day.

thats it for the week. i think that was enough stories and such. haha. hope you all have a great week. i love you all. and until next week :)

oh shoot i forgot to tell you. there are beautiful field of yellow flowers here. its crazy. elder gochnour and i saw them and we ahd to walk into one. so we did. we toomk some pictures. the pics arent that great because the sunw as going down. but maybe we will do ti again duringnoon day and the flowers are even more yellow now. woohoo.

 

oh and also we went on a hike into the woods while it was raining. we were dooring and there was a forest about a 300 yard walk through a field. so we decided to go exploring. it was awesome!!!

elder ustach