May 21, 2013

hey family and friends :)
so this week was really good. it went by realyl fast actually and a lot happened that i cant even remember. im glad i keep a journal. so monday we went to lüneburg and had some fun with the sisters there. elder gochnour and i bought comp ties. they are blue plaid skinny ties. legit. i will send pics. after our fun we visited an inactive and went on a walk around town with him and talked a bunch with him. in the middle of our walkw e ahd a rock throwing competition into a pond. i won. elder G had no chance with me playing baseball before. good stuff. Tuesday we had a great lesson with our gator carol. she is awesome. making such progress. then we just found the rest of the day. but at the end we got a call for a alst minute essen termin invite and service project. so we changed and went over to eat some good food and then help the family move soem stuff out of their trailor into their basement. it was a good end to the day.wednesday we had district meeting. we had a good meeting. i gave a lesson on member work and it went well. afterwards we celebrated elder gochnorus birthday!!! he is now 20 years old. the sisters made him cake and then also bought him a licnesce plate with his name on it. so cool. we then took district photos which was cool. after our meeting we walked to walters for a lesson and to celebrate more birthday. that went well and we ahd a realyl good lesson with walter. the sisters were also there and it went great. he actually listened to us this time which is progress. after walter we walked back to the church for engolish class which a family showed to this time. we ahd a great english class and then we had another eating appointment with a member family. they fed us some awesome pasta stuff. finally we got home. mso all in all that day we ate cake from the sisters. then a gigantic chocolate torte from walter, then the family at english gave us a cake and then we had mango torte at the members house. crazy. thursdaywe had a service project and another eating appointment to celebrate more of elder gochnours birthday. that went well and then we did doors and happened to run into the sistsers in a tiny tiny dorf in the middle of no where. so funny. they were going on an exchange with other sisters and so we talked to them for a while. we then had a really good surprise meeting with a member family in boizenburg and we also did some doors there. really good day. we found this one young girl in büchen who was excited to read the BoM then later as we were down the street finishing dooring the entire street. she ran up behind us with something behind her back. i thought " oh no shes coming to give it back" well she was going to do that, but she didnt. she told us she had looked us up on the internet and found out we were a sect (cult). and such. we told her that was totally false and we explained a bit more adn told her to visit the official website of the church and she would find better info. so we will go by her this week adn see how it goes. friday we did some doors in büchen and then we did some more doors in boizenburg and then we had a great lesson with a gator "nils" and his friend. that was a surprise but it went really really well. we taught the plan of salvation and he really liked it. so taht was awesome. that night we were in lüneburg to start a tausch with the hamburg elders. elder briner and i went home. saturday we had service in the rain! well it was misting really but still rain. we pulled devil plants out of the ground. i call them that ebcause these bushed were no higher than 2 feet high but their roots were literally 3 feet long and went straight down into the ground. rediculous. loads of fun though. it reminded me of home :) we then just found the entire day and then we tausched back that night. sunday we had church which was really good. the lessons were amazing and i learned a lot. church here is really hit and miss., its funny. i love it anyway. we then had our ward missionary work meeting and an eating appointment. we then did some more doors and found one woman who we gave a BoM to and was excited to read it and then invited us to visit her church ebcause they were ahving a 150 year celebration this entire week. we are actually tempted to go ebcause on the invitation there is a table with tons of church books on it. and way far in the back we see a blue book with gold writing near the top. we are almost 100% sure that it is a book of mormon at a neu apostolich church bible table. LOL. so cool. so we want to go and see why they have it there and see what we can do. monday was a holiday so there was no shopping or emails. we went to lüneburg and did some doors and then got on a train with nils to go to hambugr to play some hockey with our zone. loads of fun. we also played warball. nils enjoyed it. after sport we got dressed and waited for FHE at the church. that went well. the spiritual thought was really intense and awesome. it was on the savior and the holy ghost. really good. a little deep though for our investigator so we will see how he liked it. after fhe we almost missed our train. we were running through hamburg central station and the doors were closing on our train but elder gochnour caught them and jumped on. good stuff. now we are here on tuesday and we ahve a good day planned. we are excited. this week should be good so we are very happy.

thats really it. notes this week. dad- how hard is it to send me my old ipod? the black one. the pink one from candice is doing great but the battery is jsut suuuuper old and doesnt hold a charge. can you send me my old one possibly? and maybe with some music from home that would be appropriate?

i love you all and i cant wait until next week to write again

tschüss 

elder ustach