Hello!
wow this week has been long. it feels like last transfer we ahd interviews with president and yet that was just this last wednesday. crazy. 
so this week, monday was fun. we had FHE in hamburg with an investigator and we had a blast. we played tons of hockey and i didnt get hurt this time haha. tuesday we did emails and i emailed you all back :) then we went shopping and the rest of the day was a really lazy day. we doored and went by contacts but no luck there. then we had an eating appointment which was loads of fun and that was our day. wednesday we went to hamburg for zone training meeting. no zone sport before but all is good. the lessons were really good. my interview with pres was great. he was jsut so amazed at how much i have changed. he kept saying it over and over again and then as i was leaving the room he kept saying to himself " he has changed so much! elder ustach...changed so much! incredible!" lol. pres is so funny.  I got a letter from bro galler and that was it from the zo-co post. the res tof wednesday we did doors and more doors. no luck their either. btw, this whole week was rain and cold. so all these doors everyday were in rain. :) thursday we had a great lesson with an investigator who normally asks so many questions and talks to much we cant get a word in edge wise, but for some reason on thursdayhe sat quietly and listened to us as we explaiend the gospel of jesus christ and ow we need to follow christ. he listened and at the end he sat there and was silent. then he told us it made sense to him. he didnt want to be baptised but its progress. he is planning on coming to church the 2nd of june. also major progress. after him we went to another appointment with our friend carol. the woman from rewe. she is awesome! she reads so much, and not just the book of mormon. she reads in the gospel principles book that she got from church. she has read every pamphlet we have given her. she searches online for you tube videos and other thigns to watch and read. crazy. she listens to mormon tabernacle choir every night as she goes to bed even! members dont even do that. she has searched so much however she find false things but she knows to come to us if something sounds fishy and we clear it all up. she found an article on garmnets and so we had a discussion about that. little awkward but its all good. haha. anyway we had a great lesson on prohpets with her and its all good. after carol we went by some contacts and did some doors but no go with any of them. we then went to play volleyball witht he young men in our ward. that was fun. its started to rain though so we had to end early. bummer. friday we timed our mile run. normally everyday, rain or shine, we run in the morning and i have been working on getting my time down. elder G can run a mile in almost 5 minutes so he ahs no problem. but me, well ya. so he ran it really slow in 5:50. slow poke...gosh. i ran mine in 8:27. i was so proud. i had never ran a mile in under 10 minutes before my mission. in the MTC i ran it in 9:09 i think and then on friday i for under 8:30! woohoo!!! now my goal in8:15. we shall see how that goes. stupid thing is i dont lose weight. im replacing all my fat with muscle and so according to the scale im the same as always...uggg. whatever. so friday we went and doored int he morning, no luck. then we doored after lunch,....no luck. then we had an appointment with walter. our old german friend. well that was an interesting appointment. normally he is jsut super frustarating and he dont get anywhere with him. but today we were bold....really bold. we were even a little mean at times but he needed it. and we finally got an answer to why he wont get baptised!!!!! well kind of. normally our lessons ar like running in a circle. round and round and round we go on the same topic. well this time there was a block in our circle that we kept running into. we ran in one direction and ran into it. we ran in another and ran into it again. finally he told us he is afraid of himself...sorry. no explanation because even we arent sure. i would write an entire essay on what i think goes on in walters head. anyway we made progress with him. problem is, with this new info we have about him, we wont be visiting him so often. we arent giving up on him but we wont be going by so often. yes confusing and maybe you think we are being lazy and bad missionaries for not teaching this man, but if you want the full explanation get ready for to much info that doesnt make sense. LOL. after walter we visited an innactive br schmitz which went really well. his dog is not dead...another long story. then we had german and that was friday. saturday we were supposed to do service but it was raining...again and so it got canceled. we cleaned and did doors again. no success. then we did more doors. then some more doors. all in the rain :) we tried to go by contacts but also no go with them. so in the afternoon we had a good appointment with our ward secretary and we found tons of innactives to visit the next couple weeks. loads of fun. sunday was good. carol showed up to church and she had a horrible saturday and didnt want to wake up but she ahd the weird feeling she had to go, then in relief society she had an amazing lesson and she said that is why she came to church and why she got out of bed. amazing. so many people would make so much more pregress if they freakin came to church! after church we had a great eating app with bishop and then weekly planning. today the internet cafe was closed and then the power at the church was out...ugggg. so we drove to bergedorf to find another internet cafe and thats where we are now. today we plan on visiting the concentration camp here in bergedorf. its raining and overcast today so perfect for the place we are going. woohoo. 

mom-can you send me a recipe for sopapiahas. the yummy mexican dough thing they serve with honey. those things. we will be brave and try to make them. we have a sisters (walker) who is good with these kind of things and we want to make them. 
dad-how much did i get for my tax return if any?
nick- not sure if you read these or not, but hopefully next week i have a referal for you. one of the sisters in my district lives where you serve.

alright thats it for this week. i love you all and cant wait to talk next week.

elder ustach