moin moin!!!
wow what a great week. the week itself was slow but sunday was awesome!!! the work is going great here and we are excited!! so monday we went to FHE with the bergedorf sisters to see if their investigator has real intent or if he is getting baptised and only has interest because he has a crush on sister walker. haha. so funny. but no, he has real intent. he was just acting wierd one day. funny stuff. pres protects his sisters. thats for sure. he gave elder G this assignment to observe mike. funny stuff. tuesday we had a great lesson with a gator who loves us but not to much interest in the gospel. i will explain later about her. but good stuff. she gave us a cake for no reason...awesome!!! we then just doored the rest of the day and tried to go by innactives because we had some fallen out appointments. we had some success in dooring. we found one girl and gae her a BoM.  thats little success but its still some, because last week we didnt get a single new gator. crazy. that night we had another meeting with walter. it went well. nothing new with him. he just wants to invite us over for my birthday and before any of us leave. wednesdaywe had district meetign which went well then i drove the zone leaders down to lüneburg where we all came together (4 sisters and 4 elders) to do district finding. didnt go so well for elder hadfield and i but others had success. it was good. a beautiful day as well. wonderful. later we did some doors and innactives but no success and then we had a great english class, a great ward mission meeting and then bishop came and inspected our apartment. all is gooddid ay we had some more fallen out appointments so more doors and such. but then we had a great joint teach with carol and bishop was there. wonderful to have bishop there. she was asking some interesting questions about garments and marriage and such. well we can answer the garment questions but not the marriage. we were so glad bishop was there. he laid down the law and it was great. and she was very pleased with the answers he gave. they were kind of awkward questions so another reason we were glad bishop was there. we also had a great first lesson with a lady we found a while ago. that was awesome. she told us she wanted to read the entire BoM before we meet again. uggggg. so she told us 3 weeks. we will go by her next week anyway and see if we can meet. we then had a great lesson with an innactive and that was our day. friday we had doors in the morning and then  we had a great member lesson followed by a planned joint teach...which fell out. so we visited his recently deceased mother because the cemetary is far away and we have a car. then we all drove to a members house to have our ward BBQ\party. it was awesome. and carol showed up!!!!! so awesome. problem was...the kids love us BTW. lol. so we played tons of sports. and then when we were eating all the kids wouldnt stop pestering us to ask when we would be done eating. so funny. anyway. during sport we were playing soccer and i was goalie. well i lunged to far to the left and heard a rip. yup. ripped my pants. and it was a major one to. my favorite pants. the black ones mom  sent me in the MTC. the best most sturdy pants jsut ripped. those pants were so strong that not the seem but the fabric actually ripped. i was really sad. so elder g and i ran home and changed pants real quick and came back LOL. what a great afternoon. we loved it. saturday we had weekly planning and just tons of doors. we found one girl who was nice and we gave her a BoM. at the same time doing that street we had two boys chasing us and hiding behind cars to stalk us. wierd stuff. so i confronted them (nicely) and they were so funny. they hid behind a car and so i walked behind it and asked what they were doing " nah...was machts ihr?" they had the funnist come back. we are looking at the floor of this car. soooo funny. oh man. they left us alone after that, but then at the end of the street as we were done, the older one came up and asked us what we were doing and who we are. we explained and for a 13 year old kid he was way knowledgable about the gospel and religion. he read the "abfall von glauben" the great apostasy section in the pamphlet we gae him and he was like " nah klar" no duh, that makes sense. of course there was an apostasy...we were amazed lol. he rejected us in the end but it was just so funny. sunday was great. we had carol show up to church and she brought two of her grandkids with. awesome! turns out some of the kids in the ward know them. it was great. we also had an innactive family show up to church. the whole ward thought they were investigators becuase they have never come to church. to funny. i bore my testimony and it was great. after church we had a great eating appointment with members and then two hours after that we had another eating appointment with a gaotr of ours. LOL. we were able to survive. i didnt eat to much b the members to be able to eat more at the gators house. to funny. we had loads of fun. the gator is sonja, the one we met with earlier that week. she is so funny. she doesnt want either of us to go. actually all of our gators know the end of the transfer is coming and dont want either of us to go. they keep setting up eating appointments so that they can see us one more time before we go. funny thing is is that its not guarenteed that anyone will go. just our luck will be that both of us stay one more. haha. 

so its been funny lately. according to the scale im the same size and same weight. and im not happy about it because im working hard everymorning to run a lot and eat less. so its not making me happy. but then pres complimented me on how good i looked and socomplimented me. she told me i got smaller some how, haha. funny comment but a comment nonetheless. so aparently im smaller but not according to the scale. im not happy with it. but if i keep it up for the next year and a bit then by the time i get home you wqont recognize me!!! haha. thats my goal. show up home all skinny and in a fancy german suit and i wont be the same. missionaries work on their 6 months to sexy. nah, i got to work on my 14 months to sexy. HAHA.

love you all and i cant wait to talk to you next week. oh and hi shelby!!!! haha. i got your email from sis sykes. she is sitting to my left right now reading your email :)

elder ustach