August 5,2013

hello everyone :)

Well this week was HOT!!!! we had many people take pitty on us as we did doors this week and one woman rejected us but then gave us each a flavored water. thats a big thing ehre because the bottles each cost 25 cents, so she basically jsut gave us 50 cents! lol. Other than the heat this weekw as good. we broke our streak of yeros for new investigators. it was cool.monday was nothign special. teusday we had doors and then a great meeting with an investigator we met a long time ago taht i found with elder gochnour. cool stuff. then more doors. we then had an appointment fall out so we had more doors. and at the beggining we had 4 hours. so we go to a street and look at the number...102. ok so there are 102 on just this street alone. so we start. At the end, the very last house we meet a woman who is catholic. she ahd a super cute little daughter and we taught ehr about the restoration. she was interested in what we ahd to say so we gave her a pamphlet and have an appointment next week. after tackling that huge street we call some people and then go downt he other side of it back to our car. 3 and a half hours alter we finish and go home. we did 149 doors that day.wednesday was chaos! we had district meeting and the lüneburg sisters missed their train...no problem we will start alter when they get here. so we jsut study for a bit. then as they get there they tell me they have 20 minutes before they have to leave again because 5 minutes before they got here, elder beasley (the office couple) called them and said to come back to lüneburg asap because he is dropping off their bikes. so we have a super fast district meeting and then they leave. they call in and we have a conference call district meeting to finish off the alst 30 minutes of it. it went really fast actually. so we then have district finding in lüneburg. so we go to the bahnhof,  thanks dad for the ipod because we listened to one of the interviews on it for an hour. it was great. we finally get to lüneburg but as we arive, the train stops right before the platform and we cant get off becuase we are about 100 feet short of it. so the conductor gets on and tells us the state police are on the platform and we cant do anything until they leave.....great. so finally we get off and meet up with the lüneburg sisters. we eat some lunch and get our bearings and figure out waht we are doing and then go finding. to add to this the bergedorf sisters have to be in hamburg by a certain time so we only had about 50 mintues to do district finding. not so much success but thats ok. everything happens for a reason and we went finding at that time for a reason. i dont know why but we did. haha. finally we made it abck home to lauenburg and had a lesson with an investigator. then that was our day. thursday we did doors, doors, and more doors. we had one lesson with carol which went really well. sis jäger was our joint teach and that was awesome! she is the relief soceity pres and that helped carol a lot to have another frau there to talk to instead of 2 young men.  friday we had an interesting lesson with a herr gremmes in shwarzenbek. he is way into the history and stuff of the bible. he says abraham was a military leader and led armies around the area he was in. something like that. he was using voabulary that was was over my head and i didnt care either because it ahd nothing to do with what we were talking about so it wasnt such a great lesson. we then had an appointment fall out so we did weekly planning. saturday we helped a member move (in less than an hour) one of the most organized moves i have ever seen, and they had a young man who was ripped and me to move all the heavy stuff which went really well. i ahte it when your moving something heavy and the person is strong enough but not cordinated enough to move things around corners or stuff like that. well this man (eric) and i were perfect and thought the exact same on how we manuvered things. it was great.  we then had a bbq at a members house and that afternoon elder marshall met walter!!! haha. it was a good meeting. afterwards we did doors. sunday we had a great fast and testimony meeting. half the ward was gone but almost more than that showed up as visitors because a baby was being blessed. it was cool. no investigators this week at church but na ja. thats life. we then had a great eating appointment with our bishop and then a 2 hour discussion on missionary work and such. we went through the entire ward list and discussed every member. it was awesome. we did doors later than evening.

today we are going to the concentration camp again because 3 of the 6 in our district are new and they havent seen it yet. so we are going to have a fun day in the sun. should be a great time. i love you all. have a great week. trust in the lord and he will direct your paths. its hard, but do it :)

elder ustach