Another general conference come and gone. sad day. but an awesome conference. my favorite quote "doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith!" elder uchtdorf laying down the german hammer!!!! haha. watching GC is special as a missionary. you really focus and pay attention. they all seem to talk to you personally or to a gator of yours. its wonderful. this GC was just really powerful and great. i love it.
Well this week was good. we had a decent number of lessons and just a solid good week. So last monday was hitting up all the berlin sites. in my head that was 2 weeks ago but i guess i have not sent them to you yet. wierd. so ya we went to alexander platz to see the tv tower, the church there, rathaus, fountain, berliner tor, jewish memorial, us embassy, berliner dom, some other big building and the victory tower!. we did a lot all in one day. it was awesome! that night i met a gator for the first time. frau fleischer. she is slightly mentally handicapped but she is so cool. we teach her with that HUGE member guy. those two together are funny.
tuesday we had anormal day and we had 3 lessons in 3 hours planned...key word is planned. the first one fell out and then the second one was good.the third was was actually not a lesson but a meeting with the sisters and the bishop. that meeting was awesome!!! our bishop is great!!! hedoes SO MUCH!!!! unfortunatly he has the idea that gators must be perfect before baptism, and does not like when we invite nonperfect people to baptism....that is a bit of a problem becuase...nobody is perfect!!!! lol. but he is great.
wednesday we had a great district meeting. and i gave a lesson on focusing on the restoration in finding and using scriptures on the street, total fun! we then had a good lesson later that day with a man who the sisters found. he is waycool. hejust loves his daughter so much and will do anything for her. he told us that about 10 times in his lesson. a great guy. that night we traveled to glienicke to start an exchange! that was fun. so that night i was in glienicke.
thursday was glienicke day. we had fun. we had a great lesson with a member who is from another ward but justmoved there and had never been to church there. so we went to fellowship him. that was great. we also had fun traveling a bunch to find contacts and going by them.i was with elder ames and he is a great missionary. he is just unsure of finding and not sure what to say sometimes. he is super smart though. awesome guy. that night we went back to spandau and the craziest thing happened!!! we got off the bus and waited for a bit for elder wilde and gerberding to come back. then aman came up to us who was trying to cross the street. he wasso druck he was about to fall over. i have heard of a trick to start moving in circles to make them fall over...but he was like 80 and had crutches so we were there holding him up rather than trying to make him fall over. he was so wasted though it was bad. he loves god. he told us about 20 times HAHA. then another crazy thing happened. as the other elders got there and out of no wherecars came zooming down the street and boxed in another car right in themiddle of this 3 lane street in front of rathaus. honking their horns and going crazy. we thought it was something serious because the way they drove and boxed this car in was really pro.but then we realized what it was...a turkish wedding!!!!! lol. they all got out of their cars. grabbed the bride and groom and cranked up the stereo of one car with turkish music and just danced in the middle of all their cars as traffic was backing up behind them. LOL. it was so cool. they had nice cars to. a lambo and a nice porsche. also an audi r8. it was cool. they left assoon as they showed up though. like 5 minutes later the street looked normaland ifyou had come you wouldnt have known what happened 20 seconds earlier.
friday we had weekly planning and then a wierd lesson with a man who had interest but then his friend showed up and just totally againt religion at all. telling us that men are crazy and just prideful trying to call ourselves the children of a god. and then he told us he can prove everything "logically" so we ask a couple questions that he cant prove. his big one was the creation. which was funny becuase his proof that its science not god...he said. this is so funny. im translatting of course. "the world was created through coincidence. just coincidence. so obviously that proves there is no god because he doesnt do that"....what?he talked the whole time about logic and how he can prove everything through logic and then he says his ogical proof is "coincidence". i could not stop laughing on the inside. it was so funny and really dissapointing that this man was just so closed mindedand shutoff to anything we hadto say. we then talked about prophets and such, he saked who and where our prophet was. we told him and he just blew up about "h hes in america....ohhhh. now i get it....america" this guy was so special in his opinion. but thankfully our gaotr defended us and god and religion as a whole it was great!!!! he basically told his own friend that he was stupidand to stop beliiving in only what he could see. we were stoked afterwards about the gator, the friend made us a little annoyed but na ja. it was good anyway. we then had a fallen out appointment and a good lesson with frau fleischer again and this time with a br heusig. he is so cool!!!! probably the best joint tech ever.
saturday we had a normal day and tried some people but no go and then we had GC that night.
sunday wasGC day. 6 hours in one day. we watched preisthood sunday morning, then saturday afternoon at 2. then sunday morning live at 6 pm here. it was great. we also had a potluck outside with all the member there. about 30 missioanries and like 40 members all outside eating each others food from their trunks and cars. it was great.
thats the week :) i hope you all have a great week, oh liebe grüße from the crazy man on the dogs at home haha. long story there. maybe another time.
elder ustach
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