It's cold

ITS COLD!!!!

This week has been the first snow of the year and then it just decided to drop down to -18 or so with with and snow!!! -18 is 0°F (about)!!! with wind!!! stupid. look up 0°F with 15 mph wind. what is the wind chill factor there? how cold is that? thats what we were walking through at one point this week. i was tempted to wear two pairs of long johns it was so cold. i wore two jackets, and had my pair of wool socks and my other socks on to keep my feet dry and warm. luckily i have my earmuffs or else my ears would have fallen off. there was one point where it was just so windy and dark, and wet, and cold that neither of us wanted to even move. it was crazy. even the germany were complnaining about the cold. thankfull today warmed up a bit we are now back to 0°C. which is nice...but there is a huge storm hitting berlin right now so we are getting dumped on with snow. we shall see how much it brings.

The week was great. monday was great because we had a lesson with a man we found on the street a few days previous. his name is rene. he is so cool. he is like a professional pianist. cool guy. he now is super interested in the booik of mormon and just soaked up the entire 1st lesson when we gave it to him on monday. unfortunatly he works a lot teaching piano, so we cant meet to often, but we will meet again. we called him and he ahd already read in the BoM and more chapters than we had given him. totally cool. the rest of monda was kind of also shot. we had 3 appointments on monday at wierd times that cuased us to have no "free" time on p-day, just shopping, running ernads and running from appointment to appointmnet

tuesday we had service at the art school again. it was nice to see herr w again and help him out at the school. he is just so cool. at the end we got to help him clean out a plaster mold he was making of someones head and then watched him fill it and stuff. cool stuff. after service we had an appointment with br g. br k came and that was super helpful. we didnt really teach anything, but it helped br g soooo much. he just wants a mentor and someone to be there for him. and br k said he would be more than happy to do that.for him. br k is the man! we then went by a ton of contacts as it started to snow and talked to a bunch of people on the street. a good day.

wednesday we had district meeting which went well. at the begginning the doorbell of the church rang and i answered it. it was a young man, well like 19 or so, who was asking for more info on the church and was looking for a "church change". he wants a new church to go to. unfortunatly we were having district meeting, so we made out an appointment for the next day and i gave him my card. unfortunatly he didnt come bac the next day :( we had a solid lesson during district meeting and then we started our exchange. elder p first exchange. he was super worried about it and told me i was a bad father for leaving him with another elder for the day. he just needs to grwo up and get over it haha. he had fun and learned a lot from elder marshall. i was in spandau with elder o...man can this elder eat! he is tiny, but he out ate me!!! that never happens! i must either be eating less or this kid can really eat. he is a beast. the exchange was loads of fun and we had a lot of success on the street talking to people. unfortunatly some appointments fell out, but thats no problem. we met with rosa, a new investigator of ours and the lesson went super well.

thursday we taught a member some english. we had a breakfast appointment with him and helped him out with his accent for his work. he works at the airport. he is super cool. we then had a fallen out appointment from the kid from wednesday. we then switched back. i picked up elder p and we did some oyms on the street. we found one lady who accepted an appointment for tomorrow (tuesday) and who actually meets with the j-dubs every monday. so we shalls ee how that goes. we will intorduce her to the BoM and she will say goodbye to the j-dubs. we then had another fallen out appointmnet and then our "open door" at the church. nobody came but it was a good time to call people and make out other appointments. we then met with familie simon. they are so cool. we taught them about missionary work and how they can do their own work. we made some good progress.

friday we had some training on the computer for our comp study which got us suuuper excited about family history work. it was awesome. we then ahd weekly planning and went with a member to his home teacher family to give the wife a blessing. we had an appointment with frau fleischer nad br g that night which went well.

saturday we had a good talk with the family history advisor in our ward. he is a cool guy. hopefully we can work more with him and the ward and our investigators through family history. we then had some fun egtting to br eichelbaums. because of the cold, the u-bahns were not working. so we had to use some s-bahns and busses to get to him. we had a great eating appointment. kohl rouladden....man its sooo good. who new you could stuff cabbage with meat and it would taste like that? amazing. we had had it before, but that was the first time for elder p. we then went by contacts and talked to people on the street the rest of the day. we had an appt fall out which wa really sad, but all is good.

sunday was a great day. churhc went well. br greb didnt come, which is wierd, but it was because his car is broken and he cant drive his moped in the cold and he had to take care of his daughter. so hopefully next week it is better. our eating appointment went well and we also had a good time on the street talking to people. this one man we talked to didnt want to have anything to do with us after we told him we were talking about families and such. he told us " my family is broken and there is nothing after this life" or something along those lines. i was tired and didnt have the energy to think of anything spectacular to say.
thats the week i hope you all have a great one.

Elder Ustach