This week was very enjoyable and not so much at the same time. i woke up wednesday sick and its still not completely gone. But also great because we had district meeting with sister kosak and former elder F. the old AP.We also had interviews. The sun was shining nearly everyday and it was just a good week in that aspect. the work slowed down a lot but we dont focus on the bad.
I am sorry about the pics. i guess they didnt send. i will send some more.
I forgot to tell you last email. last monday we went to a concentration camp. It was great! I learned a lot more than the one in Hamburg. This one was more of an execution camp rather than a work camp like in hamburg. Very different. It is just unimaginable how brutal and grousem they were to the prisoners. crazy stuff
Tuesday we had service which was great! we cleared out this plot of land covered in ivy and old wood. there was this one HUGE log that was so soaked in water that when i tried to move it with this axe thing i had, it just ripped right through it and didnt help at all. i then just grabbed a bunch of the wood from the inside of it and squeezed and water just came gushing out. this wood was soaked! it was more of a log of mush, rather than wood. but we had a blast. we then had some fallen out appointments which was alright because we went to obstallee for some finding and it went ok. Nothing special. that night we had ward council. that was fun. there is one member of the bishopric who i think does not think that we should be there and always gives snarky comments back to what we...well i say. we were discussing some investigators and baptisms and such and he made a comment and i replied nicely and gave my opinion, then another member of the bishopric agreed with me directly after it and then like 3 others pof the ward councel did the same. it was great!!! HAHA.
wednesday we had our interviews and such. i got the mail. thankyou for my card BTW. My interview went well.president asked how long i had left and he then asked me where i wanted to go for the last three transfers. i didnt say anything. but i think he wrote down hannover. we shall see. but bottom line is that i am gone at the end of this month. president was also very pleased with my teaching and how i am as a district leader. so im not messing up to bad to have him notice me to much. this is good :) haha. But he did say he was proud of my leadership and was happy and such about my training elder j. i have figured out on my mission, my best strangth is to just get the job done and quietly. my leaders dont notice me, but its because they dont have to. earlier i was kind of sad that pres was not talking to me much or really noticing me, but then again that is a strength...he has 270 missionaries to worry about if i do my job and be quiet about it he has one less problem on his plate. i have enough trust from my leaders that they dont have to be talking to me daily and worrying about me. they can trust me enough to let me go off alone and get the job done and forget about it. i like that.
thursday we did doors and then we had a great lesson with serge. he is a cool gator from russia! he is orthodox and is such a cool guy.the entire lesson he would ask a question and then we would respond and then he would say..." so all i ahve to do is read this book and it will all make sense" lol. YES!!! he understood!!!
friday we had fallen out appointments and a good appointment with br greb. we also had an eating appointment with an american. we then went to tiergarten to pick up our "mini missionaries"!!! they are a bunch of youth out of northern germany who all came to berlin to tag alone with us for a day and see what missionary work is like. it was so cool. i got brother timm!!! he was so cool. elder jgot brother shchwarzkopf. they were both really cool. we got home way late.
saturday we went finding with our minis and then went back to tiergarten to drop them off and have lunch. we were not planning on eating anything but it was dominos pizza! not normal in germany. so we ate. that was a stupid idea, because an hour alter we went to br eichems house and he fed us icebein!!! i could not finish it! i was so embarrassed.
sunday, we had a great day at church. it went super well. elisha got baptised. he is a gator of the sisters.
sorry, i ran out of time. to many people emailing me as i wrote this one. until next week. :)
Elder Ustach
