Good Week

Hello :)

Well the week has been great. No, br greb did not accept a baptisimal date, but he fasted and prayed about it with us on saturday and he really enjoyed church on sunday. we are making real progress with him and we are not letting him be distracted or start talking himself in circles again. Elder Jo is really good with him to, even if he cannot understand all that he says. It is great. We will have an apointment tomorrow about baptism and hopefully make out a date for the 30th of march :)

Monday, well you heard all about taht already, 

tuesday we had some contact work and a fallen out appointmnet. 

wednesday we had zone training meeting. it went great! i learned a lot about how i need to improve my teaching skills and such. 

thursday we had some service where we carried 30 year old coal out of a basement into a trailer. crazy stuff. we were sneezing black stuff out of our nose for the res of the day LOL. we then had our gesprächskreis where we had br greb there. this is where we agreed on fasting together and he was really excited about it. 

friday we did planning and met with herr ferch. he is so cool. we talked a lot about the pan of salvation and he wants specific answers to questions like "whats happens to the women and children who are murdered in africa because they are christian?" stuff like that. he just needs to get it through his head that chirt is merciful and so is god and all will work out in the end and it does not matter what happens, the point is to find the truth and pray about it and stick to it and hope for the best and have faith taht god is there and will figure it all out. we tried to explain that to him, but it didnt go as well as planned. next time will be better.  we also ate with familie troeger. the are so cool. the husband is not a member, but he was a chef for the german navy and he was also a chef for the american armed forces while the were here in berlin. we ate well! LOL. it was great. we had frickadellin. (i spelt that wrong) and some good vegitables. we also met with br greschke and frau fleischer.

saturday we did service for br dein. that was a blast! we cut down a 30-40 foot tree. br dein got on a ladder and cut branches off and then wedug around the tree and ut the roots with the chain saw and then tugged and pulled and pushed and shoved until he finall fell over. It was stupid. the biggest root was diretly below the tree, the one we could not get to. after 3 ours we got it down. awesome! we also ate lunch with br eichelbaum. he is doing well. we then met with a  woman, frau bernu...but she did not let us in. so we taught her really quick at her door. we even had a joint teach so it was super awkward because the member couldnt do much. i just talked for ike 5 minutes and we left. super wierd. 

sunday was great. we had br geb at church, fabian, and frau fleischer. and good news with frau fleischer! she can be baptised. she is a little handicapped and so she has a person who is in charge of her, who has until now, not allowed her to be baptised. but she ahs cahnged her mind and she can now be baptised!we now have a lot of work to do to get her ready for baptism. 

the sisters have a baptism this sunday and it will be great. we are super excited to be there for it. so is the ward. 

the week was great. it was warm. spring is defiently here!

thank you for all that you do. unti next week.

Elder Ustach