Hello Everyone!
My week has been pretty good/crazy and everything that a missionary goes through every week of transfers! So first and foremost I was so positive that my comp would get transfered that he ended up staying haha we were both really shocked so we have 6 more weeks together. We get along really well but after a certain amount of time anyone can get on your nerves sometimes haha I figured out though that he is a cool guy but not someone I would choose to hang out with he is just different with certain things so sometimes we clash but we make it work. Another cool thing Elder Carlson my first comp got transfered to Dellingsdorf which is in the west and got made district leader and will be serving with Elder Lloyd from my district in the mtc! He is way excited about that I am excited for him he is a stud! Something else that is pretty cool. Elder Wilson who was serving in Osnabruck which is in my district also went to highschool with me he got transfered to Lankwitz Berlin to serve with Elder Jake Walter who is the one from our highschool that came the same day as me! So he was excited I think they are actually related somehow 2nd cousins or something! So that was the info on transfers.
As far as mission work goes. It has actually still been pretty slow this last week which isnt cool. I swear yesterday we were going by on some potential investigators and we had the worst luck we went by on 5 and none were home! Of course today is some stupid German holliday (excuse to get drunk) so they may be doing that. The highlight for the week also happened last night. So we were at the apartment and we were wondering what we should do because we had already gone by on 5 people and nobody was outside and I got this feeling we should go do this one street of doors that we had chummed before which means we had gone by and put our cards in the mailbox so when we knock on the door they know who we are. So we didnt have a lot of time like 1 hour to do doors cause after 8 o clock the germans dont like people knocking on their doors! So we went and we started doing some doors and there were a lot of old people which is never good cause they are always too set in their ways and dont like talkin about religion so about the first 45 minutes of doors was very unseccesfull. Than we came to this one door this middle aged guy answered and we started talkin to him and he let us in and so we got a walk in appointment taught him a first lesson he is from Italy and is baptized catholic but has had many bad experiences with churches because his wife is Protestant so the catholics didnt want him to marry her and all this crazy stuff so he is pretty skeptical when it comes to churches so he said he believes in God and just wants to leave it at that. But we introduced the Book of Mormon to him and he liked it he kinda seemed like he understood what we were saying and when we told him we were giving him the Book of Mormon he is like wait what your giving this to me he said that doesnt happen very often there is usually something behind it. We said well we want to share the truth with people so he took the book said he would read in it and also said he would like to come to our church in the near future! That was way cool! So thats the lesson for the week if you fallow the Holy Ghost cool things like that will happen! haha. As far as everyone else hmm Gisbert is still Gisbert I kinda feel bad I kinda laid it down to him this week but my comp said it was good so thats good I just told him like man if you know the book of mormon is true that means Joseph smith was a prophet and the Church is true and he didnt have much to say back so hopefully we can get him to budge!
Soo my watch did come its pretty cool I will have to send you a picture of it. It doesnt look like a watch just looks like a metal armband than you press a button and the numbers light up so its cool especially for 1 euro! haha. The branch here is way cool there are a couple weird people but you can find that anywhere but they are all really nice! There is about 40 members on paper I would say but 25 to 30 are active so ya a couple less active members. So church goes like this. The first hour is priesthood/relief society and the second hour is Sacrament meeting. This week Elder Hardman taught priesthood and I gave a talk in sacrament about how you receieve a testimony that was a really hard subject to talk about because a testimony can come through so many different ways!! So we are really involved in the ward just because there isnt tons of people! I am sending my Sd card home tommorrow too so no worries with that you will get pictures soon. We found this cool old windmill that was right on the Holland Boarder that we went and took some pictures by so that was cool.
Thats about all for this week! I am grateful for all of your support and your prayers I can feel them with me! I am workin hard trying to get this language down so I can be a more effective missionary! But I know that it will come before I know it! Thanks for everything!! Love ya!!
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