1-8-12

Hello Everyone,

So this week was really good for us here in Leipzig. We decided last week to set Transfer goals and do missionary work a little different and do it how the Lord wants us to do it and not how we thought it should work. We set a goal to get 5 new investigators every week which is a pretty intense goal and pretty strechable!! Anyways we had 4 already by Sunday morning so we only needed 1 more to reach our goal we had seriously nothing planned for Sunday it was a pretty empty day we didnt have many appointments. We decided to go the the Student Apartments and start doing door to door. Within 2 hours we had taught 3 lessons and had gotten 4 new investigators man it was crazy. So instead of 5 new investigators we got 8 this week it was so cool to see the Hand of the Lord as we ask him for help in our goals we are trying to achieve!! If you work with the Lord and help him to work with you than you can achieve the goals. It was such a testimony builder to me. I came down with a cold this week!! That wasnt too fun but its starting to go away. Its like the first time I have been sick on my mission. It wasnt so fun but I was still able to work so that was good!! We were also able to teach 7 more lessons this week than we did last week so that was a way big step up!! The members here are so great and so supportive. We got 4 joint teaches this week I think that is the most I have gotten my whole mission but who is counting haha. They are really supportive its really nice to be in a big ward again instead of a small branch!! But its fun to experience both. I can't even believe its the year of 2012 haha everyone says the world is going to end this year haha thats exactly why it wont end!! I am having such a great time living in a 4 elder apartment its so much fun and its hard to get sick of your comp cause your always with other people. We are seriously like brothers when we get in arguments we just wrestle over it haha its a lot of fun. We have so many activities here that are great. Tonight we have FHE with the members who dont have families and its a lot of fun a lot of the younger people come. And Today the new member from Chile is making Fajitas so that is somethign special mostly because its pretty close to impossible to find mexican food here. Its so crazy how many different types of people there are here its really diverse we have an investigator right now from Romania and he has a hard time speaking german so haha it is quite interesting trying to teach him. Most people can speak English if they cant speak German so its not too hard but sometimes you get these people from crazy countries that can only speak arabic or hungarish or some crazy language!! Oh man the craziest thing happened this week I almost forgot to add this in. So my comp and I were teaching this investigator from Romania. His name is Georgy anyways we were finished and we were the only ones here at the Institute center and there are 2 glass doors that are just straight glass and handles that are in the Center and they lead into the main room. So we were finished and I was in the main room and and was putting on my coat and the investigator came out and went to the bathroom and both of the glass doors were closed and Elder Wilson thought one was open so he just walked straight head on into this glass door oh man it was so hard to not laugh. I did laugh at first cause I thought he was joking but he busted his glasses and they cut right above his eyebrow open and he ended up having to get stitches so it was pretty intense haha. Crazy!! Anyways the work here is going great I am having a blast and loving the mission it seems so unreal to me how fast time is going by but its good at the same time. I love finally being busy I forget what day it is a lot of the time. I remember back to my first transfer and how slowly it went by and now I cant even keep track of time it is blowing my mind!! I love Leipzig it really is such a great city!! I found a place where I can buy MTN Dew I about died cause they dont have that in Germany but I found a store that imports it its so expensive so I decided 1 a week would be ok haha!! Anyways other than that not a whole lot going on just doing the Lords work and loving life!! This work is great the Church is true I get reassured every day through little miracles even when it looks hard or impossible there is always away we just have to continue to be dillegent and keep working till the end goal and we all know what that is!! Well thank you all for the support!! Love you lots!! Have a great week!!

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Elder Christian J. Voran