10-2-11

Hello Everyone!!

So I guess I will start out with Transfer Calls. I have been transferred and you wont believe it I am going back to the other side of the country!! This time north of where I was before about an hour north of Berlin in a little city callled Prenzlau. Its in the Neubrandenburg zone. My new comp is German he is from Stuttgart which I am way pumped about that I will be able to learn German a little bit better and everything It will be way cool he is also the Second counsler in the branch presidency there and the district leader haha so I am going to another small branch. Thats ok though I will work hard and try to make it bigger! It was way funny nobody from my group went senior comp I guess we have a lot of older missionaries right now and not so many young ones! Anyways I am excited its a long transfer I go from Rheine to Berlin and than from Berlin to Prenzlau with the train so it will be fun at least I only have to catch one other train so it will be ok. I am sure I will be there in Prenzlau for the winter and that scares me because the Neubrandenburg and Berlin areas get the winds from Siberia in the winter but na ja it wil be good haha. It is going to be so wierd leaving this place!! It was pretty crappy too cause we had transfer calls saturday and had to leave to Osnabruck to watch conference so I didnt really get to see any of the members because they all watch conference live on their internets! So I guess I will have to visit some of them today so that I can say goodbye and I also need to pack today so I am going to be pretty busy! Before I forget here is my new address Wittenhofer straße #1 17291 Prenzlau Germany. So that is where I will be for a while I am sure back to the east. Oh and another thing that is cool about that is I will be in the same district as my Mtc comp and the same zone as Elder Wittwer from the mtc so that will be furn!! Anyways other than that we have had a pretty good week. General Conference was awesome I cant remember what my favorite talk was because they were all so good but when they are over I cant remember who said what haha. The first talk from President Monson well I guess it wasnt really a talk but a thing where he announced the temples that was dang funny when he just got up and said HELLO haha we all got a kick out of that he was really funny this conference! I couldnt believe that they are putting another temple in Provo thats nuts!! Elder Eyring was even kinda funny this conference it was really good his story about Spencer W. Kimball and how Elder Eyring and Elder Holland had to move his chair and he said oh dont hurt your backs haha it was great. Man but Elder Hales looked way bad!! Do you know what happened with him? He looked so different I could hardly even recognize him! And Packer is not looking so good either! Anyways we had a good week we met some Venezuelans I dont know how to  spell that but its ok and they are way solid investigators now so that is good. We have seen Peter a couple of times this week and we taught Florian once as well so it has been pretty good. Its going to be a whole different world for me where I am going haha kinda like where I came from but I am so much more mature as a missionary and able to handle harder cities and areas. At least I think so! I am really happy with the work I have done here and feel good about leaving but it will definately be hard cause I have LOVED this area but its time to go and move on I guess thats the life of a missionary! I have learned so much and I am grateful for that!! As far as everything else goes! I finished A Marvelous Work and A Wonder it is such a great book I couldnt even set it down it was awesome! And I have also been reading The Book of Mormon which was talked about so much during conference I am somewhere in 3rd Nephi so I am getting near the end. And I am also reading the New Testemant haha so I am kinda all over the place!! Anyways its great to learn about the parables of Jesus Christ and the things he taught his disciples sometimes they are kinda confusing but it makes you think and helps you understand things better. I can not believe its already October man time goes by so fast and its hard to believe (now that I am leaving) that I have been here since MAY wow how crazy we have accomplished a lot here and thats what matters!! anyways Sorry that this week was so short not really a whole lot going on because we had to be in Osnabruck for general conference! So I guess I can explain how that works. On Saturday we see the Saturday Morning session live but here its 6 at night but we still see it live. Than the next morning at 11 am we see priesthood session recorded and than at 2 pm we see saturday evening session. Than we are able to see the Sunday morning session live at 6 pm again so thats good than the Sunday evening session we dont see untill the next week or sometimes we just have to watch it on our own it all depends on the ward or branch your in!! Other than that nothing really new going on!! thanks for everything!! love you all!! Have a great week!!

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Elder Christian J. Voran