10-23-11

Hello everyone.
Man so this week has been ok! This area is not easy we have seen a little success though we made out quite a few new appointments this week and have been finding basically all day everyday. Doors and street contacting is basically all we do and that makes a man CRAZY. I am really losing motivation here haha which is sad but I am trying to somehow keep myself motivated! All of our appointments fall through we found 2 solid people last week and both appointments fell out and one of them didnt show up and the other said she had no interest and another investigator that we had that my comp said was way solid we went by on her and she said she didnt want to meet with us anymore haha hasnt been too much fun this week! My comp doesnt really have a lot of motivation left either because he is going home in 2 more transfers and he doesnt want to end his mission here but he probably will because he is the 2nd counsler in the branch presidency. Speaking of the branch there were only 9 people at church yesterday and 4 of those 9 were missionaries and the other 5 were all sisters. We had 3 priesthood holders at church and we were all missionaries. It was so ridiculous I have never seen such an empty room for church. The branch president has only been here 1 sunday of the 3 that I have been here haha he is always busy because he is like the german equivilent to a senator here so he is in Berlin all the time and flys to paris and all over to have meetings and stuff. He has 4 kids so there are kids in the ward but I have only seen them once and ya they dont come a lot. Hmm what else happened this week haha. We were doing street contacting in a different city in our area called Pasewalk and there was seriously nobody on the street it was so ridiculous and we were like what the heck there is nobody this is dumb and so we started just walking around and we were looking in the window of this watch store haha cause the advertisement poster of the girl she was way cute so my comp was picking which one he would marry and it was about 9 at night so time for us to go home and this bike started coming in our direction so I thought alright I will stop her and see if maybe she will talk to us. it was an older woman so not old but probably in her 50s or so. And when we stopped her haha she thought we were the police because she didnt have a front light on her bike she is like ya I know I am just going home right now and I will get a light on it and all this haha and we were like no we are from the church and started talking to her she is catholic but we told her what we believed and about how there was an apostosy and everything and she said ya that could be and she had a lot of interest so we set a new appointment with her which was pretty cool. Man the weather is getting crazy cold here!! Its been like 4 or 5 celc but I dont know what that is in Farenheit?? 0 cel is 32 farenheit so freezing so its getting pretty cold here!! We are starting to see ice on our windshield and everything! I cant believe that this transfer is half way over! Its pretty crazy the longer I am in the mission the faster it goes by! I finished reading the Book Of Mormon again this last week so that was cool. Oh man the highlight of my week was Tuesday I almost forgot! So I had to go to Berlin with my comp cause he had a leadership meeting with Pres and all the district leaders and zone leaders and everything. This was in Tiergarten berlin which is the coolest area ever its right dead center in berlin where all the sights are and everything the Gate and everything. So I was there the whole day with another missionary from my golden group and we did street contacting!! There was so many people it was amazing and they were all nice to us! We made out an apointment for the ZLs in Berlin within the first 20 minutes of street contacting!! It was super solid! My comp and I wanted to stay there in Berlin we thought about just sleeping in the train station or something its so cool. I also was able to see the white house for the German president that was pretty cool I saw alot of cool things and than I realized why serving in the city berlin is my dream!! It was really so cool. But than we came back home!! Hahaha. Na ja we will see its just hard to stay motivated when you cant get anything going! And all the members are like ya its really slow right now.... But when Elder Ott was here he had a lot of success haha so they compare us to him which is kinda annoying. We will see how it goes!! Other than that nothing really new. For P day we are going to continue building our chocolate temple we get this nasty chocolate every sunday from this member with the old mom the one who is really funny. Anyways so they started building a temple a couple of transfers ago and we are making it legit its getting there. We bought a big wood board to put it on and also a green carpet haha its like legit carpet we can put the carpet on the board to make it look like grass for the garden and everything haha so its gonna be cool I will send pics when I can. I forgot my cord at home today but I have a whole sd card filled and ready to send. I found out last week that in my last area I got blitzed so here in germany they have whats called blitz boxes and when you are going to fast they take a picture of you and the car and everything and send it to the address of the owner of the car. Hahah so I have to pay a 25 euro fine. Which sucks but whatever haha maybe I can talk the guy into copying the picture of me and sending it to me that would be cool!! Well everyone thanks for the prayers!! I need them!!! Love you all have a great week!!

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Elder Christian J. Voran