10-9-11

Hello Everyone!

Man what a week I have had its been crazy with gettin transferred again and again to the complete other side of the country!!! It was a long train ride but it wasnt so bad haha. The only problem was I reserved a seat on both trains and in the second train an old lady was sitting in my seat I had reserved and I didnt want to say hey thats my seat. Well I did but I thought it would be nice to let her sit there. And the train was pretty full so I had to sit in the little cafe thing on the train haha it wasnt too bad!! But my new area is so East Germany I think some of the people we talk to still think the wall is up or something they are so DDR brainwashed its pretty ridiculous. But to be honest its not too bad we have had a lot of success this week. We made out 9 new appointments and the most they had made out here was 5 or something. Me and my comp get a long dang good. He is so funny. I have never spoken so much german in my life and I am sure it has already increased so much. He says my german is pretty good but thats cause he has to say that! He is way cool. His name is Elder Breuer ya like I said last week he is from stuttgart so way down south. He doesnt have much longer on his mission 2 more transfers after this one. So we will see what happens he thinks he will die here. So dying on the mission means to finish your mission. But I think he will get transferred this next transfer and I will stay. But we will see we have 5 weeks to go! This week went by really fast. We have a lot of fun together so thats way cool!! So its pretty much normal as far as missionary work goes with him cause he is the second counsler in the branch presidency we arent required to visit members or anything plus there is only like 20 members anyways and 10 active haha it was such a surprise yesterday in sacrament meeting to see only 8 or 9 people there and us missionaries were half of the total because the 1st counsler in the branch presidency is a senior couple missionary. I think my comp is ready to go home when his time comes. He is a hard worker and he has been really in some crappy cities his whole mission I feel bad for him. He has only been able to baptize one person on his mission so far but maybe we can get a couple here soon!! I dont think he has a hard time serving close to home its probably about the same as me serving in Idaho or something its pretty far away. And ya I have séen elder Gibson he is actually sitting right next to me right now. Its been cool to see him and be in the same district he has been in his city now for 3 transfers and with the same companion. But he is doing good. My district is way cool. Elder Gibson and his comp me and my comp and the Zone Leaders which are way cool!! SO we have a lot of fun!! Its starting to get kinda cold here. And kinda windy too which sucks but I think I will be ok!! It isnt too bad!! My area is crazy its a pretty big area and we have been doing work in little dorfs because everyone in prenzlau already knows us and its hard to work here and prenzlau is actually not even the biggest city in our area its one of the smallest so we have been going to bigger cities in our area or little dorfs and we have really seen a lot of success so its been cool. My comp and his last companion who was here before me didnt really get along so thats probably why the work was so dead but we get along great! The senior couple here is freaking awesome! haha I dont know if they are as cool as the Thoms though. They actually invited us over for Tacos today so I am excited to eat mexican food again. They are from California they are pretty cool. Man I cant believe I have been gone for so long. I was just thinking that my birthday and christmas is coming up thats nuts. There are very few members here in Prenzlau but they are all pretty nice. There is one sister Sister Meilicke and she is like the mother for the missionaries and she stays close with every missionary who serves here and takes a trip to america every year to visit and calls on there birthdays and everything she is super awesome! She made us dinner yesterday and it was pretty dang good! But there are also some crazy people here. Haha so every sunday we have an appointment with  this in active family and the guy is prob 60 or so and its just him and his mom he takes care of his mom cause she is 88 and we play a game with them every week its some ddr game from east germany a long time ago and this old 88 yr old lady is so nuts hahah its so funny we make noises and she tries to copy it and everything and like she is pretty much still there just kinda funny. And we were making animal noises last night oh my gosh I wish I would have recorded this old 88 yr old lady trying to make animal noises and she is always laughing she thinks everything is funny. I asked her yesterday what was so funny and she said what do you want me to do should I be sad or something haha. And so I was thinking thats a really good answer we can choose to be happy or not! Although she is a bit crazy I think she likes me hahah she was smaking my leg like it was funny haha and then my comp haha he told them that I have a way good voice and love to sing!! Which is completely not true and so they wanted to hear me sing oh my gosh I was like what the heck elder you know I dont like to sing hahah and so I did a solo of Love one Another and thank goodness that my voice is better than theirs so I could pass with having a ''good voice'' Anyways it was freaking funny!! Other than that nothing really new here I am having a good time! I have already learned tons more german haha. SO that has been fun. Anyways Hope you all have a great week. Love you all!!

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Elder Christian J. Voran