12-4-11

Hello Everyone!
Man this week was great!! We started right we worked hard and finished strong!! We really saw miracles this week it was great! I guess I will give you all the run down! So we have been going through our area book and finding tons of people who have interest still that missionaries just gave up on cause they weren't progressing as fast as they could be. I see it that when all we are doing is finding and there are people to teach even if they aren't fully proggressing so fast its ok cause it is giving us a chance to teach them and to become better missionaries. And who knows these people could connect differently with us than they did with the previous missionaries! We had Thanksgiving on Monday that was great!! I took some pictures I will have to send my SD card home soon. It was a full feast! It was us and the Eberswalde Elders and the senior couple of course cause they cooked. The eberswalde elders are cool guys including my MTC Comp Elder Gibson we have a lot of fun in our district. We were able to reach the standard again with 7 new appointments which was great! I don't know if that has ever happened in this area 7 new appiontments 2 weeks in a row!! Thats got to be crazy haha I will probably go AP now! haha just kidding. But we were really blessed with miracles! We found some way cool people. Also the hope of gettin a baptism before Christmas has increased!! We got back into contact with a former investigator her name is Mariela she is from Argentina and has a friend that lives in Utah that is a member and she saw the missionaries on the street last march and was excited to see them and she is SOO GOLDEN. We were finally able to meet with her the only problem is that she is a nurse so she is on call all the time and working and she has a daughter that she takes care of by herself cause her Husband works in another country so he is only home on weekends which is a bummer so appointments are hard but if you fight for them you can get her on a free day! She is the nicest lady ever! She reads the book of mormon every day she said she sets aside 20 minutes every night just to read even though she is so busy thats even better than most members of the church haha! She has already read it through once and is in Alma so she is just awesome. She also asked us to order her D and C and the pearl of Great price in spanish for her!! We are going to get her baptized before christmas or at least that is our goal she is so prepared and its just amazing to see her and how strong she is in the gospel without even being a member she would play such an essential role to the branch here especiall cause her daughter is 7 so that means in a year its one more member being raised into the church that would be great!! I will let you all know the progress with her as it happens!! We also increased our lessons taught this week by 3 lessons so slowly we are progressing we should have even more this coming week! We have about 7 planned already and these are not member lessons so it is going to be a good week I just know it! I get the feeling I am going to get transferred after this transfer but we will see. It will be great to spend Christmas here even though we don't have an appointment for Christmas yet which is kinda a bummer but it will happen I am sure probably the Branch president and his wife will have us over that would be good. We have an appointment with Sister Meilike my favorite member!! On the 26th so that will be good!! She is so solid she is the one that every calls her Mutti cause she is always taking care of us!! We had a couple of dissapointments this week as well but its ok the work will go on!! Our solid appointment with Rheinhardt in Schwedt fell through and we were so stupid we didnt even get his contact info so now there is no way we could get in contact with him unless he calls so we are praying for that! Elder Larson got blitzed this week!! We were driving to an apointment and all of a sudden we see this blitz box and he was going like 50 over cause he didnt see the speed limit change so than it flashed and took a picture of us haha so he will have to pay some money for that!! I have been blitzed once but mine wasnt too bad I only had to pay 25 euro or so.... Anyways we also had a ward christmas party this week it was pretty good!! Its funny to me how some members come to the party but than not the next day to church!! They just dont quite fully grasp what church is all about and thats kinda sad! I have had a hard time being nice to people this week cause they are so ridiculous they have all there Christmas stuff up there lights and there nativities than we go ring there doorbell and ask if they believe in God and what God means to them and they say no I dont believe in that thats all nonsense and I have been tempted to ask them why they are celebrating christmas!! Man when everyone would understand what Christmas really means than this world would be soo much better!! But the Christmas market is up in our city now and we went the opening day and scored some free crepes they were delicous man they sale the best stuff there like all type of roasted nuts in like some sugar deliciousness my favorite is the cashews!! Its funny the people are so much happie at christmas market mostly becasue they are all hopped up on this drink called Glühwein its a warm alchohol drink so they all get owned on that!! I was on exchange this week and went to Eberswalde and we went by on this less active member and oh my gosh it was the most disgusting thing I have ever seen in my life!! His apartment is just a pig stie! He had old food all over his couch like food that is supposed to be in the fridge and he was just eatin it oh my gosh i almost puked!! He had this bottle of some type of drink and it had been sittin there forever and there was a couple of flies inside and he pours it into his cup and just drinks away man it was so gross and he doesnt shower he just walks around in like a belly shirt haha it was insane!! Well that was my week!! Hope you all have a great week!! Love you all!!