Zone and district meetings

Another week has literally flown by here in Germany and not without some craziness!  First off, we had a zone training meeting with the mission president--it was really good, very motivating.  Here's a picture of our zone--I am sitting front, right:

Tuesday morning we had a lesson with Charlie.  He's the interesting man with the white beard and long ponytail.  We planned to talk about Jesus Christ and read 3 Nephi 11:1-11.  As soon as we began to have a discussion he changed the subject.  He does that every time!  I would ask him about Jesus Christ or the Atonement and he would brush it off and then he'd change the subject to the philosophies of man or the Nazis.  I don't think we're going to be going back there very often because he doesn't keep commitments and it's super hard to give a lesson. 

 

Our bahn (train) home was late but I think it was Heavenly Father's will.  We were walking home from the Buckau station and a man stopped us on the pathway and asked us if we had a Bible.  That led to talking about the Book of Mormon and he was really interested.  We asked him if there was another time that we could meet and he said, "Well, there is a bench right here--tell me more."  He liked it all and took a Book of Mormon, a Restoration pamphlet, and our card.  He said he was religious and that it was a shame that so many Germans have hard hearts.  We really wanted to get his contact info so we could visit him but he said he would come by church on Sunday and that we could meet there.  He also said he'd bring his four kids.  He sounded super genuine.  He hugged us at the end and said, "See ya later."  I got this really good feeling afterwards.  Unfortunately, he didn't come to church yesterday.  But he was in every one of our prayers this week.  We were praying that he would feel the Spirit and bring his family to church.  Hopefully we can see him again.  He made me realize how much people notice us though.  He said he sees us all the time walking around.  You never think how many people are actually watching you. 

 

We had a lesson with Vinod that evening.  We began by asking if he could fill us in on his arranged marriage and other "personal issues" he referred to last time.  He said that being Mormon would make it a lot more difficult (but not impossible) to find a good wife.  He said that he also worries that his Catholic family would treat him like an alien.  He is also stressed over work but he looks forward to our visits because they take his mind off of everything else.  We read with him Alma 20:7-27.  Afterward, I checked for understanding.  I realized that was important because his little English does not allow him to understand a lot of the scriptures.  Therefore I explained the story to him in simpler terms and then I quoted 1 Nephi 19:23 and said we hope you can apply this story to your life and be an example of the believers. Elder Meeks read Moroni 3:7.  After that I told him, look, I don't know what missionaries have told you in the past and I don't want to pressure you.  He said, "Oh no you can say anything you want to me."  So I explained that we know that baptism is a commandment from our Heavenly Father.  Heavenly Father wants to bless you but there are certain blessings that he cannot give you until you are baptized.  I said I know we talked about baptism last time and this is a decision you need to make with your agency, but if you can take this leap of faith, we testify that Heavenly Father will provide a way like it says in the scriptures.  Have the faith that the hearts of your family members will be softened.  Have the faith that you will marry the right woman.  Elder Meeks followed that by letting him know that we wanted him to pray and with the help of his Heavenly Father, he could pick a baptismal date that he could work toward and we would help him prepare for that.  I think he took it really well.  I think he appreciated it.  I also don't think we could have been more blunt.  

 

Wednesday was a pretty solid day.  We bounced up, had a bit of study, and then went to district meeting.  The Zone Leaders stayed at our wohnung (apartment) Tuesday night so they came with us.  District meeting was solid.  We practiced street contacting and also took district pics since transfers are this week:

 

We also got some pics with Elder Slinker as well since he goes home tomorrow:

 

Afterward we went out district finding.  Elder Pilling and I went out together.  We had a lot of fun talking to people.  It was funny, we really stumbled through trying to talk to one girl--I think she thought we were idiots.  But we got a contact!  Her name is Lena.  She grew up just outside the city and now she is studying here.  She is religious and she is interested in finding out how families can be eternal.  I called her that night to set up something but she is going out of town for the next week so she said to call her then. 

 

We went to lunch afterwards.  I got food from Curry 54 since I didn't feel like a döner.  I tried a drop of their hottest curry that they don't even have on their menu and I almost choked.  I couldn't even speak to give my order.  I got the Beyond Insanity curry which was just right for me--almost sweet.  Elder Yarborough got the hottest.  He was sweating profusely and then he got acid reflux and it came back up.  We went by an old investigator's home from our area book that night.  We caught one man at home and he agreed to meet with us!  We are going over there on Wednesday.  I think I told you we toured the Catholic Cathedral here in Magdeburg last week--here are a couple of my pictures.  The second is purported to be a whale bone...from the whale that ate Jonah.  Not sure about that but the cathedral is beautiful!

 

I miss and love you all!!

 

Elder Germann

Celebrated my birthday!!

I hope all is good on the home front!  Thanks for all of the birthday care packages:

This week our struggles to find investigators continued. Tuesday during companionship study we dug into our second area book looking for potential investigators that we could contact. We pulled out at least twenty records and then plotted out where each individual lives on a map. The sad thing is that most of these people have moved but no one updated the record to show that. I guess we are still being productive by tying off loose ends in our record books. One of the teaching records was a family. We went by and the mother told us she was too busy and did not have time to meet with us... ever. That was really disappointing--it would have been great to teach a big family. After that we made the decision to change how we contact these potential investigators. We are going to skip the question, "Are you interested in meeting with us?" and just go right to "When is a good time for you to hear our message?" We street contacted into a less-active member that evening. He said he wanted to go to the temple. We told him we could help with that! Hopefully he'll start coming to church again.

On Wednesday we took time following our district meeting to celebrate Elder Haas' and my birthday. We went into a sporting goods store and looked at all of the soccer jerseys. I bet every team in the world was in there! I need to get a German jersey at some point, especially since now they are selling the 2014 World Cup Champion jerseys. We then went to the Dom and spent three hours there on a tour. The Dom is the huge Catholic cathedral in downtown Magdeburg. It really is a magnificent sight. It was bombed a bit during WWII but has since been repaired. People on the tour were curious as to who we were and what we were doing, the tour guide especially. I was super nice and the guide tried to speak English with us. We offered to help him learn English and gave him our number. Then we went to C&A and H&M. C&A is the German version of H&M but its 10x better. Elder Haas and I were supposed to buy birthday ties but nothing really excited us. Afterward we did some district finding. I took Elder Haas to Sudenburg (West Magdeburg) to hit some contacts. No one was home so we did street contacting. We handed out a bunch of pamphlets and a Book of Mormon to this really big guy that said he was interested in our message. He said he has lots of religious friends and he loves talking to them about their beliefs. He gave us his address and told us to come by in three weeks when his Masters program ends. We also talked to an Albanian who appeared to be on crack. And we talked to an African guy that barely spoke any German or English. He didn't believe that we were American. I even showed him my NC drivers license and he claimed it was fake. I felt really stupid because I had forgotten our contact cards and I couldn't remember our phone number so we were out of luck when he couldn't tell us his phone number or address either. We went to my favorite place for dinner that night--the Chinese-Deutsch shack.  A Chinese woman runs this little business and its super cheap, super yummy food. I didn't think Chinese and German food went together but I guess they do. Elder Haas had a training in Berlin the next day so he and his companion stayed at our wohnung. We played keep-away soccer all night.

They were up and gone early Thursday morning. Our appointment fell through again with a less-active member. She was sick. We asked if she wanted a priesthood blessing but she declined. We had our branch mission meeting with the Romneys that afternoon. They are still doing great. Sister Romney told a story about how her son's brain tumor somehow disappeared after doctors only gave him a short time to live. She said it was a miracle of prayer. She inspired me to pray more exactly for what I want/need. They then fed us dinner--little sandwiches, chips, and fruits. Then Maria, an investigator of the other two elders, came for a lesson. I talked to her for a little while. She was super nice. I asked her about work--she works for Lufthansa Customer Service. Elder Meeks and I took off towards the University. None of our contacts were home. We talked to a few people on the street but no one was really out because it was dark and rainy. It's been raining a lot lately. I talked to Elder Haas on the phone that night. He said that President Kosak emphasized that we need to be using the lesson pamphlets and be handing those out on the street. He also said I had three packages at the mission home which I got Friday night when Elder Pilling was visiting here with Elder Morton.

I have been reading the Book of Mormon in German every morning and it still requires a lot of attention and focus but I am getting better at it. Weekly planning followed study Friday morning. I'd say it was pretty productive. We have three lessons already scheduled for this week and we even scheduled time for me to practice the piano/organ a couple of times this week. We went to the church and made a baptismal calender for Han on the computer. Basically it has a scripture passage for her to study each day up until her baptismal date and we chose the scriptures according to what we felt her needs are. From what I have heard from other missionaries, investigators love these baptismal calenders. We had a lesson with Kolja that evening. We didn't meet with him last week; so between work and illness, he got a little distracted from seeking out the Spirit and from reading the Book of Mormon. We watched Elder Bednar's talk from a recent conference with him. Then we read Enos in the Book of Mormon with him again and emphasized the importance of prayer and how we can feel the Spirit. He says that he wants to know (he has a hope!) and he committed to reading everyday and praying earnestly. In addition, he said he'll be actively searching for the Spirit during the day. He's a really awesome guy--very intelligent, deep thinker. When we were leaving we got a call from Bernburg saying that someone forgot to give Elder Pilling and Morton a phone so Elder Haas and Stringham both had one in Bernburg. We tried to catch Elder Pilling and Morton at HauptBahnHof but somehow missed them.  Then they got lost going home. We found them an hour and a half later just then finding their way to their wohnung. Because they didn't have a phone, the Zone Leaders said that they had to stay with us. It was another night of keep-away soccer. Elder Pilling had my packages though! I got birthday packages from the fam, Hana, and Grandma/Grandpa Val! I am loaded with American snacks for the next couple of months! :)

Saturday morning we all went to the church to take the language assessment we're all required to take. It didn't work though because the link the Missionary Training Center sent out was bad. We went to visit some more contacts--all of which had moved--until our lesson with Claudius. The lesson went well I thought. We got in there and Elder Meeks just looked at me so I took the lead. We watched President Uchtdorf's recent conference talk in English since Claudius' English is really good but the lesson was in German. I said what I liked/learned from the talk and then I asked him what he thought about it. He gave a 15 minute response which I think I followed--something about the role of religion in society. He took my response well and went on to answer my follow-up question so I took that to mean that I had made sense of what he said and asked a related follow-up question--YES! He gives very thoughful, deep responses. He is super intelligent and his German is very advanced. I tried my best to follow. When speaking to me though, he is very understanding--he speaks slowly and clearly. I really want to get him to come back to church and also I want to ask him about why he agrees to meet with us. That lesson taught me how important the book Preach My Gospel is. It truly contains a simple answer to every question. If we stick to the doctrines, we'll be good. I testified of the Book of Mormon and how it is the keystone of our religion--without it, we have nothing. I promised him that if he earnestly reads and prays, he will feel the Spirit. I felt like that was a pretty safe promise since I have seen it in my life and Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and every prophet has promised the same thing.  We played soccer that night with two of the other elders' investigators. They even brought a friend--a really nice Pakistani kid. I talked to him a bit. He tried to speak English to me...not very good. Now I know what it is like for the Germans listening to me.

Yesterday was quite stressful. The other elders hadn't reunited with their companions yet because DeutscheBahn was striking again this weekend and every train was cancelled. Elder Pilling was about to stay the night again last night but the stake choir director was not about to have choir practice without his pianist so he drove all the way from Köthen to get Elder Pilling. That's an hour drive. Trying to figure out the logistics was crazy. We were going to try to get to choir but then we'd have no way home so we decided to stay home. Elder Morton was asked to speak in sacrament meeting for Elder Stringham who wasn't there. We set up a power visit with the Vlokas this week.  That's where we go to a member's home for 15 minutes, share a quick message, and ask them how we can help with their missionary work and if they have any referrals. Should be an exciting visit!

Looking forward to a great week of missionary service! I am praying to find more people to teach! I hope that everyone at home is doing well and getting ready for Halloween! Halloween is not really a big thing here which is sad.

Elder Germann

Finding and Teaching

This week we did a lot of both! We had some disappointments but we also had some really exciting things happen!

I would describe this past Tuesday though as productive, yet discouraging. I think I mentioned last we that we went through our area book and found 19 potential investigators in there. Our goal was to visit over half of those that day. Most were not home when we stopped by so we are continuing to drop by and catch them at home. We found that five have moved and are essentially lost which is sad but at least we were able to update our records of them. One we did catch at home and he said he didn't want to have any further contact with us. We also had an appointment with Frau Borstel, the women we met on the street who said she was taught by the missionaries two years ago. We klingled (rang the door bell) and she buzzed us in and then when we knock on her door she never answered. We could hear her inside quieting her little baby and dog. That was really frustrating to have happen. We're going to continue to drop by and see if she'll actually answer the door for us.

Wednesday we had Zone Training Meeting in Leipzig so we were up early to ride a train an hour and a half south down to there. DeutscheBahn workers were striking that morning and a bunch of trains were not running but fortunately ours was on time and we encountered no problems. When we got to Leigzig I was in awe at the train station. It is supposedly the largest train station, square footage-wise, in the world. It sure looked like it. It has also been recently renovated. Elder Morton and I met Marc there! Mark was one of the members we had Skyped in the Missionary Training Center. He is a super dude! He is a convert of 5 years and just loves the gospel and the missionaries, especially the ones he Skypes with in the MTC. He had a screen shot of Elder Morton and I. Marc is a fact machine. He also loves traveling around Europe and has been to every temple on the continent. He was so excited to meet the Romneys, too. He took a picture with them and he was wearing a Mitt Romney campaign tee shirt. Apparently he was campaigning for Romney here in Europe in 2012. He loves American politics. Zone Conference with the other missionaries was really good. Lots of good instruction on finding and how to teach by the Spirit.

Thursday was a great day! Han, our investigator, committed to prepare to be baptized on November 8th! We had the Romneys come to our lesson with her that morning and after we watched President Uchtdorf's GC talk, they really helped add the Spirit by sharing their testimonies. Han is continuing to read the Book of Mormon and to pray. It was a pretty exciting moment. Afterwards, the Romneys took the four elders to lunch at their favorite cafe. I had schnitzel. It was amazing and the potatoes and mushrooms served with it were the best I have ever had. We went back to their wohnung (apartment) and had ward mission leader council with them. It wont be like that for long since Bro. Romney got counselors on Sunday. They are committed to making the Magdeburg branch grow with us.

Thursday was a good day as well. I am able to read the Book of Mormon in German pretty well now. I only have to look up a couple of words a day. We went out finding that afternoon and taught the first lesson to a woman who was really interested. She lives out of our area but she said she wanted to come to our church here in the city. She had never heard of Mormons and was surprised to hear that there are 15 million members worldwide. We had an appointment with an investigator named Char-Ly. He is a 70-year old man with a Santa beard and long pony tail and says he's a "heathen." The things he was saying were really weird. Talking about horoscopes and what not. He likes talking to us about the gospel though. Not sure how fast he will progress though. We traded companions with the Bernburg Elders that night after church choir practice in Köthen. They need extra voices so the missionaries were invited.

I went to Bernburg with Elder Pilling. It was a great day. There is something really powerful about two brand new elders working together. We taught two really good lessons, all in German. We really worked well together. It was one of my favorite days so far on my mission.

Yesterday President Romney got counselors. I am now the organist in our congregation. I've never played the organ. I haven't played the piano in 4 years. Mom and Dad are saying, "I told you so...," right now. The Steigers had us over for dinner. We had delicious pancakes and sang hymns together.

I am looking forward to another great week! Busy busy busy! Love y'all!

Elder Germann

This week was MUCH better!!

So after a really disappointing week last week, this week was much improved!

 

I'll start at last Monday night--the other two Magdeburg missionaries play basketball every Monday night with a bunch of students at the university so they invited us to come along.  Literally it was the most entertaining basketball I have seen in a very long time.  Everyone took five steps on a lay up, pushed off on rebounds, etc.  They wanted to play a US vs. Deutschland game.  Just for perspective, the four of us who have never played basketball trounced these 25 year olds who were trying so hard.  They were super nice guys though.  In our planning on Monday night, we decided that we needed to do something different to see better results so we decided to break up our study and go finding in the morning.

 

The change was super inspired because the first person we talked to on Tuesday morning said she was interested in hearing our message and made an appointment to meet with us.  She said she actually was taught by the missionaries two years ago, however, we have found no record of that in the area book.  But we are meeting with her tomorrow!  Tuesday night we had an appointment with an investigator, Vinod, who is a med student at the university.  He missed his train though and so we had to reschedule for Wednesday night.  The Zone Leaders stayed at our wohnung (apt.) Tuesday night because they were going to work with us on Wednesday.

 

Elder Meeks was with Elder Bendixen on Wednesday and I took Elder Slinker around Magdeburg.  Elder Slinker finishes his mission at the end of this month.  We got along really well and I can tell that he has been a super effective missionary.  He gave me a lot of good counsel on how to be motivating and find new people to teach.  After district meeting Wednesday morning, Elder Haas declared an hour of district finding in downtown Magdeburg.  That proved to be super successful.  Elder Slinker and I found one new investigator and Elders Meeks and Bendixen found two more.  I got the man to stick around and talk to us because he said he had been a pilot in the Luftwaffe so I started talking to him about planes and then made an appointment with him for the next day.  Wednesday afternoon Elder Slinker and I went to a lesson with a less-active member Claudius.  He is the one that we are working with to help him realize God's hand in his life.  I asked him if he had read the Elder Bednar talk, "Seek Learning By Faith", and he said yes and pulled it up on his computer.  He pulled it up in English and then he started speaking in English for the rest of the time so I was super excited cause I could understand everything.  He didn't understand Alma 32:21 so Elder Slinker explained it and the rest of Alma 32 which is the analogy that faith is like a little seed.  I followed that by explaining that reading scriptures, praying, and going to church are how we nourish the seed.  Then he related that to having faith that the commandments are things men have agreed on to be generally good.  I asked him if he believes that commandments are from man or God.  He said he could not say because he doesn't think that honoring your father and mother applies to him because his parents basically disowned him.  So that allowed us to talk about how that is why modern-day revelation is so important.  We showed him 2 Nephi 29:9.  We used his example of his parents and talked about the Family Proclamation and how it states that the roles of father and mothers and the rights of the children.  Revelations like this are wonderful blessings.  We ended by saying our purpose and testifying that the Book of Mormon is true and that if he truly wants to know for himself, he will read and pray earnestly.  We repeated that 3 or 4 times.  I hope it struck a chord with him. 

 

Elder Slinker told me afterwards to keep having the same visits with him, testifying of the Book of Mormon, he will eventually read and pray or write you off because its not important to them.  But he said that is all you need to do and that he has found lots of success doing that.  I was really pleased with how it went.  Afterwards, we met Meeks and Bendixen at the train station and sent the Zone Leaders back to Leipzig.  Elder Meeks and I ran to an appointment with Vinod, a med student at the university.  He has met with the missionaries for a while now.  We basically went through all of the baptismal interview questions with him and Mosiah 18 and asked him if he wanted to be baptized.  He said yes and that he has a testimony of all the things that the missionaries have taught him, he just has some personal issues to take care of first (school, his parents committed him to an arranged Catholic wedding, etc.).  So we are trying to figure out how to help him realize and have faith that if he gets baptized now, Heavenly Father will take care of the rest.  I took the lead in this lesson and I thought it went super well (minus the fact that we couldn't commit him to baptism), especially since it was in English.  That night Elder Meeks said, "Wow, that whole lesson I was just thinking, 'We need to get Elder Germann to teach like this in German!'"  I am telling you--I know I can be effective.  I just need to get the German down!

 

Thursday was a really cool day--we taught three lessons!  The first was with Dr. Ostermann, the pilot Elder Slinker and I met the day before.  He lived way out in the west side of our area--it took us over an hour to get there.  But the visit was so cool.  His house was like something out of a movie.  The man is one of the most intellectual individuals I have ever met.  He has like three offices in his house.  The one downstairs is covered by hundreds of books on the walls.  They're all original editions of philosopher's books.  He's read them all.  His house is just full of artifacts, books, and his work.  He is Ph.D. electrical engineer and developed lasers for skin surgery; he also did work on integrated circuits for the DDR space program.  He was in the Luftwaffe and pulled out old pictures of him and old pilot training notebooks.  I was in heaven.  It was so awesome.  He had a copy of the Book of Mormon already and so we talked about it for a little while.  Our conversation went to the Plan of Salvation so we taught that.  He had taken out a piece of paper and was drawing timelines, etc. What he cannot connect is God and evolution.  He really likes the German philosopher Johannes Gutter (sp?).  He referred to him several times through explaining to us what he believes in.  He does not have a religious background but he bases his beliefs on the philosophies of Gutter--"natural God" it's called.  He related his beliefs to us for about 30 minutes.  I didn't understand half of it but it was amazing.  Elder Meeks said that was the most sophisticated German he has ever listened to.  We just need to get Dr. Ostermann to realize that all of this wonderful knowledge is from God and that he is a personal God.  He said that maybe he will come to church.  He likes going to all of the churches and seeing what they teach.  He has read the Bible and Quran and knows the scriptures very well even though he is not religious.  He even knew a lot about the Book of Mormon.  Elder Meeks and I agree that he will read the Book of Mormon and we are praying that the Spirit testifies of the truthfulness to him.  He said he will be in touch. 

 

We then ran to our meeting with Han.  She is a student double majoring in Econ and Mech Engineering... She has come to Germany from China.  She speaks really good German but insists that we speak in English in order to improve hers, it is broken English.  Our lesson went really well.  She doesn't have a testimony yet that Jesus Christ is our Savior so we are working on that.  I lead the lesson on Alma 32.  She really liked the seed analogy and we committed her to reading and praying every day.  We told her that "Heavenly Father, I want to know if Jesus Christ is real.  Please let me know,"  is a perfectly good prayer.  She prayed for that and for faith in the closing prayer.  It was great.  Somehow when she was leaving we started talking about the ministry of Christ in the Americas and she we told her that she could read about Jesus appearing to the Nephites in 3 Nephi 11-26.  I also explained to her that the Book of Mormon is a record of God's children in the Americas from 600BC to 400AD and that the ship Nephi made to go to the promised land was not, in fact, the Mayflower....  I'm not sure what the missionaries have been teaching her for the last 6 months. Then we taught the third lesson to Kolja.  He is really progressing well.  He is flying through the Book of Mormon but claims he hasn't felt the Spirit at all while reading.  The one thing we found out is that he has not been praying.  We testified of the power of prayer and he is going to start this week.  We also showed him the "Light of Christ" Mormon Message on the Internet.  I thought, dang this is perfect for him!  But of course he just said, "Oohh that was really cool." Dooohh!  I just want those moments where the Spirit just hits them so hard but I know it has to be a process.  I really like teaching lessons all day.  I think its more fun and way more productive.

 

Friday we went to go find the two investigators Elder Meeks found on Wednesday--two Serbian brothers.  It was a goose chase.  The address they gave us was bad.  We found some Wikipedia page that said the street name had changed so we told a chance on it and went to the street--no dice.  So that appointment fell through and we're out of luck cause all they gave us was a bad address and no number.  Friday evening we did weekly planning.  I really looked hard at our area book and found 19 potential investigators in there--people that just had not been contacted by the missionaries in months.  That is our goal this week--contact them all and hopefully we find success with most of them.  Friday was German Reunification Day so basically the city was shut down and no one was out.  

 

Saturday was my 20th birthday!  Holy cow I am old!  It kinda just felt like a normal day though.  We had study in the morning.  We watched a lot of The District videos and discussed how we could utilize to techniques they used.  A lot of missionaries bag on The District and say its cheesy or doesn't ever happen perfectly like that but I don't think it matters.  Every time I watch a video I get pumped up and for me its something to strive for--I want to be a missionary like that and I want it to work out perfectly with our investigators like it does in the videos.  We did a little finding that afternoon before getting on a train down to Küthen to watch General Conference.  We talked to a Brazilian man who lives down the street from a chapel there.  He said he was not interested in speaking to us though.  He is "spiritual" he says and the services he goes to are discussion based.  We also talked to an Asian girl near the university who said she was interested in learning more about the Book of Mormon but she wouldn't set up a time with us...so we gave her our card and she said she'd call.  Still haven't heard anything yet. 

 

The General Conference broadcast from Salt Lake was different this weekend because the Saturday morning session was at 1800 Saturday night.  That session was my favorite.  I loved Elder Robbins and President Uchtdorf's talks.  I want to give Pres. Uchtdorf's talk to all of our investigators.  We missed our train by two minutes Saturday night so we were late getting home but President and Sister Kosak called and sang me happy birthday which was super sweet.

 

Yesterday we were at the church all day.  Bruder Steiger came at 0800 and played the Saturday afternoon session and the Priesthood session.  We watched them in German and I did not understand much so I need to go back through them. No one else showed up.  .It was just the four missionaries, Bruder Steiger, and President Romney.  We had a lunch there at the church, Han and Kolja came for a little bit of the Sunday morning session at 1800 last night.  So the only session I haven't seen is Sunday afternoon.  I will watch it soon.  

 

I hope everyone is doing well!  I was so happy that this week was much more productive.  Looking forward to a similar week this week finding new investigators from our area book.  Elder Meeks is going on an exchange with Elder Haas on Friday so that means I get to work with Elder Pilling that day!  Looking forward to that.  

 

Hope everyone has a blessed week!