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Look unto me in every thought Doubt not Fear not D&C 6:36

Monday, September 14, 2015

9/14/2015

Monday! It was a sweet day today, not a whole lot went down. We had a cool lesson with Zeifi. Then we had FHE, that was our day.

Tuesday ha ha so I was with elder Gibbs on exchange today. So today was a ton of fun. We have done an exchange in every transfer except one. It's a little crazy, since the first one we have had to make them all memorable, and boy have they been. We did our classic bratwurst party, but this one will go down in the books as the tausch of the stinky cheese. A tradition for every exchange is the tausch treat. So we decided that we would get a fancy cheese and eat it with crackers. So we did as we looked at the cheeses we decided to go with the safest looking, that was a terrible mistake. We also had a lesson with Zeifi, trying to help him learn to read.

Wednesday. We had district meeting today and then came home met with Zeifi and got ready for tomorrow by baking banana bread to take to a bunch of elder lawyers old friends.

Thursday. Was a pretty insane day, we went to elder lawyers old area and visited some members there. This area was closed and the branch was too. But it was cool to see some new stuff for the day. 

Friday, We didn't have much happen today, but when someone knows they are leaving there are a lot of preparations to be made. Today was spent doing those since tomorrow is busy and he leaves for the office on Sunday. Today we had some cleaning and planning, I did weekly planning by myself, then after we cleaned and packed and planned we went out for an verabschieden essen. The fancy stake house that elder Paul took me to, we went back there, there's not many steakhouses so there super expensive but he had lots of money, so I got a 12oz ribeye and it was so good! We did get to have a lesson with Zeifi today, he's happy because the church is already blessing his life, he's been looking for work for a while, and things are going good in his job hunt, I know that it has do do with his prayers! Anyways that's how the day went.


Saturday! Transfer calls are in. Elder Lawyer will be going home. Elder Oldroyd will stay in Heide. His new companion will be Elder Hall. Elder Gibbs will be training and still the district leader so we will celebrate our anniversary on the 22nd of next month. 
We had our service project today, that was fun. We helped her with her rabbit pit, she has eight of them, then we went and got changed, went to a member appointment and then went home and he packed a little bit more.

Sunday was elder lawyers last day, we had choir first thing in the morning and then church, in choir we started singing a Christmas song, ha ha that was a little weird, then we had church went home and then got all our stuff. Then we went to Itzahoe. I got off the train elder Moerly got on and that was that. Elder O'Keefe and I are now here in Itzahoe until Tuesday when the new companions come.



Sunday, September 13, 2015

9/7/2015

Monday was a normal p day, we didn't really do anything at all. But haribo candy was on a really good sale so I bought 20

So today was a pretty interesting day we had an appointment with Zeifi. the stuff that he told us was insane! I will try to put into English what he could barely put into German.
Zeifi came to the baptism last Saturday and church with us on Sunday. He found the baptism awesome and had a fantastic time at church on Sunday. We taught him about prayer and taught him how to pray. I always find it so cool to hear the first prayer of someone's life. A small miracle as a missionary. He thanked God and asked him to bless his family in Afghanistan then said amen. It was really cool. We met with him today and we talked to him about his prayers, he said that that he said on right as he was going to sleep. He then told us of the dream that he had. There were two men who appeared to him, they were all dressed in white and they were tall. He said that their hair was white and that they talked to him, and told him not to be afraid, he then saw the missionaries. And the men in white told him that the missionaries are here to help him! 
That is probably the coolest story I have from my mission so far. Zeifi also stopped drinking after  the baptism and is working on quitting smoking! I really hope I'm still here to see his baptism. God really prepares his children!

Super boring Wednesday. We woke up got on a train and I took a nap :) I like naps. Then we went to district meeting. When we got home everything fell out. Seriously everyone we went to wasn't home. So after trying to be busy we ran out of stuff to do and the day was over so we went home. Elder lawyer made banana bread and I ate bratwurst.

Thursday! Today was an interesting day but not much happened. We had our appointment with a less active member where we read with him in the scriptures and that was good as always, I love to read in the scriptures. After that we went and had lunch with the branch president and his wife. That was cool, we shared the Mormon message o remember remember. It's one of my favorites. Then we went and had a lesson with Zeifi. It was nice we had a translator and he does an excellent job at helping. Zeifi thought it was awesome and Hadi the translator was amazed at Zeifi's story about his dream. Then we did home teaching with the branch president. We went to a psycho man and I don't even really know what went down there. He's crazy. Then the day was over and we came home

Friday. Not a whole lot happened, we went home teaching, and met with a lot of crazy children. The first family we went to has three little boys, 5, 2, and 6 months.and the two oldest kept playing then fighting then playing then fighting, it was like I was home again with ken and josh. Then the second family had a daughter who was probably 6 and Twins that were about three. They were insane haha it was fun the husband is in the German army and looked at Google maps of Utah and loved it when I showed him Altamont, I need to take some good pics there next time to show him, he loves redneck culture haha. That was pretty much our day.

Saturday was not too exciting we rode to our service project in the rain and rode home in the rain. Our appointment tonight fell out. We did some finding, no one is out on a Saturday afternoon in a small German town. Zeifi saw us and had us come in we sat with him for a minute then we went home for the night. 

Sunday was a really good day, we had fast and testimony meeting in church and that was really cool. Every single testimony was one of thanks, I don't know if I've ever had one like A counselor in the stake presidency was there and he said some really cool stuff. One thing he said was that it's really hard to learn about ourselves, we can ask people, sometimes they are honest but we can't learn a lot from them, we can ask ourselves, but most of the time that gives us a completely skewed perspective, we are either too hard on ourselves or just completely cocky, it's hard to tell. But he looks at his children as a gauge, how did his children turn out. When he wants to really learn about himself he looks to his kids. After church we went to an eating appointment with some members and it was a really nice time. They had Zeifi come with and he enjoyed it. Then elder lawyer had a bad headache so I let him take a nap. Then we went to another eating appointment and that was good we always have an awesome time with that family.  

8/31/2015



Well today was a pretty boring p day, after all the chores and emails I took a nap. Then we went to our family home evening, and then came home and that was our day.

Tuesday, today was a truly great day, I say that a lot but today really was. First we had branch mission correlation meeting, and that went really well, then we waited out a crazy rain storm did a little finding, and had a great lesson with a less active, I really think we will be able to get her to come back to the church. Then we went and had lunch. After lunch we went by on Zeifi, he was finally home and he was super excited to see us. The lesson went super well and he said he wants to be baptized, he set the date for October 10th! Hopefully this works and everything goes through, I'm so excited for him! After this awesome lesson we didn't know how our day could get better, but we found a family! They are from Romania and seem pretty interested, we have an appointment with them for Sunday afternoon. Then to finish  the night we had a lesson with another guy, he's super nice but it's hard to gauge how much he understands, his German and English are not amazing, hopefully we come clear with each other. Then after this awesome day of appointment after appointment we came home and chilled, got ready for another crazy day tomorrow.

Today was a pretty interesting day. Interviews with the new mission president. Finishing missionaries didn't have them so we went on an exchange, elder lawyer and elder Moerly who finish this transfer went to a service project for a lady in our ward and elder O'Keefe and I went to Hamburg, we got there early like we were supposed to but because things were a little behind they sent us finding. That didn't make me very happy because finding in an area that isn't your own is really really ineffective, you can't make out appointments and it's just handing out cards. ( so far over the corse of my mission I have handed out thousands of cards, I have never been called by one or them) as we left the church we grabbed a guitar from the YSA stuff and wandered the streets of Hamburg playing and preaching, it was really a moment that just made me think wow! Then we had our interview with president and went home. By the time we got home it was time to go to the apartment, plan for tomorrow and go to sleep. It was a fast day it was a fun day, I'm so happy to be here! 

Thursday is already over, this week has just flown by. Today we had district meeting in Glückstadt, the zone leaders were there so that was pretty fun, the best part was when elder O'Keefe gave his little lesson. He got up and wrote revolution on the board, then said the first step to revolution is to get rid of those people who are in charge, at this moment those of us who were in on this lesson pulled out our hidden nerf guns and shot the leaders, I had two and got both of the zl's while elder O'Keefe and elder Woodside shot elder Gibbs. Then as everyone else was still confused about what had happened, elder O'Keefe's companion said, " I thought you were asked to talk about revelation" it was quite the joke. After district meeting we came home and went to Zeifi's house and invited him to a baptism on Saturday. It will be really cool the guy from Afghanistan that I taught while in a Dritt is getting baptized and we get to take our investigator from Afghanistan! Then I took a language assessment. Then went home teaching with the branch president. It made for a really fast day. 
   
Saturday today was so unbelievably incredibly amazingly awesome! So if you remember back on the week when I was with two other elders in Elmshorn, we taught a man from Afghanistan who had the strongest testimony ever, his name is Karimi. today we went to his baptism!!! That is super cool in and of itself, but it was made so much better by the fact that we have Zeifi and he came with us to it. This was set up perfectly, absolutely no way that it was coincidental, a man from Afghanistan, who speaks Persian, being baptized in the same district as another guy who speaks Persian is from Afghanistan and wants to be baptized! There were two men who could translate to Persian and the talk on baptism was in Persian and the baptism itself was said in Persian and Zeifi had an amazing time! He was able to talk to people and he had an awesome time, I had a really good time with him today.


Sunday. Today was a good day. For the first time in my time in Heide we had an investigator at church. He had a really good time there. Other than that not a whole lot went down at church. Afterward we had two eating appointments, one with the Richters and one with the Drabs

8/24/2015

Monday. It was a pretty awesome p day today, we shook things up a bit. First thing when we got up we went to the store, got the food we needed, then we went home and studied. After studies we ran to the church got our emails to read on the train and went to the train station to go to Sylt. While we were on the train we wrote out emails, then we got to Westerland. We went to the beach but you had to pay to go out on the sand and stuff, so we just looked. ( it was cold and rainy so not too disappointing to not go out. Then we went to a few stores, not a whole lot was going on. After we had don all we wanted to we went to the train station and went home. When we got to Heide I wanted a haircut so I got one then we went by on a contact and had a really nice talk with his friend who was over. He was a total bro and just super excited to talk to Americans. He's from casablanca and a really nice guy, were meeting with him again on Thursday. Then we came home and planned and went to chilled until bedtime. 

Tuesday. I'm here chilling waiting to go on an exchange, it's raining so we are in the church. I got to read a few emails, it's really interesting to see the differences in missions. I know I got sent here for a lot of reasons, there are so many things that I needed to learn that I could only do here in Germany. I love rainy days. There is so much to be learned on them. Patience and hope are two attributes that need to be learned on them. Patience and hope are really a lot more related than I ever knew. When you have hope, it makes patients a lot easier. Waiting is such a blessing when we use it as one. We can use waiting time as a preparation time. Rainy days are so good for practicing patience.
We had a lesson with a less active today, a pretty weird lesson, I was on exchange with elder Woodside, we weren't in either of our areas but this guy was in elder Woodside's but moved and Is moving again so it was a goodbye lesson, the guy was super awesome though. We read a few chapters in the Book of Mormon. Then we went back to elder Woodside's area. We did some contacting and when it was dinner time we went and ate pizza and had weird soda, my tastebuds have changed quite a bit, it's crazy. Well a pretty boring day.

Man so much has happened that it's hard to believe that it is only Wednesday. I was in Pinneberg with elder Woodside this morning, and we had to go to Hamburg. ( I was so glad I was in Pinneberg, it's a suburb of Hamburg, so it was like 40 minutes total travel time to get to the church there, whereas from Heide its two hours in a train and then thirty minutes in subways and stuff) and there we had a mission tour. It's a half mission conference when a general authority is here. Today Elder Paul V. Johnson from the seventy was here, he's in the area presidency for Europe. It was really cool. It's cool to see all the missionaries in this half of the mission, crazy how many people are in my life because of my mission. There was a lot of cool things talked about. First elder Johnson went around asking how long we had been serving and where we were from, it was weird to say 10 months, the time has flown. But what was even weirder is he knew where Altamont was, said they were at a family reunion there last month. So that was pretty cool. Then we had the meeting it was pretty cool, one thing I learned is I need to not be so passive, I think sometimes I'm too passive but I also need to not worry so much on the things I have no control over. Then we talked some about 1 Nephi 15, and that was really cool a topic that was really focused on was verse 8 And I said unto them: Have ye inquired of the Lord? And how for most things we need we should ask in prayer. Then at the end we talked about how difference is needed for growth. And that was really cool too. Then we traveled home, I Then I read some talks, elder bednar has a really good understanding of how someone learns spiritual things, in every single one of his talks he prays for the spirit to help him. ( I looked, every single one since he became an apostle in 2004 he prays for the assistance of the holly ghost, along with everything else like in the MTC he said it) I found that really cool, so I went through and marked them all! Well I'm pretty tired but just know that
We just had the best call in in the world. We got in on a multi party with Glückstadt and their DL call in. We did awesome sound effects and Pinneberg had no idea what was going on! Most hilarious thing of the day!

Thursday! Some days are just awesome! We did a lot of street contacting this morning. Our reading appointment went 40 minutes shorter than what we had hoped so it left us with an hour and a half of finding before lunch. That turned out to be an awesome blessing, we walked by a less active sisters house and she saw us and as we were about to walk into our house she called and invited us over for an appointment after lunch! That was our miracle for today. The lesson went really well, her grandmother passed away Monday but we talked about the temple and family history. She got really excited and invited us back on Tuesday! Then we had a lesson fall out, that was a little frustrating we did some more finding and then went and taught a guy, he is from Pakistan and he's interesting but it's really hard to tell how interested he is. Then we went home and that was our day today. It was super awesome!

Friday!So today was fun, mostly a pretty normal Friday, we did weekly planning and what not. Then we had a lesson with a crazy lady. ( her German is hard to understand, it's not a simple language especially when it comes to complex ideas, so we made sure to have a member with us) she has some lost gospels or something, is not a fan of the Catholic Church, and said the Book of Mormon is true and all that is contained within really happened, but Joseph smith is not a prophet. ( it was easy to tell she has never met with missionaries before, a lot of her info on the church came from online, not really anti material, but definitely outside looking in.) the lesson went so many different ways, but all came back to us telling that we are the only true church, we made some progress, she was amazed at the idea of general conference and living prophets, I don't really know what she will do because of the lesson, but at least now she has solid resources to look at. Then the rest of our night fell out so we tried to street contact but the city was super quiet, so we got McDonald's walked around then finally went home. Over all it was a really good day! This week I have just been seeing how much I have been blessed, I'm super grateful for everything that my Heavenly Father gives me. I'm so lucky to be on a mission and helping others all the time, I'm so lucky to have the atonement in my life, I'm really grateful for my family and how good they are to me.

Saturday, if you just want to kill a day ( and also have the day kill you) just go and bike 60 km. it was a good day today, Stacy called during study and wanted to meet today so we made an appointment for later this evening. after studying we went to our weekly service project (12 km) there we moved rocks. I always hated picking rocks for work, it never payed well for how terrible it was, but I always ended up doing it. ( ok once it was a super enjoyable time but that was only once and it was mostly because the guy I was working for was making it an awesome time) but today I didn't mind it at all, I love being able to do hard work like I did before. Then we ate, it was a true post WWII Hamburg meal Bohnen Birne und Speck ( beans pears and bacon) it was an interesting combination but it was pretty good. Then we rode our bikes home (12 km) and got showered shaved and changed, then got back on the bikes and went to Stacey's house (16 km) we had a really nice time with her, she made roulade for us. It was hamburger and rice rolled up in cabbage, and tasted really good. ( if you would have told me a year ago that I would find that or bacon beans and pears good I would have said your crazy) the weather was absolutely perfect this evening. It was such a nice day. Then we got on the bikes and rode home (16 km bringing the grand total for today to 56 km or about 35 miles) by the time we got home we were both dead and the day was over so we planned and went to bed. But so is life as a missionary.

Sunday! It was an awesome Sunday. First we went to church and that was an awesome. But nothing exciting happened. After church we went to the Drabs that was so much fun, you need to keep me in shape so that I can play with our children! My companion was dead after the bike ride but the drabs love to play tag and attack the elders and what not so we had a lot of fun. ( Hannah kissed me, please don't be mad, I didn't want it) then we rode to another eating appointment, this time with a less active member and he showed us his toys, Lego technic, those things are super cool, as someone who wants to become an engineer they absolutely fascinate me. Then the whole day was over.

8/17/2015

This week was a good week we had a lot of fun and did a lot of work. Tell the missionary that the first time is the hardest, the talks get easier but they also get longer. I'll let you know next week if I get any packages at mission tour on Wednesday, things like that are the only time anything comes to us that is sent to the office. I have the camera and I'll be sending more pictures this transfer. I've actually taken a few but won't be around wifi enough to today to send them. We are going to Sylt today, it's a popular tourist destination and the farthest north part of the country.

Monday was a pretty normal p day in Heide, it's really small so there isn't much to do there, we spent the day going around to the stores in the Innenstadt. And then we went to family home evening and that was the day.

Tuesday we went and elder Lawyer got registered in the city, you have to register every time you move. And while he did that I started the process of getting my German drivers license. It's so much cheaper for an American to trade it than for a German to get one, only 35€ compared to 3000€. Then we had a few lessons and they went well. Not to much excitement.

Wednesday we had district meeting. A lesson, ward mission correlation, and ward council. A busy day with nothing really to report on. 

Thursday. We had a few appointments, two members and one with an Albanian man, so that was the most interesting thing of the day, using Google translate to get the first lesson in Albanian.

Friday we had our weekly planning. Not really something exciting. Then we had lunch and went to Weddingstedt. We knocked a couple of doors there, doors are not my favorite but I've got some stories from them. One of the doors we knocked on today was one of these stories. So knocked on this ladies door, and she was a little slow to answer but she opened up a little bit and started talking to my companion. I couldn't see her at this point and when my comp said we I didn't want her to think him crazy so I moved into view from the slit the door was open. There stood the classic looking 60 year old German lady but this one wasn't wearing pants. ( or anything besides her t shirt for that matter) it was not the view I ever wanted to see. Why can't it be like America where someone would just pretend to not be home or quickly find some way to cover themselves before answering the door. Then at the next hoist the guy was out working on his car in a t shirt and briefs. Again why can't it be like America! Then we tried to teach an Albanian family, the daughter who can speak English wasn't home so it went nowhere ( but the numbers in Albanian are almost exactly like Spanish) then we came home ate and I worked on the talk I have to give on Sunday. 

Saturday is always a fun day, it's impossible not to smile when your around sister Richter, she is probably my favorite old lady I have met on my mission. ( most old German sisters are what we call ganz lieb directly translated totally love. Sister richter isn't) she likes to yell and joke about her husband to me behind his back, I find it absolutely hilarious. Today she told us stories of living in Hamburg during the war. And when the bomb sirens went off, climbing to the roof and watching the city get destroyed instead of going to the shelter. Then we tried street contacting but rain and thunder don't help so we did area book work instead, not really the most fun but at least we are dry. And I had more time to finish my talk.

Sunday was super awesome! First we went to church and that's always fun but today was even better, there was a new guy, he's super cool, his name is Ruben and he'll be working at the oil refinery here, we connected fast because we're both welders ( not a very common job for people I've met) he speaks really good English ( his wife is South African) and he's just a really cool guy. Then I had to give a talk in sacrament. After church we went and did some doors but no weird stories from this time. The we texted the zl's for permission to go to Sylt for pday and they said yes. So that was how our week went!

8/10/2015

Monday was a really really really really really fun p day. First we studied then we went and played squash ( it's almost exactly like racquetball, just a smaller ball and a little different boundaries) then I sat in a sauna with a member and showered. Then we ran some errands for elder Bankhead it was his last ever p day. Then we went to a members and stole their wifi to do emails. Then we played volleyball and then went to  family home evening. They grilled and grilled a lot. I probably ate a pound and a half of meat, and a ton of potato salad too. I love potato salad. Then we said goodbye and went home.

Tuesday, a lot happened today, first I killed elder Bankhead, then elder Rohde and I went to Hamburg, we waited at the train station until new people came, I met Elder Lawyer he reminds me a lot of my best friend from high school. and we headed off to Heide. When we got to Heide I let him unpack. Then we went to buy food, we didn't have any. We got food and came back then we downloaded a talk for the afghani guy were teaching tomorrow. After that we came home ate dinner and got ready for bed. And today I'm grateful for a companion who wants to work!

Wednesday. We had district meeting. So that means a long time on a train. Then it was elder Gibbs first district meeting, he did really well he will do good as district leader. We had a fun district meeting and then went and got Döner and came home, I slept on the train, it makes a really good nap time for me. Then we went to work. We stopped by a less active to see if we could go by the next day, he had us come in right then and we read with him in the scriptures. Then we went to an appointment with Zeifi, he's our guy that speaks Persian, we showed him a talk from conference last year about missionaries, and he told us he wants to become Christian!
Then we went by on a few contacts. That was quite a bit of fun, it's so nice to be with someone who isn't completely trunky. Then we came home and ate, studied a little, made planner covers and now it's bed time.  Today I'm grateful for the iPad's so that we can teach really cool people :)

Thursday we did a ton of work today. First we did normal studies like we always do. Then we went looking for an appointment, the problem was he was an foreigner and didn't really know his address so we never found where he told us. It was super sad, but we made the best of it and talked to a lot of people. Then we went and had lunch, I ate a lot because it was a pasta dish I really really like. Then we got on our bikes and went for a ride got to a town did a little street contacting and went to visit Stacy, on the phone she told me she broke her arm so she couldn't cook, hence the reason we had a big lunch. But when we got there she had soup and garlic bread for us. ( Stacy will not allow food to go to waste) she dished us up a bowl and my comp was freaking out. ( there was probably 3/4 gallons of soup that she made for us and she wanted it all to be eaten) the one bowl was all he could down, luckily I found room for six. ( I even had more of our first lunch than he did so I don't know how I managed) We had a wonderful time with Stacy she's super fun, a lot of polish catholic culture though. then we went home but we haven't reached our goal of people we wanted to talk to so we went out until we talked to the last six we needed, plus a few extra and then called it a night. Today I'm thankful for my second stomach. It saved us at Stacey's! 

Friday... Today was not a fun day at all... But days like today have to happen, if they didn't there wouldn't be any growth on a mission. We had our studies today then we had weekly planning. It's so weird to be the leader of an area where the other guy has no idea and you know he'll be gone in six weeks. Then we went out contacting, in two days we talked to over 80 people. Not bad for little tiny Heide. forty five today and I got told no forty four times the other time the lady was super rude and just ignored us. But yeah. Today I'm thankful for the atonement. ( every day I am but today for sure) I studied it a lot in personal study today. The coolest thing I read was that repentance is not the restoration of innocence, then it all made sense to me, it couldn't be, we have a gospel of eternal progression, restoration of innocence is regression, so through repentance we don't simply lose sin but we become more than we were before. And just a little funny thing from today. My comp doesn't know why anyone would live somewhere as small as Heide I don't know why anyone would live somewhere as big as Heide. 

Saturday we had our service project, we tore out some wood siding that was being used as a wall, it was super gross but I love being dirty, it's not fun to be clean 24/7 it's almost like I never do anything haha ( I know I'm doing a lot though, I'm just used to being dirty after work) then we did some more contacting, we're doing it a lot, we need to. That was pretty much our Saturday.

Sunday we had church and it was really good, most of the members were glad to have us back, I was glad to be back. We didn't have anything too exciting happen today, after church we went contacting but it's not too effective during vacation times, everyone is always gone. But we still had a good time

8/3/2015

This week was a really fun week! I was in Elmshorn for the week and had a lot of fun with the two elders here. I like that about journals, when you look back at a large period of time it's hard to remember anything, but smaller one are a lot easier. And look for the unusual stuff, does anyone want to hear "nothing exciting happened" I don't think so.

Monday was elder Paul's last day. We did our normal p day stuff then he packed, we went to family home evening, he said goodbye we went to the train station and left for Elmshorn.

Tuesday we got up at 6:00 and went to the train station. Said goodbye to him and the he got on the train and I never saw him again. We went back and did our normal studies then went out to work. It was raining a lot both Tuesday and Wednesday, a big rain cloud came over the north and just stopped,there wasn't wind to keep it moving so it got over us and just dumped for almost two days straight. Tuesday night I had another family home evening and that was fun

Wednesday we had our district meeting in Glückstadt, nothing too exciting happened at it, mostly follow up on goals. Then we went to Heide for a lesson, the guy is from Afghanistan and speaks some German, fluent in Persian the problem is that he can't read or write, that will make things a little harder, but he is really nice and keeps having us back to teach him! Then we went back to Heide had an eating appointment with some members and waited,out the rain storm, it never stopped so we rode home in it and got absolutely soaked! ( we were all in suits, luckily mine was an all polyester apartment special so there was no damage done.)

Thursday we had a really normal missionary day, we visited a lot of alone older sisters ( we are allowed to do that in a Dritt) then we just did normal missionary work. This was the first day we didn't get drenched with rain, but the sun was gone so it was pretty chilly.

Saturday was transfer calls. Not much changes in our district, the two old people die but no one else is leaving. My new companion will be Elder Lawyer, I don't know anything about him except elder Bankhead thinks he's in the group after him, so I could be sending another one home. Then we went to a members house had lunch and started our fast for fast Sunday.

Sunday we had church it was fast and testimony meeting, that was fun, I'm now to where I can really understand what is said, it's not hard at all, I just have to listen. Their investigator didn't show up so we went to the YSA class that was a little weird. The first time I've been somewhere with YSAs but German YSAs are weird, the ones that have gone on missions and been Americanized are pretty fun though. Then we had a ward barbecue and that was my week.