New Transfer!

Well it's another new Transfer here in Germany!  I have a new companion, Elder Baake.  He is from Germany!  He's pretty cool and we get along pretty well.  He sufferred through my few days of being sick this last week, so he has to be cool, haha. 

Not too much happened this last week because I was sick, and because we had to spend a day doing transferrs.  I waited at a member's house until Elder Baake arrived.  His train was late for some reason too.  So we waited an extra 25minutes after waiting a few hours!  haha.  That's okay.  I had a chance to talk with the members a little bit about myself. 

We had a good week, we did a lot of talking to people on the streets and at their doors.  We have been more productive this week than I expected!  I am able to do work again, even though I'm not 100% better yet.  I will be soon though.  I think there's some sort of sickness going around because there are a few members who are sick too.  I must have got it from them, or them from me, or something.  Whatever it was it wasn't fun!  Maybe it was the flu or something I don't know. 

I'm excited for these next 6 weeks.  I am going to learn a lot, and I can tell Elder Baake and I will work well together.  We both have similar visions for the missionary work in the Heide area, and that is something my last companion and I didn't have.  I'm excited to learn a lot of German from him!  There are not many Germans in the Mission, so it's cool that I have a German companion.  Although, we had an appointment the other day, and this guy thought he was american!  He doesn't even look American, let alone sound like an American!  Somehow this guy thought he sounded like someone from West Coast America.  Oh well, What can you do? 

Anyhow, Have a good week everybody!  More updates next week.

Happy New Year!!!

It's Now the Year 1390!  Don't believe me?  Well it's true!  Haha. 

Well it's been a good week, I'm not getting transferred, but I am getting a new companion.  My previous companion is heading off to Forst!

Thanks for all your prayers and everything for the School presentation!  It really helped!  There were 51 students there, and so it was pretty intimidating to try and answer questions and talk about the Church in German in front of them all.  It all worked out though, and they were all surprised that I have only been speaking German for a couple Months!  I'm suprised as well! Next week I'll have been in Germany for 3 months!  Crazy!  

Everything is great in the life of a missionary =D

Phew!

Wow!  The transfer has gone by fast!  This Friday we have transfer calls and I'll find out where I'm going, or if I'm staying in Heide!  I'm already almost no longer a "greenie" or Golden as we are called here.  It's so crazy!  Most people are happy to no longer be a Golden, I'm not so excited.  I still have a lot more German I need to learn!  Haha!  That's okay, it will come. :D

It has warmed up here, there are more people outside.  The only problem is everyone is talking about Japan.  People are starting to lose faith in God because of the huge Earthquake.  They say that if God existed he wouldn't let such things happen.  It's so wrong!  We are seeing the God is preparing us for his presence.  I know that we are given the opportunity to help our fellow men so that we can be better, and help them be better!  Oh well, I can only bare my testimony and hope that the Spirit tells the rest that I can't explain in words.

This Wednesday we are going to the Gymnasium in Brunsbuettel.  That's the equivilent of an American High School.  We have to give an hour presentation and then answer questions for half an hour in front of 45 students!  I'm pretty intimidated already!  My German isn't very good.  I'll need all the prayers I can get!  We start at 9:30AM, so about 12:30AM Pacific Standard Time on the 16th.  So Pray for me! I hope we can help these students understand more about our missionary work and about the gospel. 

Last week we ran into quite a few Spanish speakers.  Enough that I decided I need to practice my spanish a little bit again.  I bought a small Spanish-German Dictionary and re-learned a good amount of Spanish in order to portray our message as missionaries.  Since then, we have come accross zero Spanish Speakers.  How funny is that!?  Oh well, I have plenty of time to run into somebody from Spain or somewhere.  No problem!

The Branch here is doing a 40 day fast for missionary work!  I'm super excited.  I think it will really help the missionary work in this area.  I'm excited.  It started today and goes until 40 days later, haha.  :D  The efforts the members can give can help so much in this work!

Well, it's been a good week, I hope that you all have an excellent week as well!  I give all my love and greetings!

-A Warmer Week-

First off, I attached a picture of the Hahnebeer parade that we got stuck in coming back from an appointment.  It was quite an excitement, haha.

I also attached a couple pictures of a couple of the seemingly hundreds of windmills here in this area!  They are way super cool to look at.  And even cooler than the windmills in the day, is seeing the sillhoette of the windmills during one of the crazy German Sunsets.  SO COOL!  

Anyhow.  This week has been pretty good!  We have had less people to teach this week, but we made out more appointments for next week. I am excited to go and teach all these people we found.  One of them might be the gold we have been looking for!  Among our searches for people who are ready to take on the gospel, I was required to talk to people.  It's quite an experience to talk to people in German!  I really feel the power of God helping me to speak this language!  If any of you have had the experience to speak with the gift of toungues you know what I mean.  It's amazing to just talk to people and then later realize that you didn't even know what that word meant until you said it.  The Lord lives, and he blesses everyone who is willing to accept his blessings!  It's so exciting to be a witness of his miracles first hand.

I have a talk next week in the branch here!  It's my second talk, wish me luck and keep me in your prayers!

This week I don't know if I have anything specific to talk about.  It's the same stuff as previous, but in different towns and so forth.  It's warming up here though!  It's nice to be able to go outside without being completely bundled up.  It's also staying lighter later in the night.  The German people are a bit more polite when you visit them while it's still bright outside.  Haha!  It's good.  I enjoy the work, even if sometimes it is difficult!  I can't wait for spring to completely arrive, so I can help people with their yard work!  Service is always a pleasure! 

Enjoy your week!