Monday, November 21, 2011

I <3 Hamburg

Moin Moin!
It's nice to be back in this area again.  I must say I love Hamburg.  It's a nice city, and a lot of people are here.  I haven't been here for a week yet and I already love it.  I am excited to serve here.
So, this week was amazing.  On Tuesday I arrived here in Altona (a part of Hamburg), and we immediately took off for some appointments.  I met some cool people and was able to teach some lessons to our investigators.  Wednesday, we had district meeting, and that went really well.  We have a great district of 12 Missionaries!  It's really cool.  I enjoy having a big district with a lot of people.  We also have 4 Elders in our apartment.  That's crazy!  I sleep on the floor because we don't have enough beds, haha!  The apartment used to be the AP apartment before the Hamburg mission and the Berlin missions combined. 
The kids here are crazy too!  Today on the bus to go to write some e-mails, a bunch of kids got on the bus.  One of them, not older than 5, started talking with my companion.  This kid could speak German, English, and Italian!  Way awesome!  We talked to him a bit in German, a bit in English, and I said Arrivaderci to him as he left the bus (and of course he replied in Italian).  Talk about amazing. 
So many awesome things have been happening.  I just can't remember them all for some reason.  Oh yeah!  On Friday there was a piano concert at the stake center which is also in Hamburg.  We were invited to come because they planned on having a lot of people there that aren't members of the church, and they wanted us to be there so we can talk with them if they want to learn anything.  We arrived with an investigator and the piano player was amaying.  He was Russian, and I guess he won some sort of world competition.  Nobody asked us about the gospel, but Oh well.  I guess we got to see the concert!
I'm excited to serve here, and I hope to stay!  There are a lot of good people here! 
Have a wonderful week!
Ciao!