Phew! Whataweek!

Moin Moin!!!

That will probably be the last time I can say that greeting because I am being transferred!  I am going to a place called Halle!  It lies in Eastern Germany, and I hear it is a good sized university city (200,000 people or so)!  It sounds like a great experience!  I can't wait! 

Sorry to all who expected emails last week.  I just didn't have time to send emails.  I didn't even get to email my mission president!  So, don't feel like you aren't important!

The last week was definitely good!  My companion and I worked so hard!  In our mission we have a standard of getting 20 lessons in a week.  For those of you unfamiliar with the Germany missions, that is a high number!  My companion and I wanted to reach it though.  We worked very very hard.  We did not quite get there, but we had 18!  That is soo close!  If all our appointments had gone through, than we would have achieved the goal (plus more).  It was a busy busy week, and very exciting!

Last weekend we did the coolest thing!  We had a Missionary Weekend in the Stake!  That means that many young men and the missionaries got together and they did a day-long mini-mission.  I got split up from my companion and went out with Calvin all day.  It was soo cool.  He was a stud and really did well!  We ran into a Jehovah's Witness, and he had no problem preaching the gospel to him.  I was super impressed.  Plus!  I got to be with a native speaking German all day.  That was so cool.  It was great!  I loved speaking German the whole day, and really feeling like I knew what I was doing, haha!

Today we are going to have a huge zone Pday activity because so many missionaries in our zone are going home.  It should be cool.  I will be leaving this zone and moving accross the country, so I am glad I get to take part! haha.

Well have a wonderful week!  Can't wait to hear more from you!

--Included are a picture of me and Calvin, and a picture of the beautiful houses on the Elbe River that I will miss so much when I am in Halle--

Building up the Kingdom of God

Hey!

So this last week my companion and I have really been focusing on teaching more people.  I must say, our efforts have been fruitful.  We were able to teach quite a few people.  We have decided to continue with our goals, so that we can keep seeing such great success.  I am really excited!

So, this last week, we had the chance to go to an ex-concentration camp.  Let me tell you, that was quite the experience.  The pictures are the pictures of the concentration camp, and of some of the missionaries that came with.  I had to use the wonderful features of my camera to make it look a little more like it was back in the day.  This particular camp was not an extermination camp.  It was a place where the prisoners were forced to make bricks for building buildings.  I never imagined I would have such an opportunity.  It felt kind of eerie there at the camp.  I want to go back because I didn't get to see everything though. 

My easter went well!  I went to church.  I had a talk too!  I felt like the talk went well.  I got to talk about how we can share our experiences of Easter with our friends and family.  I love Christ, and celebrating the ressurrection.  I am glad that we all will be ressurrected as a gift from Him.  I know that he lives.  2 Nephi 25:26 talks about how we talk of Christ and rejoice of Christ.  Let us do that continually, regardless of who we are!

Can't wait to hear from you all next week!  Have a great week!