March 14, 2011

Helloo.. 

So it is monday again. Not much to write about this week. Transfer calls are on Sat/Sun, so if you can, get on my facebook & tell people not to write me this week. I cant get on it .  Weather has been awesome. Today is prolly in the 60s, and its been like that for almost 2 weeks. I just finished Jesus the Christ on Sat, so Im proud of that. It was really intense. I also just started Alma auf Deutsch, and I can read & understand everything quite well. I had a split on Tues to Weds. with Elder Johnson. I went to Nordhausen (FINALLY) and it was pretty sweet. I had Nordhausen Pizza, which is supposedly the best pizza in Germany. So far, their right. And this week I have a split with Elder Sorensen in Gotha. That is gunna be pretty sweet.  Oh, and I showed our family picture you sent me to one of the families that we eat lunch with. They liked it lol. And they happened to notice that I had another picture of a certain "you-know-who" in my wallet, so they wanted to see that too. They said "she" is "sehr hübsch" (you can look that up). Translation: Gorgeous. On Thursday we had an awesome day. We had 3 lessons on the street & gave out 2 Books of Mormon. Sadly, we didnt set up any times to meet. I hope to be getting transfered out west. Its not usual for a missionary to stay in their Golden city for more than 3 cycles. Yeah, thats ´bout it. OH. I want to add to the Blockbuster death list (games I want when it closes). All of the following are for Xbox: "Fable 3"; "Civilazation"; "Two Worlds 2"; "L.A. Noire"; "Fallout: New Vegas"; "Knights of the Old Republic 2"; and "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim". If you already have any of these or BB doesnt have them, its okay. Theyre just on the list. Its not very important right now. Maybe for my birthday...lol. KIDDING. Um, yeah, I think thats all I got.  Has Chad dodged any mailtrucks yet? How fast do you think that Trav can get done with his Eagle Scout Project? He´s got 2 weeks haha. And its sweet that the greenie was able to get a lesson in! I havnt actually myself taught a lesson yet, but Ive been in some. I think it would so much easier if I could just speak German. BUT, I have been noticing that when people talk to us on the streets and theyre being jerks, ways to talk to them pop in my head. Good ways, not bad ones haha. OKay, I think thats about it. Im gunna go play a sport now. Have a nice week! Tschüß!

March 8, 2011

Well hello there, 

You wrote so much, Im not sure I can address everything, but I will try. Um, yeah, Fashings was okay. Nothing really happened. The Assistant President split was good. Im not sure why they wanted to split with us, besides that one of the APs goes home at the end of the cycle, so they´re prolly looking for a replacement for leadership.  Matt LaFrance is District Leader right now. I get an email from him pretty often. Um, yeah. So after the AP split we had our split with Elders Sorensen and Krebs. Elder Krebs is from Switzerland, and like I said, speaks no english. So, naturally, I had to speak German the whole day. And it was not a problem. If anything it seemed kinda easy. But thats prolly cuz Id been praying for help the whole week before. But yeah. It was fun. Nothing overly exciting this week. Carnival Monday (yesterday) was also fine. We just wern't allowed in the city center, but that wasn't a problem. 

So the Herfurths dropped us, so we´re down to 0 investigators. But theres like 3 lessons tomorrow that I won't be there for because Im gunna be on a split in Nordhausen from the end of today till Thursday. That'll be fun. Next week is most likley my last week in Weimar. Im prolly going west, but I don't know where. Um, yeah thats about it. I got your picture in the mail! Now the members can stop nagging me for one, LOL. Yeah, I think it'll be easier to send the package to the mission home. Um, I'm not sure if our new Mission President speaks english. He prolly does a little, so thats okay. How easily did Matt translate my letter? Yeah, my journals will be interesting to read in 2 years. So I started budgeting my money, I think. Its gunna take a while to get use to it, but I have like an emergancy wallet that I'm using to store all my money in. Does Travis want to go foreign language speaking now?

 Im not quite sure what to write...

 7 days without a PDAY is kinda hard, so today has been long awaited. We were supposed to "take the Elders to Eisenach" (movie referance) today, but I dont think that'll happen today. Theres a legit castle in Eisenach, so thats why we were gunna go. Its called the Wartburg if you wanna look it up. K, I think that's everything. If I forgot something I'll write it or make a note or something. Oh, and yes I got the letters from everyone (thats why I wrote back to them, lol). They were very nice. K, ima go now. Tschüß!

February 28, 2011

hellooo,

Sorry its tough back home :( Im glad to hear its getting better tho. I am adjusting to my companion. We´re getting along pretty well. Today is soo nice out. Everyone is still bundled up except us. It prolly around 60. We have 2 potential investigators- this older guy and his wife. We brought them a BOM and they´re really interested in our religion. They intended on reading AND praying about it. The older guy (their name is Herfurth) actually gave the closing prayer and asked if it was true on the spot! The rest of the day kinda stunk. I was soo physically and mentally tired. Today is a long awaited PDAY. I dont like talking to people because I still cant really talk yet lol. Im working on it. I contacted 4 cute girls last week- all at the same time. They talked for a bit, but didnt really have interest, so we gave them pass along cards. We had Zone Confrence on Thursday in Nürnberg. That was pretty good. I saw foxes & owls on the trainride down. I had a split w/ Elder Anderson on Friday into Saturday.That was awesome. This week I have 2 splits: One on Wednesday in Thurdsday with the Assistants to President and another on Friday into Saturday w/ Elder Krebs from Switzerland. He cant speak English, so I need a miricle. We found out on Thur. who our new Mission President is. I dont remember his name, but he´s actually from Nürnberg. He starts in July. Yeah, so remember that Elder Liebelt you told me about? He comes in in April or May.Thats all I know. This week is an event called Fashings. Basically on Wednesday, girls go around and cut peoples ties off and give them a kiss. Im gunna wear all my ugly ties lol. And next Monday is Carnival, and we´re not allowed to go out because its NUTS so PDAY will be on Tuesday next week. But yeah, alot of contacting this week. Thats about all I can think of. More usually happens in my days, but I can never remember to write it down. We´ll have to go threw my journals when I get back. Okay, I think thats it for now. Hope everyone has a nice week! K tschüß!

OH, can you send me a family picture? Ward members are starting to ask...lol. It can either be by mail or email. Just askin. K Thanks

February 21, 2011

Hellooo 

So, yeah, not much to write about seeing as I wrote 4 days ago. Its been kinda busy, but a different kind of busy. The Golden is in Gera, which is about 40 min. east of us. Then I had a split on Thursday with Elder Gardner, one of the Zone leaders. He was actually my roomate in the hotel my 1st day in-country. We did a lot of knocking and a lot of streets. We found 3 potential investigators in 1 appartment! I have to say, I think my german is improving from talking to people . I can read it pretty well now, and Im understanding a lot more. I Also had a talk last sunday. I guess it well, seeing as no one said anything bad about it hahaha. Um, yeah, we have ZOKO in Nürnberg this thursday, then Im going on a split with Elder Anderson Friday into Saturday. OH. One other thing. I checked my debit card, and I cant pull anything out. Am I empty?   I have 0 munny. Its not that bad, I can eat this week lol and MSF comes in next week, but yeah, just letting you know. Thats about it. Its gotten colder, not alot of snow, but colder. I think it was in the negatives yesterday and today. Yeah, thats about it. Hope everyone is well and its not too cold. Yeah, if I think of anything else Ill let you know. K, tschüß!

February 17, 2011

Hellooo

So yeah, I got to watch a Golden (new missionary). I wont lie, we didnt do too much because he´s brand new, and Im still not very comfortable with my German. But we did do some stuff, so it wasnt all a waste. He had the same MTC teachers as I did! OH, and I got the valentines letters right on time! Ill keep and eye out for Elder Rapps friend, Elder Liebelt. Is he German? My companions good. It was a little weird letting go of my father (missionaries first trainor is called their father), but it had to happen at some point. My new comp is Elder Williams. And I did get to see Elder Anderson! Ill prolly have a split with him soon. He´s only in his 5th cycle, and he´s the District Leader, which means Ill be going on a lot of splits in the next 3 weeks. This week was/is pretty hectic. I had to watch the Golden for 3 days, then PDAY today, our District meeting tomorrow and Im going on a split wih one of the zone leaders right after, then on Sat. theres a district leader meeting in Erfurt, so I gotta go to that, then we have a game thing at the branch, then church on Sun. and P-day again on Mon. THEN District meeting on Wed, Zone Confrence in Nürnberg on Thurs., prolly another split after that, and itll be week 4 of the cycle. Its flying by. Glad to hear the snows going down. And Im glad Chad...and Frau liked the letter I sent, haha. So, we share a floor in a building for our branch, its not very big. Its prolly the size of our sacrament hall, maybe smaller. Mah ja, I intend on helping a little with the punks mission. I still intend on joining the police. They pay for college and I get paid, so hopefully that'll help some. We really dont have anyone to teach right now. Our last invesigator, Robert, is moving to a town out of our reach, and we´ve just been walking around the park looking for people. Its reeeaaalllyyyy slow. But yeah, thats been my week and a half. Pretty boring. OH. I found  Italian Blood Oranges. Theyre basically amazing. Ive been eating a lot of them, plus clementines. I took 60€ out of my debit card cuz i need money for food cuz im running kinda low, so just lettin ya know. I also just finished Jacob in the BOM auf Deutsch. Its getting easier to understand. I also had a talk on sunday, which I guess went okay. It was still a little on the shorter side cuz i speak kinda fast, but thats about it.  Ill write again on Monday, so if I forget anything youll know in 4 days. K, tschüß

February 7,2011

Hellooo. everyone 

       So, i guess it was an okay week. We had pizza twice this week (which was pretty darn good), I FINALLY got a Tschüß Book (I´ll show you when I get home).We went to a cool Schloss, which is basically a palace with a cool park around it. We bought hair-growth stuff to make our beards grow fast (it doesnt work, but I dont need it anyways), on P-day we went to Buchenwald again. It was the same as last time. We got Elder Stradling abmelded, so he´s no longer a resident here. (Elder Stradling goes home Wednesday.) We woke up early and went to bed late a couple days ago because of the guy below us blasting music. It stinks. Its not even good music. TRANSFER CALLS CAME IN. Im staying here, so you can keep mailing me. And my new comp (who no one has heard of) is the new District leader. And Elder Anderson (my MTC comp) is coming in our district! WOOO. My new comp will be Elder Williams. He´s been in Ahnsbach with Elder Walker (Aussy from my group). I dont know anything about him, so we´ll see. I feel bad for CT. snows a bummer. Its been really nice here. Its almost 60, and its been windy, but nice. And im sure your elders will stay put when The Hartford Mission becomes the Boston Mass Mission. When our missions combined, they lost and gained elders. A lot of them werent very happy, but oh well. Yes, i am keeping a journal. Several, actually. I have my regular journal, a doodle journal, and a tschüß book. I dont have pictures from my ward yet. Theres only 3 kids in the ward, 2 girls (14 and 7) and a boy (12). Thats it. SO, Pres. Ninow may actually combine Weimar and Jena areas in a couple transfers, so it wouldnt exist anymore. Its completly understandable. Weimar is the smallest area in the mission, and theres nothing to do around here, so it would be easier to combine.  Yeah, thats about it. Event cards (z.B. Birthdays, Valentines...) stink. They´re all wrapped up and you cant look inside them. And they´re just boring. So I find it easier (and cheaper) to write my own cards (as you have or will find out). Um, yeah thats about all I can think of. Im really bad at keeping track of stuff. If I think of something Ill let you know. K, have a nice week and dont freeze to death! Tschüß!

 

January 31, 2011

Hellooo
So, pretty boring week. We had a split with the zone leaders on Wed. bis Thur., so that was fun. We doored into a Nazi on Fri. He was supprisinlg nice lol. Um, Pres. Ninow came to our ward on Sun. to give Elder Stradling his last interview. There was only like 10 people there, so it was a small meeting. I was left to talk to people by myself. Luckily, i can somewhat speak German. We´re at church at 8:30, and it starts at 10 and goes till 12. Um, yeah. So you know how in the US you cant just open up a 6 pack of anything in the store and take one? Thats all they do here lol. And dogs dont usually have leashes cuz theyre so well trained. Um, it snowed a tad, but not like you guys. I feel bad for CT. Thats a bummer. The roofs are definatly not ment to handel it. Oh, and THANKS FOR THE CARD. It was hilarious. 
 My comp knows something about transfers coming up that I dont, so 1 of 3 things is happening: 1. Im staying and getting a new companion.  2. Weimar is getting closed and/or whitewashed or 3. Im becoming District leader. So, dont send mail yet. Ill let you know on Mon. Other than that, pretty usual week. We´re teaching a couple people, but no prospect for baptisim (my opinion). But yeah, I think thats about it. If I think of anything else Ill write a letter or somethin. K, Tschüß!