October 7, 2010

So, heres another email. Time here is flying by. We got like 6 new elders yesterday, and they're all going to the Alpine mission. Theres 3 missions in Germany: Berlin (northern germany), Frankfurt (middle Germany), and Alpine (southern germany, austria & switzerland). Just got back from the temple. Im starting to remember alot of the stuff im supposed to. I printed pictures, but theyre not here yet. When I send them, I expect them to go on facebook. i have a sore throat. I think its from singing too much. but my comp. has one too, so we're gunna go get it checked out just in case. my nose hasn't bled in days, so im getting used to the air kinda. On our walk to the temple this morning, there was snow on the the tips of the mountains, and its getting colder, so im excited. Tell Elder Prusse that his friend Elder Jared Keetch is now in Frankfurt as of monday and that he says hi. Life here is going really good. In our weeks here, our first 4 are spent learning & teaching the Restoration and the Plan of Salvation in English. The last four (which starts in 2 tuesdays) we teach the same 2 lessons, but in German. On tuesday, we heard a rumor that the prophet was coming for the devotional, so we skipped dinner to be there extra early and get good seats. There were so many people. And the way the devotional was being presented, we thought he was coming. but he didnt haha. it was a member from the 70. I do here that we should be expecting an apostle, or higher, soon. we'll see. So our flag doesnt stay up because the tape we keep using stinks, so its really annoying. And i got a letter from Bro. J last week! It was about stuff. Oh, and we dont leave the 16th. We leave the 15th (monday) at like 5 in the morning for a flight at like 8. We wont get to germany until 7 in the morning the next day. youll just be going to bed. Im not sure what else to write about. I want to learn russian from someone who speaks russian ;)), but german is hard enough. Its not actually hard, i just have problems remembering words. but i can make sentances and stuff. I have to write a talk soon. How talks work is that everyone writes one, and our mission president prays during the meeting to find out whos going to give it. So no one ever know. And they (our musik coordinates) want our distrikt to sing on sunday. I dont think my throat will be up to it, but youll find out. So we (our distrikt) heard that Germany was just rededicated for the preaching of the gospel by Pres. Uchtdorf. Apperantly there was no record of it, so they re-did it. And I guess that Germany had a big fall-out with the catholic church, so theres alot of people there who either have no religion, or are severly questioning their own. We heard that Germany is a "sleeping giant about to wake up" and that its going to become the new South America (baptisms left and right), so we're gunna be busy. OH. and everyone here speaks spanish. it really stinks. its hard enough to learn your own language, but when people are preaching to you in spanish, i feel like everything im learning is going out the drain. THEY MUST STOP. I hate Spanish. Soo, yeah. hows stuff at home? is anyone dead yet? or sold into slavery? i wont lie, i dont think about home very often, only because im just so busy all the time i dont have anything else to think about than the gospel and german. But i do hope everyone is doing well and getting along. Im just gunna email now because I have alot of letters to write, and you're the only ones that get emails. so its only fair. Ive got 6 minuets to write, and I dont know what to write about. I left your letters in a drawer, so im not sure what questions to ask/answer. Ill just assume that I got most of it. So, i have to go eat and do laundry and stuff, So ill email next week! (which goes by uber fast) okie day, habt ein guten Tag. Tschüss!