September 30, 2013

This week seemed to me to go really well! It was fun because we made a meal plan and kind of followed it. MMMMmm! We ate really well this week when we were both at members houses and in our own Wohnung! We made linguini with sauce, taco salad, some pesto pasta stuff, annddd now we are out of money and food. Oops. That's okay because we get money in our accounts soon to buy food. Haha, the mission life is funny. All we have left is some cheese, carrots, apples, and cereal (no milk though). Those things do not really go together. Ah well.

I also bought myself a Christmas present from my family. Thanks for the coat and gloves, Dad! I hope the bill doesn't hurt too much!

This week we had an Austausch (splits) with the AP's. That split helped me so much. I learned a lot about how to better plan and how to contribute more to my companionship.  That was really helpful because it made me step up and do stuff. I can't always hide behind my companion with really good German!

 

We had a new investigator flake on our appointment, which is too bad. He is one of the normal investigators who speaks German instead of an outlandish language. Hm. That was too bad. But the positive thing this week was that we placed 7 Books of Mormon! Isn't that awesome? Our goal was 2. That was cool.

 

So we decided that the biggest problem right now is that we do not have enough investigators. So we went out and decided to go and find one in the park. We really wanted a family. and to give out two Books of Mormon to people who would read them. So with our plan in place and a prayer we went out looking. We talked to a lot of people, but the majority of them are friendly until we pursue asking if they want to learn more about the church. One lady seriously just backed off as if she was fading away; it was funny. But we found a family. An American lady, actually. She grew up in Oregon but married a German and now lives here with him and their two kids. She was not really interested in the church because she doesnt want religion but we are going to try helping their family move soon. Then we will send the Hamburg missionaries to her up in the Berlin mission! Haha, if we can. At this point we had not handed a Book of Mormon out. We were on the way to the Bahn and a guy stopped us on the street saying that he had been watching us and wanted to knkow who we were. That was cool because we got to tell him everything. Handed the Book out, he said he would read, and he has our number when he wants to talk about it. Not more than a minute later we ran into a lady we had seen in the park multiple times, talked to her (auf Englisch!) and did the same thing. That was cool.

 

We talked to an Evangelisch Pastor to see if we could come to any of their activities... and he was not very nice. But we got the number of a man who gardens there! Haha, that was cool.

 

The other day I attended a funeral.  On accident. My companion and I were doing service at a member's house in the yard and in the middle of the yardwork they buried their cat that died just the day before. That was interesting. As missionaries we aren't supposed to be going to funerals! Oops.

 

It is crazy that I have been out for just over a month. It seems like longer, although it also feels as if only a week has gone by with my companion.

 

I really love Germany.