Week Forty-one

Hey everybody,

So picture this. The Elders in Rostock walk into the normal internet cafe, and sitting in the corner on the pay phone, is a lady SCREAMING into the phone in some middle eastern language. She's intense and scary. And crying a lot. I feel bad. But it's kind of distracting. So bear with me on this email.

This last week was good! We taught a lot. We've been going through the area book, and trying to call and get in contact with everybody that the missionaries had met with earlier. It's boring work just sitting and making a bunch of calls, especially because it seems like nobody has a working telephone number, BUT we're getting in contact with a lot of people, and hopefully we can help them. However, because we were teaching a lot, we didn't have a lot of time to find, so we really need to find some people this next week. GOOD STUFF. We actually did a lot of finding/doors and we just got nobody. Sometimes that happens. It's not a big deal. President Kosak is actually having us focus more on really teaching well and building good relationships with investigators, than on finding. Kind of cool. Anyways, here's what I did last week.

Monday: I love P-Day. It's just the best. After emails and shopping, we ate at this grungy little Asian food place, which turned out to be all right. Big portions is all that matters really anyways. I enjoyed it. After that, we went around the city and looked in stores and stuff. I helped Elder Stanley pick out a scarf for his lady friend back home. But apparently I just have the worst taste in scarfs, and I picked out a man scarf. Oh well. We came home and finished cleaning the deep fryer, which is up and running and pounding out potato chips
like 24/7.

King Tobias, the official plaster ferret mascot of the Elder's Apartment...

I'm living the dream here. Well, after P-Day was over, we were supposed to have an appointment with this guy named K. We waited for him, but he didn't show up. So we just started with Family Home Evening. (We usually do it at the church/institute center and whoever comes just comes). So right when we started FHE, K showed up! He's a cool guy. We talked with him for a while and answered a lot
of his questions about Mormons. You know, the typical polygamy questions, and stuff about Mitt Romney, and all that quatsch. It was a good lesson though.

Dienstag: Tueday was kind of hectic. We studied in the morning, and went by on this one referral. We've gone by on this family like 15 times in the past 3 weeks, and the are just never home. It's kind of a joke. I don't know how you could just never be home. Oh well. After lunch and everything, we met with this guy named A. We found him by going through the area book and making calls. He's kind of cool. He's had bad experiences with the Elders/Church here in Rostock, which is really too bad. When we came, he just showed us a bunch of pictures from when he lived in Utah. He speaks good English, and makes a lot of
jokes, which is cool. I'm not sure just how much interest he has to learn about the gospel. He actually told us that if he was in Utah, that he'd be baptized, but he doesn't feel like the church is the same in Germany. That's just really too bad. After our appointment with A, Bruder A picked us up so we could go help him with his
wood pile again.

The ever-growing wood pile...

IT'S SO BIG! We spent a long time just finishing this thing. After that, we met T at the Bahnhof, and went to help him with Home Teaching. It went well.

Mittwoch: Wednesday was CRAZY! We had district meeting in the morning, and there are like 12 missionaries in our district. I think we have the biggest district in the mission. After DCM, we ate at an American diner called 'Little Money', which is just entirely ironic, because it's super expensive. I ate the 'Giant Mississippi Burger'. It was alright. After eating, we made a bunch of more calls. We met with M that day too. We went on a long walk with him, through some German Forests. No big. It's hard to teach M. We have more of like life chats with him. He knows the church and has met with missionaries for a long time. He's just refuses to change. That's what I think. But he's really nice and a cool guy. Hopefully we can get through to him.  After M, we had to go to Institute early to teach D. But when we got there, M was there! M is cool. SO Elder Stanley and I just split up and I taught D in German and Elder Stanley taught M in English. They were two good lessons. I talked to D about praying, and about 'real intent', like praying, and expecting to receive an answer, and wanting to do whatever that answer tells you. I got him stoked to pray. M wants to be baptized too! If he finds an answer. I think he wants to find an answer though, which is great.  We were talking a lot about baptism that night. Institute was way cool too, we talked about the 12 apostles in the Bible, and how Christ chose them and stuff.

Donnerstag: Thursday we were in Eberswalde ALL DAY. We left Rostock at 9 in the morning, got to Eberswalde at 1, ate, did a couple hours of finding, and got back on a train at 5 to get to Rostock at 9 at night. Worth it? Debatable.

Freitag: Friday morning we had Gemiko (Ward Mission Leader/Missionary Meeting) with T. T is awesome, I don't know if I've said anything about him yet. He's an RM that's like 24. Speaks 100% perfect English. Like it's hard to believe that he's even from Germany. He's super cool and the 2nd counselor of the branch presidency here. He's amazing. We went out and got lunch with him after Gemiko. We did some weekly planning after that. We met with Andy that night too. He tried to get us to watch some AMC TV series called Hell on Wheels. Some new age western thing and Common acts in it. It was really distracting because we were trying to talk to him about everything. I really hope he is willing to make some progress. We did doors after in the freezing cold. Oh btw, GERMANY IS FREEZING. It snowed this week too.

Samstag: Saturdays are the best because we get to play Basketball and Ping Pong. In the morning, we were supposed to meet this guy in Innenstadt, but we just ended up waiting in the freezing cold and he didn't show. So after that, we went home and ate, and then went to basketball. I love sports. What would the world be without sports? Just boring. Germans are bad at sports too. So being American helps. After Basketball, we play Ping Pong at the Institute center. Good times for all. After that, we did some finding in Innenstadt, which
was rough. Not a lot of people like talking about God at 8 at night while it's freezing.

Sonntag: Sunday was cool. I blessed the sacrament in Church. After the sacrament, they showed the one session of conference that everyone missed. I didn't get to see it, because the sisters had an investigator at church, and we had an investigator class. It went really well. After church, we cooked a pre-made lasagna at the church and ate it. It was good. After all that, we went by on some less active members, who just weren't home. Then we tried some finding. We were looking at like 4 hours of finding, which would've been rough,
but Elder Stanley got some revelation that we needed to call an older sister in the ward. So we did and asked if we could do anything for her, and she asked us to come and reset some of her clocks, because
the time change just happened here. So we went and did that. She is super nice and cool, and we want to visit her like once a week.

The week was good. Elder Stanley and I get a long really well, and I just love being in Rostock. Times are good. We're making leaps and bounds in Elder Stanley's German. It's really hard to teach somebody a
language that you don't really understand 100% haha. But he's doing so good. I'm proud of him. And I'm  glad that I can be helping. We also have been cleaning the apartment a lot. It was kind of nasty when I got here, but it's looking good now. My life is good!

I wish it was hot in Rostock mom! Just enjoy the weather in SD for me, because I might literally freeze to death here. It's been like 5 degrees Celsius, and it even snowed once already! So it must have been under 0 degrees. I will just never get used to the cold. I have to wear a scarf and gloves everywhere I go! It's the worst. But it's cool to use all the winter stuff we bought like a year ago haha. Like I said earlier, the deep fryer is up and running. We make potato chips/fries. Kind of like In-n-out fries. It's good. We never really
have time to use it actually haha. The food in Rostock is pretty normal haha. I refuse to eat any fish I buy on the street here. It's just too risky. And since we're right on the water, there are a lot of food stands with just fish. Just like buy a fish and a roll and eat it. I'm not into that. We eat a lot of just easy and fast meals. Like
Bratwursts, Lasagna, Sandwiches, Pasta, and stuff. I made banana pancakes yesterday morning, and Elder Stanley's mom sent him maple syrup, which is just the best. Don't talk to me about Thanksgiving...I'm so upset that I don't get to eat mom's cooking. It's just the worst. Send me some cookies! And other stuff.

I'm doing really well!!!!! I have a new motto in life: '...try to show kindness in all that you do...' from the primary song 'I'm trying to be like Jesus' It's going well. I love my mission!

I love you all and miss you all a lot. Like always!

Elder Pollard

Week Forty

NAH!?

Nah is just something Germans say. It's like how American teenagers say 'like' or 'um'. so NAH!? Wie geht es euch?! Ganz gut, ich hoffe. My last week in Rostock was way cool. Ups and downs and sports and investigators. Just everything to expect on a normal mission. But I am just loving it. I'm eating every day up. And I am so tired lately! Which is a good thing. Well, let me just tell you about my second week in Rostock.

Montag: Last Monday was the first P-Day in Rostock. We woke up, and did some cleaning around the apartment. I find it hard to study on P-Day, because I'm just so excited to email and to check cool stuff out and everything. So we clean. After emailing, we went shopping for groceries. We shop at the 'Netto', which has earned the nickname in the mission as the 'ghetto'. Not too ghetto though, I like it. It's super cheap. After shopping, we met up with the Greifswald Elders. They came to check out Rostock and to do some shopping. Our Innenstadt is really big and has a bunch of stores. I looked for new shoes, because mine are totally broken. Apparently there's some deal at this huge German shoe store chain, that if you by these 20 euro shoes, you can turn them in whenever they break. Idk, but all the shoes there  were horribly ugly. I also checked out H&M and C&A for some sweaters. It's getting cold. I only ended up buying one thing. At 'TKMAX' (Just like T J MAX, but with a K instead...idk) Elder Stanley and I found matching Nike shirts. SWAG! They're sick.

A t-shirt that says "Berlin"

 We also checked out this gnarly old church. I didn't take any pictures. Next time. It was a good P-Day. After that, we meet with this kind of 'ewig investigator' (eternal investigator) named M. We didn't get through to him really, but it was good to get to know him. He's super shy but still comes to a lot of the activities (because of a sister in the ward). And after that lesson, we had FHE! It was fun. Elder Stanley and I taught a lesson on the gospel of Christ. Then we ate good food. Rice and soup of some sort.

Dienstag: Tuesday, we were in Berlin again for 'Zone Training' That was great, because Elder Stanley and I had to give a thema (lesson/workshop) on 'How to master German'. The best part was that I forgot to copy my notes down into my little thema book, so I just had to wing it from memory. People said it was pretty good haha. It was way cool to be with the zone, but riding all the way to Berlin again just wasn't worth it. We got to hang out in Berlin Hauptbahnhof again (my favorite place) so we ate pizza hut. Then the ride back basically took all day.

Mittwoch: Wednesday was supposed to be packed, but only about half of our stuff went through. After study, we went by on a coupe of contacts/referrals, but one is never home, and the other has moved away. So we walked around a lot. Then we came home and ate lunch. I don't remember what we ate, so it couldn't have been that good. Or bad. Elder Stanley and I have been tackling the area book and cell phone and just calling EVERYBODY haha. It's been working really well. We've come in contact with maybe ten people who have set out appointments with us, so bonus. And a good part of area book work, is that the GML (Ward mission leader) knows the people already. Which is cool. After that, we went by on this guy named L. He's from southern India, and is just studying in Rostock. We had a cool lesson with him. He speaks English and Telugu...whatever that is. He said some crazy long prayer in Telugu to start the lesson off.
Unfortunately, L is going back to India for a month and a half, so that was the last time we'll see him before he comes back. Oh well. After him, we went by on a Brother in the ward. He's not less active,
but visits from the missionaries help a lot. We talked about prayer. I shared how Nephi prayed for strength when his brothers tied him up. Instead of asking God to take him out of the situation, he asked God for the strength to help himself. Cool stuff. After that, we had Institute. D showed up! Which was awesome. Remember D from last week? He's cool. It went well.

Donnerstag: Thursday was cool. After studying, we had an appointment with P, the psychiatrist. We went to his office and got to know and taught a good lesson. The guy is super cool, and friendly. We got to know each other really well, and gave him the BOM and committed him to read and pray. After that, we went home and ate. The apartment in Rostock has seen better days. Missionaries just haven't been taking care of it. So Elder Stanley and I clean all the time. We were then supposed to have a lesson with someone named Enoch, but that fell through. We did a lot of doors and OYMs (open your mouth, basically street contacting), but didn't find anyone. That night, we met with the sisters to plan for Zone finding.

Freitag: Friday was Zone finding.

District Greifswald

Basically everyone in the zone (14 missionaries) came to Rostock and we found all day. Before that, we had Gemiko (the meeting with the ward mission leader) So everyone came and we split up throughout the city. It was good, and we got like 3 appointments out of it, and taught a bunch of good lessons. A family from the ward ran us down and bought us ice cream too. Delicious. After Finding, We went home and studied.

Samstag: Saturday! was cool. In the morning, we went to Bruder A's house to help him out and do some service. We ended up stacking a BUNCH of fire wood. He had us do it in some weird way...like in a big circle.

Before....

and after...

After that, we hurried home and went and played basketball with a bunch of German and Chinese guys! It was so fun! And good exercise. Germans are not athletic. At all. The average German male is just so nonathletic and uncoordinated. It's sad. We dominated. After that, we rushed home, showered, changed, and went to PING PONG! Ping Pong is a big deal. Bruder S is ridiculously good too. And he's like 70. Just super intense. After Ping Pong we set up the church for Gemeinde Essen. Break the fast.

Sonntag: Sunday was fun. I met the ward, which was awesome. Also, a random kid showed up to church! Which is just way cool. His name is Marcel, and he speaks 10 different languages. He's 19, and '...just looking for the right church' in his own words. GOLDEN INVESTIGATOR!  Elder Stanley and I are looking forward to teaching him and getting to know him. He was super friendly too, and stayed for break the fast. We had to have fast Sunday on the 3rd week, because the first week was conference, and President Monson was here last week. It was awesome. After church, both of our lessons fell out, which sucks, but we were blessed, and able to make more calls and make out some appointments. Also, some British guy just stopped us randomly and asked if we wanted to play basketball on Wednesday this week. Of course we do.

That was the week! And it was good. Elder Stanley and I get along really well. We've having fun too. I'm just super happy and blessed to be in a big city with a hard working companion. We're learning a lot and enjoying everything. Being a missionary rocks.

FAMILY. I am doing so well. Don't even worry about me! Haha I'm loving it. Rostock is definitely looking and feeling like fall. The leaves are just everywhere on the ground and it's getting super cold. I'm glad you like the Bear picture. The bears really are everywhere and they're always painted differently. It's kind of cool. I'll remember to take pictures of them whenever I see them.

As for Christmas presents, I really don't know haha. Maybe peanut butter, or American candy. I can like get everything else here. I still have 50 euro of personal money. I might have to spend a big chunk of it on new shoes, because mine are just toast. That would be really cool if Emily and Matt could move back to SD. Everyone should live there.

So Elder Stanley and I found this NASTY old deep fryer in the apartment, and we've been cleaning it for the past week haha. It's so hard to clean. The last missionary to use it literally did not clean it at all before stashing it under the sink. Who knows how long it's been under there. Just getting nasty. We plan on using it though! Hopefully I can make some chicken strips soon. I love it.

I love everything about Rostock. Elder Stanley is way cool, the ward  is small, but awesome, and the weather is cold. I can tell that I am really going to enjoy my time here. Hopefully I stay for a long time.
Seeing President Monson was way cool. He talked about 'eyes that see, ears the hear, and hearts that feel' in regards to bringing less active members back to church. He talked a lot about his times in Germany, and shared a lot a stories about helping bring members back to church. He also talked about 4 L's. I think the were Listen Learn Labor and Love. Again, in regards to bringing less actives back. It was a cool conference. It was hard to focus, because he would talk in English, and then the German translator would talk, so at times I found myself listening and trying to understand the German more than the English.

Thanks for the Emails! I am doing really well.  I love you all, and pray for you every night.

Love,
Elder Pollard

Week Thirty-nine

DEAR FAMILY!!!

OH HOW I LOVE ROSTOCK!!!!!

I can't even describe to you all in words how happy I am to be here with Elder Stanley. I am supposed to be here in Rostock. I love it so so so much. I love Hof too, but exciting things are happening here, and it's just amazing. I'm having the time of my life.

Let me just tell you about my week. That will be the best way for you all to understand how awesome Rostock is.

Monday: Last P-Day was kind of sad, because we had to explain to all the members in Hof that Elder Huber and I would both be leaving. But anyways, we emailed like normal, and did some packing. Schwester Y. took us out to Chinese food, which was pretty good. We then got ice cream.



I had RedBull ice cream. It was interesting. Probably won't eat that again. After that, we packed a bunch. I am so grateful for the vacuum bags that I bought at Rossman. It made packing a little better. Then we went the the M's house. That was sad haha. We just hung out, played Ligretto (awesome card game) and played with the puppies and what not. It was super sad to say bye!

Tuesday morning was STRESSFUL! ALL OF TUESDAY WAS STRESSFUL. So the ehepaar actually helped Elder Huber and I get our luggage to Bahnhof. Then the left haha. I rode the rain with Elder Huber from Hof to Dresden. At Dresden I transferred onto a train that was going to Berlin. There was another missionary on that train, so we hung out and talked haha. The train going to Berlin was late though, so I missed my train leaving Berlin. So I had to spend 40€ of my personal money to buy a new ticket to Rostock. It's OK though, because the church will refund it. It wasn't my fault anyway. I just hung out in Berlin Hauptbahnhof by myself for an hour. No big. Then I caught my train to Rostock! My luggage survived, and did not break more then it already was. When I got into Rostock, my companion, Elder Stanley, and a member, Tobias were waiting for me. It was freezing when I came into Rostock. It's super cold here. We then went and checked out the church, because we were supposed to have a lesson, bu the guy never showed up. Oh well, we just ate some sketchy Chinese food and talked and got to know each other.

Wednesday: Wednesday morning was normal, study and such. After that, we went and bought the ticket for the train going to Berlin on Sunday to see the Prophet. After that, we went to the church (literally across the street from the apartment) to have Gemiko (ward mission leader/missionary conference). Which is just awesome. Tobias, the member that picked me up, is like 25, speaks perfect English, went to BYU and stuff, is the 2nd counselor in the branch, and our ward mission leader. He's amazing. He is the heart and soul of the missionary work in Rostock-he does so much for us. I love it. So at Gemiko, it was Elder Stanley and I, the sisters Sister Linford and Moon (Sister Moon was in the MTC with me) and the Senior sisters Wunderli and Holbrook. All amazing people. I love it. After that we went shopping. The church in Rostock is above a Netto, which is like a small grocery store. Legit. We ate, then did some doors, which was fun. At night, we had institute, which went well. We had an investigator there. His name is M. He has a crush on a member in the branch, but not super interested in the gospel. We'll change that. It was a good day.

Thursday: After study, we were supposed to meet this guy at his work, which turned out to be this huge building, and he is the head psychiatrist of this business or something weird. Too bad he wasn't there, but we made out another appointment. We went home and ate then did some study. Because I'm finishing Elder Stanley's training, we get 4 hours of study for 'New Missionary Study' or whatever. It's fun. We made a bunch of calls then. Then we OYMed. Which is Open Your Mouth. Just street contacting. Finished the night with a load of Doors. I love it.

Fritag: After study, we went by on this referral, who just wasn't there. Oh well. The referral actually lives on the street that the sister missionaries do so IDK why it's ours. But good. After that we went home, ate, and did weekly planning. Some good stuff. After that, we went by a super old investigator that Tobias told us to go by on. His name is Mark S. He is from Indonesia, but speaks English, German, Indonesian, Dutch, French, and Spanish. No big. We went on a walk through the Rostock University Botanical Garden, and had a good talk about life and religion and the Bible/BOM.

Botanischer Garten Rostock Teich

Hopefully we'll get to met with him more. He's super busy always because of school.We ended the night with Doors, taught one lesson doing that, and went home to study.

Saturday: Sat Morning was District Meeting. Our district is interesting. There are 12 missionaries. (Which is kind of a big district) but only 2 areas haha. Rostock and Greifswald. And there are 6 missionaries in each area. Good stuff. After that, we had an eating appointment with Bruder S. haha he's the man. Just super funny but a solid members. He's actually the Elders Quorum President. He's super super funny. He has this huge dog named Moppel. Who just owns the place. Moppel stole my seat, and they just brought out a chair because they said he wouldn't move haha. I love it. We then met up with some cool Asians playing basketball, and they invited us to play next week. That's happening. We met with this Asian guy named Xu after that. He actually was baptized a year ago, but went to China before being confirmed. So we were like what the heck. Nobody could get contact with him. But we did. Bonus. After that, we went back to the Institute center and played Ping Pong with our newest Investigator DANNY! My man! We had an awesome lesson with him. I loved the week.

Sonntag: WAS SUPER STRESSFUL. But totally worth it. We left at 7 in the morning to go to Berlin.

Elder Pollard and Friend in Berlin

We got there, and ate lunch with the Sister in Eisenhüttenstadt. After lunch, we went to the conference center. THAT WAS INSANE. There were soooo many missionaries there! I got to see everyone. It was amazing. I got to see all my best friends. President Monson was awesome. He's so cool. He talked eyes that see, ears that hear, and hearts that feel. In regards to working with less active members. It was awesome. I was actually asked to translate for this American family that was there. Monson spoke in English, obviously, but there was a speaker in German. So the translation was hard, but I did alright. After the conference, I got to see the whole branch from HOF!

The Hof Branch, Elder Huber and Elder Pollard

They all came up!!! It was awesome to see them again. I loved it. Then we went home. We got home at 11:300........

I LOVED LAST WEEK! EVERYTHING ABOUT IT WAS AMAZING!

So Rostock...such a cool city. I love it. It's super North, right on the Ostsee. The Baltic Sea. It's super pretty and kind of big. 200,000 people, as apposed to the 54,000 in Hof. I love working with the other missionaries in the city too. Elder Stanely is a champ.

Elder Stanley and Pollard in front of the German Reichstag

He reminds me of Brother Wertner, but 20 years old. He's in his 2nd transfer in Germany. He's a way good guy, and a hard worker. I just love it. I love Rostock and everything! The apartment is kind of...interesting. A little small and definitely hasn't been taken care of, but we're cleaning a lot.

So I hope you can tell that I'm happy haha. Being sent here was the answer to a lot of prayers. I love working, it's the best. But no Wal-Mart here...booo.

Sorry if I can't answer all of the question. I hope you enjoy the pictures!!!!!!





Love you all SO MUCH!  And miss you a ton.

Love,
Elder Pollard

Week Thirty-eight

WOW

That's all I can say right now. WOW what an exciting week! Like I don't even know where to start! So many feelings came out of this week. All I can do is just tell you.

The week was awesome! Monday we had district P-day in Zwickau. It was fun, we got on the train early in the morning to get to Zwickau and email and stuff. After emailing, we went to C&A (Like H&M but a little for JCPennyish) and I bought a snazzy new white shirt! One that actually fits. Slim Cut because that's how Europeans do it. Pictures to be included. After shopping, we ate some delicious cheap Asian food, and played sport. We played football and soccer for a couple hours. Then we came home! Tuesday was our day of service. We continued our efforts in the M's garden, which included digging trenches for new walls that need to be built, using a jackhammer to get rid of some concrete, and transporting hundreds or pounds of cement bags from the front yard to the back. Good stuff! Shwester M made us delicious food. Saurkraut and some meat thing, which was from the neck of a pig. It was super delicious. We spent basically all day doing service. Wednesday was district meeting. The W's drove Elder Huber and I to Plauen and back. It was a sad district meeting, because it was the last of the transfer. And we were expecting about half of the district to be transferred.It was OK though. We took pictures and stuff. Friday was super awesome. We went by on Shwester E, and when we were there, the ehepaar was already there! Coincidence? No. We had a really good lesson. Not a lot about Schwester E's beliefs were cleared up, but we came upon a good understanding of her faith, and how we can help her. It was a good appointment. Saturday morning was transfer calls! More about the later. Saturday night was Conference, and all of Sunday.

Conference was amazing! I totally regret not paying too much attention to it when I was home. Something about coming on a mission makes conference the most exciting thing ever. Something cool - we watched conference in Zwickau, which is where President Dieter F. Uchtdorf first had contact with the missionaries! So we got to watch Uchtdorf speak, while being the church building that he was taught in. What a cool experience! I especially liked Elder Holland's Talk where he said (using his own words to quote Christ) 'If you didn't know then, then you've certainly learned by now - that if I want fish, I CAN GET THEM!' I lold.  But really Elder Christofferson's talk was my favorite. His 'call to manhood'-it was awesome.

Transfer calls....WELL I was sitting back in my chair super comfortable on Saturday morning, NOT expecting to be transferred at all. And then I heard this, 'In Rostock....Elder Pollard will train.' I just kind of sat there shocked. I didn't expect that I'd be leaving Hof! And I still don't really want to leave Hof. I like Hof a lot. But now I am being assigned to Rostock (an 8 hour train ride North) to finish the training of Elder Stanley. Oh well! I heard Rostock is super awesome, so I'm really excited, but I still don't want to leave at all. I guess that's that haha. Actually Elder Huber is leaving too. They're bringing in two new missionaries to Hof. President did that with a lot of areas this transfer. Almost everyone is moving. More than half of the missionaries haha.

So I spent the weekend at conference and packing and cleaning when I was at home. I'm really excited now! But super nervous to travel. I hate traveling. Especially with my two broken suitcases.......the ones I won at grad night. Turns out, they're not the best quality.

STRESS! Family, please pray for me during my travels!!!! I will be traveling from 8:30 in the morning until 5 at night! That's 11:30 PM to 8 in the morning. The day you will read this! PRAY FOR ME PLEASE! I NEED HELP TRAVELING. I hate it.

Other than that, the week was super normal. Everyone is super stoked for sister missionaries reporting at age 19 now. I even have two girls emailing me who are dropping school to go on missions! How exciting is that. That's some straight up revelation that we got to witness. SO COOL.

Well, really not much to say! I get to see Thomas S. Monson on Sunday in Berlin! That's exciting. Other than that, I'll have a lot to tell you about next week!

Love you all SO much!

Elder Pollard