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