Week Sixty-four

Hey! So my 5th transfer in Rostock is halfway over...that's super weird haha. Maybe you've noticed, but I like talking about how fast the time flies! It's incredible. I don't necessarily like it either haha. Pros and cons. It's always nice to look and back be able to say, well I've been a missionary for 15 months now...but at the same time it seems like so long! Same thing when you look at how much time is left. It's not a lot of time at all......which is too bad because I just have so much more to learn. On the other hand, it seems so far away from now. Naja, needless to say, I'm super grateful that I'm in Germany right now as a missionary. I love being here and doing what I do. Maybe looking back at last week can help you understand why I dig missionary work haha.

I talked about Monday in my last email...

Diesntag: Tuesday was P-Day! It was relaxing this time haha. We ate out with Sister Holbrook, got some ice cream, went shopping, and RELAXED. I wrote some letters, cleaned up. It was all bueno. After P-Day, and because it was Tuesday, we ate at institute and then I had a conference call with the leadership people. It went well.

Mittwoch: Wednesday was kind of cool because we had some bomb lessons. We met with F and talked about repentance. He's making such great progress and he wants so bad to be better. It's like amazing and motivating. I look up to him. He's changing a lot about himself to live in accordance with the gospel. I pray for him so much that he can reach his goal of being baptized. We also had an appointment with B. B is one of the investigators that we have to take over because the sisters left. He's super cool though I like him a lot. I don't really know where we're going to start to take over teaching him though, it's kind of hard to know. But it was a good day!

Donnerstag: Thursday was also great! We had district meeting in the morning, which was strange, because the district in Rostock is so different now haha. We have new elders in Schwerin, as well as the sisters leaving. But the new elders are awesome! I'm super stoked to get to know them. It was also a really awesome day, because Brother G took us out to see a crazy old church that was built like in 1200 or something. It's called Münster Bad Doberan and it was way cool to see.

Münster Bad Doberan

Church back then was kind of a show though, which is sad. But it was just amazing. Brother G is an awesome person. I like him a lot. We came back and had FHE that night.

Freitag: Friday was relaxed-er. We had planning, which went well. We had a great joint teach with T and T. She made us some more Ghana food. Fried fish and potato ball with this spicy salsa stuff. It was really good. I'm super grateful that she likes to feed us haha. It's always fun. We talked about tithing with her after. I think it went well.

Samstag: Saturday was the first day of conference weekend! The most exciting time for missionaries. It's like a legit holiday for us. We come together and listen to conference with the ward and our investigators and everyone's happy! Before conference, we had a joint teach with D, the new member here, and T. It was ok haha. D is great though, he's a huge help. Then we watched conference.

Sonntag: Sunday was the day. Conference was awesome! We watched it all day, has some investigators there. A MIRACLE HAPPENED! C M is his name. He basically walked in, said he watched the Saturday session already. Said he's been reading the BoM for the past 6 months and believes that the church is true.....how often does THAT happen??!! Oh my gosh it was great. We ate cheese leak soup and mett. It was an overall good day!!

So conference! 3 crazy things! First, President Sabin is now Elder Sabin. That's way cool! When they were saying the names, I was just thinking that they'd say his haha because he was released recently. And then they did! Weird haha. Second, the story about Mister Pollard in Canada! It was weird to hear President Monson say Pollard so much...and third, the story of the man in East Germany visiting the member in Hungary...the daughter of the German man is in the Rostock branch! And he lived in Mecklenburg Vorpommern. The members were freaking out when he told that story, because they'd heard it so much haha. Kind of cool right?

I really enjoyed the talk from Elder Cardon about repentance! That was an awesome talk. I think we'll be using that one a lot haha. I liked Elder Bednar's talk...it was hard for me to follow at times. I was tired haha.

I love you guys so much, sorry this email is short! But I pray for you every night and morning. I hope that's helping! Have a great week and love each other.

Elder Pollard