Week Sixty-seven

 

Hey friends and family! I'm emailing you now from Hamburg, instead of Rostock! Hamburg seems like a pretty big place haha. I haven't seen too much of it, but I know it's way bigger than Rostock. I'm now serving in Delingsdorf, which is where the church building for our ward is. My area is way bigger than just Delingsdorf though. There is like 3 average size cities, and then a big chunk of Hamburg that we work in. So we basically work and live in Hamburg haha. 

 

It's a very unique area and situation. But I'm loving it so far. My companion is Elder Lykins from Iowa. We're getting along great so far! The district is us and two companion ships from Lübeck, which is a big city not too far away. There are elders and sisters there. It should be really fun to work with them. I kind of feel really rushed right now haha I have no idea why, but I hope I can write a good email for everybody.

I'll just start with the week.

Montag: Monday was my last P-Day in Rostock, which was pretty bittersweet. I mean after 5 transfers in a city, you start feeling like you're at home. So having to leave doesn't sound too great. But it was pretty fun. Sister Holbrook took us to Ikea so we could celebrate her Swedishness. That was way fun. Meatballs were good. We did the usual Rostock P-Day activities, which includes Tiger, T K Max, and walking around getting the essentials for the week. I can honestly say that coming to Delingsdorf has been a drastic change in my life. Kind of intense haha. But we also had some great lessons. We met with T and also with C M that day. We had two great appointments, and I felt great leaving these two baptismal dates in Rostock. After our appointments, we just walked through the city haha. A last night in Rostock.

Diesntag: Tuesday was the day of travel. I got up at the normal time, had everything packed, caught a train at like 9:30. It was really sad then to say bye to Sister Wunderli and T at bahnhof. But it was just like so fast that I'm still dazed and shocked haha. I'll get over it though. So it was only a 2 hour ride to Hamburg bahnhof, not too bad at all. I met Elder Lykins there. It was only like a 20 minute ride to Ahrensburg, where we really live. And then a 15 minute walk with the suitcases to the apartment. The apartment is actually pretty nice. It's bigger then the apartment in Rostock, but that's not saying much. And the beds are nicer and more comfortable. But like it's not really home yet. It'll get there. We started working that day, and rode to Hamburg where we talked to some people. It was nice to just talk to people and they were usually pretty nice haha. We did some doors as well and got a couple of contacts that we need to go by on.

Mittwoch: We started our first real day of working off with a mini intro to the area and going through the area book. It was fun. We have a big area book with a lot of old records, so we're sorting and going through and seeing who we want to go by on. We ate with the V family in Delingsdorf. It was a way good first member appointment. They made us chicken and veggies and stuff. Super good. And it was nice to meet members. We rode our bikes (yes bikes) back and worked on the area book more. After that, we went to Hamburg again and started going by on members and less actives and talking to people. We spent a lot of time walking haha. But we got to talk to some people. It was good. We had language study that night.

Donnerstag: Thursday was fun! We rode to Lübeck and helped build the sisters new apartment!  We built like dressers and shelves and just everything. They have such a nice apartment with like everything all brand new. Just jealous. I also had a good opportunity to have a baptismal interview with S, from Lübeck. He was really cool and I felt like he was prepared to be baptized. It was a good first baptismal interview. After that, we got on a train and drove to Hamburg and had Gemiko with Bruder Z. he's way cool and a great teacher. It was fun.

Freitag: Friday we rode back to Lübeck and had district meeting. It was good to meet the sisters, and to come together and talk about the work. I'm like really excited to work with the district. Especially because there's no real reason for anybody to be transferred soon, so we could stay together for a while. It went well. I gave a thema about staying happy and obedient. We ate with the F family after, which was just was cool too. I say way cool too much, but that's just what it was haha. They made us like taco salad which was good. It was super good to meet Brother F, who then told us that we really wants to go on joint teaches with us and we wants to be involved.  We had a service project with Sister S after. We helped her scrape like glue off of her ceiling. And we had weekly planning after.

Samtag: Saturday morning was my favorite! Soccer in the morning. Soccer is great. I'm actually not too bad. I think haha. I was surprised that I could run that whole time. I scored two goals. Because I'm a beast. After soccer we helped the ward clean. We also had a  lesson with an old investigator in Delingsdorf. It seems like he isn't ready to make any big steps right now, which is too bad. After that, we had to ride to Kiel to have a meeting. It was good.

Sonntag: Sunday was amazing. Church was so good and I got to meet a lot of way way cool members. Like the ward here is amazing, that's all I have to say. Church went well. I gave my testimony and introduced myself in relief society and priesthood. After church, we ate at the bishops house and we had a great talk with him about the work. It pumped us both up like a lot haha. The bishop here sounds like he's just on top of everything. It was nice. After that, we had an appointment with a less active sister in Hamburg. It was just good.

The week was good. Way way cool haha. I'm really thankful to be here and to be working with Elder Lykins. I know that I'm going to just love working here. Just as much as I liked Rostock.

I'm like really rushed though, so have a great week! I love you all!

Elder Pollard