Week Seventy-four

Hello friends and Family! I'm happy to email you this week. I'm at the W's house right now. They are so nice and let the missionaries do emails! And Sister W just made some bomb chicken that we ate. So everybody wins. Well, we win twice. It's just nice, because otherwise we have to ride the train to Hamburg and do emails in a loud internet cafe. Naja, I'm just grateful that we can do them here.

 

Last week was kind of longer. For no real reason though. I'm just looking back to last Monday and it feels like a long time ago.

 

Montag: Last Monday was cool! We were in Hamburg and did a lot of shopping haha. I bought my new suit with the money from Grandma and Grandpa. It's like blue with stripes. And way too tight to wear in America. And then I bought a comp tie with Elder Loitz, some new running shorts, really cheap and nice shoes, and a sweet pin from Hamburg. My pin collection is going strong! I have a bunch haha. Other than shopping, we ate a delicious Döner, and then just checked out the shops. Being in Hamburg is nice. It's kind of stressful too, though. Naja. After that, we came home and had an appointment with M, who was this Free Mason guy who we talked to on the street. It turns out that he just kind of wanted to propose his business to us. He's way cool though.

 

Diesntag: Tuesday was wonderful. We emptied a 440 Liter fish tank that hasn't had a working filter for the past 10 years......I now know how Shrek smells. We got about halfway done haha. We were helping a member out. I learned from that experience that I never want to own fish. We then spent a lot of time trying to find the address of somebody that we were supposed to have an appointment with. We didn't find it haha. Well, we found the address that she gave us, but it was wrong. Kind of disappointing. We had another appointment with M that night actually but it was like the same thing. He's not too interested in the Gospel, but he likes the talks.

 

Mittwoch: Wednesday was Zone conference in Hamburg. Even though we're in the Neumünster Zone, we live and work in Hamburg. Our zone leaders live in Kiel. It takes about 2.5 hours to get to Kiel. It takes only 20 minutes to get to Hamburg haha. Kind of weird. The conference was fun. 

 

Neumünster Zone

We heard some good workshops and got to be with the other missionaries. I got to wear the new pimp suit. Too bad it was like 90 degrees with 99% humidity. It was hard just to sit haha. The night we went on exchanges, so I was with Elder Gleason in Delingsdorf. We came home and ate with the R's.

 

Donnerstag: So I was with Elder Gleason from Lübeck for the most part of the day. We were tired because we were up all night watching the lightning storm. It would've been useless to try on sleep haha. But we still went to work. We went to the W's, which was a good lesson. It was super hot that day too. The lesson went well. We're teaching Mrs. W mainly because Mr. W has some memory problems....he forgets like every 5 minutes. He's super cool and nice though. He just asks where we're from like 10 times an appointment haha. It was a good lesson. That night Elder Loitz came back and we had Gemiko with Bruder Z and then ate at the W's house. It was way good.

 

Freitag: Friday was fun haha we were in Bargteheide the whole day. We walked around a lot and had an appointment with a lady who really didn't want to listen to us. That was fun. She basically tried to get us to convert to whatever she was preaching. So many people believe that the church or institution is evil. I don't get those people. Naja, that night we had an appointment with E form the Congo. Bruder L came because we needed a French translator. It went well haha even though we didn't understand any of it.

 

Samstag: We played soccer in the morning. I love it haha. I'm defiantly not the worst there. So that makes it fun. We also had to go emergency shopping on Saturday haha. So we did that. Then we taught some African kids English and came home and studied/I prepared my talk.

 

Sonntag: Sunday was great. We went to church. There was a returned missionary there, fresh from the mission, so he talked. I talked and an ex-mission president talked, so it was like super missionary day in church, which was great. After church we had gemeinde essen, which was also great haha. After church we planned  for the week and then had an appointment with Herr F, which went well.

 

The week was like long haha. It even took me a long time to try and explain everything. But next week will be better. Like a lot of our investigators dropped this week haha. But this week coming will be Wunderbar haha.

 

Well I didn't get to see the missionary broadcast , but President sent out a letter so I think I got the big news. I have no idea how soon all this stuff will be happening in this mission. Probably not so soon. The Germany Berlin Mission is like one of the biggest in the world. I think we have the most missionaries. So like....that's a lot of kids running around with I-pads and stuff haha. There is over 70,000 missionaries right now. And I'm sure I-pads are expensive. But we'll see.

 

Well, I'm super jealous that you went to the San Diego County Fair again! The last time without me. I'm a fair fiend. Other then that, I'm doing well. I love Germany haha.

 

I hope you all have a good week! I pray for you.

 

Elder Pollard