Week Eighty-five (121 days left...)

Greetings once again from the luxurious Taj Mahal internet cafe in Hof, Germany. This time accompanied by my good friend Elder Donner. I'M BACK IN BAYERN! And it's great haha. Elder Donner and I arrived on Tuesday in Hof and we've just been tearing it up ever since! I'm way stoked to be here. All of my other areas and companions were all great and I learned so much from them, but this is like prime time missionary work now. We're both 'old' missionaries and working with him is like working with a second version of me. It's kind of weird. But I'm just a happy camper.

The boys from Hof...

 
The week went by fast. It was like:

Montag: P-day.

Diesntag: Travel. I left Hamburg at 8:30 in the morning and sat on the train next to an Asian lady haha she is a sports journalist from Singapore. 'Who is better, Kobe or Lebron?' (Asian accent). It was pretty funny and she didn't speak German so I helped her out. And then I got to Dresden and met up with Elder Donner. We rode a train to Hof and Elder Montgomery picked us up in the car. The Montgomery's are the senior missionary couple here in Hof. They're from Utah, but live in Idaho. They're really nice and they took us out to dinner the first night! To a schnitzel place. I ate some good Schnitzel. And there was a way drunk guy from England in the restaurant. That was a hoot. And we went back and unpacked.

Mittwoch: Wednesday was so cool! Well we shopped in the morning because we had no food and ate some good stuff. We had an app with Schwester S from the ward and the Montgomery's were there with us. It went really well and it was good to get to know her. I think she likes us haha. Which is good. And after that we went to the M's to say hi but they invited us in for cake. It was good and we asked that they would pray for us so we could find some contacts, and it worked. We found A! A younger Turkish student/dancer guy. Who speaks really good English haha. We met and talked and he seems pretty interested. So miracles. We also had to purge the apartment because it was pretty dirty. Not cool.

Donnerstag: We had a lot planned for Thursday, but it all fell out...But I remember that we got a lot of like paperwork done and talked to a lot of people who said we could call them later.

Elder Pollard deep in contemplation...

Freitag: Friday was our first district meeting in Plauen. Donner and I were both 'released' as DL, which is great. We're like the creepy old guys in the district. #gohard. We came home with the Montgomery's and had an app in Rehau, a smaller city outside of Hof, but that fell through. So we ate Döner instead. So good. That was about it.

Samstag: Saturday was cray. We went to a funeral in Freiberg. It was cool because we got to sing and see a lot of other missionaries, but it was a funeral...like not the happiest place on earth. Good thing the gospel is true...We came home after a long long time and did some finding in the city. Then I had to prepare a 15 minute talk for the next day.

Sonntag: Sunday was great. Back to the Quality Hotel! Elder Donner and I gave our talks, which were perfectly timed, and we enjoyed getting to know the ward. Everyone remembers me haha, surprisingly. We ate with the H's after, which was also good. They made chicken and spaetzle and veggies. And we ate really good cake too. We were there for a while though. After, we went and did some finding, found some good contacts, had some good talks. Bueno.

I am having a hard time emailing! Like I'm super distracted for some reason haha. So I'm sorry if this was just like boring. New goal is to write better emails! My shoulder's doing better though. I can't really do pushups yet, but normal work is OK. That's exciting to hear about Thomas and how soon he'll be a missionary! Good for him.

Well, I'm doing well. I hope you are too! I pray for you! Love you!

Elder Pollard