This last week was just fantastic. Elder Donner and I were able to do a
lot of work and we didn't go insane. That's always a goal on the
mission. We saw some crazy cool miracles this week, too and got to meet
some amazing people that we want to help. I love missionary work,
because it's so easy to develop a love for these people. It's obviously
what we should be doing (how do you help people that you don't like),
but it's just so cool when you leave an appointment on some spiritual
high thinking, 'I can really help these people. And I want to.' I felt
that a lot this last week.
Elder Donner and I are scraping the floor to find
change haha we have NO money. We are 'whitewashing' this area, which
means we both come in at the same time and the old Elders leave. So
that's expensive to buy all new food and stuff. The apartment wasn't in
the best shape when we got here....a lot of cleaning. But our apartment
is now pretty clean and we've arranged everything the way we want to.
Our last week was like:
Montag:
Monday was good. We went shopping, got some new Turkish haircuts (great
looking) and did P-Day stuff. We went to Family Home Evening with the
M's and a couple members, which was also good. After that we
did a couple more hours of work, but didn't contact anybody that we had
planned to. Too bad. #turkishswag
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| a new haircut... |
Dienstag: Tuesday was slower. We only had one
appointment go through. That was with Sister S. We're working with
her to keep her active because she JUST came back to church. She's
super nice and I think she likes us. She's been a member for like 15
years I think but only recently came back. She actually remembers me
from a year ago haha Elder Huber and I went by at least once...other
than that the day was slower. A lot of talking to people. We made
cookies for the M's though and we gave them to them. That was
good. #doagoodturndaily
Mittwoch: Wednesday was our miracle day!!! We had
district meeting in the morning, which was cool...kind of boring
actually. Elder Donner and I were both released from District Leaderness
so we just kind of go and hang out now haha. We're the oldest in our
district by a long time haha. The day was alright, just trying to
contact some older investigators and referrals. Nothing really. But at
night, Elder Montgomery drove us to Rehau to go have an appointment that
fell out. Good thing we made back up plans and stopped by on a family
that the older missionaries said that we'd be good to go by on. Turns
out...they have 8 kids! Wow haha that was overwhelming. And they totally
listened to us which was cool. The parents and all the kids. They're
actually from Romania! And they had lived in Switzerland for a couple of
years. They learned German there and met with the missionaries and went
to church there. They didn't know how to contact the church in Germany,
so they said they were super happy when we came by. We taught them a
get to know you lesson and said we want to teach more! We're meeting
like 2 times a week now. It'll be hard to get them to church because
they don't actually live in Hof. But it'll happen. I like love this
family so much and all their kids are so cool. It's the best.
#wearefamily
Donnerstag: Thursday was also slower. We found out
that our DVD player is broken....that's fun haha. We kind of went insane
on Thursday. If I remember correctly. Just trying to fix the DVD player
and stressing about stuff. We ended up going by on an investigator who
has no phone number, only an address. We walked like 45 minutes uphill
to get to him haha it was the worst. And he wasn't even home! We had to
talk to his mom. Hopefully he'll call soon. I don't want to walk out
there again for nothing.#iwouldn'twalk500miles
Freitag: Friday was planning day. Always solid. We
actually had a really good planning session and got a lot taken care of
with the time. We ate Mai Tahn Lang, the Asian restaurant across the
street from our apartment. It was good to be back haha. We were supposed
to have an app with the really cool guy we found last week, but it fell
out. He was nowhere to be found. Didn't answer his phone either. I
don't like that haha it's so frustrating. We ended up going to Schwester
E's house and eating left-over chili from when she fed the senior
couple. We taught a good lesson about Jonah and running away from the
Lord. Don't do it. #gottaplan
Samstag: Saturday was super legit! We started the
day with service! An American family in Rehau (the little city outside
of Hof) invited us over and asked that we helped in the yard. They're
from Virginia. We pulled weeds and chopped down bushes and shredded
stuff for like 3 hours. Then he fed us some really good vegetarian stuff
and rewarded us with two huge bags of Reese's. Not too interested in
the church, but service opens the heart. Then we went back to Hof and
got changed. We met with Schwester S's son, and we're going to
help him stop smoking. That will be interesting. That night was the
best! We called G, a guy from Africa, and met him in Innenstadt and
taught a lesson and he agreed to meet again. I love me Africans!
Sonntag: Sunday was also great! We had church, only
15 members there. Sad, but good. We ate with the Merkels after, which
was SO good. Shcwester M made some legit gourmet spaghetti. After
that, we drove with the Montgomery's out to Rehau and met with the
S's, the Romanian family. We taught for like an hour and finished
talking about Joseph Smith. The father and oldest son have some
concerns, but nothing huge. They're the best. After that, we met with
Schwester L. She was super cool too! And way nice. She needs a lot
of help from the branch and from us. Just spiritually. We're going to
meet weekly and it'll be wonderful. I'm glad I met her. After that, we
came home, went by on contacts and went door to door. And made pancakes.
#keepthesabbathday
SOLID WEEK!
And now it's
Monday. We finally got our water heater fixed. We were taking freezing
cold showers, which was NOT fun. But the nice man came in this morning
and hit our heater with a hammer until it worked again. Blessings.
Mumsy! I am in the same apartment with the same DDR
fryer haha. We're going to use it this week actually. And I love the
cookies and cream chocolate bars from Ritter. That's dirt cheap in
Germany haha I eat way too much chocolate. It sounds like everything is
going well with the family! I'm jealous that you ate bagels. No bagels
in Germany. Lachs is a German word though. It means salmon. Bagels and
Lachs sounds legit.
Well I was reading the Jonah story this last week
and it was really interesting how Jonah, being a prophet, still made
mistakes. We all do! It's unavoidable. Good this we have the atonement.
Life would suck without it.
I love you all so much!
Have a good week!
Elder Pollard
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