Week Ninety-one (80 days/11.5 weeks left...)

This last week was a slap in the face from life haha. Elder Donner and I put in so much work haha. We didn't have any investigators at the beginning of the week...and Sister Kosak said it best, 'When you can't teach investigators, teach members. Finding is not efficient.' But, being in Hof, we don't have a ton of members to go by on. The two main priesthood holders in the branch are not in Hof during the week, and the rest don't live in Hof, and a trip out to them would take a day....so we were finding. Basically hour blocks of dooring in one place and then moving on to the next or talking to people in the city. Who haven't we talked to in this city? We're looking for them. There's only 45,000 people here. We'll probably talk to them all by the end of the year haha. So we found all week. God was really testing our patience and faith haha because it took until Friday to get somebody to stop and talk with us. But, on Friday we found 2 people who wanted to learn more. The Church is true, the book is blue.

We did get to meet with our recently activated members though. Sister S is the best. She understands the gospel and notices the difference it makes in her life when she applies it. What more could a missionary ask for?! That's true conversion. We meet with her every week usually on Tuesdays with the senior couple, the 
M's.

Elders Donner and Pollard doing work...

We also taught family home evening, which was focused on missionary work. We shared a thought and a video and then talked about inviting others to family home evening. Super easy goal. 'Hey, who wants to come and eat good food and play games?' I'd be down haha.

Yummy...

We got to meet the new district on Wednesday. By new, I mean Elder Brown. He's our new district leader, and the only change in the district. He's cool. We like him.

Friday was the crazy day though! We met with M, a lady from Romania, in the afternoon. We found her earlier in the week and she said we could come by. We couldn't really stay, because she was alone at home, but we talked for like 5 minutes about the message and if she had interest. She had a lot of questions! And like she said she'd read the Bible and didn't understand it and that the church she was in didn't help her understand it, but she believes in Christ and everything. So we're going back tonight actually. Then we were walking to go do doors somewhere else and we talked to a guy named T who listened to us, asked us, "so this book can actually help me understand Christ better?" And then made out an appointment with us! Super cool. And then that night the cops were called on us.....haha we apparently scared a little kid who was home alone when we rang his name. We didn't even see him or anything though. But the cops were really nice to us! We're cool now.

Saturday and Sunday we were in the great city of Leipzig for Stake Conference. That city is so cool. And big haha. The conference was good. Only one family from Hof was there though...

So that was the week! Kind of not too much, but the weekend was great. We literally went finding the whole time haha.

A Brezel is a Pretzel mom. And I love Rotkohl so much. You need to learn how to make Klöse too! Sometimes they're called Knödel. They're like potato mush balls. And Rouladen. Or Leak-Cheese-Soup. I like those Maggie packs. 

Well, the work goes on! Elder Donner and I are chugging away.

The work in Hof is interesting. We're being told like left and right to work with the members better and encourage them to do missionary work but.....we're in Hof! And there's less then 10 active adults...we're trying though! I hope you are able to do some missionary work. Do the missionaries talk about the work when they're over? Elder Donner is doing well. He says, 'I want to visit the beach with you guys and learn how to surf from you.' Can you surf? When's the last time you got in the water?! We should go. My shoulder is interesting. I can work out in the morning no problem like pushups and weights. But sometimes after a long day it aches. I can move my bone back and forth too. Kind of cool. And my health is alright. I'm doing good.

I found my newest favorite scripture the other day.

And it came to pass that he planted vineyards round about in the land; and he built wine-presses, and made ^awine in abundance; and therefore he became a wine-bibber, and also his people.

In Mosiah 11. Moral...don't surround yourself with sin.

Food for thought!

Love,

Elder Pollard