Week Ninety-two (71 days/10+ weeks left...)

Hi family. And Friends. And strangers that read my blog.

The last week was distinctively average for us in Hof. We did a lot of work. The big things were meeting with M, our newest investigator from Romania, and U. We also started an English class that some members will be attending, and hopefully investigators and others who need help with English. Well, we met M while talking to people on the streets in Hof. It was actually a little miracle because we had passed her once and didn't talk to her. But on the second chance we did and she was interested. She has 2 daughters and has only been in Hof for a couple of months. We met with her 3 times last week and she came to English class...she speaks really good English. Good enough that we talk in English instead of German. She couldn't come to church unfortunately. We also met with U, who said he doesn't want to come to church because we might be the "M.I.B." haha. Two young guys in suits inviting him to the Hotel for church. Oh well, he'll never know until he goes. Also, we were awoken at like 3 in the morning a couple of time by drunk people yelling. One night we heard, "I am the undertaker!" over and over again in English.......That was our week basically. Oh and I learned how to juggle.

Elder Donner and I are doing well. We're looking at 10 weeks on our missions left, which is a weird feeling. Trying to balance working with stubborn members and people on the streets trying to get their dogs to attack us. Oh and we"re flat broke. 0 moneys haha. But the church is true, so it doesn't even matter. We"re both pretty happy to be in Hof and giving our best.

We were both complimented on our German, which is good because I've been studying really hard. Complicated German grammar that Germans don't even use like, "Ich habe gehört, dass er das nich hat machen können." And some members were super complimentary of our Germans! So that was super nice to hear. I like being an "experienced missionary" It's good.

Our week was pretty average. We had mixed reactions from the ward here to missionary work...I hope you do what the missionaries ask you to haha and aren't complacent about the work.

Hof is alright. We just had "Hof Film Days" which is like a film festival that people freak out about. It sounded kind of lame. My health is great. I am really going hard in the morning and evening with my workouts. And I've been losing weight (kind of) I'm at about 195 right now. hopefully 190 or 185 when I'm home. Which would be weird because I haven"t been that light forever. I was kind of tubs when I left on my mission. Oh boy. That weather is actually pretty nice right now. About 15 degrees Celsius.

Check out the changing leaves...

I don't have too much time so I'll talk to you next week!

Love you!

Elder Pollard