Hello
friends and family! Your 'favorite Elder' is doing swell. Just another
Monday at the Taj Mahal internet cafe and Indian restaurant. It smells
like curry and people are screaming in strange languages. But to answer
your questions, I am doing well and feeling great! Well I was sick last
week for a day because my throat was killing me. It was the end of a
long drag down haha and I needed to rest. I got these tablets from the
drug store that make my mouth and throat numb. So it's going a lot
better haha. And Elder Donner and I are seeing some cool miracles in
Hof! This last week was slow, but still super good.
This is what it was like:
Mondays
are super fun now because we go shopping in the morning, do emails,
work in the afternoon and then go to family home evening at night as
part of our P-Day. The sun goes down at like 5 now and it's really cold,
so working in the afternoon is better for everyone involved. So we play
games with our 'old lady' members after Family Home Evening now haha.
It releases stress. And it's funny to hear Sister E cuss in Greek
when she's losing.
Tuesday was good because we were able to meet with
the less actives. We helped Sister S move some things in the
morning. Actually, we helped her neighbor. But Sister S arranged
this service project for us! Super cool all we had to do was put old
things and trash in bags and carry it down the stairs to the street. It
took about 2 hours and I think I might have gotten tetanus. But it's all good. We met with her after and talked about the gospel. We also met with Bruder R.
We were in Chemnitz on Wednesday (oh yea that violin
guy with the long fancy hair that you like is coming to Chemnitz). We
have zone training meeting! It was a nice meeting. And we ate at
Vapianos after! It had been a long time. We had a crazy miracle that
night. We have passed out a bunch of flyers for this English class we
want to do in Hof and for like 3 weeks, only members came, but on
Wednesday night we got a call and a guy named M came to learn
English! He's new in Hof and is in the military. Cool guy. And after
teaching him English, Frau R came and we taught her about the
restoration. We talked about baptism and wanted to give her a date, but
she is like really scared of dirty water or something, so she wouldn't
agree to anything. We tried to explain that like it wasn't just a bath,
that it's a promise to God. She wasn't getting over the water thing.
Thursday and Friday were both really boring days of 'grunt work'.
But
Saturday was bumpin! We got a referral from a past investigator! He
wants us to help his wayward son. He says he admires that we're so nice
looking and well dressed and he wants that for his son, too. So he gave
us all his info and we're going to try and get in touch with the son.
After that, we were invited to a Romanian party! Woooo at M's house!
We went and ate Indian food and talked to her friend. I practiced my
Spanish (apparently Romanians speak Spanish too)...taco queso grande
malo. We taught M and committed her to read more intensely in the Book
of Mormon. And then her 3 year old daughter taught us Gypsie language.
Me shinauto! means 'I will cut you'...
Sunday was interesting. We had branch council before
church. It was kind of productive. But our branch kind of has problems
with missionary work. Sometimes I feel like the bad guy telling them
they need to do something before the branch will grow. But that's just
how it is! We had TWO investigators at church! Like record breaking for
Hof. Herr B and Frau R came. They both enjoyed it, too. We ate
with Sister E after. Chili. Great. It really was good tasting. And
then the rest of the day was work and we also cleaned the apartment.
Gooooood week. Especially because those two were in
the sacrament meeting. They had a wine tasting across the hall from us
in the Hotel Quality. It was hard for our non members to not be
distracted.....
I miss you all so much! All this talk of everyone
makes me want to see you real bad. I miss Dad and Mom and Emily and Matt
and Christian and Thomas and Grandma and Grandpa and others too. I got
Dad's post card with my news of landing at 4 pm in SD. That's exciting!
Enough time to go to the hot tub that night! Wooo!
I did hear about the Philippines, but not too much.
Hopefully everything's OK. Hof started setting up Christmas things
already, and there has been Christmas snacks in the grocery stores for
about a month now. It's coming!
Well.....that was my week! I'm doing good! Reading
in the scriptures like I should. I was reading in Alma this morning when
Moroni and Pahoran exchange
letters and I love how Pahoran deals with Mornoi freaking out. Moroni
thought Pahoran was just fat and happy on his throne and ignoring the
fact that people were dying, which wasn't the case, so he sent him this
dirty nasty mean letter and Pahoran realizes that Moroni had
misunderstood so instead of freaking out, Pahoran is super cool about it
and they work together in the end. I want to deal with situations
better like that haha. The Book of Mormon is true.
Hope you all have a splendid week!
Elder Pollard
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