Homecoming

Mom seems happy...

Week One Hundred and two (about 56 hours left...)

Editor's note: Elder Pollard returns from the Germany Berlin mission on Wednesday the 8th (his plane is scheduled to land in San Diego at 3:50 pm).  We ask all his friends to meet at the In and Out Burger in Carmel Mountain Ranch at 6 pm to greet him.  And a reminder, Elder Pollard is scheduled to speak during the Rancho Bernardo Ward Sacrament meeting on Sunday the 12th at 9 am; this is at the Poway Stake Center (15750 Bernardo Heights Parkway, San Diego, CA 92128-corner of Calle Pueblito and Bernardo Heights Parkway).

Now to your regularly scheduled Timmygram...

Hello People,

Well this it it. The last email of my mission. Unless I like break my arm today. I'll try not to.

THE LAST WEEK! Oh my gosh I just don't know how to act. We were in a 'dritt' last week, which means that Elder Donner and I received another comp. His name is Elder Stoddard, and he's one of my favorite people on earth. SO the week was really just full of celebrating and packing and cleaning. There was really only one day we had to totally dedicate to missionary work. And when I say that, I mean that we weren't invited to celebrate and it wasn't a holiday, and we didn't have to clean or pack. But the one day that we did work was really cool. We went 'adventure finding'. That means that we were on the edge of this tiny city called Oberkotzau and we looked out into the fields and saw like 2 old barn houses and Elder Stoddard said, 'Let's go there.' So we did. We walked so much haah but when we got out there, we had a really good talk with this lady and she said we could come back like whenever and talk and maybe teach her. It was super cool haha. We had a couple of other good talks with people on the way too.

We celebrated New Years with the M's and ate really good food. Sister E invited us for New Years Day and made super good food as well. Last night Elder Donner and I rode the train from Hof to Berlin and now I'm here in Berlin, just living up my last P-Day. It'll be good.

Thanks for reading my emails and keeping up with me. I'm sorry that my story telling skills over email have not improved at all over 2 years. I hope there emails weren't boring haha. I love my mission. It's made me who I am right now. God loves us.

Getting ready to go home...from left to right: (front row) Sister Kosak, Sister Odenwalder (the niece of the Poway Stake Odenwalders) Elder Scholes, Elder Anderson (middle row) President Kosak, Elder Kuenzle, Elder Guccione, Elder Donner (rear row) Elder Beckstead and Elder Pollard

I have so many stories! I'll just have to tell you all in....2 days.

Love you!

Elder Pollard