I have very little time to write this week, but here it
goes!
Hello friends and family, wie geht es euch? For me it goes
well. This week went by super fast, and was for the most part fairly uneventful
(at least in comparison to last week), but that doesn't mean that it wasn't
great!
Quick breakdown:
Tuesday into Wednesday I had my first austausch (splits). I
got to be with Elder Bodtcher, my zone leader. He "dies" in two weeks, but he is
a good guy. We klingled (rang the door bell) on a good hundred doors, and
didn't get into a single one. But so it goes.
Wednesday we had district meeting in Magdeburg, and I got to
finally eat like a German!
You can't really tell because it's quite hard to selfie with
a normal camera, but yes, those are meter long bratwursts.
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday we spend almost the whole
days passing out flyers to a Christmas concert that we are singing in here in
Bernburg.
Sunday was great, after church and choir practice we had an
eating appointment with the Schultz family. Sister Schultz is an active member,
her children are inactive members, and her husband isn't a member, but has come
to sacrament meeting every day for the past few years. We knew that he had had
a lot of pressure to be baptized by his family, the ward, and past
missionaries, so we prayed about what to share and we really felt that we
shouldn't even mention baptism. Treat him like a person. So we went in, ate
(Goulash is great), shared the Christmas initiative (https://www.mormon.org/eng?cid=HP_FR_25-11-2016_dMIS_fmorg_xLIDyL1-A_ Every
day in December until Christmas a new short little video will come out with
something you can do that day to be a little more like Jesus and to do some
missionary work), and bore our testimonies. I started bearing my testimony
about families, and how they can be eternal (much to my surprise, it seemed
unrelated, but God works in mysterious ways), and he was really moved.
Afterwards he asked us if we would baptize him!
We have two investigators with baptism dates!
Monday:
We went to Leipzig for district P-day, but we had a train
fall out and then the backup bus fell out, so we
only got two hours there. But, we got to buy these wonderful things for 8 Euro!
It's literally just a tube of happy warmth!
We have no clue what they're called so we decided to call them our neckbeards.
They're wonderful.
It was also Elder Mayer's birthday today! He's only 21, but
this picture makes him look more like the old man he is. Enjoy it. (Elder Mayer
does not approve this message.)
This is our sad happy little Weinachtsbaum. Enjoy it, too.
Anyway, gotsa run.
Tschüss,
Elder Spaulding
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