Whelp, you can
count on Elder Spaulding to give you an excuse as to the shortness of his
email. Today will be my first Zone P-Day on my mission, so I be have
excitement. I may or may not follow up on that later. (Next P-Day should be
district P-Day, so it may be a similar story.)
Anyway, this
week was pretty good. Some highlights:
Last Monday
evening, there was a surprise fireside with President Uchtdorf. It was really
cool to hear him in German. I never heard him speak that much German before
before, he speaks some mean Denglisch. He posed the same question over
and over, "What can we do to make a difference where we are?" I
invite you to ponder that question and to try and apply it.
Tuesday we had
a Street display in Brandenburg which ended up getting rained out. It wasn't
super effective, but we made the most out of it and still managed to have some
fun as well.
On Wednesday we
had a handover appointment with a man the Leest Sisters found who lives in our
area, and that went wonderfully. More on that to come. I also gave a Thema
about teaching people and not lessons. And then, zum Schluss, I had Tausch with
Elder Brown, one of My Zone Leaders. He is pretty young on his mission, but is
a little fireball. I am very impressed with his German so far, and he is
excited for the work. That made for a good day.
Friday I was
then on Tausch with Elder Beutler. Due to many unforeseen circumstances, it
turned into a super Tausch (we had all four elders in our district in
Brandenburg), weekly planning didn't get finished, and we had to cancel our
street display the next day. I can, however, give very similar praise to Elder
Beutler. The man is just a baller in every sense of the word.
On Saturday we
had a special dance group from BYU visit the mission, to which we were invited.
They are called the Living Legends, and they are pretty dope. Because it was in
of itself a cool missionary activity, we wanted it packed. So, natürlich, when
it wasn't sold out, we went to help. A few hundred unsold tickets were donated
to the missionaries, and the Berlin Zone went to work. Due to the craziness
that arises with football games here, there was some (mis?)fortune. There was a
game in Berlin between Frankfurt and Bayern, and the fans were nuts. In
the Bahns this resulted in us getting all sorts of split up, and I ended up
passing out tickets with Elder Beutler and Elder Neale for the next hour. That
was pretty fun, though.
Well, this was
less of a summary than I initially expected, aber, Naja. I hope that you all
have a good one ;)
Liebe Grüße,
Elder Austin Spaulding
Elder Austin Spaulding
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