Week 96 - Life в Ноймунстере Week 7: Holy Flim Flam, Fatman!

First an announcement: I am officially extended, so I'll be rocking missionary life for one more transfer after this one. Don't worry Fam, good things come to those who wait. 😜

Last week on Tuesday I had the most filling eating appointment of my entire mission. We made something called Frikandeln(?) It's a dutch dish. We made it with our main man Fabian from the Netherlands. It's primarily ground beef, you add some púreed chicken eggs, a bunch of seasonings, and mix it all together. You then form this into rolls, put those in plastic wrap, boil them, and then bake them in the oven. We had that alongside french fries and brocolli with sheep cheese melted on top. I then proceded to eat until I couldn't anymore. I hurt after that one. XD 

The next day, we started things out right and went and gave an emergency blessing to an investigator who got really sick. We couldn't visit her alone, as per the mission rules, so we searched far and wide for someone to come with (Everyone was working!) until we made that work. We then got invited by a part member family to an all you can eat Asian Buffet, where I again ate until I couldn't anymore (it wasn't very much this time). Then off to Kiel for Tausch with Elder Seamons!

With Elder Seamons. We were in the MTC together.

Thursday was, klar, Tausch, so Elder Seamons and I went ham. We started by eating at the Mensa (Essentially a University cafeteria), and then we headed to Rendsburg (a very beautiful city, I'll send pictures. I've only gotten a few looks over cities like this in my mission, mountains don't exist here!) and had two appointments, by one of which I saw a rug from my childhood (pics also included). Ah, memories. We then tausched back, kind of. We overnighted in Lübeck before ZoKo and Interviews the next day, as we all needed to be there very early and there is an empty apartment there that the church hasn't closed yet (it used to belong to the Elders, now there are only sisters there).

Friday was ZoKo, it was super cool and spiritual. One of my big takeaways was the concept of letting the Lord handle our goal setting. When we focus on being his tools and allow his goals to be our only purpose it can actually be quite relaxing. When you are on the Lord's errand and something doesn't work as planned, it doesn't matter! The Lord's will will be done, that was obviously part of it!

Saturday we had a street display in Lübeck and we gave out 15 books of mormon! It was incredibly fun and effective. I also spoke with three different Russians that day, they exist! Actually, funny story, We were on our way to an appointment with our bikes after the street display, and we saw a man crash his bike about 50 feet in front of us. We went and helped him up and asked, "Wie heißt du?" (What is your name) and he shook his head and said under his breath, " Откуда ты? нет..." (Where are you from? no...) and then I got to pop in with "ты говоришь по-русски?!" (You speak Russian?) and then had a quick conversation with him and switched contact info. We'll try to meet with him this week! 

That was most of the happenings this week. It was pretty crazy, but I enjoyed it. I love you all and wish you a good one. =) Stay beautiful!

Liebe Grüße,

Elder Austin Spaulding