First of all, OYM stands for "Open Your Mouth" something you shouldn't be embarassed for not knowing, and which I thought I had probably just already mentioned. Of course, I think I really shouldn't've said that we were OYMing, because that would mean we were opening your mouth, which is just tacky. So the conjugations should probably be: I OMM, you OYM, we OOM, he/she OHM, it OIM, they OTM... anyhoodles, I don't think anyone else is up for conjugating it... actually, people usually say "Doing OYMs." I guess I'm just too classy for my own good. Anyhoodles.... that's just what we call street contacting.
We had a nice thunderstorm on friday night. I enjoyed it...
I bet you hadn't the faintest notion of the collosal degree by which those blocks would enrich our lives when you chose to make them in relief society.... (Feel free to parenthetically insert the story you told me to which I am responding - we wouldn't want to keep my loyal readership in the dark) (I had written to Jacob: Isaac started school and I'm not sure he's particularly happy about it. Joseph decided to put my little blocks in an order which spells "Back to School" and Isaac scattered them and then arranged them to spell "school is evil". Joseph responded by spelling out "school is the best". I just noticed that now they say "schools awfulest")
A large portion of Dad's email was like, "Some of the questions we are often approached with by the general public are..." so I respond to that part of his email in this one... -- I just imagined someone reading on the blog the stuff I write about "general public," "loyal readership," and "vast fanship," and taking it seriously. It was amusing. Dear imaginary reader: It's a joke. -- Anyway, here goes:
Things are going quite well with my companion, I like him a lot. It's funny, because what I'd heard as the stereotypical German companion is super staunch, stubborn, hardcore obedient, and always right. Elder Baake is really laid back and super fun loving. He definitely sees the rules more as guidelines, but he does have the desire to work and help people progress. I've really enjoyed being with him. We could definitely comunicate better, but I think that's a weakness that I have with just about anyone. Anyhoodles, I think it's most important for me that I focus on improving myself, and overcoming my fears and weaknesses.
We definitely speak less German than we ought to. In the Zone conference we had, they spoke English, due to several of us being Goldens (I don't know if I've already mentioned that, but it's just the Mission term for new missionaries), but Präsident said that some of them will be in German. Elder Baake speaks mostly English with me, but occassionally we'll speak German. A lot of times he'll speak english to me, I'll respond in German, and then he'll respond in English again. All of the missionaries speak English to each other. I think it'd be a lot more beneficial if we spoke German all the time, but English is just easier, so I don't really blame them... And I don't really feel like enforcing German speaking.... Actually, Elder Baake's basically learned English on his mission - he took it in school, but he couldn't really carry on a conversation before. That's great for him, but I think it's kind of silly that he's learned English better than some missionaries have learned German. We've actually taught a fair deal in English, mostly with people from elsewhere, who speak better English than German, or that have equivalent, but would rather hear my English than decipher my German. I haven't taught any like this yet, but our MTC teachers told us that a lot of students you teach will want to practice their english with you.
Let's see.... What did I do this week... well, On Saturday was the Transfer Call, which was exciting - I'll be staying with Elder Baake in Elmshorn for at least the next 5 weeks, which is good. The only change in our District is that Elder Weitzel in Glückstadt is getting shipped off to Dresden. So yeah, quite the party.
Oh, on Monday we went to Hamburg for realz this time - it was really cool, even if we were kind of directionless and spent a lot of our time just standing around in random stores. I enjoyed seeing Churches as we walked around the city, and Going through the Rathaus. There were also about a bazillion music performers on the street.
On Wednesday we had a lesson with the guy who talked to us while we were eating Döners, And we did it as a joint teach with Präsident Müller, a member of the stake presidency in the Ward, and who I want to be when I grow up. We had a really cool and a really long discussion about the plan of Salvation, and why Christ is necessary.
Wednesday night we got a call, informing Elder Baake that he should bring his own lunch to the leadership training the next day - only no one had ever told us that he had that at all - the exact same thing happened to Elder Weitzel, so Elder Popp and I ended up being together on Thursday, which was really cool, but rather intimidating, because we both are still pretty dependent on our companions for the whole communicating with Germans thing. We went out and worked in Glückstadt, on the Dike, where there are lots of sheep, but unfortunately that morning not really any people. Elder Popp likes to go there because it's a place were people go to think, enjoy nature, etc, so they tend to be a little more open there. But... we only found one guy who dismissed us pretty quickly.
But yeah, it's been a good week, those are just a couple things that stuck out to me. I've also spent too much time writing this.
I love you, I know this church is true, I know that Thomas S. Monson is a prophet, and I know that God has a plan for us to return to him and become like him.
- Elder Cloward
Monday, August 29, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Germany Week 4
Our week was good. The Ballard goal certainly kept us on our toes some days. Monday was the hardest as it was our Vorbereitungstag, but as I said our plan was in the last email, aside from emails and Dinner at a members house, we were just street contacting the whole day. We were out working on it fairly late... I don't remember exactly, but it was probably almost 9:30 we found someone...
I must say, our Wednesday Ballard was my favourite. We were just in this little restaurant eating Döners, when one of the guys at the table next to us just talked to us - he'd actually been meeting with the missionaries about a year ago, but lost contact with them when something happened to his phone and he had to get a new number. He seems like a really cool guy.
The appointment with him was last night - well, actually, it was originally for saturday night, but he called us and rescheduled - which is really rare, usually people just don't show up... - but we were doing splits with another companionship in our district last night, so I didn't get to teach him, but Elder Weitzel and I, who were going around OYMing, ran into him while he was on his way. He's super friendly and Elder Baake and Elder Popp said that he's genuinely interested and asks deep questions and stuff.. He comes from an Islamic background, but doesn't really practice it. Anyway, I'm excited to get to know him, and to teach him more. Then yesterday, While Elder Popp and Elder Baake were teaching him, Elder Weitzel and I were trying to get our Ballard - it was the last day of the goal week, and it was already the time of night when everything's closed and there are very few sober people on the streets... so we had no luck. When we met up with the others they told us they'd already gotten one for us before the appointment. It was a good thing though, because we definitely wouldn't've been working as hard if we'd known we'd already reached the goal.
Let's see... what else has been exciting this week....?
Umm... I love going to the members houses here - we've got an eating appointment almost every day, and sometimes when we don't, we drop by someone and they feed us anyway. The branch here is amazing, and not only because they feed us so much - they're super friendly, and they're always glad to assist in missionary work. I think it's unfortunate that we're so distant from the missionaries in Salt Lake - I mean, I understand why each companionship has a couple stakes, but it's so nice to actually know the people in the ward, be able to get comfortable with them and work with them. At home there wasn't a single time that we had the missionaries over that wasn't super awkward... Anyway, it's nice here in Elmshorn.
Today we're planning on really going to Hamburg... that should be a party.
Anyhoodles, I'd best hurry up.
I know this church is true. I know that I received my mission call from God through his prophet and that I am here to bless the lives of his children. I know that I have already grown, and I will continue to grow, so long as I concentrate on the work and on the people I'm serving. I know that Thomas S. Monson is God's Prophet on the earth today, and I love his example of service and focusing on people. I know that the supreme example of that selfless service is Jesus Christ, who gave his life for us, that we could have a chance to have joy, and the opportunity to become more like him.
- Elder Jacob Cloward
Monday, August 15, 2011
Germany Week 3
So I somehow managed to spend most of my two hours reading emails, writing Isaac and the president... I don´t feel like either of those were particularly long... but now I´m under MTC-like time constraints - not that this one´s enforced by anyone but me.
So this week was perty awesome. One cool part was Zone Conference, which we had on Thursday, as you´ve probably seen from the mission blog. It was cool, It helped to give us better focus, goals, and vision for what we´re working on.
It was also amazing to see people there. Elders Turney and Fullmer, some of my friends from the MTC, (though, more acurately, Elder Fullmer is more a friend from the plane ride...) were there, so I got to talk to them a lot. I also talked to Sister Kitterman, which was super exciting, and I of course had to share with Elder Fullmer that her brother looks like Jesus - then she grabbed a picture of him to prove it. Apparently he´s getting married.
We finally fixed our bikes, which is awesome, so yesterday we got to ride them for the first time, which was fun, and considerably faster than walking. I have just as much trouble keeping up with Elder Baake on a bike as I do on foot, but the bike hurts my shins less. It turns out though, that when he´s walking and I´m biking, it´s hard to not get too far ahead... which I discovered yesterday when his chain fell off... (At the point when I started walking my bike behind him though, I discovered riding alongside was still the preferrable option...)
So we´ve got the goal this week for the whole mission to get 21 Ballards (3 a day) the first one comes from talking to ten people, the 2nd from a 2nd set of ten people, and the 3rd from getting an appointment with someone new. If I didn´t explain that well, don´t worry about it, because this is the last week we´re doing them at all, before they get simply replaced with "New Appointments." So that´s going to be pretty intense - especially for P-day, when we´ve got less time to find someone willing to make an appointment. So after emails we´re going to go out on the street and have a party with that. and then tonight we´re going to have dinner at a member´s house (the same one that makes us dinner every Monday) but this week she´s invited more people. So that should be fun.
I know this church is true and I know that God lives, that he loves and guides his Children. I feel priviledged to have the opportunity to serve as a missionary.
Tchussi kussi!
Elder Cloward
So this week was perty awesome. One cool part was Zone Conference, which we had on Thursday, as you´ve probably seen from the mission blog. It was cool, It helped to give us better focus, goals, and vision for what we´re working on.
It was also amazing to see people there. Elders Turney and Fullmer, some of my friends from the MTC, (though, more acurately, Elder Fullmer is more a friend from the plane ride...) were there, so I got to talk to them a lot. I also talked to Sister Kitterman, which was super exciting, and I of course had to share with Elder Fullmer that her brother looks like Jesus - then she grabbed a picture of him to prove it. Apparently he´s getting married.
We finally fixed our bikes, which is awesome, so yesterday we got to ride them for the first time, which was fun, and considerably faster than walking. I have just as much trouble keeping up with Elder Baake on a bike as I do on foot, but the bike hurts my shins less. It turns out though, that when he´s walking and I´m biking, it´s hard to not get too far ahead... which I discovered yesterday when his chain fell off... (At the point when I started walking my bike behind him though, I discovered riding alongside was still the preferrable option...)
So we´ve got the goal this week for the whole mission to get 21 Ballards (3 a day) the first one comes from talking to ten people, the 2nd from a 2nd set of ten people, and the 3rd from getting an appointment with someone new. If I didn´t explain that well, don´t worry about it, because this is the last week we´re doing them at all, before they get simply replaced with "New Appointments." So that´s going to be pretty intense - especially for P-day, when we´ve got less time to find someone willing to make an appointment. So after emails we´re going to go out on the street and have a party with that. and then tonight we´re going to have dinner at a member´s house (the same one that makes us dinner every Monday) but this week she´s invited more people. So that should be fun.
I know this church is true and I know that God lives, that he loves and guides his Children. I feel priviledged to have the opportunity to serve as a missionary.
Tchussi kussi!
Elder Cloward
Monday, August 8, 2011
Germany Week 2
I was kind of hoping I wouldn't have to pick anything for a plaque... Decisions are just hard. ummm... I'm thinking 2 Chronicles 21:15 is a nice one. As far as pictures are concerned, you can use whatever you want. OR the attached. just kidding. I would seem to've left my cable in the apartment. But the one I meant is the one with my face in front of squaw peak/provo temple that I sent you a printed one of. but yeah, whatever floats your yacht.
My week has been awesome.
So yeah, this week has been pretty exciting. We did a lot of walking... let's see, what have I done with my life? One thing that was really cool - On Tuesday night we visited a less active member for her birthday, and her granddaughter was there, and we started talking to her about why we're here as missionaries, and our relationship with God and agency, and she seems pretty interested. Her grandma bore testimony to her as well which was awesome, so now we're teaching her - our hope is that it will really help them both come in/more fully into the church and gain stronger relationships with their Heavenly father.
Then on Wednesday, we did a Tausch after our district meeting, so I went up to Kiel and worked with Elder Stevenson, one of the Zone leaders - we did a lot of running around and talking to people, including doing doors inside of some school housing - most of the people there were really friendly and showed at least a polite amount of interest - One guy let us in, and we taught him basically the first lesson, then thursday morning we went back and gave him a Book of Mormon.
Yeah, I guess those were a couple exciting things about my week... It's quite the party out here.
Oh - so my lost piece of luggage finally made its way back to me the other day - it was really funny, because in our mailbox, there was this slip of paper, saying they'd left it with a neighbor - but the slip said, "The package belongs to Mr. __Jesus Christ__" which I found amusing.... so yeah, I went and got it. The cookies that grandma sent me were in there, since I only had a day or two between when I got them and when we left the MTC - so they were pretty much crushed to a pulp, but still taste good, so I've been eating them little by little like cereal. It's great.
Anyhoodles, I know this church is true, I'm excited to be out here serving the people of Germany. Even if most of them are under the impression that its not a service... I know that as I humble myself and look to Christ for strength, he will help me gain the faith to follow him more fully. I have no problem with loving the people, but sometimes I struggle with trying to help that love motivate me to bother them with a message that could immensly improve their lives. I know, though, that as I continue to share it, I will become more comfortable with it and God will help bring those who are prepared to recieve it to me, or, probably more often, me to them. I know that through Christ we can improve our lives, and we can choose to happiness, by choosing to accept him and to follow him. In his name, Amen.
-Elder Cloward
P.S. Moroni 10:32 is a real scripture
My week has been awesome.
So yeah, this week has been pretty exciting. We did a lot of walking... let's see, what have I done with my life? One thing that was really cool - On Tuesday night we visited a less active member for her birthday, and her granddaughter was there, and we started talking to her about why we're here as missionaries, and our relationship with God and agency, and she seems pretty interested. Her grandma bore testimony to her as well which was awesome, so now we're teaching her - our hope is that it will really help them both come in/more fully into the church and gain stronger relationships with their Heavenly father.
Then on Wednesday, we did a Tausch after our district meeting, so I went up to Kiel and worked with Elder Stevenson, one of the Zone leaders - we did a lot of running around and talking to people, including doing doors inside of some school housing - most of the people there were really friendly and showed at least a polite amount of interest - One guy let us in, and we taught him basically the first lesson, then thursday morning we went back and gave him a Book of Mormon.
Yeah, I guess those were a couple exciting things about my week... It's quite the party out here.
Oh - so my lost piece of luggage finally made its way back to me the other day - it was really funny, because in our mailbox, there was this slip of paper, saying they'd left it with a neighbor - but the slip said, "The package belongs to Mr. __Jesus Christ__" which I found amusing.... so yeah, I went and got it. The cookies that grandma sent me were in there, since I only had a day or two between when I got them and when we left the MTC - so they were pretty much crushed to a pulp, but still taste good, so I've been eating them little by little like cereal. It's great.
Anyhoodles, I know this church is true, I'm excited to be out here serving the people of Germany. Even if most of them are under the impression that its not a service... I know that as I humble myself and look to Christ for strength, he will help me gain the faith to follow him more fully. I have no problem with loving the people, but sometimes I struggle with trying to help that love motivate me to bother them with a message that could immensly improve their lives. I know, though, that as I continue to share it, I will become more comfortable with it and God will help bring those who are prepared to recieve it to me, or, probably more often, me to them. I know that through Christ we can improve our lives, and we can choose to happiness, by choosing to accept him and to follow him. In his name, Amen.
-Elder Cloward
P.S. Moroni 10:32 is a real scripture
Monday, August 1, 2011
Germany Week 1
So we got on that Plane on time, then spent a good two hours on board, while they said there was a minor issue that they had to check out - by the way, in Germany they have QWERTZ keyboards instead of QWERTY keyboards ( the two are just switched) so prettz much every word with a Y or a Z in it, I type wrong first and then have to go back and correct it.... There're also umläuts where there are usually punctuation marks. - anyhoodles, yeah, so after 2 hours sitting on that plane -it felt like it was it's own flight- they had us get off and we ended up having to board another plane that took off at 11:30 - And the first one was a 747, so they had a fun time dealing with a bazillion people missing their flight - I got a bit of sleep on each of the flights - in one way the delays were really nice, because when we finally got to Berlin it was nighttime instead of noon, like it was supposed to be, and my body was so confused about when it was supposed to be sleeping, that I really haven't had much trouble with Jetlag. Not to say I haven't gotten really tired at random times during the afternoon - but that happened at home and in the MTC too, so it's nothing special. I'm always super tired when it's time to go to bed. Several of the mornings I've woken up just a bit before 6:30 on my own - I think it has more to do with light than anything.
So I'm in Elmshorn, which is pretty close to Hamburg, though we're in the Neumünster Zone, rather than the Hamburg one. It's a really nice place, though I can't decide how big of a city it is... It's pretty small, but also much more densely populated than amerika... there're mostly Apartments, though there are also lots of houses further out.... But even with that, most of it doesn't have much of a metropolitan feel... but some of it does... basically, I don't know, and I'm just giving a nice, vague description, just like I do with everything. We (just Elder Baake and I) have an apartment - it's actually quite large and quite nice - it's got six rooms... counting the entry hall, which is a bit bigger than ours at home, and the bathroom - yeah, it's nice. I would be able to describe the area better with pictures but I really haven't taken any, which is a little bit unfortunate, but I haven't got much of a chance - maybe I'll send you some more from the MTC - maybe I'll also get a harddrive some day.
Vorbereitungstag is today.
My companion is Elder Baake, who is from Wiesbaden, in der nähe von Frankfurt. He's really funny, and I think it's awesome that I've got a native speaker as my trainer. He's got really good English though, and he talks to me mostly in English - all the missionaries just speak English together, which I think is kind of silly, but I understand why - I'll often try to talk to him in German, so sometimes we do - communication's just a lot easier in English.
We've taught several lessons, mostly to less active members, members at eating appointments, and a new convert, but we've also met with an investigator, and have been able to make several appointments for this week. I of course, do very little of the talking, practically none - All of the members have been quite impressed by my German, but I'm not able to keep up with them - some of them are a lot easier to understand than others, but due to their rate of speech, failure to sustain a ridiculous level of annunciation, and extensive vocabularies, I usually have no idea what they're talking about. Even in just the last couple days though, I've noticed that I've been able to make out more and more. A lot of what we do is just talking to the people we walk by on the street (again, when I say 'we' I mean Elder Baake) we've gotten the broad range of responses, all the way from, "No! No! No! *runs away*" to "you know, I'm really not interested, but I'll gladly take your card if it means you'll leave me alone." All of that is a lot less scary than I imagined it though - at least as long as I'm just watching Elder Baake do it...
Anyhödles, I'm loving it all so far - perhaps I'm just in a honeymoon phase, but I don't think that's a bad thing. The Members are so marvelous here too - at the 'Golden Konferenz', where we were assigned our areas and companions, several people came up to me and told me how amazing the members in Elmshorn are when it comes to feeding the missionaries. That has so far proven very true. Tonight we've got an eating appointment with one sister who is infamous for feeding us way too much and making us eat it all - we actually cut her Hedge on Friday, and she fed us a bit then too - but she said that wasn't a proper meal. Elder Baake says you have to eat really fast, so you can trick your stomach into not realizing it's full, because she'll make you eat it all... which I find really funny, because your strategy makes infinitely more sense - the message you send the people matters far more than the message you send your stomach - I guess I'll see whose theory holds tonight - of course, I was also raised as a Hausschwein - A word which Elder Baake thought it was hilarious that I knew - so I'm really not too concerned about it either way... though I think it would be nice to lose weight here - which I don't think will really be too hard - it's a biking area, but right now our bikes are broken, so we've just been walking. I love going for long walks, but there can be some unfortunate side affects... for instance I've got shin splints, not fun, but I've gotten them whenever I walk at anything more than a leisurely pace since my senior year.. I'm really hoping that they're something that will go away if I keep walking. Builds Character, says I.
Well, I love your guts, I know the church is true, and I know that God has given us the gift of agency, in order that we may seek happiness for ourselves - but I also know that he's given us the best coupon book in the history of the universe - the commandments - through them we get the most happiness for our agency - ok, maybe that was a bit of a stretch of an analogy, but I was just trying to point out that the gospel applies to everyone, even hardcore couponers whose basements are full of deoderant that they only paid three dollars for..... Does that count as a spirit of digression? Sorry, I was probably just thinking about how this is going on the blog, and therefore I'm really not allowed to make sense, but I am allowed to make inside jokes...
Love you! -Elder Cloward
So I'm in Elmshorn, which is pretty close to Hamburg, though we're in the Neumünster Zone, rather than the Hamburg one. It's a really nice place, though I can't decide how big of a city it is... It's pretty small, but also much more densely populated than amerika... there're mostly Apartments, though there are also lots of houses further out.... But even with that, most of it doesn't have much of a metropolitan feel... but some of it does... basically, I don't know, and I'm just giving a nice, vague description, just like I do with everything. We (just Elder Baake and I) have an apartment - it's actually quite large and quite nice - it's got six rooms... counting the entry hall, which is a bit bigger than ours at home, and the bathroom - yeah, it's nice. I would be able to describe the area better with pictures but I really haven't taken any, which is a little bit unfortunate, but I haven't got much of a chance - maybe I'll send you some more from the MTC - maybe I'll also get a harddrive some day.
Vorbereitungstag is today.
My companion is Elder Baake, who is from Wiesbaden, in der nähe von Frankfurt. He's really funny, and I think it's awesome that I've got a native speaker as my trainer. He's got really good English though, and he talks to me mostly in English - all the missionaries just speak English together, which I think is kind of silly, but I understand why - I'll often try to talk to him in German, so sometimes we do - communication's just a lot easier in English.
We've taught several lessons, mostly to less active members, members at eating appointments, and a new convert, but we've also met with an investigator, and have been able to make several appointments for this week. I of course, do very little of the talking, practically none - All of the members have been quite impressed by my German, but I'm not able to keep up with them - some of them are a lot easier to understand than others, but due to their rate of speech, failure to sustain a ridiculous level of annunciation, and extensive vocabularies, I usually have no idea what they're talking about. Even in just the last couple days though, I've noticed that I've been able to make out more and more. A lot of what we do is just talking to the people we walk by on the street (again, when I say 'we' I mean Elder Baake) we've gotten the broad range of responses, all the way from, "No! No! No! *runs away*" to "you know, I'm really not interested, but I'll gladly take your card if it means you'll leave me alone." All of that is a lot less scary than I imagined it though - at least as long as I'm just watching Elder Baake do it...
Anyhödles, I'm loving it all so far - perhaps I'm just in a honeymoon phase, but I don't think that's a bad thing. The Members are so marvelous here too - at the 'Golden Konferenz', where we were assigned our areas and companions, several people came up to me and told me how amazing the members in Elmshorn are when it comes to feeding the missionaries. That has so far proven very true. Tonight we've got an eating appointment with one sister who is infamous for feeding us way too much and making us eat it all - we actually cut her Hedge on Friday, and she fed us a bit then too - but she said that wasn't a proper meal. Elder Baake says you have to eat really fast, so you can trick your stomach into not realizing it's full, because she'll make you eat it all... which I find really funny, because your strategy makes infinitely more sense - the message you send the people matters far more than the message you send your stomach - I guess I'll see whose theory holds tonight - of course, I was also raised as a Hausschwein - A word which Elder Baake thought it was hilarious that I knew - so I'm really not too concerned about it either way... though I think it would be nice to lose weight here - which I don't think will really be too hard - it's a biking area, but right now our bikes are broken, so we've just been walking. I love going for long walks, but there can be some unfortunate side affects... for instance I've got shin splints, not fun, but I've gotten them whenever I walk at anything more than a leisurely pace since my senior year.. I'm really hoping that they're something that will go away if I keep walking. Builds Character, says I.
Well, I love your guts, I know the church is true, and I know that God has given us the gift of agency, in order that we may seek happiness for ourselves - but I also know that he's given us the best coupon book in the history of the universe - the commandments - through them we get the most happiness for our agency - ok, maybe that was a bit of a stretch of an analogy, but I was just trying to point out that the gospel applies to everyone, even hardcore couponers whose basements are full of deoderant that they only paid three dollars for..... Does that count as a spirit of digression? Sorry, I was probably just thinking about how this is going on the blog, and therefore I'm really not allowed to make sense, but I am allowed to make inside jokes...
Love you! -Elder Cloward
Pictures
Here are some couple few pictures... but like I said, I really haven't taken any...
1. My version of the one you said you'd already seen...
2. Elder Baake, Präsident & Sister Pimentel, and I
3. A picture of Elder Baake I just took...
4&5. "Mauerplatz" - wall place - that's just what we missionaries call it - it's a point on the outskirts of Berlin where the wall once stood - we go there at the beginning and end of our mission as a sort of sacred grovey experience... dedicate ourselves to the work and whatnot
6. Most of the Elders who left with us - numberwise, there seems to be one companionship missing, but I haven't taken the time to figure out who...
7. Me and Bro. Brigham with Elder Gren.
8. Elder Jensen had a nifty ability.
1. My version of the one you said you'd already seen...
2. Elder Baake, Präsident & Sister Pimentel, and I
3. A picture of Elder Baake I just took...
4&5. "Mauerplatz" - wall place - that's just what we missionaries call it - it's a point on the outskirts of Berlin where the wall once stood - we go there at the beginning and end of our mission as a sort of sacred grovey experience... dedicate ourselves to the work and whatnot
6. Most of the Elders who left with us - numberwise, there seems to be one companionship missing, but I haven't taken the time to figure out who...
7. Me and Bro. Brigham with Elder Gren.
8. Elder Jensen had a nifty ability.
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