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