This week's been pretty good. Ultimately, however, it ended in failure. You see, the big Advent der Wunder thing we're doing required that for this first week, we have a perfect finding week - that means that we needed to get seven new appointments during the week, which we did not manage to do. So, that was kind of a bummer. We definitely could've worked harder for it, probably could've worked smarter for it - one always can - but we did work pretty hard. So I don't feel that bad about it. At least I'm trying not to. It's just that there are all of these things that we're supposed to be doing throughout the month, and we're already out of the running, so to say. One thing that's going to be hard is to work diligently on the rest without getting casual because we didn't make the early requirements... But I definitely intend to go forward with it.
Though we didn't get the miracle we were supposed to, we did see some other miracles. For instance, yesterday a few different inactives came into church - it was only for the last few minutes, and they didn't go to any meetings, but we were able to get a chance to visit a little with them, and invite them further. It doesn't seem like that much, but especially when you consider that we've been specifically praying and fasting for increased church attendance, it's certainly something.
On Wednesday night, the last day of November, we had just enough Kilometers left to drive to Osnabrück to do a Tausch (Which means exchanges, or whatever you nonGerman people call it - we always call it that, and we usually only use splits when we're doing them with members - but to tell the truth, I still haven't figured out what half of the other missionary terms mean anyway... people are always using them, but no one's ever defining them...). So I stayed in Osnabrück with Elder McCallister. We had a lot of fun - at least I did - hopefully he did too. While we were just chatting, he mentioned that he knew a family who lived up on the hill in Salt Lake (He's from Oregon). I was like, "ah yeah, the Aves. There are lots of rich people who live up there." He's all like, "this family isn't rich," So I was like, "well, not all of them are rich - I guess the Sandstroms aren't rich." and he was all like, "wha!?" And then it's all like, "Oh mylanta! They're the people he was talking about!" Though the Sandroms are by no means the only nonrich people in the aves, this story does prove that they know everyone. Apparently his older Brother and Cambria were in the same hospital when they were little, and their families kept in touch.... I thought that was exciting.
We ended our Tausch with going up to President's interviews in Hamburg - it took pretty much the whole day to get there and back, but it was nice. On the train ride there, Elder McCallister taught me how to do a rubix cube. Except I'm beginning to suspect he taught me a false last step, just to be a jerk... I think it's funny that I finally learned it from him when I've had so many 'cuber' friends and people who've offered to teach me - I guess I just didn't have anything better to do on the train. I got to see Elder Jenkins and Sister Kitterman at Interviews too, which was nice. Sister Kitterman leaves, I believe, a week from today, so it was good to talk to her before she goes back home. She gave her "finisher Testimony" which was really good, and she said some good stuff about handing your heart over to Heavenly Father that I neded to hear. She also enjoyed the story that Elder McCallister knew the Sandstroms....
Yeah, I feel like I'm getting to know the area fairly well. As for geographic size, I can't be any more specific than "very large." Maybe if you look up the Bad Bentheim Branch on lds.org, you'll be able to get a better idea of that.
Mmmkey Dokey - That's pretty much all that'S coming to mind to say at the moment - so Have a beautiful week, a nice life, and In case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight!
The Church is true!
- Elder Cloward
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