Germany Week 37

My Easter was good. We had a couple investigators at church which was marvelous. They were both really cool guys. One, M, I believe I've talked about before - he was invited by a member girl to church, and I think he's sincerely interested in it, even if the chief interest is in the one who invited him. The other one who was there, H, is also super awesome. Elder Cottrell and I talked to him on the street during our tausch, and made an appointmnt, but he wasn't able to make it. But he'd also given us his phone number, so we were able to make an appointment for Saturday, which he came to. He's from Afghanistan/Iran and is super cool. We talked about the Book of Mormon, gave him a Persian one (Persian only has selections for the time being), and we had a really nice discussion. After the closing prayer, he asked, "So when can I get baptized?" That is pretty much the best question anyone can ask. Then he came to church yesterday, where we taught about the Plan of Salvation, and we'll be seeing him again on Wednesday.
After Church, we went to Familie K's, which was really nice. They have a really big family and almost all of them were there - it was really nice to be able to see them all chatting with each other, and the cousins playing around.
Then we got a text from an investigator, K, who lives way out there, saying he was in Flensburg. So we were able to meet him at the church and had a great lesson.
After doing some doors, we went home, did Weekly Planning, and Dyed Easter Eggs. It was quite the Party. Quite the Easter.

Saturday was a nice day - we had some good lessons, including that one with H. It sure beat the Heck out of Friday, which we spent wandering through the cold, dark and wet from Kontact to Kontact and fallen through appointment to fallen through appointment. It also didn't help that I spent a lot of it whining under the clever guise of trying to sort out my problems.
Donnerstag we started out by helping a lady move in. Or rather, helped some guys move a lady in. She wasn't there - She's the friend of a member in Berlin who Elder Liechty knew, and I guess the people we were working with were other friends of hers. It was a nice experience - it was pretty fun, and it's always nice to able to help someone with that sort of thing. Then we had lunch with Sister P and were able to give her a Krankensegen for a pretty gnarly cold that she's got. In the evening we went out to eat with an Investigator, A. It was nice.
Wednesday we had district meeting, then took off on a bus to a member Family, which was really nice. I don't know them all that well, but Elder Liechty had a bunch of connections to them, like their son who's in the Tiergarten Gemeinde (Who was also visiting them, so we got to see him), and he (Elder Liechty) served in Neubrandenburg, where they're originally from. Afterward though, we just barely missed our bus to go out to Schleswig for our meeting with the GML. As a matter of fact - it pulled away from the bus stop, but right after that was a stop light, where we very easily caught him, but the driver just shook his head no, and waited another five minutes or so with the door closed. I imagine he was just following protocol, but It was pretty frustrating since we then had to wait another hour and a half for the next bus, and we didn't work there at all because it would be really impractical to go back there for an appointment. So then we just had to go home.
One highlight of Tuesday was being with one of our investigators, B. He's not exactly what you'd call a progressing investigator, but he's cool. He's also really musical. He taught Elder Liechty some basics of the Accordian, then Elder Liechty played "Love one Another" on the Guitar and I sang along. B really liked it, and after listening to it once played it on the piano. He also said he wants to do some recordings with us next time. Maybe we'll be able to get through to him through primary songs or something.
Monday we spent in Rendsburg with our District, just hanging around, playing Ping Pong and whatnot. It was a lot of fun. Afterwards, we had to go down to Neumünster to pick up Bikes. Then we had to run back up to Flensburg for an appointment with these two really cool brothers, P & I. But we were way late with the train, and we rode like the wind, but weren't able to make it in time. We don't have any contact information for them, so we're just desperately hoping to run into them in the streets.
So that's been my week from back to front. Quite the Party looking back on it. I know this church is true. I know that through obedience to the commandments, we can grow in faith, we can be in a better position to help others, and we can be happier. And I know that when we fall short, there is always another chance, and that through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we can become renewed.