Germany Week 39

Well, I suppose the first matter of business is that I'm being transferred. I'm making my way down to Nienburg (an der Weser) It's funny, because my companion will be Elder Welker, who I kicked out of Flensburg. It's gonna be quite the party. Elder Sowards was also serving there, and told me that it's a marvelous place. It sounds like it's a smaller branch in a smaller area. I suppose I'll learn more about that tomorrow. I'm going to miss Flensburg a lot, but I'm excited to go where I'm supposed to. Things were really picking up a lot here, so if all goes as planned, I'll be coming back up a couple Saturdays for baptisms. Oh daddy. So what happened this week? Tuesday night we met with N, from Afghanistan, who we'd found on the street, and he's super awesome. He speaks a little bit of English, but we talked to his friend in German who translated into Persian, and that worked pretty well. He's read the Bible about a million times through and has made all sorts of notes - He fled afghanistan because he was part of an underground Christian group. So we gave him a Book of Mormon and answered some questions. He wanted to see what we believed, so he picked out some particular things from the Bible, like, "Do you belive Jesus Christ is the only way back to God?" "Do you believe that it's bad to steal, kill, commit adultery, etc.?" "Do you believe that Christ taught people on a mountain?" I think all of our answers were acceptable. He then came to church, and brought a friend, N, who's also been looking deeply into christianity - he was talking about the different things between Catholic and Protestant churches, and all of that. Then H, who we've been teaching for a few weeks, and wants to be baptized in the next couple, was there too, and he was able to translate for them, and we had a great Investigator class during church. Later in the evening, we met with N & N again, with the help of Google Translate and one of their roommates who speaks a little german, and taught about the Evangelium, also, Gospel of Jesus Christ - 1.Faith in Jesus Christ, 2. Repentance, 3.Baptism, 4.Recieve the Gift of the Holy Ghost, 5. Endure to the End - N (the first one) got all excited and opened up his BKMO to 2 Nephi 31, and showed us where he'd underlined all of that stuff. Man, those guys are super awesome. It turns out that he's read the whole book (Although only selections have been translated into Persian - but that's still a pretty good portion of the book) And he's told us that he thinks it's equal to/ the same as (gleich) the bible. Those two really want to get baptized, and we set dates with them, but they said it could be dangerous for them, so we really need to make sure that they're able to stay in Germany. As for H, he's doing super awesome - we'd set a baptismal date for this coming Saturday, but we're going to have to push it back, just because we haven't had time to teach him all that we need to, not because of any setbacks. Anyway, we've been making lots of jokes about setting up a Persian branch here. Sooo cool. Wednesday after District meeting I stayed there on Tausch with Elder Frame. That was a lot of fun. None of our appointments went through, but we got to ride bikes 26 kilometers getting to them, go on a giant escalator under a river with our bikes, and ride across a suspended ferry thingy over the same river. Elder Frame is super awesome too. And we talked to some cool people and did doors in the middle of nowhere. Well, I'm kinda running out of time, so I'd best abbreviate the rest of my week to - it was great, we met with some really cool people. Yesterday after Church we had a potluck, to which I brought Peanut Butter bars (of which I've made probably 6 batches since you sent me the recipe) which were a big hit. This girl in the ward, who had organized the table and put number notations describing which each dish was, later wrote on the board: 1.Lecker 2.lecker 3. Lecker 4. Lecker 5.Sehr Lecker 6. Lecker (with 5 being the peanut butter bars) Then a bunch of people asked me for the recipe. They're all going to have heart attacks once they know how much sugar I jammed into those bad boys. So thanks. The Church is true! Have a beautiful week and a nice life!