Germany Week 44

View from atop the Castle

Whoopsies...
So last Monday... We went with the District down to see a Castle! Marienburg! It was quite the party. I super enjoyed it, and there were tours and everything. It was very interesting and very nice to look at. I'm glad that Elder Welker was willing to go again, even though this was his third time. We also had a nice little hike up to it. Woo hoo.

Me being awesome by Marienburg

 Then Tuesday morning, we got a call from the Zone Leaders in Hannover, saying that one of them, Elder Staheli, was sick,  but they had a whole bunch of appointments, and were wondering if we could come down and do splits. And we had gar nichts (absolutely nothing, for the nondenglish speaking readers) that day until the evening, so we were very happy to oblige. I took the morning shift of being with Elder Staheli, so I was pretty much just hanging out in the Hannover apartment. Then I realized I was in a baking mood, so I just went ahead and made a cake from scratch - my first one ever, and it turned out quite well. nom nom nom. Then we all had lunch together, which was nice, then I went out to an appointment with Elder Carlson, which was good. Then Elder Welker and I returned to our area, where we were able to catch this really cool portuguese lady and give her her Book of Mormon. She said she was excited to read it, but that her schedule is really crazy so we should just drop by whenever we're in the area, that she'll have questions ready for us, and that she's going to talk to her member friend about it on the phone. So we're super excited about her.

Hoodlum Missionaries
 in the Courtyard

  Wednesday we had Zone Conference, which was super awesome. I really enjoyed the Themas, especially Elder Thorley's, where we made personal Titles of Liberty from one of his old shirts. President Pimentel talked about different meanings and applications of the Love of God, and they introduced this Esprit de Corps like never before thing.. crazy Frenchies... anyway, All three German Speaking missions united in fasting yesterday, and will be concentrating together this Wednesday on Finding prepared investigators. It should be awesome. And the best part for me about Zone conference was seeing Elder Turney and the Thoms. Pretty much the coolest people ever.

We could move into a different house,
 but keep the same bush

  Thursday was a little bit more of a normal missionary day, but it turned out to be excitingly abnormal in its results. As we were doing doors, there were two different people who gladly accepted copies of the Book of Mormon and were pretty interested. The first ones told us at the door that they weren't interested, but as we were leaving, they called out the window - "Can we have the book anyway?" We would've had to be crazy to say anything other than "Of course!" And we were able to give them one and give a quick explanation of it - they didn't really want to meet, but the daughter certainly seemed like she intended to read it - which is the important thing really. With the second one, the first thing the girl asked us was if we also present it to people in Neustadt, because she knows somebody there that would definitely be interested. She was pretty interested herself, and gladly accepted a Book of Mormon. We didn't make out an appointment, but we're definitely planning on trying by again.

You love the talking stove - Let's bake a cake!

Then that night, after our appointment with some members fell out, Elder Welker was like, "we could go get some ice cream cones." And having not quite yet been relieved of my baking mood said, "Or - we could buy a thing of Ice cream and the grocery store, and I could bake a cake." Which we totally did. This time I made a chocolate cake, the one pictured, and it was good, though not as good as the one I'd made in Hannover.

For clarification -
I wrote the thing at the bottom,
and Elder Welker drew the rest later.

  Ok... so I'm totally out of time, darn it, but the next few days were awesome too. Friday we had a ridiculous amount of appointments go through, which was a miracle, and it was my year mark, which made me super nostalgic, and we had a cool appointment and got 2 new investigators last night. And through the week it's been super hot and I've been dying from allergies. So that's the story of my life.

 Elder Cloward is out! Peace!

Me being Awesome
(My camera wasn't being quite so awesome)