Oooh Daddy.
So there's a slight problem. I switched planners cuz it's a new transfer, but my memory is kind of... pathetic. How am I supposed to remeber what happened in the last week if I don't have the planner I had it written down in? Exactly! I don't know either! Ahhh.... so that's why we have Companions. The remainder of this email is based upon the key pointers of Elder Welker, and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of Elder Cloward. Just kidding. I'm still the speaker here. Let's not kid ourselves.
Soo... Monday, we went and had a party at the H's with the L's for Pfingsten. They live in a pretty small Dorf, and basically live on a farm, so we had lunch outside under the shade of their tree, which was really nice. Then they had a bunch of little games to play, and we all had a lot of fun. It kind of doubled as a Family Home Evening, and we talked about the importance of Family Unity In daily life and in the Eternities. It was great to hear what it meant to them to be able to do work for and be sealed to their families. Then in the evening we went and helped another family in their garden and did some grillin' in the back. Or rather, Grillen, which sounds exactly the same, except for the accent.
Diensday, or whatever that day is called, is mostly a void in my memory, but Elder Welker reminded me of a nice Walk in we had. This kid opened the door, and we asked, "are your parents home?" and he was like, yeah, my mom is, come on up. They were really nice people. His mom was a little bit curious, but not very interested. But he, L, was like, "I want the book! I'm gonna read the whole thing!" So we came in and taught them an introductory Book of Mormon thing. The mom asked if we were Swiss - which is pretty much a great complement - it means that we sounded funny, but weren't obviously non native German Speakers. When L found out we were American, he kept asking questions like how to say stuff in English, If we'd seen tornados, and if he could come home with us. We asked if we would be able to come back again to teach some more, and the Mom said, well, we'll look through the book, and we'll call you if we decide we want to learn more. L grabbed a pen and a piece of paper and said he was going to write down the return appointment. Then he kept asking us if we could come back, and we said, You'll have to talk to your mom about that - you've got our number, you can call us. They were really cool people. Maybe some day. The next night, we were sitting waiting for our train, and they walked onto the platform across the tracks, and L got all excited and waved, and his mom seemed kind of embarassed, but waved too.
Then Wednesday we had the "Eprit de Corps wie nie zuvor" deal which was pretty hardcore, but kind of brutal. We had a nice distrikt meeting, it was Elder Thorley's and Elder Carlson's last. Then we went out and did doors for pretty much the rest of the Evening. We didn't get to teach anyone, but we got several people who said we could try back later. So we'll see. Woof.
Thursday... Was a very dark and cold and rainy day. And I was just in a really crummy mood anyway. Those who know me best know how I can at times just get really mopey and revert back into myself for no reason. Well, Thursday was one of those days. I had no desire to go out, I had no desire to do anything. But... I knew I needed to do something. I was backed up to my last defense of Well... it'll build character. And build character it did. We went and did a couple hours of doors in pouring rain. So the plan was, that even though I don't want to do it, I do it anyway, and eventually I'll feel happy doing it. Well, it did work, but it took a heckuva lot longer than I wanted it too. Thank goodness for Elder Welker too. He just keeps plugging along, and on the days when I feel like that, I just have to follow him around - I think if I had a less motivated companion, I wouldn't've stayed out there. But I'm so grateful I did. Because by the end, I was soaked, and I was happy, and I was glad to have been rejected by a bazillion people, and I was happy that I had somehow managed to conquer my grumpy, lazy self to a small degree.
The only stuff Elder Welker remembers from Friday is boring....
Saturday morning we helped a family move out. That was by far the best organized move I've done in Germany yet. It was like a Miracle. Well, actually, there was one other one that was quite well organized in Bad Bentheim... In any case, this one was really good, we had almost the whole branch there to help, and we were practically done getting everything out and in the trucks within two hours. Hallelujah. After that, we had our transfer call - so we just pulled off to the side and listened to that. We are both staying another transfer. I'm glad about it. In the evening we had a nice appointment with the L's - We were able to start teaching their son, E, It was great. He's got a lot of good questions and is fun to teach.
Let's see... Yesterday was great at Church, this guy Lt, a returned missionary who went to Madagascar, came as a guest speaker for the Primary Boys, and they invited the L's and us to come too. It was quite the party. And C blessed the sacrament for the first time, that was also really cool. Man, those people are awesome. Then we Went to the H's, where we had a blast, I received the lowdown on the Simpson's Movie, and I learned that J is a LARPer and there's a larping village in our area. Bwahahaha.
Well, I do believe that that all adds up to an excellent week. Here's hoping for another! And I hope you all have a great one too!
Love ya!
Elder Cloward
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