So, I wasn't really in the mood to write emails so I decided I would watch a couple "I'm a Mormon" videos first... Well, that took the first hour and 15 minutes of my typically cramped 2 hour email writing time. It was great though - but I'll see what I can do as far as doing y'all justice.
Today for my birthday we're going to hang out in Hannover with the Hildesheim Elders, prolly watch Joseph Smith, Prophet of the Restoration - I haven't seen that since the MTC! heheh. We brought it to watch with the L's a few weeks ago, but they said they'd rather hear more from us, since they could just borrow the movie and watch it on their own later. Which was actually super awesome. But I didn't get to watch it. ;P Then we're going to the H's - they had somehow figured out that it was my Birthday, and said they wanted to host a party for me. It looks like most of the people we invited can't make it, but we'll at least have a good time with the H's. I'm pretty excited. Pretty convenient for my Birthday to've fallen on a Vorbereitungstag. yeppers.
On Thursday we met with Frau P again, which was nice. We were able to give one of the more solid first lessons I've given on my mission. We were able to make it quite clear that she can get an answer and how to do that, and she said that if she learns that it's true she will definitely get baptized. So now we just need to work hard and pray so that she can receive and recognize her answer from Heavenly Father.
Saturday morning we had our Straßenausstellung - I was pretty excited for it, but also super nervous. It's the first Ausstellung that I've "headed" - I've helped with some in Osnabück and Rendsburg, but I've never been responsible for one myself. The truth is I didn't have anything to be worried about - but we all knew that, and it's never stopped me from worrying before. We were a little bit scatterbrained in the morning, and it was super rainy - we had to go hunt down the table from a member - we weren't sure where she lived and ended up going in the wrong direction... but we got it eventually. We had several members there too, which was awesome. With most of the people, it felt like the only difference between the Ausstellung and normal street contacting is that they have an earlier queue (Or is that cue?) to prepare themselves to reject and/or avoid you. At the very least, the inhabitants of Nienburg received a reminder that the Mormons are still chugging along here. I definitely learned a lot though - I've been thinking a lot about making more effective Ausstellungs - It very rarely works to talk to the people and bring them into it, but In the future I'll definitely focus on trying to have large, strong visuals, that will be able to teach some small principle or bit of helpful information even to the people who only pass by. I also had a lot of fun just giving people cards. Mostly It's just because I'm a coward, but there's this great trick that Peter Alexander taught us in Bad Bentheim. If you just reach a card out to someone as you walk by them, most people will impulsively take it. So I did several rounds of just walking down the street, leaving in my wake multitudes puzzledly reading a brief statement about the importance of genealogy and the eternal nature of families. Bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha! Maybe It'll've left an impression on somebody.
Oh, and yesterday when we were doing doors, we found this super nice family from Iraq - The mom could only speak Kurdisch, but she was very friendly, and the kids were so excited to have us there and just gave us such huge smiles. Teaching them might be difficult, but we're bringing them a BKMO in their language next week, and hopefully we'll see from there. Anyway, they brightened my day so much.
Well, Kids, I'd best take off, but you all have a beautiful week! Love ya! the Church is true!
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