I've had a few adventures this week. Quite a few. Monday night, we were with our GML and his family, as is often the case here. It was his son's birthday, so we ate cake and whatnot. He also had us eat Mattis (No idea if that's spelled right) But it's the fish like the one that they eat in the Best Two Years. It's really... salty. Then he was having fun with that, so M decided to challenge us to a competition of drinking soda without burping. My stomach was already not in the best of moods, and I was not about to do that. But Elder Robinson did. Oh, the poor boy. He spent a lot of time throwing up and his stomach was not a happy camper for the next few days....
On Tuesday night, we were at the church after a fallen out appointment, and we got a call from the Assistants who were apparently in the area after a Zone Training Meeting, and wanted to do a couple hour Tausch with us. So I went with Elder Fullmer, and Elder Robinson and Elder Cottrell went together. I had a good time. It was great to be with Elder Fullmer, and it was really cool for him because he was trained in Bergedorf. So he was able to see a lot of the places he'd been around a year ago, and we were able to have a nice walk down memory lane.
Thursday we had Zone Training Meeting and President Interviews, which was good. I always like those. We were supposed to be there at 8:00, so we had to get up early, but when we set the alarm, we accidentally set it for PM instead of AM. So the first thing I heard that day was, "Elder, it's 7:11" We were supposed to be out the door a minute before that. So we hurried and were able to get there only like 15 minutes late (Lucky that we're so close) which wasn't a big deal since we would've spent that time waiting for our interviews anyway. He also got new "Standards of Execellence," kind of the focus of the mission. We'll be focusing more on New Investigators and Progressing investigators - concentrating with our numbers more on the people we're helping than on the means we're using to help them. I think it'll be a good change.
Saturday we met up with our GML in the Morning for Breakfast and Gemiko, and then we headed down south. We had about a three and a half hour train ride to get to Stadthagen for A S's baptism. She was an investigator in Nienburg. She had been an investigator for a really long time and was great friends with all of the members, and had a testimony, but never felt ready to take the step of baptism. It was so wonderful to see her finally make that step, and to see how great she felt about doing it. It was also great to see the members from Nienburg. They were all so happy for her. Another adventure is that we ran into Brother B at Hannover Hauptbahnhof and rode with him to Stadthagen. It was good to talk to him, and it was funny because Elder Robinson didn't know who he was. He was able to figure out throughout the course of the conversation though.
Yesterday I gave a talk. I don't think I did that great of a job, but President Packer and Elder Bednar said some good stuff ;P. I wrote my talk down and read it, because last time I gave a talk, I tried to just go off of my outline and ended up doing little more than reading my outline, but I think I'd best try to do something in between next time.
Then we went to the Is' for lunch, which was very nice. They're very funny and very friendly people. Then we went with them to the home of a really cool family - the mom is a member, but has been inactive for her kids entire lives. We had a game night with them and it was a lot of fun. They had invited the I's over, who said, "We have the missionaries over for lunch that day." And they said, "Bring the missionaries along!"
Anyhoodles, it was a good week. I hope you're all doing well!
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