I'm just joshin' ya. I don't have two cats in my pants. I just felt like saying one of the only Spanish phrases I know. We had dinner with the Z Family last night, which always makes me want to pretend to speak spanish.
So the big news of the week is that we had the transfer call on Saturday. Elder Robinson will be spending the last four weeks of his mission in the Office in Berlin. He was pretty disappointed about that. We'd kind of been counting on him dying here. I'll be getting Elder Lindermann, who I spent a day with in Kiel during what was his second week in the field while Elders Liechty and Evans were in some sort of District leader meeting. Hey! Remember that one time when I had those flashbacks? Well, Elder Lindermann was one of the ones for whom I bought that ticket. I think. If not him, then it was Elder Robinson. So either way, it's a small world. Or small mission I guess. Also exciting is that Elder Baker, my MTC companion, will be joining Elder Patterson in Lauenburg, making our district that much more awesome. Then, after four weeks, Elder Patterson gets dead and we'll become a dritt split between Lauenburg and Bergedorf. yeppers.
The first major adventure of the week involves the Thema that Elder Robinson and I gave during district meeting. Our main themes were Prayer and Fire. Our connections were a little bit of a stretch, but it was fun. We started off reading "die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug" (Something like "the very sad story with the matches") from Struwwelpeter, wherein a girl, Paulinchen doesn't listen to her cats and ends up as a pile of ashes. We said that we as missionaries are like the cats, and if we don't get investigators to pray and find out for themselves, it doesn't matter what we tell them, we won't be able to help them. We also read the Story of Elija and the Prophets of Baal. And then we burned stuff. It was pretty stupid, but hopefully it was a good reminder to focus on prayer. and fires....
Anyhödles....
Then We had a Tausch, Elder Beck stayed with me. We visited some hobbits, cleaned up some ashes, found some doors and started some work on a poster. The Poster is actually to help us keep track/focus on a branch mission goal to get 365 Contacts within a year. We'll get to put up a colorful piece of paper every time we've got a new contact, and we'll be able to see how close we are to the goal. That sort of thing helps me a lot. We'll see if the missionaries that come after me are into that sort of thing.
Friday we met with a couple of boys (11 &13) who's mom is a member, and Br. I was there with us. They seem shy, but it was good, and hopefully they'll open up and will learn for themselves, and be baptized.
Then we had a spielabend, and R was the only one that showed up. We had fun playing Ping pong though. I had just done something really clumsy, as I am prone to do, and Elder Robinson was making fun of me. So I thought it would be funny to throw my paddle at him. But I didn't mean to hit him. But I missed. And in this case, missing means hitting him square on the head. Luckily he wasn't badly hurt, but I felt so bad. R thought it was so hilarious though. In fact, after like a half hour, R just burst out laughing randomly in the middle of a game because he thought of it again. Manno.
Saturday morning after Transfer Call we had the gemeinde Erntedankfest where we learned about Methods of Harvest and ate a little bit...
And yesterday we had the primary program, which was awesome. Lots of people had invited family and friends for that. Then there were a couple of other really good surprizes. This kid that we sometimes play soccer with showed up, and so did a lady who said she'd just seen a picture of Jesus in the front of the church and decided to come. That was really exciting. I was so happy about it.
Then we had a couple different appointments with members, which was a good chance for Elder Robinson to say goodbye. It was a good Sunday.
Well kids, it looks like we've gotten to that point of moving on the the adventures that this week will bring. Woo hoo!
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