While you're pondering that I would just like to invite you to travel with me back into the week of Elders Olson and Cloward in the quaint City of Halberstadt.
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| In the Harz by Blankenburg |
Let us begin our journey with Tuesday, whose only item of note is of no interest to you anyway. I finally remembered to anmeld(register with the city that I'm living here)! Technically you're supposed to do that with in two weeks of moving in, but they didn't seem to mind... But they did give me a bunch of vouchers to visit museums and churches and plays and stuff. We'll see if I'm actually able to go to any of those. I saw that one of the plays they've got going on is "Der Physiker," which we read in my high school german class. That would be really cool to see, but I somehow feel like the odds of getting that one approved are approximately 3720 to 1. See? I told you you didn't care about Tuesday.
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| One o' those fake doors pictures |
Let us move on to Wednesday, a day in which after District meeting, Elder Cloward broke away from both Elder Olson and the city of Halberstadt, instead joining Elder Williams in Magdeburg. That was a lot of fun. Elder Williams is a really cool guy. One thing that was cool for me there - we were passing out cards in people's mailboxes and had stamped the exact right amount. We were like, "whoa! It's a sign." I don't know, but it was really cool.... And then we went to the fabled Magdeburg Volleyball night, which I had heard oh so much about from Elder Ririe. It was an interesting experience, and quite a bit of fun.
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Elder Olson walking up a snowy
alleyway in Blankenburg |
On Thursday Elder Cloward once again befound (I know, right?) himself in Halberstadt with Elder Olson. There they taught R and her husband about the temple and Eternal Marriage. That is a goal they have set and are really looking forward to. Hopefully we were able to make that clearer for them. Our GML has asked us to "teach lessons more like the sisters would teach them," meaning that we use more visuals and handouts, and things that help the lessons to really stick. This time we incorporated a couple of short videos, which I think did make the lesson more enjoyable and interesting for them. It made it more fun for us too.
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| Wernigerode |
On Friday we find our heroes once again in the Ausländerheim on the outskirts of Halberstadt. We went to visit the same guys we talked to last week, but as we went up to their door, another guy came out and asked us what we were doing there. We said we were there to visit - apparently the one who speaks english wasn't there, and about the other one he said, "You know he is speaking French, right?" Then he told us to come with him and explain our message to him. He struggled with his english - he actually spoke quite well, but he had trouble understanding us and formulating the questions he wanted to ask. He gathered around several others, none of whose english was as good as his to help him communicate with us. From the conversation we came to the understand that 1. It's a problem that we only speak English and German and they only speak French and a tribal language. And that we are Christians who like to share our message and they would like to hear our message. So hopefully when we go back this week we'll be able to use a French DVD or something.
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Lord Puppington - He accompanies
us on our many journeys |
Saturday we finished distributing brochures that our GML made. They have our pictures on them (so now I'm famous!), as well as a picture of the Church, and some information. It's quite the party. So this week we're gonna do doors where we gave those out.
Sunday Sunday Sunday! R was confirmed! And she bore her testimony afterward. She is a really great lady and she and her husband are so devoted to the covenants they've made. It's really inspiring to see that.
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| Thale |
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| Lunch today |
Well, all in all, it was a good week. Here's looking forward to the next one. I hope you are doing well!
Love You!
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