Germany week 87--Horseplay and Hoodlumry‏

This week our adventure begins with the new District! Now instead of being with just the Magdeburg Elders, we've also got the Köthen and Bernburg Elders. Before we felt more like a club than a district. It was really cool before, but now with twice the size it feels a little more businessy, which in some ways is a good thing. It's fun too though. Our District leader is Elder Jex, who has Elder Beck standing at his side, and Elders Kreitzer and Tolman from Bernburg. I think I'm going to like it a lot. So we had our first district meeting in Bernburg, which is a little bit more of a drive than walking down the stairs from our apartment was. We're actually going to be switching back and forth between Magdeburg and Bernburg for district meetings. Quite the party. There's this Italian Pizza guy that we all got lunch from afterward. Nom nom nom. Another fun fact: they also have bears next to a castle in their city.

 Coldness. Darkness. A Blizzard moves in. Enter Elder Cloward, his hands clutching the steering wheel of his trusty Opel Corsa for dear life. Ok, so maybe Blizzard is a little bit übertrieben, but it was quite the storm, and considering Elder Cloward's limited driving in snow experience, he was quite literally clutching the steering wheel for dear life. I was going pretty slowly... So we had intended to go to Wernigerode to do some doors before Gemiko in Veckenstedt, and by the time we got there, it looked like we'd only have about 15 to 20 minutes to do it, but decided to do that anyway, but then it took that whole time to just drive through Wernigerode due to the snow traffic. Then we were out on a road on the way to Veckenstedt, where traffic was just crawling, and once we got close enough we discovered that there were a couple of Semis that had slipped their way into each other, and a police officer was stnading there giving us the opportunity to either wait for an unknown amount of time, or turn back and take an alternitive route. We took the latter, and then took another half hour to get to Gemiko. We were going to cut it short anyway because our GML has shingles on his head. The poor man. He still wanted to meet, but have it be shorter. He hasn't been to happy with all of the travelling we've been needing to do since Halberstadt switched from the Hannover Zone to the Leipzig, and so I said, "You're going to love this. Next thursday we're going to be in Dresden." He responded, "It just keeps getting better!" Dresden is certainly going to be quite the trip - I'm really excited for it though, even though we'll spend the time there inside of a church instead of sightseeing. ;P Anyhoodles, after that, we had Institut with the 3 JAEs, which was nice.

 Thursday R had a doctors appointment so we weren't able to meet with them, but we did have our regular appointments with a couple of less aktive members, which were nice.

 Friday morning we somehow found ourselves in Bernburg again, passing out flyers for an Organ concert their going to have on Easter. This Icelandic guy who's studying Organ in Leipzig is coming to them. Hopefully the little electric Organ he'll be playing on will do him Justice. We all split off to distribute the invitations, and I went with Elder Williams. We had a great time. Then we of course all reconvened at the Italian guy's Pizza place. Nom nom nom.

 I got to give a talk on Sunday, it was quite the party. I also got to conduct the music and pass the sacrament. Also parties. H gave a talk as well. After church we got to go to R and H's for Lunch. Not only was it delicious, but it was really cool to see how well they're being integrated into the ward and how willing they are to step up and do the things that members do to help carry the branch. I feel a little silly counting feeding me as an item in that column, but they definitely are definitely progressing and it's wonderful to see.

 Well, that's about it that I've got for this week. I love you! Have a great Spring!

Fig 1 : Mark 10:25:
"It is easier for a[n Opel Corsa] to go through the
[door of the Bernburg Church], than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."