Germany Week 97

The Zoo is where all the cool kids hang out

How in the blazes is it already time for me to be writing here again? I have no idea. I also really wish my headache would turn off. Monday was very eventful because we got invited to the office meeting. That was one minuscule little shuffle for mankind, but a great leap for Elders Beck and Cloward. heheh. It's not a big deal at all, but it was interesting for us.

 Tuesday was mostly just office stuff, the most exciting of which was our personal Office Elders meeting with President Kosak - we discussed the History and some of the different projects we're working on. Elder Beck typed up an agenda for it as a joke, and had some pretty witty comments on it. We also got to visit the Familie M, though he was sick - so we made it pretty quick, but it was a nice discussion, and I had the opportunity to give him a priesthood blessing.

 Wednesday morning we had district meeting, and I can't remember anything terribly exciting about that except that I tried to balance a bible and a book of Mormon on each other to demonstrate that the Bible and the Book of Mormon support each other, but I could only do it with the help of two Hymn books. Moral of the Story - Without Hymn books, nothing in the church would function. Or something like that. Maybe I just need more practice with book balancing.

 I spent Thursday in the office digging my own grave. There are these "Finisher Packets" with talks and contact information and stuff for missionaries going home, and I printed them all out and put them together for the group that goes home... pretty soon. yikes. But then, Thursday evening we mixed it up a bit with a little Austausch. We met up with Elder Myrabo and Elder Gibson. Elders Beck and Gibson went to meet a bearded motorcylce riding Greek Orthodox professor of religious law friend of a lady from Elder Beck's home ward, And Elder Myrabo and I went to P, the Thai Chef in our ward's house for an excellent eating appointment.

Elders Myrabo, Gibson and Taylor

 In the morning, Elder Myrabo and I got a text from our Zone leader, Elder Taylor, reporting that he was under his desk being attacked by Elder Turney. Well, it sounded pretty serious. ;P So we decided to go save him. (The zone Leaders serve in the same area - Neukölln) We got there, and they were doing weekly planning, but we ended up eating lunch together, which was really fun. We also had an appointment with this man, R. I liked him a lot. He certainly has an interesting situation though - he's retired, but somehow because of debt the banks repossessed his apartment, but he's still allowed to live in it until someone buys it, and they also have his retirement funds, so he lives entirely without money, and knows all of the schedules throughout Berlin of where he can get free food.

 After we Tausched back, the APs picked us up and took us to President's house, where Sister Wunderli, a senior sister was having her 75th Birthday party. The Office couples and our Zone Leaders were also there. We had a really fun time.

Dun Dun Duuuuuun

 Today was our Pday and we went to the Zoo with the APs. It was pretty intense. The animals there were certainly a little more active than the ones at Hogle usually are. Well, they did a lot of laying around too, but we at least caught them at some cool moments.

This Place is Awesome!

 After that we had a little "English Class" with the Familie M - The husband already speaks really good English, but the wife speaks very little. It was also a great opportunity to get them more comfortable with being in the Church and to introduce them to the family that moved into the ward - really close to them, actually. They seemed to really hit it off, and their kids had fun playing together. I don't know how much English they learned, but I think the most important successes were there.

 Well, that's about all I've got to say for the week. It was a good one. Love you!