Hey everyone!
Wow, had a lot happen this week! The days just seem to fly
by faster and faster the further into the transfer we get. This is the last week
of this transfer. It´s hard to fathom that I´ve been out of
the office for that long already! Let´s see, where to begin...
I suppose
the highlight of the week was our zone conference on Wednesday. It was
fun to be back in a zone conference again! Probably the coolest part however,
was that I had 3 ex comps there, 2 of which I served with in the office and one
of which I served with in Dresden who is now an AP. Anyways, it was way fun
to see them all again. This next week a LOT of my mission friends are going
home, so it´s been kinda hard lately to say goodbye. I´m going to miss this
group going home a LOT, but we´re going to hang out in Provo,
so at least I know it truly is aufwiedersehen. (til we see each other again). So
ya, that was really inspiring, and it was the first Zoco in over a year where I
didn't have any assignments to fill, so that made it double relaxing. :)
President taught us about the Love of God and gave a brilliant Thema. The rest
of the workshops were pretty run-of-the mill. We have a big generation of new
missionaries, so a lot of the workshops are based on pretty basic skills... it´s
still cool how the Spirit always can teach you something new if you
listen.
Well as far as the work goes, we´re just wrapping up oure great
"sifting" process. We´re going through all of the people we meet with and
finding the gold to concentrate our time on. Sadly, this was the first week of
the transfer where we didn't make out a new baptismal date, and we dropped our
list down to 5, but the 5 we had are all doing wonderfully! All are coming to
church, and most all have caretakers at church, so we´re super excited for them.
I see all of them becoming great members that will actually be able to build the
ward and bring something new too it. We probably did less finding this week
though than ever before- we just had hardly any time. One day, we were on the go
seriously every minute, and 2 people approached us and made out appointments. I
talked to one guy at a bus stop and then our bus came we needed, so I just had
to give him a card and say, "just call" haha and he totally did and we totally
met in the church and he´s way interested. Our miracle walk in man from 2 weeks
ago came to church again as well, and we had a good lesson during the 2nd hour,
and we hooked a golden Chinese investigator up with our new Chinese member, so
things were starting to click. I can honestly say the only problem we´re facing
right now is the risk of gaining too much weight with the crazy number of eating
appointments members are giving us haha. I´ve never had so many eating
appointments in my mission! It´s good though. Probably our coolest "friend of
the church" finally came back from a vacation in Switzerland, so it will be
great to see her again too. She´s always a ray of sunshine to meet with. All I
can say the more and more I reflect on the work here in this city, is that God
is just good, and even though it´s still not easy, and even though sometimes you
start to feel like you´re running out of steam, he always
compensates!
I´m anxious to see what transfers bring with them next week. We have the call coming on Saturday. My comp is almost definitely going and
we´ll probably lose one of the 4 sisters and gain a new district member... it´s
going to be really weird having to call in to the transfer call and not know
anything, haha I forgot how exciting they can be.:) Well I hope that you all
have a good week this week, and hope to hear from you all soon!
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