Once again another week has past. It´s funny, the saying that everyone uses here is ''the days feel like weeks and the weeks feel like days.'' It´s so true the days feel like forever and then at the end of each day it seems as though it just started. And then Monday roles around again and I can´t believe how fast the time flies. Well here is what happened this week.
Like I said last week, we went to Leipzig last P-Day. It was pretty fun we went to a couple of old churches and went shopping around the city. One of the churches, Thomas Kirche is the curch that the composer Bach is buried in and I got a picture of his grave and some other stuff in the church. It was pretty cool. Included some other cool pictures that I took. I guess thats pretty much though haha. Nothing super crazy happened so the pictures will have to do.
Tuesday and Wednesday were fairly normal. Just standard missionary work: Doors, going by contacts and street contacting. Wednesday night we helped a member bring carpet to his appartment though. It was fairly simple though.
Thursday was also pretty normal. We had a couple of appointments with investigators. One was with Lorthär, the guy that lives way out in the boonies. He´s a really nice old man but he´s not really progressing. We´ll probly start going less often than once a week because the train ride to his town is too expensive to keep making weekly with no progress.We do have another investigator named Lawal. He is from Africa and he´s super nice and cool. He is really open and likes us because we believe that Jesus is the son of God. He said that he also could feel the Holy Spirit with us, something that he couldn´t feel witht the Jehovas Witnesses. Hopefully things go well with him.
Friday we just had our weekly planning session and a little bit of doors. Then that night we taught English class. I don´t know if I´ve mentioned it before but we teach and English class every Friday at the church. it´s pretty fun. We get a few Africans and theres one german lady named Silka that comes every week. Thats one thing thats funny about Germany is there are a ton of Africans and people ffom the Middle East. They all own either Internet Laddens like that one I´m using right now or Döner shops. It´s pretty cool I guess:)
Saturday was a wierd day. Starting at 9:00 we helped a member of the ward move. His name is Julius and hes also African. He´s about 60 and he´s basically the ringleader of the Africans in this part of town. He´s got serious swagger;) He had a bunch of his African ``Brothers`` and they all call him ``Papa``. It was really funny. Moving took a while and we finished at about 14:00. After the move we spent some time preparing our lesson for Sunday because we had to teach the Priesthood lesson! We finished with some Ice Cream with a member named Joni for her birthday. Shes a member from Canada that was baptised about a year ago here in Germany! She´s here as a teacher and she was found by the missionaries. She´s way awesome.
Then for Sunday we had.....Church! Like I said we had the priesthood lesson and it was pretty cool! Hard to do in German but still fun! Our lesson was on President Uchtdorf´s talk this last conference about the hope and light of god. It´s funny everyone here loves Uchtdorf and everytime they bring him up they make sure to mention he´s from Germany. It´s hilarious.
I´ll try to answer some questions. We have a cell phone that we share as a companionship. We get around by walking and by tram here in Halle. The trams are pretty much exactly like the TRAX but they are all over the city. Other areas in the mission have cars and bikes but it just depends on the area. I don´t have any recipes really. The picture I sent you is called Schinken-Noodle-Gratin. It´s basically noodles a sauce packet and chopped ham. Then you bake it in a pan. The recipe was on the sauce packet so I dont really have it haha. We do all of our grocery shopping at a place called Edeka.
Well that was pretty much my week here in Halle. Thanks for everything! I love you guys!
Elder Bone
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