Gutele Morgele!
Wie gehts euch???
What
a week- working with Elder Rozan tires me out. its been a blast. Im not
sure if ive ever worked so hard on my mission! Ok thats probably a lie,
we always work pretty hard. But Elder Rozan is seriously a beast, and
we have been tearing it up!
This past monday we split our PDay for half on monday, half on tuesday
(ill explain in a sec) so we went in the afternoon to visit Natalia and
Kristina. Natalia is in the hospital for cancer, and we met her daughter
Kristina in a train. they are from russia, but Kristina was born here
so she is fluent in both, and natalia also speaks great german. When we
went, their grandma was there also- so we actually taught all three of
them! The lesson was very spiritual, and they are very interested.
Sadly, Natalia is really not doing well- so i would even ask that you
include her and her family in your prayers- Natalia Schäff is her full
name. We have given her a blessing, but she is too weak to recieve any
more visits right now, so all we can do is pray.
That evening, we got surprise invited to our branch presidents
home to do family night- because the girl who came to church last week
(charlotte) wanted to observe a normal mormon family for her school
project- so we came and helped explain the church a little- it was
awesome!
Tuesday we met with charlotte AGAIN very early in the morning to
finish the interview about the church. Sadly, i think her interest was
just for the project, but who knows, maybe she'll contact us again in
the future for something! Then we went to Stuttgart for our District
meeting. Our district includes Heilbronn (just us), Ludwigsburg (2
elders and 2 sisters) and Pforzheim (2 elders)- its an AWESOME district-
and our DL is Elder Smith from Ludwigsburg. he is in his 5th transfer
so hes still pretty young. The reason we split our Pday was because we
were going to Stuttgart anyways for the meeting and we wanted to see the
Porsche Museum! Its not open on mondays, so we got permission to go on
tuesday. it was AWESOME! im not super huge into cars and motors (dont
get me wrong. i love cars. but im not the guy who can just list off car
facts ya know?) so that was really sweet.
Wednesday we visited a less active sister named Sister Adam- she
is actually very close to coming back to church! In the evening was the
real story of the week...
We went to a small village about an
hour away, to visit the Zander family. when we get to the city, we get a
phone call, and they tell Elder Rozan that we are too early, and that
we should kill some time before we stop by- so elder Rozan suggests that
we go door to door in the mean time. Dooring is not my favorite
activity, but i didnt want to waste the time, so we started. The 2nd
door we knock is this couple. They seem moderately interested, and
actually let us in. statistically speaking, the number of times i have
just been let inside by someone when we were going door to door on my
mission... 3. so this is like a huge miracle and im pumped and
moderately flustered. we start trying to teach them, and they ask all
sorts of questions. this goes on for about 30 minutes- when they start
showing us around their house. They had us a "wedding book" from their
wedding- and i look through it, i start seeing familiar faces from other
members living in the stuttgart stake. then it hits me. This was the
Zander family. as they say the realization dawn on my face the three of
them start laughing their heads off. Elder Rozan had planned it with
them and they got me really good. I was so shocked and embarrased that i
didnt see it sooner. Suddenly i realized they had a picture of the
temple hanging on the wall that i didnt noticed earlier, and several
other things. maaaan... i got pranked. Thats the couple thats been
sending you photos.
Im starting to run out of time, but the other best part of the week was
sunday!
Kristina and her grandma came to church and LOVED it! Plus this guy
came from Boston for business and visited the church and he was so nice
and friendly and hes going to take us out to dinner sometime this week.
such a sweet place. I really love this branch so much. Missions are
good.
I love you all! Have a great week!
Adventure is out there!
Elder Bartholomew
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