December 28, 2009

Hey family it was great hearing your voices for christmas. What a great present. So i am sitting here and i am charging the gps and emailing you. Fun stuff. Anyhow the week has gone great. Actually it was super hard. We didnt see a whole ton of success because three days were taken up with lots of not proselyting. but we got to visit many members of the ward. Elder Ensign and I took pictures of us in our lederhosen and we made many christmas cards to take around to the members in the ward. the cards were all self made. I spent many of our lunch breaks and dinner breaks from the past week cutting out pieces of red and green paper for christmas cards. It was cool though. Cool thing though is that we have found two new investigators last week. One his name is Christian Stöckl. He is twenty five years old and he is absolutly stoked about coming to young single adult activities and to church. The other his name is Peter Pfeiffinger. His family is super catholic. But the lessons that we have with him are always so spiritual. We had one just last night. And he read in the book of mormon and he prayed about it. So that was super cool. The coolest thing however is that during the lesson we gave him a scripture to read that went along with the plan of salvation and what Gods purpose with this plan was and as he read it he slowed down and you could see that he felt the spirit. He talked slower. He recognized truth in the scripture that we read with him out of the book of mormon. It was so awesome. Wow i love being a missionary!
As for downsides of being a missionary... the other day we had an appointment with a less active member who has an alcohol problem. He always bakes us cakes and gives us tea and stuff like that. But he is usually pretty good at keeping the word of wisdom stuff out of our food. However as for this time he gave us something that we think had a little bit of alcohol in it. because as we came back home to plan we were feeling a little bit buzzed. I think it is funny that the only times that i have "broken" ( i use that term loosely because it was an unintentional breaking of the word of wisdom) the word of wisdom is while i have been on my mission. So other than that the work is going forward very well. I love working here and serving my Savior!!!!!!
So i talked to elder Ensign and he said that he would like a blue and black colored scarf. I told him that i have the most amazing mom in the world and he debated it but i know that i am right. thank you for the burts and the nutcracker lotion. I love you mom. :)
ok as for the money thing.... so you told me that i had money from grandpa in there and you also said that i had money from grandma in there and that the total therof was around 220. i can add. that is american dollars though. so i converted it into euros and withdrew 150 euros last week so that i could have the cash in my pocket just in case i found a jacket. i didnt buy anything. i repeat i have not bought anything for 215.70. i hardly ever swipe my card because since i am in a different country and it adds five dollars to the fee. i believe that is true or so i have been told. So it should not have gone over. 215.70 is less than 220. you said that you put that in my account. Right? Not my fault on that one. but ok. i deal in cash. so today i will be going shopping at all the christmas sales to find a jacket that will help put your mind at ease.
As for new years i have no idea what we are going to do. All that we know is that we are supposed to be in before 4 o clock. Because that is when all the people are properly drunk and when the real partying starts. So ya we are probably goint to spend the night inside cleaning the apartment and the area book and calling people to set up appointments. So the work goes on. not much to say this week other than that the holiday season was great. And i am thankful for all your love prayers and support. have a good week and know that i love you very very much!!!!!!
tschüß Elder ADams!!!