January 18, 2010

yes i got a card from sister rose. cool about meadow. no i do not know an elder whitsitt. Tell spencer good job on the awesomeness in soccer. cool about the tour of the dam. My fish are still alive? whoa! mom you always know you are in my prayers and as you start this new job i know you will do awesome. That is just who you are and you are amazing. I love you.
As for this week highest of the highs and lowest of the lows. I will start with the bad news first because it makes the sweet that much sweeter. ok so we only have one key to our apartment and Elder wilcoxson usually gets it and we were planning on making copies last pday but we forgot so on saturday we locked the keys in the apartment and so we had to call a locksmith to get it unlocked. it took him two seconds and he charged us two hundred euro even when he said on the phone that it would only cost 25 euro. so that comes out of personal money not mission funds so if you could transfer some i want to pay for half of it with my companion. so that is roughly 100 euro which is probably 150 dollars. ya sorry. I hate money. Other cool stuff. This, Bamberg, is a walking area just in case you didnt know. So we do a lot of walking and it shows. My eccos, both pairs have tears in the soles. the rubber part on the bottom is split. i have sent a pic and these are my brown ones. they arent the worst but my black ones are completely ripped and so if you could talk to mr. mac about what i can do to get them replaced because they have a lifetime warranty that would also be cool. my knee lately has been giving me problems as i have been walking but it will be ok i will just push through the pain and talk to sister condie about it. plus i look like a gangster when i walk with a limp.
Anyhows the cool stuff of this week. So we had zone conference this week and that was great, but our president says you can measure how good a meeting was by what happens after the meeting. after the meeting we rode the train home for an hour and i didnt really get to contact anybody because our district leader was asking me questions about home life. so i entreated him and answered his many questions in the form of how wonderful my family is and that i have a dog. I answered him about my many talents and hobbies. and then his his most burning question was if i have a girlfriend and so i told him yes. he wanted to know every detail. He was pretty trunky for being a district leader. ha ha but anyhow. i felt bad for not contacting people on the train so we got out at bamberg and as we were waiting at a bus stop by banhof and i was carrying a large box of copies of the book of mormon that we had ordered it weighed like 40 pounds. man i am so strong. any how a thought came into my mind to be bold, and there was thirty people standing at this stop and so i asked elder wilcoxson if i should be bold. He had no idea what i was talking about. so i ripped open the box of books of mormon and yelled at everybody that was waiting for the bus. I said, "hey we just got a bunch of books called the book of Mormon. We are giving them away because they are a precious witness of the savior Jesus Christ." nobody wanted one at first which was ok. we got on the bus when it came and then after we got to where we needed to be we got off the bus and then a man approached us and asked us if he could have one. we gave him one taught him and then we asked him for a refferral he said that he knew two friends who he could give them to. So we gave him two more. Then we went contacting crazy me carrying around this large box of holy scripture and we talked to everyone. we chased people down on bikes we waited for people to get out of their cars. It was awesome. we gave out 4 books 2 brochures 23 pass along cards in two hours. then we did it again the next day and the next. We kept the fire burning. It was so cool.
the americans in this ward are awesome. i forgot how awesome americans really are. AMERICA!
we went out and ate chinese food for elder wilcoxsons 1 year mark. that was cool.
our ward mission leader here, br. wolf, is awesome! I love this work and i love all of you.
time is up i gotta go. HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!!!!