March 15, 2010

Hellllooooo!!!!!! All my beloved people that i know so very well. Well So the training is going awesome. I have spoke so much german in the last couple of days because Elder GRUSE, my new companion, doesnt speak any english. It is so awesome! He is from berlin. He and I work together so well. He wants to be obedient, and it is just awesome how hard he wants to work. I am so amazed at his willingness to serve the Lord. What is also really cool or what a really good feeling is is that he really looks up to me. In every aspect of the work i can see how he follows my example. We wake up in the morning and do our morning exercises, what is cool is that he wants to follow my workout plan that i have. He has been doing it with me for the past couple of days and he says that it really hurts his abs and that he is so sore. Ha ha i love it. And then we go out and teach!!!!!! The first day that he was here we had an appointment with an investigator that we have been teaching for the longest time. Her name is Svetlana Matschnavov. We had committed her to baptism a while ago and she had never accepted, she said however that she would pray about it and think about it. But in this lesson that we had on the first day that Elder Gruse was here, it was so spiritual. We asked Svetlana if she had prayed about the message that we told her if it was true or not, and this time she said that she had prayed and that she knows that the church is true. She said she feels the spirit everytime she comes to church and that she feels it when she reads in the book of mormon. And that is how she knows that it is true. So then we asked her if she would be baptised now that she knows it is true, and she said that she is going to get baptised. It was so so AWESOME!!!!!!!!! Wow. But it is a really cool but really scary responsibility to train, because he follows my example. Just like a son. When i teach a certain way on the street or in a lesson, he sees that and immediately absorbs it like a sponge. He watches everything i do and then does it like me. Ha i love elder Gruse!!!!!
In other news, yes i did get the package!!!! It is now in my posession. but mom you dont have to send another package for my birthday. I dont really need anything. you can just put a little money in my account and then i can just buy a little something for myself. I dont really need a package for my birthday.
So Elder hansen couldnt ride bikes because of his health concerns and so we never got the bikes out, but Elder Gruse is healthy and ready to go and so we are going to get the bikes out and see if we can start moving around on the bikes in bamberg. Ha i still cant get over how crazy it is that I am training! It is getting warmer here, the flowers are blooming a little bit and the snow has melted. Elder Gruse comes home dead tired everynight. He tells me in his perfect berlin german that he sleeps like a stone everynight. Elder Gruse is a german!!!!! He is built like a german too. He is really big (the biggest of all of my companions that i have had) He used to be in a volunteer firefighter brigade in his hometown. So cool!!!!! WE get along awesome, and we have only been together since thursday!!!!! Life is awesome!!!!!! WEll i am going to go and write president condie and tell him how awesome we are kickin' it here in BAMBERG!!!!! I might write again to you. O speaking of getting the bikes out for the summer and riding around i have not as of yet bought a helmet and so that is what i can use the money for from my birthday. To buy a helmet. that would be a good idea, seeing that i am really good at riding bikes ha ha ha ha ..... later LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!