May 17, 2010

HELLLOOOOO!1!!!!!!!!!!
ok so it is awesome!!!! life is so good being a misisonary. We work so hard as zone leaders. Our area has to be an example for the other missionaries in our zone. So we use all the skills we have and energy and efforts we have to bring people to Christ. I love it. A lot of the missionaries in our zone are really good though. Throughout my mission i have looked up to these men because of their amazingness in this work and now Elder Mecham and i have the role to teach them and help them reach their highest potential in this wonderful work. It was super stressful this week. I had to get everything packed from Bamberg. that took up most of the night. I was stressed and worried about leaving bamberg. The work was really on fire there and i know that i helped with that and i just kindof wanted to see it through. O well. No i did not get permission to go back to Bamberg to be able to Baptise Rüdiger Schneeberger. I talked to president and he told me that the rule was that if i was within 2 hours of the place where the baptism would take place then he would allow it but innsbruck is pretty far away. Rüdiger is a man by the way. He is way cool and i am happy that he is going to be making this step in his life to come closer to God. I am thankful that Elder Gruse and i could help him in this direction, and i am thankful for the converting power of the Holy Ghost. I already made plans to come back to Bamberg. All the members there said they love me and that they want me to come back. Br. Wolf and Sister Wolf especially. I had such a great relationship with them. They told me that i need to come back and spend at least two days in their house, because brother wolf said that we also needed to go to the alpine slide that they have in bamberg. Rudi also said that i need to come back and that we need to spend more time together because he felt like he got robbed of time since he only got to know me for 2 weeks then i got called away. So put bamberg on the list. Places to visit people to see things to do, not enough time.
And seriously not enough time is an understatement. As a zoneleader it is absolutely riddiculous. We have so much to do. We have to worry about the people we have that are preparing to get baptised. 2 are going to be baptised here in innsbruck we have to make appointments out for other investigators. Set time aside for planning for zone conference, we also had mission council on saturday, where we had to take a train to munich to meet with mission president and the assistents and the other 3 pairs of zoneleaders. We talked about what the mission needs what we want to accomplish and how we are going to do that. WE have to recieve all the numbers from all the district leaders in our zone on sunday evening and then report that to the mission assistents. I had to unpack. I am not really stressed about things that i have to do because if the mission has taught me one thing (although it has taught me many things) is that i have to manage time good.
Our apartment here in innsbruck is really small. we have two rooms that are about as big put together as my room at home and then we have a bathroom that is about as big as my closet at home and then a kitchen that is as big as our pantry at home. Cool huh!!!!!!!! The ward here is amazing. They all love doing missionary work. they all love coming on joint teaches. and they like finding people for us. I like it. it makes me happy.
I liked hearing your voices on monday. That was good stuff. Ya my ward mission leader in Bamberg is awesome. I love Br. Wolf. Well it is time to go forward. Gots lots of stuff to do. Have a good week. I love you all very very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ps no package recieved, however i gave elder gruse permission in writing to pick it up from the post office. he will pick it up and then send it to me through mission post. No worries :) Be happy