June 22

Hey momma, I just want to tell you..... This picture thing is sooooo freakin hard!!!!!!!!! Like all of the pictures that i have taken wont pop up on the computer and I just dont know what to do??? I will probably just send and sd card soon in the mail! 

       Wow, sounds like you all had an amazing week!!! I am soooo stoked for Alyssa!! She looks sooooo good!! It almost doesnt even look like her anymore!!! Oh tell her i never got her package...? So Im not sure what to do about that! Tell her i want to hear from her and I want her email adress!!! 

      Well momma, I think we have broken a record..... All of our appointments fell though again this week.... I dont know what to do?? We are struggling and we need somththing to pick us up a little bit! The olympics guy is doing good by the way he accepted to come to church this week! Its a specal church day though. We call it the day of invatation and there is gonna be like 10 musical programs and the topic is families are forever! I hope that he doesnt think that every sunday will be like this one hahah!  But he is such a nice guy, He acutally came last sunday well yesterday to see where he could park for this week hahaha! He is too funny! Oh by the way his name is Herr Rohersneider. 

       Oh one more thing.... So I dont need any shirts i pretty much just bought all new shitrs today and they are all super slim fit too! It was such a good deal it was like 10 euro a shirt at HßM. So i am good on shirts! Oh one more thing.... SO they sell like super nice suits here at HßM for like 50 euro and i kinda wanna buy one.... What color should i buy?? 

      Well, can i just say how proud i am of ethan.... I am sooo stoked that he finially stood up for himself!!! He is such a stud!! I love hearing from him every week he sounds like he is doing amazing!! Well, not much left to tell you because nothing really happened this week!! Im sorry I am just discouraged this week. 

An a assignment for our family

 The Branch President where Brady is serving emailed us and asked us to track down a man that had at one time sereved in Plauen as a missionary and was the Branch President while he was serving there. He sent me an address of his last known residence. It was in Sandy Ut. So Jerry and I went on a Sunday afternoon to see if we could find this man Karl Roscher. There was no one home but we left a note.  The next morning I recieved a sweet phone call from a sweet 85 year old sister. Her name is Dorrthea Roscher. She was Karls wife. He passed away 20 years before But she showed us pictures of his time serving in the area of Plauen. What a great expereince we had of meeting this lady and hearing her amazing story. What an example of courage and strenght she was. I was so glad I had my other childern there so they could hear the great story of her life. We video taped the whole time we where there and are sending it to Bradys Branch President. He is having a celebration of 100 years of having missionaries in Plauen and he wanted a recording of this mans time in Plauen.. The Branch President wanted us to asks one question to her specifically. He wanted to know what she would tell the youth in Plauen.. She very clearly said " I would tell them to step up and be missionaries. Why is Plauen still a Branch why is there not several wards there now. Now is your time to be missionaries."  She was a very strong German lady and was so proud of her heritage.  She wouldnt let my children leave before she gave them some German candy. She then promised to come to our home and cook an authentic German meal so I would know that my son was eating the best food in all the world.  An evening me and my family will treasure for always.

Edie

Hey momma this week was a little slow..... Nothing happened all of our plans fell through and no new investagators... But, the one olympics guy said he is gonna come to church on the 30th so that is big news and i am pertty excited for that, he is such a funny guy and I think he will be good for the Plauen branch because he is old and so is everyone else. 

   Well Im not sure what else to tell you besides this week was super slow.... Well actually we had zone finding in this really small city called Swartzenberg. The area really sturggles so I think Pres is trying to pick up the work there a little bit. We had almost 30 missionarys there. I think we helped out the area the missionaries there now have their planners full. It was kinda funny because we had half of the missionaries go out finding and the other stay in one part of town and give out flyers and sing hymns and stuff like that. One of the members said that we needed to sing with more power and get the peoples attention threre. I suggested that I would dance and sing..... The lady said yes not thinking that I would actually do that... Well... You know me I did! I cant say it worked but It did seem to make everyone happy! 

    WEll...... I am super pumped about that dog that Stephen bought. It looks soooo cute!!! I hope pup isnt too jealous.... It seems like you are all doing just wonderful. I do have some good news though... I have pictures so i will send you some right now!!!!!!!!!! 

 Well actually the computor wont let me send an attachment. I hope I can send them in a couple of weeks.

 Love you guys

June 10

Hey momma. This week has been really busy! I had two comp exchanges and i had to give a talk in church. So things have been really busy! This week was kinda a bummer though! We had sooo many of our appointments fall through! Ugh..... But I am still with elder struve in plauen so propably for another transfer! I think he will leave plauen and i will stay next transfer!

    WEll things are just going great, Nothing is really changing! We are hoping to get our olympics guy baptized this transfer! But, besides him we have lost all of our other investagators, so me and elder struve will be doing a lot of finding this transfer! I am soo excited i am not being trainned anymore. I dont have to take such long study time now and stuff.... The 4 hours of straight study kills me. I love lang sudy though. That is probably the fastest hour of the day! 

     Well, the exchanges i went on were really good for me. I went of an exchange with our zone leader, his name is elder ashby and he is probably the chillest guy in the world. HE tought me to express myself in the language. Its really hard  because i dont know a lot of vocab but, I have been finding better success with expressing myself to the people on the street, even if i dont know the lang that well. So i am getting better with the german. Speaking of which the talk was super stressful..... I dont think i did a very good job at it but i did my best. IT was on the gosple of jesus christ. sooo it was an easy topic.... But, they dont give you topics here you just have to come up with it by your self. Well, If you here back from that one guy that is from plauen let me know, the branch pres is really into the plauen history right now? Well, I love you all sooo much and i hope to hear from you soon°!!!!!!!!!!

June 6

Hey momma, welll let me just tell you about my week. Well, we had two appointments with two differnet investagators fall through, so that wasnt too fun. We also found a muslim lady on the street a couple of days ago and she seemed like she was intrested! We will she how that goes because, I guess it is dangerous or the person to be taught by us if they are muslim so when we have our appointment with her we have to ask her a couple of questions. Besides that nothing really happened..... Actually........... Plauen is flooded! Our river in the middle of the town is overflowing! There have been sand bags everywhere. I guess that is pretty exciting! I wanted to offer the people some help for that but i dont really know how to do that hahah. 

      Wow, Seems like you all have soooo much going on! I am excited that ellie has sooo much going on this summer! I hope ethans foot starts to get better. He might just have to play hurt this year, It seems to me like you have done all that you can do.. How is stephen... Keep me updated on him I really do worry about him. WAIT..... The theater room is gone or you are just plannin on it? Im a little confused? I thought this was just another one of those ideas that wasnt gonna go through..... Well Send me some pictures of it i wanna see how everything turns out.

       So Momma, The package was awesome i was sooo stoked when i saw the peanut butter!!!! Hahahahah but, The Shirts you sent me are actually bigger than the ones i already have hahahahaha. I thought it was kinda funny!

        Yup you are right transfers are comming up and i cant wait for the call! I wanna leave plauen sooooo badly.... ITs not like i dont like it or anything, You know me I just like to see it all. I would really like to go to the west side of germany because thats wherer all the nice people live hahah! I am just excited to work with someone new. We find out where i am going and when on saturday! So I am pretty stoked! This week though is actually a really busy week for us. We have to exchanges and a lot of appointments with people! So this week should go really fast for me!