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Monday, December 29, 2014
Last email....
Hello there! Well this week was a little all over the place becasue of christmas... We were at a bunch of members houses and had a lot of fun!! There was this one eating appointment we had for christmas and the food they gave us was the coolest thing I have ever seen! What is was, was like a bunch of meat and a bunch of cheese and potatoes and veggies but everything was uncooked but, on the table was these little oven things that kinda reminded me of easy bake ovens for kids in America haha but what you do is you get these little trays and fill them with as much meat and everything as you want and then you stick it in the oven thing and it only takes about 10 min to cook but the cook thing is when you are done with one and are waiting for it to cook you just start on the next one! You can also fit about 15 trays in at a time! IT gets even cooler though on the top of the oven things there is a grill and you can grill your meat if you want!!! it was super cool and I felt super manly becasue of all the meat I ate!! ;)
This week my Companion and I learned a lot about prayer! IT was really really cool becasue, we have been meeting with M for a long time now and this whole time she has never said a prayer... This last week we were a little determinded to get her to pray. It all started with us teaching her about the temple and that actually went very very good!! She said that she wants us to get her father baptized for the dead in the temple... We told her that it would be alot more meaningful if she were able to stand in place for her father and do it for him! She thought long and hard about that one and she said that she would want that! We closed the lesson there and asked her to say the closing prayer, she was a little uneasy about saying it but then finially said it, the spirit was sooo strong as she prayed and we know that she felt it too becasue she just burst into tears and hugged us! I know that our heavenly father wants to speak to us and will let us know that he is there if we do our part and just speak to him! It was a very spiritual moment of my mission that I will never forget!
Its funny that you said that I look brighter and everything becasue that exactly what the sisters told me here in the district! They were looking at all of the pictures that I have taken throuhg out my mission and they said that I just look sooo much happier than I did back then!! I dont know if i look sooo different that I feel different... I feel a big change and im happy that I have changed, I know I still have along way to go because I know that no one is perfect hahah But the difference from two years ago to now is huge, I just have to keep going! :)
Well momma, Im pretty sure this is goona be my last email to you! It has been a bunch of fun but i am super excited to come home and finially see the you and the whole family!! :) I have missed you all a lot, a lot more than I thought I ever would hahaha.... I know you all love me a lot and love you a lot and im very greatful for all the support you have all given me!! You have all been an amazing help and I cant wait to see yall!!! :)
Well get on if you wanna chat!! LOve you all!! :)
Monday, December 15, 2014
Great week
Well hello there momma!!! Well this week was a sad one but at the same time it wasnt bad... Well the Baptizm didnt happen this week... A little sad but she just isnt ready mainly because she is still living with some other dude hahah... We didnt know that she was dating this dude because we asked her at the beggining if she was dating this dude and she said no but she wasnt lying at the time... Because when we asked her she wasnt in a relationship with him she was just living wiht him becasue of the situations that she is in, she had to share an apartment wiht a dude...? But she is still doing really really good and she is still making progress but she just needs to either get married to this guy or move out and she is working on both right now hahaha.
The mission has been a blast and Im soooo happy I made the decision... Im sooo greatful that you got me this far momma! Thanks you sooo mcuh for all you have done for me!!! You the best!! :)
But this week we did have something really really cool happen... Probably my Fav investigator is making a lot of progress like a lot.... We are gonna put her on date for the last day before I go home!!! We will see if it happens... But this week we had an amazing lession with her and it was really really cool... We just starting talking about faith and repentance and talked about how what it means to repent and that it is a change of who we are and making our will gods will and for what ever reason she just burst up into tears and it was a really really cool experience and she said something that hit me kinda hard, she said, " Do always have an answer for everything??" It was a really cool experience to see how the spirit works through us to touch the hearts of others, its really really crazy, i dont feel like im doing very much or anything at all but somehow what I am saying is exactly what this person needed to hear.... It really makes me think on what it says in D&C ( I dont know what it is in Eng so i will translate as best as I can hahah) Dont worry about what you shall say but the spitit will tell you what you should say in that very moment... I really experienced that this week because I know I dont have all the answers that can help these people and change their lives but god does and its really really cool to be the middle man so to say in his work and in his goly to bring forth the imortalitly and eternal life of man... ITs getting a little sad to leave this because I do love it here and I have nver felt sooo close to god in my life and have never been sooo happy in my life, but at the same time im not tooo worried beause I know I can also feel that at home and I know that is possiable, all I have to do is all the simple things that god has asked of me!! :)
Sorry about the little rant hahah but, I do have a question... Are they gonna give me a topic when I come home or are they just gonna let me talk about whatever I want for the homecoming talk? If I have a topic I would like to know as soon as possiable... :)
Oh and yeah the christmas party thing was a lot of fun! I really really liked it... We didnt do much we just had a lot of time to chill and talk with our old friends of the mission! It was a lot of fun becsue I got to see Elder Perkins! I love that guy soo much and miss him a lot we had a lot of good times together and a lot of bonding times I guess you could say but he and I would say MAN TIME ahahah! It was a little sad to say good bye because that is the last time I will see him for a long time ;( He had a couple of tears when I said good bye... a little sad..
Well im also really excited to see you all when I get home too!! :) Oh and thanks sooo much for the package! ITs just what I needed! thank you sooo much! Oh and yeah Im loooking at some stuff I can bring home for the fam, its christmas times so this is the time when they bring out all the hand made crafts that are really really cool!! :) I will look and see what I can find!! :) Oh well telll dad that im gonna pound him when I get home and Ethan too...If they want they can team up to try to take me but....Yeah im kinda undefeated on the mission right now so look out!!! :)
Oh and about the name for a Ayssas "kids" hahahah well i was thinking maybe a very german name.... Kristof or Brady.... ;) But im not too good at this naming thing, you know me hahahah! But if it where my kid I would just name it Hommie or chicken nugget! :)
Well it sounds like you had an awesome time in Cali... The weird thing is... Cali looked just like Germany form the pics that you sent me hahahah! Im still jealous becasue it is warm there hahah!
Oh and guess what... Pres sent me a last email like all the things i need to do before I go home... AHHHHHH
Well I love you all and thanks sooo much!! :)
Elder Brady Schmidt
Super cold here
Well hello there momma!!! This week was a very good one but also very very cold.... Its killing me here, and right now im sitting here in this internet cafe` and there is no heaters here and my fingers are freezing and it really really huts to type hahahahah. Well to start off the week, it was a little weird again because of the whole not having a comp thing hahah but its getting better. Its looking good though becaue Falisha one of the my investigators is gitting baptised... Normaly I would say she is our investigator but the whole not having a comp thing makes it a little hard to say WE hahaha.... But she is making a lot of progress and she is gonna be baptized this sunday and its gonna be great! I also found out that im gonna get a comp on this tuesday so tomorrow... I was hoping that i was gonna get elder perkins back but.... Cant always get what I want hahah but the new guy sounds really cool and I think its gonna be a good last transfer..... Thats right.... I started my last transfer this week..... Kinda nutz!!!!
Well besides that im gonna be honest it would be sooo much better if you just chated with me because my hands hurt soooo bad..... Like no joke.... Ill try to answer all of your questions real fast..... Well now is a good time to look or souvioners because all of the christmas markets are all out now and ill look at the web site today for school but you gotta tell me how please!!! ;)
Super jealous that you all had an awesome thanksgiving!!!! wish I could have been there....
Monday, November 24, 2014
Almost thanksgiving
Hey there momma! this week was great, we had a lot of fun and... Well all I can say is that we are now in a threesom so to say hahah. Yeah thats right my old comp went home and its really sad... It was a Little rough being with him... His heart just wasnt in it... He never really wanted to do much and even our investigaors could tell that his heart just wasnt in it... I hope he stays active.... President put me in Charge of being his missionary when I go home so we will see how that works. I am really frustrtated with elder him though... He just kinda gave up and didnt really try... I was just a Little mad but... What can you do... He emailed me and asked how I was doing and just told me all about his girlfriend and stupid stuff. I think thats why he went home though was becasue of the Girl... I looked over his shoulder while he was writing his girl and she was like begging him to come home and he kept telling her that he is gonna come home and stuff...
Well the week besides that was really good we had a lot of success and had a crap load of lessons this week becaue we had to put two programs together now our appointments are like all over the place and its really hard but fun at the same time and super busy... We dont even have that much time for for p day... We have a bunch of appointments today and only have 2 hours to do pday stuff... Really lame but we cant really avoid it.... Oh and this last week was soo crazy that we had 20 lessons... I know that Cali is different that Germany so tell stephen not to judge hahah
But im doing good im gonna be honest im working really hard and giving it my all when im out and teaching People but when im at home all I can think about is home and heading back home... Im starting to get a Little trunky... I dont think it a bad Thing because i have to start thinking about home eventually. Im super excited to see everyone! Oh and is it bad that I have started to Count down the days till I go home? I hope not... hahah. I just cant wait to start Training again and getting ready for Football!!! Its gonna be sick!
Yeah so i just looked at this email and i have been kinda rambleing on and I dont know really what else to say! Its kida funny right now because one our invesigitors is with me right now. Marcella is with and says Hi!
Well it Sound like everyone is doing good!
Sorry I dont have much to say! Just Chat wiht me!! ;)
Alyssa is having chickens
Well im not sure how to start off this week it was a bit of a crazy week... Ill just start off with the good stuff then ill come the the other surff... Well this week was good because we worked really really hard and we saw our work pay off! This week we now have an investigator on baptismal date... YAY!! Her name is Falisha and she is awesome and she loves the church! She is getting really into the book of mormon and is praying and she has come to church now 2 times! We are getting excited for her! She is a fun but a little frustraiting to teach hahah it keeps me on my toes because she tests my bible knowlage hahah everytime I teach a pricaple she has to question it and tell me a verse in the bible and then she has to tell my why im wrong but I have proved her wrong enough times with the bible that she started to accept the message and then she started to read in the book of mormon and said that she believes that the book of mormon is from god and that it contains his word!!! :) So after she prayed and got the answer that she was looking for and that was which church she should join ( kinda like Joseph smith hahah) we put her on baptismal date!!!
Oh and M and S... Well... We had a bit of a set back with them this week but then church came in and saved the day!! :) IT was great! Well, at the begining of the week M said that she wasnt sure if there was a god... That was a little bit of a set back and I started to get a little worried and was not sure what to do... But then she came to church again and she said that every time that she comes to the church she just feells this spiritual strength and just wants to keep coming back... I told her that, is the spirit talking to her telling her what she is doing is the right thing!! :) She is doing really good but taking a little but of time but thats okay.. some people just need a litle bit of time before they make a big decession .. But sonny.. Im not sure what to do with her?? She kinda just gets in the way of M progress..? But we are working our best with her and we still stay in contact!! :) So I guess we have had a pretty good week this week and we are seeing the blessing of hard work!!!
Oh and one cool thing that happened yesterday also.. The Piano Guys came to our mission and visited us in Hamburg!! It was really good and they are some pretty amazing dudes... They are really really good but not only that but they are also really really stong in the gospel... What they said was pretty amazing... When they came and visited it was kinda like a fireside thing. It was just cool to see how normal some of these guys were and at the same time sooo strong in the Gospel... I thought it was just a missionary thing to be such a spiritual person but... These guys were pretty amazing...
Now ill get to the other stuff... Well my Companion is now going home... He is flying home on tuesday... Im a little frustrated... but there is nothing I can do now but just love him for he is... Im beating myself up a little but becasue I feel like I failed President... I dont know what to do?? I tried to do the same thing that helped me when I was going through a hard time and all that I needed to do to stay was start seeing success and to feel that this work really is Christs work... So we went out and worked hard and put an investigator on baptismal date and gave it my best to do my job and hoped that would also help him... But .... I dont know what else I could have done... Im also really sad for him because I know how much the mission can help him... I have seen this gospel change me in ways that I didnt even know were possible... I have always had the gospel but nothing has ever opened up my eyes untill I came out here and really put the gospel into action... I have changed soooo much and Im soooo glad that I made these changes...
Well Ethan wrote me a good uplifting email.... I know he can be a little frustraiting but... He is a pretty amazing kid, and for the most part I am proud of him! :) I am super proud to hear that he steped up to the plate and helped out kade... That was a really big and bold move for Ethan... Way to flippin go! That is a little scary though... With all these kids killing them selfs... flip.... Oh and tell Ethan that we are playing football today as a zone for our turkey bowl... The members here dont like football... So its a little hard to get something like that going here..
Oh tell dad that im still ready to take him down and tell Ethan that he might be a little bit bigger but.. Dont mean that I still cant kick his butt... I have big brother power playing aginst him :)
YAHOOO!!! Steve has got a date planned!!!! :) Heck yeah!!!! Im stoked for him!!! :)
Oh and now the biggetst news.... What?????????????? You have got to be kidding me... She is having twins..... Oh and she is gonna need my help to raise them hahaha and I will have to teach them all the tricks to piss off alyssa!! :) HAHAHAH Im soooo excited for her!!! This is gonna be awesome!!! :) Im gonna be honest though... In the picture... One of the babies looks like a chicken.... I think that she might be having chickens.... Tell her to watch out... ;)
Well I love youall soooo much and tell dad if he wants any Ideas then I would love to help him out!!! :)
LOve you
BRADY!!!
nov is about being thankful
ey mom... Well this week... Well im not sure where to start... One of the harder ones for me....You know me I dont like to show people what im going through sometimes so I kinda hold it back but i just need some one to vent too... Well it all starts about not last friday but the friday before... Well we had our district meeting that friday and our district leader decided that we all dress up for Halloween for District meeting... Well it was also the first day for one of the missionarires and Elder perkins Decided to dress up like a sister... In his derfence it was super funny and also one of the elders in the district dressed up like a sister, I wore my lieder hosen. Well President found out about it and tore me apart... He was most mad at me becasue I was once a Zone leader and should have known better and put an end end to it but he called me and threatened to Blitz me which means that he would just send me to a different city that same day he said that he would call us and tell us the next day if he was gonna blitz us... Well the next day he called and sent Elder Perkins away and that was a hard one becasue he was my fav comp... But President said that he didnt send him away becasue of the halloween thing but becasue i have to help out a missionary that wants to go home and that I have to help him stay out on his mission... So I have now a new comp that is probably gomma go home within the next week... Pres put him wiht me because I had the same problems that I did when I was home but, his problem is not the same as mine.. I wanted to stay but was just going through a hard time... But i looked for a reason to stay... I dont get that feeling from him he is just looking for a reason to go... He has already told pres that he is going home.. The biggest problem is... I feel like I have failed president... I just dont have a good feeling right now and im just not... Yeah.. I dont know.. Im trying to do my best but its hard to give my all to the work and work with him at the sametime... He is also just not humble enogh to do anything or to listen... I just am reall mad at myself right now...
Well besides that the week has been okay our investigators are doing really good and they are all making really good progress and want to get more and more involved in the church! That im excited about but... I just feel like im putting too much focus on the invesiagators and not enought focus on my companion... I just really hate to be going through this right now...
Oh and side note... Elder perkins called me the day after he got transfered and I just felt soo bad for him... He feels soo bad for what he did and he thinks its all his fault that he got Blitz but, its kinda mine.. I should have known better than to let that happen... Im just not in a good place right now...
Well tell ellie that all i need from her is a good letter form her for Christmas and that will help me and that will make me happpy!! :)
Im super stoked that you passed your exam momma!!! WAy to go! That is awesome! I knew you would do it! This is gonna be awesome for you! You seemed sooo excited and im just really happy for you right now!!
Well i havent had a chance to look at dads talk but ill do that right now. Tell him that he dont have time to eating monkey rolls when im comin home to pound on him.... HAHAH just kidding...
OH and tell Ethan that im gonna pound on him tooo when i get home It sounds like he is getting a little big... Im prouud of him.. I didnt wehight that much till my second year of high school....
Well momma.... I need your prayers... Love you all soo much!!
BRADY! :
nov 11
Hey mom... Well this week... Well im not sure where to start... One of the harder ones for me....You know me I dont like to show people what im going through sometimes so I kinda hold it back but i just need some one to vent too... Well it all starts about not last friday but the friday before... Well we had our district meeting that friday and our district leader decided that we all dress up for Halloween for District meeting... Well it was also the first day for one of the missionarires and Elder perkins Decided to dress up like a sister... In his derfence it was super funny and also one of the elders in the district dressed up like a sister, I wore my lieder hosen. Well President found out about it and tore me apart... He was most mad at me becasue I was once a Zone leader and should have known better and put an end end to it but he called me and threatened to Blitz me which means that he would just send me to a different city that same day he said that he would call us and tell us the next day if he was gonna blitz us... Well the next day he called and sent Elder Perkins away and that was a hard one becasue he was my fav comp... But President said that he didnt send him away becasue of the halloween thing but becasue i have to help out a missionary that wants to go home and that I have to help him stay out on his mission... So I have now a new comp that is probably gomma go home within the next week... Pres put him wiht me because I had the same problems that I did when I was home but, his problem is not the same as mine.. I wanted to stay but was just going through a hard time... But i looked for a reason to stay... I dont get that feeling from him he is just looking for a reason to go... He has already told pres that he is going home.. The biggest problem is... I feel like I have failed president... I just dont have a good feeling right now and im just not... Yeah.. I dont know.. Im trying to do my best but its hard to give my all to the work and work with him at the sametime... He is also just not humble enogh to do anything or to listen... I just am reall mad at myself right now...
Well besides that the week has been okay our investigators are doing really good and they are all making really good progress and want to get more and more involved in the church! That im excited about but... I just feel like im putting too much focus on the invesiagators and not enought focus on my companion... I just really hate to be going through this right now...
Oh and side note... Elder perkins called me the day after he got transfered and I just felt soo bad for him... He feels soo bad for what he did and he thinks its all his fault that he got Blitz but, its kinda mine.. I should have known better than to let that happen... Im just not in a good place right now...
Well tell ellie that all i need from her is a good letter form her for Christmas and that will help me and that will make me happpy!! :)
Im super stoked that you passed your exam momma!!! WAy to go! That is awesome! I knew you would do it! This is gonna be awesome for you! You seemed sooo excited and im just really happy for you right now!!
Well i havent had a chance to look at dads talk but ill do that right now. Tell him that he dont have time to eating monkey rolls when im comin home to pound on him.... HAHAH just kidding...
OH and tell Ethan that im gonna pound on him tooo when i get home It sounds like he is getting a little big... Im prouud of him.. I didnt wehight that much till my second year of high school....
Well momma.... I need your prayers... Love you all soo much!!
BRADY! :)
nov
Hey there momma!!! Well this week was a good one actually! We found a bunch of invesitgators.... WE found 7 this last week, if you dont know thats a lot for Germany hahah most of the time we are lucky to get one a week. But I dont know what happened this week, Elder Perkins and I just decided to put on the big boy pants and go to work. We have been going a little slowly up till now and Im not sure why, I think that I have been getting a little burnt out or something but this last week I just had a big burst of energy and was ready to do some work? But it was really good from what it looks like we gound some pretty good one too not just some weirdos that wont make progress or anything hahah, we are petty excited to see our program grow!:
Oh well I got a pretty sad phone call this week... WEll I got the phone call that elder hardy and elder ames are leaving.... They called me their last night in Germany to say good bye.. It is soooo weird that they are gona now but its also a littl hard becaue I feel like im missing out on something hahahah. Im starting to feel a little alone in the mission like im an old fart or something hahaha. But elder hardy says that I might have to come and stay a couple of nights at his place when I get up at weber haha. He is great, I hope he and I can chill when I get home! He alos said that he was chilling with Chase's uncle or something? I dont know hahah But Elder Ames said the same thing becasue he lives right in the area too! Halloween
Hey there momma! Well this week was a good one! It was really good for Elder Perkins and I, we taught some people like a boss today hahah! It was actualy really cool of me becasue we were teaching an investigator named Marcella and we watched the cheesy Restoration film with her from our chruch becasue we wanted that she gets a better idea from what Joseph smith did and what he went through and everything. It was a really good moment for me becasue Elder Perkins gave really good testimony during our lesson and it was one of those high spiritual moments, it was one of those proud moments as a trainer hahah! But Marcella is doing really really good now, she is reading and coming to chruch! She is awesome, its also good for Elder Perkins because Marcella can speak English so that helps him out a lot hahah. We did run into a little problem with her this week though.... So, Marcellas daughter Sonny is 17 and is a typical 17 year old girl.... Well she is getting Jelious becasue we like to talk to her mom more than her... Its really funny but at the some time a little annoying hahah. This last week she had to sit Elder Perkins and I down and talk to us about her problem that we talk to her mom more than her hahaha, the problem is, Marcella makes progress and Sonny likes her church and doesnt want to change hahahah, so we are probably gonna just stick with Marcella. The problem is now, if I talk or text Marcella I have to call or text Sonny too or else she gets mad and Marcellla told us that Sonny gets mad when we dont talk to her... So if you have any tips for 17 year old girls that would be great hahah! Oh and one of our other investigators is also doing great, his name is Camassa, he is from Portugal but he speaks English so we can talk hahah. But he loves the book or mormon, we gave him the book or mormon last week and he is already in Alma 32! :) He is doing awesome! We are seeing some pretty amazing things here right now, its slow but the things we are seeing are really awesome. The only sad thing is we still havent been able to get a hold of max.... I still have my goal to baptize him but at this rate... We will see..
Oh and this week I had one of the worst days of my life... This last tuesday I got super super sick... I threw up like the whole day... I counted and I threw up 11 times.... It was terriable.. I dont know what it was but its gone now, I thik I got a little food poisining or something. It was one of the most painful things of my life... I think I spent the whole day just crawling around on the floor becasue it hurt too bad to stand up hahahahah. I did get a little mad because the German way of getting better is drinking tea and sleeping... There is really no medication here that they can give you and like no pain killers or anything... They like to do things here natural or something?
Momma, Im sorry life is all over the place right now hahaha I know you and I know your gonna kick butt at this new thing! Oh and im totaly down as usual to fast! I know that I need to endure to the end here, I have been thinking a lot about home lately and its been killing me a little but I still know in the back of my head that this is where I need to be and that the lord isnt threw with me yet and needs me to stay strong here and to give it all got here and im trying my best to do just that for him, its getting harder every day to not think about football and school and home but, its not bad to think about it but when I start to get home sick then its a problem and I havent had that yet so good thing :)
Oh and about my card.... Well I have some good news and bad news.... Well, I know where it is but I cant get it... So i left it in the ATM machine but when you leave a card in there for too long then it just sucks it in and keeps it and its impossable to get it out... I have asked to people to get it out for me and they said that they are not allowed to do that and they also wont send it back to america becasue it costs too much...
Oh and the package... I went to the only post office I know of here and they said that they wouldnt give me the package becasue I didnt have the shipping number?? They were being real big jerks about it, let me give you my adress again maybe I gave it to you wrong last time...
Sankt Jürgen Str. 144
Bremen, HB 28203
DEU
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Hello there momma! Well this week was a little slow actually, we didnt find as many people as we could have but we are still woking on building up this program here, its a slow work but we are making progress! :) The goal is just make these people that we have progress! We did find this one new investigator that is super chill she is 17 and super inmature but still fun to teach, I dont know why but I love teaching youth, like in the church or even investigators, I just feel like I understand them pretty well! :) Oh well this new girl that we found her name is sonny and she only wants to speak english with us because she wants to practice but our conversations are always a mix of germany and english, my german is a little better than her english so I help her out a little. But is was really funny how we found her, or well, how she found us hahah. Elder Perkins and I were just walking to the church and this girl was walking in front of us and was listening to our conversation ,becasue we were talking in english but, she just asked us if we were mormon and she said that she has always wanted to go to our church, it was really cool, it showed me that the lord is really preparing people to recieve the gospel! Oh and Elder Perkins and I are doing really really good together, he is by far one of my fav comp, he is soooo funny! He just doesnt have any shame with people and just does whatever, he runs up to people speaking the best german he can and the people just dont understand him but he gives it his best! I love working with him! He is also a really really good friend!
Well this week I have also been really into the bible and D&C hahah! I have read the book of mormon like my whole missiona and now im ready for soemthing new but the funny thing is all im learning is just deep doctirine, which is really fun to lean about but its not really gonna help me out as a missionary hahaha! The bible is actually really really fun to read right now, I love just reading about the life of the saviour and seeing how he did missionary work and just trying to get a better feel for his life :)
Well im still not sure what I wnat for a package but one thing that i do need is some socks!!!! hahaha
Well sorry I dont have more but I do love you all a lot!! :)
Sept 23
Hey there momma!!! Well this week was good but also a little sad... We had a good week with the work stuff, which is not the easiest thing in the world, because we are starting up a new program and we are starting from scratch and didnt have anything to work with at the begining but now things are growing a little. We have a total of like 7 investigators right now and we found them all with in the last two weeks hahahah. But it was cool becasue we had one of those guys come to church today, we are getting a lot of help from the lord right now, he has just been putting people right in front of us, its amazing!! Oh well its sad becasue Hanna Moor, the girl that came and visited you last year for christmas is leaving Germany for 6 months... :( She was like one of my best friends and we get along really really good. But her husband is still here in Germany till christmas. My goal is to baptize him before I go home! Hanna asked me too right before she left, she really wants that I keep bringing him to chruch and hopefully baptize him. I think that I have a good chance too because him and I are really really good friends and I think that maybe he will take it better from a friend than some stranger.. Ya know..
Well Elder Perkins is loving Germany a lot hahah he is soooo funny, its kinda fun to train because I can look back and see what I was probably like when I first came to Germany. Its funny becasue everytime what we go shopping for fook or something he buys soooo much chocolate and sooooo much dary becasue Germany is really famous or the dairy foods. Everytime we go the people in the store just make soooo much fun of us and my comp just tells everyone that its his first day in Germany in English and everone just says back to him in English Enjoy it!
Im getting along with Elder Perkins really good right now, he is really really funny and he says the funniest things on the street becasue his german is not very good right now and I just bite my toung and try not to laugh, but it will get better! He is probably one of my best comps, he is just super chill and is not always stressed all the time, But we are woking really really good together. WE are finding really good together and teaching really good. I love the new missionaries a lot because they come from the MTC with a crap load of faith and are just willing to do anything.
Well, momma, this week I have studied the Atonement a lot this last week and its crazy to look back on my mission and see how far the atonement of christ has carried me this far. I look back and think, there is no way that I did that or there is no way that I have come this far. ITs really good for me right now becasue I have never really understood how the atonement could carry someone through hard moments but really he is always helping us but only when we let him in. I have noticed that these last few months, well actually this last year. I remember last year when I left Bremen just thinkin in the train the whole way to Hamburg that I dont want my mission to go on like this and really wanted to change myself, at that moment I really noticed this huge change in me and now when I look back I know that it was really becasue of help I was able to do that, I still have a long way to go but I know that it is possiable with him!!! :)
YEAH!!! Go Ethan, sounds like he is getting his head on straight and getting in there and doing what he needs to do. Something else that I have learned lately is that it is not enough to do your best but to succeed in doing what is necessary, he is gonna be great if he keeps giving it his all!!! :)
Tell dad that he is gonna get a pounden when I get home... Im coming home in my Lieder Hosen ready to take on anyone!!! :)
Im happy for you momma!! I cant wait for you to start!!!
Love you all!!!
Sept 15
Well momma, let me just get right to your question.... Well you hit the hammer right on the nail. I feel like I should have saved up more money when I was home to be able to buy more stuff while I am here so I just feel sick when I ask you for money.
Well let me just tell you how this week has been. This week has been nutz!!! I have had like no time to do anything... I have been all over the place hahah... At the begining of the week I was in Berlin from tuesday till thursday and then came to Bremen for a night and then friday afternoon I went back to Berlin to see Bednar and stayed there for the night and then on saturday I came back to Bremen and got back at like 7 and then had like no time to do anything... This last week has been crazy... I am just ready to start a normal week and ready to show my new comp how real missionary work goes. He has been super confused this last little while I feel bad for him hahah. But he is super awesome, he has a good desire to do missionary work and really wants to give his all, so im stoked for that becasue that means I wont have to drag him around and we can just go to town with the work here in Bremen. Something that was really cool though was when I came back and went to church I just kinda assumed that all the members forgot about me but I was really happy to see that all the members here remembered me really really good and where really excited to see me again, well some where some wern't, probably because when I was here last I wasn't the best missionary but I have made some huge changes in my life since then and am a completly diferent person! So im gonna take this chance to make everything right before I go! I mean, how often do I get this chance to come back and make everything right...
Tell dad to bring it!!! I am undefeated right now on the mission.... Well Elder Hardy doesnt count... But im ready to take dad down!!! Slc Airport jan 7th he is gonna go down!!!
Momma!!!! im soooo stoked that you got the job!!! That is soooo good for you, I knew that you wanted that job and I always thought it was the best thing too! It will be good for you to work form home too! Oh and how hard can the training be, your doing everything on the computer, you can do it momma!!
Well I love you all a lot!!!
BRADY!!! :)
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Well momma, let me just get right to your question.... Well you hit the hammer right on the nail. Yeah... So I hate asking you for money right now and I dont want you to worry about taking care of me... I never asked President for money or a new suit or anything.. He just saw me at my zone training meeting and he saw how beat up my suit was and told me to buy oa new suit and I told him that I wouldnt ask you for money because I feel like I should have saved up more money when I was home to be able to buy more stuff while I am here so I just feel sick when I ask you for money. I Yeahh... Im sorry mom... I dont want you to worry about me... I promise Im doing good!
Well let me just tell you how this week has been. This week has been nutz!!! I have had like no time to do anything... I have been all over the place hahah... At the begining of the week I was in Berlin from tuesday till thursday and then came to Bremen for a night and then friday afternoon I went back to Berlin to see Bednar and stayed there for the night and then on saturday I came back to Bremen and got back at like 7 and then had like no time to do anything... This last week has been crazy... I am just ready to start a normal week and ready to show my new comp how real missionary work goes. He has been super confused this last little while I feel bad for him hahah. But he is super awesome, he has a good desire to do missionary work and really wants to give his all, so im stoked for that becasue that means I wont have to drag him around and we can just go to town with the work here in Bremen. Something that was really cool though was when I came back and went to church I just kinda assumed that all the members forgot about me but I was really happy to see that all the members here remembered me really really good and where really excited to see me again, well some where some wern't, probably because when I was here last I wasn't the best missionary but I have made some huge changes in my life since then and am a completly diferent person! So im gonna take this chance to make everything right before I go! I mean, how often do I get this chance to come back and make everything right...
Tell dad to bring it!!! I am undefeated right now on the mission.... Well Elder Hardy doesnt count... But im ready to take dad down!!! Slc Airport jan 7th he is gonna go down!!!
Momma!!!! I love you so much and just wanted to say thanks again for the support. I can feel the support and prayers you have been sending my way. You coming up with the idea for us to fast has been a huge help to me right now. So thanks for that Momma!
Well I love you all a lot!!!
BRADY!!! :)
Sept 8
Well momma... Im just gonna hit you with the big news right now! Well, I have been transfered... You're never gonna guess where.... hahahahaha Im going back to Bremen!!!! Super funny, I think this is just president trying to be nice before I go home or something hahaha. I was also released as zone leader this last week and im super stoked about that, President released a lot of his zone leaders this last transfer, he released half of them and I guess I was just one of them. But here is the catch, Im training now, Im also super excited for that, I have never trained before and its gonna be a crazy experience!
It was super super sad leaving Dresden though... The members here and I were just super super close, they are like really really good friends of mine! There is this one member here in the ward his name is Brother Bartsch and he was like another dad to me! Me and him were really really good friends, where he said good bye to me I could see that his eyes were about to cry but he way trying hard to fight them back... I love that man sooo much and his family! This has probably been the hardest city to leave on my mission. The kids in the ward here were not happpy about that at all that Im transfered, but I did leave my name tag behind with one of the kids here in the ward, he was super stoked!
Well, just make sure that all the projects are done before Brady gets home hahahah..... just kidding I will help out too if you need help when I get home! Tell dad I miss him too, I miss him sooo much, I know back at home he sometimes doesnt know how to express himself to me but I always felt a really really big connection between me and him! I miss him like crazy!!!
Well momma, let me just say, I miss you like crazy too! I hope you find out soon what is gonna happen with this whole job thing and stuff.. Well momma I just want to thank you sooo much for everything your doing for me while im out here, I have really grown to appreciate my family, I love you soo much momma and thank you sooo much for helping me get my butt out here to serve this mission! I love you all!!!
Brady! :)
Sept 1
MOMMA!!! Wow this week was really really really good! Thank you sooo muc for your prayers! I could see the huge diffference that it made this week. We had a huge miricale this week! Ahhhh, well I think I told you a little bit about Tony, our new investigator. Well this last week we invited him to Baptism, and guess what, he said yes! Yahoo, we are soooo stoked, we are finally starting to come out of this drout! Well, we put him on date for the 20th of september, and i think he is gonna make it. He really cant stop reading in the book of mormon and he is super open. We just need to help him with some weid ideas that he has!
I hope this baptism goes through, my comp really really needs it. He is the hardest working comp that I have had on my mission and I really like him! I feel bad for him because he works soooo hard and has not seen the success that he deserves! So I really really hope it goes through and im gonna do whatever it takes to help that go through!
Well hello there momma! This week was a good one! I dont remembet if I told you about the guy named Tony that we met last week but this guy is awesome!! We met him last week and didnt really have a chance to meet with him during the week but, he came to church yesterday and he told us how much he loves the book of mormon!!! He has read 260 pages in the book of mormon in a week he is half way through Mosiah!!! He is doing awesome, he does have some funky ideas but we will work with him. Right now he still believes in Holy Mary and stuff like that but, I dont blame him becasue he doesnt know better, he has been Catholic his whole life, so we will just talk to him about that today!! :) But besides that the week has been really good, we are doing a lot better here, the work is picking back up for me finialy. I feel like I have been in a droubt since I came to Dresden but now I feel like Im slowly coming out! ;)
. Monday, July 28, 2014
Happy 24th of July
Well momma this week was a good one!! Im super stoked!! We found the coolest new investagators!! This is great! They came to church this week too! Their names are Veronica and Klai. They are a couple and they are the funniest things in the world! Verconica loves me to death and invites me over to her house like everyday and wants to come to every little activitly that we have at the church! She is soooo funny. The bad part is, she donsnt speak that much German. She is from poland and speaks only enough German to get by and her husband comes from the middle east hahah He is also super cool but he speaks better english than German and doesnt speak Polish at all so im not sure how their relationship works out but they seem super happy hahaha!
Oh well you wanted to know.... Well im not trasnfered!! :) Im staying in Dresden and im getting a new comp his name is Elder Loyd. Super excited actualy hahahah... But like you said there is a bunch of crazy things happening is this misssion right now... Like for example we have 2 new sisters coming to our area but only for 3 weeks just to shut down the area... Its really weird, like that is happening all over the mission its crazy.. Its been a little bit of stress for me to get this alll figured out but.. Im hangin in there. Oh and one more crazy thing that happened was there was a zone leader white wash.... I think that is the first time that has ever happened hahaha... Super embarrassing hahah...My comp now Elder Süffert is going down to fix that whole thing... I dont know what exactly happend but these two zone leaders must have done something stupid. But you knowing me I love drama and I get super into this kinda stuff hahah :) Hot Hot Hot
WOW it is crazy hot here too!! like crazy hot... I honestly cant stop sweating... hahah Its ridiclious... Well the transfers are coming to an end and im getting excited for it. I dont know if anythig is gonna happen at transfers but, I just like to switch things up sometimes, I just dont like same routine all the time. I think that I will probably stay here another one though.. I havent been here that long and I would love to stay here a little longer because this ward is awesome!!!
Oh okay... Well I want to clarify what these shwartz are... Well they are not girl pants I found them in the mens section so haha and they are not capris... They are cut at the knee so they are just like gym shorts but they are out of sweat material hahah. They are super cool here in Germany! :)
Oh quick question... can you send me the classes for weber?
Germany won the world cup
Well hello there momma!!!! Well I can honestly say this week was super super good! We found 8 new people to teach this week!!! I think everyone is just super happy becasue of how Germany has been playing in the world cup hahaha. But is was really cool all of our appointments are set up for this up coming week and we are super excited! Oh and speakin of the world cup, we are gonna watch it today with the stake pres. He invited us to come watch it with him today at his house, he recorded it for us. It will be fun but I already know what happened so it wont be that exciteing hahaha.
Oh and like you saw in the pictures we went to berlin again. Yes i did hang out with elder Hardy again hahaha. He and I are such good friends... We have been begging pres to serve together... He said that he would think about it, which is a big deal because normaly he just says no and gets a little mad when we ask.. So we are making some progress with pres hahah. Elder Hardy is also begging me to come to Utah state with him and play football with him there. I would love too but im not good enough to play at that place hahah. He said that he would tell the coach that me and him are a pcakage deal.. You get one you get the other hahaha. Oh and if you saw the pics of us in berlin you probably saw that me and elder hardy tried to make a mega person... He is sooo great! I hope i can serve with him sometime! :)
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