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Monday, February 24, 2014

Elder Bednar is awesome


Hi all reading Bradys letters.. You notice his spelling is awful that is a sign his German is getting better.. and some of his phrases are hilarious.. His appointments fell out??? I think he meant fell through...!!

Well momma! This week well, I dont really know what to say about it. Elder Suffert and i had one of the most frustarting weeks of our missions.... All of our appointments feel out... IT was bad... Our numbers on saturday were like terriable I think that we had maybe like one lesson taught by saturday... But then all of the sudden out of no where sunday decided to be a mirical day!!! We had 7 investagators to church we found 6 new investagators and we got 3 referals from a member!!! I dont know why we couldnt just get all of that through the week but, I guess the lord has his owm plan. Sometimes his plan doesnt make too much sense to me but I just have to trust him!  :) The hightlight of the week was this week was stake confrence for germany and we had Elder Bednar come and talk to us!!! :) IT was awesome! The best part was it that the mom of the family that we have on baptismal date really felt the spirit during the meeting! It was really good and she is starting to get a testimony of coming to church! IT was an awesome moment!  Elder Bednar served his mission in Germany so he spoke to us in German it was totally cool. Our investigator loved it she asked who that man was. She said he has great power. How cool is that.
Well you asked how things are going witht the new zone leader.... Well I cant say too much about that... Lets just put it this way... If he talks to me like i am 4 years old one more time and talks down to me one more time... I think I might have to kill him... Im really sick of this new guy... His companion is having a hard time with him too right now... I feel bad for elder cannon right now.... Elder cannon is a little weird but i love him to death he is soooo freakin funny! But we are all having a hard time adjusting to him.... I dont know.... The new guy is just WEIRD.... He might just become my new project to turn him normal!!! He has this mind set that missionaries are allowed to be weird but not in my city!!! I will change him... I just have to be patient!! :) 
Soooo mom.... You telling me you went to Disneyland because Ellie forgot everything about it??? Oh thats funny becasue I think when i get back i will forget about everything that is florida when i get back ;) hahaha just kidding! It looks like you all had a lot of fun!! Well i hope you all had fun! I know when the bear gets a little grouchy it can be a little hard but I hope everything was a blast!!! Im also really glad that you were able to connect better with Ethan this trip! That is really good. He needs a little more social in his life!! :)  One little bit of advice.... Stephen is never allowed to wear gym shorts to disneylad ever again... I dont care if he says it is his style... That is not a style... If the style is homeless then he did a great job hahahah! I love him to death just.... Oh bless his heart... I will help him when i come home! :) I know that sounds a little faggy or gay but i have been in eroupe for almost a year now and... That just doesnt fly here... IF i walked around like that then people would come up to me and give me money thinking that im homeless!!! Dont make fun of me mom hahaha! I will come and teach you all the ways when i come home!! 
 Have you heard anything else out about school?? Im just wondering? Because sister beasley said she could posably get me home earlier if school is starting earlier than that! 
Well I miss you all like crazy... Dont worry the vacation didnt make me home sick! It is cool to see the pictzures though :)
Love you Mom

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Im loving Hamburg


Hey there momma. Can i just start off by saying you are just a little funny! Momma, Im fine, Im not struggling at all im doing really great actually. Yes last week I was a little stressed but really, everything is fine! This week was really good actually!! Im doing really good, im just stressed about what i want to study when i go home and stuff. I have about 10 months left and then im going home, so its kinda about time to start thinking about what i want to do for the rest of my life, ya know ;) 
Well momma this week was a really good one actually. The coolest thing ever happened this week. Well the whole week was going good not great but just fine till saturday and sunday! Well, on saturday we invited our little afircan family to baptism!! They all accepted and it was great! But the miracle doesnt stop there actually. The next day was even better! The mom of our little family told her friend about our church and her friend came to church with her whole family!!! It was amazing. We had soooo many people to church this week. I think total we had about 10 people to church but 5 investagators because the others are too young to be baptised. It still gets better after the whole meeting the new african family went up to the bishof and told him " I love this church and im never leaving" It was awesome. I found out something really cool about our two families I guess they have been looking for a chuch to join for a long time but all the churches that they know  they said were just not for them! They say that they have a good feeling in our church and they love it that we have special classes for the kids. The church is true and im loving it here in hamburg! Besides the weekend being good. During the week we had a really funny lesson with some black guy in the university here in hamburg... IT was really bad because we told him about the appstosy... (I think thats what its called, in german its abfall von glauben) and he didnt like it..like at all! So he started to yell at me in the cafe and the worst part was this really pretty girl was sitting right behind him and was smiling at me the whole time and I couldnt focous hahahah! ;) 
As you can see momma im doing fine, Im really okay. I do appricate that you're worried about me. Thanks momma I do love ya lots! The only other reason that im stressed is because elder lüning is going home and he is probably one of my fav elders i have met and he has totaly changed my mission! He is like my big brother on my mission and i dont really want him to go! I only feel like he is my older brother because he is like 24 so yeah ahaha! He and I just have sooo much in common and is a really good friend and has been through a lot of the same things I have been through so... Yeah :) 
Well its sounds like you are all doing great!!! Well accept alyssa.... I feel sooo bad for her...That makes me soooo sad! I really would have moved down there and lived in the area there! Dang... Well i hope they find another soloution. 
Well actually ETAHN.... What is his deal.... Why did he just give up in wrestling....Tick me off.... Well makes me more sad than anything actually. He doesnt really understand how much potential he really has!!! Ugh... 
Stephen is talking to girls?? What happened?? Did he hit his head on something?? Oh my goodness!!! That makes me sooo happy!! Way to go steve!!! 
Well momma I promise im doing great. You dont need to fast for me!! Im doing really good actually! Oh and tell dad way to go on his diet!!!  Love you all and cant wait to hear from you again!
Love you all

Monday, February 3, 2014

Sea Hawks won the super bowl??? No way


Wow, I cant believe that seattle pulled it off!!! Thats amazing... Thats the first superbowl they have ever won!!!!!!!! I cant believe that happened!! I wish I could see the highlights!! That is amazing!!! Did you end up having a big party or anything or just the fam.... More details hahaha! 
Well momma this week was weird.... I felt like i didnt do anything but some how we got soooo much work done this week?? Like our numbers this week are insane!! This week we invited one of our families to church and they came!!! Its was nutz!! The best part is the kids love me for some reason...? They were climbing all over me and chasing me all over the place... Its kinda fun to play with the kids every now and then. IT was really cool after church one of the members in our ward here came up to me and told me that I am doing my job perfectly and told me how good of a job i did introducing the investagators to the ward, it was really cool. Our little family fits perfect with the ward... They are like already members IT was awesome. Another cool thing is that another investagator named _____ came to church today.. I think i told you about him, he is like the dry mormon he knows Uchtdorf personaly and has come to church every sunday for 11 years... He even went up for fast and testimony meeting and gave his testimony!! It was really cool! 
Well besides all of that this week was actually really boring... Didnt do much actually.. We just did our job i guess hahah. Im am a little sad though... One of my favorite missionareis that i have ever met is going home in like 2 weeks... He is like the coolest guy ever. He lives in Canada so i will probably never see him again so thats sad but me and him are like way tight and pretty good friends probably one of the best friends i have met on my mission so far... 
Well im glad to hear that everyone is doing soooo great!!! Except for ethan... I dont know what to do about him. IT seems like the harder you push him the harder he pushes back... I just dont think he understands why you are making him do this stuff... I think he thinks you are making him to it just to do it... He doesnt understand the actual meaning behind everything... Maybe if you get a little serious with him and tell him why you are making him do it and how it will help him maybe he will have a bigger drive?? I dont know... At least for me, I like to know why im doing something before i just do it. Blind obeidance it not the best obeidance...? I dont know im just thinking out loud, maybe that will help!?
Im sorry i dont have too much for you this week.. Please email back... Im having writers block and cant think of anything else to say hahaha! 
 Love you all!
Oh hey momma I need garments.. I cant think of the English word for the one that is in the middle but I need that size.