September 7, 2014

Dear Family

 My companion is Elder Evans he is from south Jordan Utah I think I told you that when I first got to Germany. The Rosenheim ward is smaller than any ward I have ever seen in the states, but it is a typical small city ward for Europe. We have about 40 people on any given Sunday so the missionaries make up about 10 percent of the ward haha. There are bigger wards in like München (Munich), Salzburg, and Wein (Vienna) but we have some really small branches in the mission too. 

I have had two interviews with Präsident Kohler. He is awesome! Before he was a mission president he trained mission presidents, so he knows what he is doing. I have eaten so much good food I dont even know where to start. I have eaten a lot of Bayrisch (Bavarian) food like Wurst and potato salads. They eat a whole lot of sausage here. I also LOVE Döners. They are Turkisch but they are on every street corner. I honestly haven't eaten anything bad so I am living the food mission dream. 

The best thing I have eaten was at a member appointment this week. I was on Tausch with Elder Vitel (he is not my companion he is my zone leader and he is from Romania) and we went to Familie Madei. They are converts to the church but have have been members for forever. They are both in their 90s. She made us 60 Zwetschgen Knudl and they were sooooo good but sooooo bad for you. They are plum dumplings wrapped in bread and then fried. You then drown them in butter and dump suger all over it. They were soooo good. 

Saturday we had a really interesting experience. So Rosenheim has a little Oktoberfest called Herbstfest. Some guy went to Herbstfest and had a little too much to drink and ended up at our doorstep and past out. Its ok though the ambulance came and picked up. He was Smashed.

Today we went to Herbstfest and it is basically a giant fair like we have in the states but it gave me an excuse to eat sausage and wear Lederhosen so I was ok with it haha.

So we had a really numbers this week but we did teach a less active from Angola named Bruder Dos Santos and we shared with him why it was so important to read in the scriptures, go to church and pray. He told us that he wanted to start becoming active again. He is leaving for Angola at the end of the month but he asked us to make sure that the missionaries would have his contact information because he wants his wife and daughters to hear the gospel. So we are going to make some Angola Missionary's day when we give them Bruder Dos Santos' info because they will get a great progressing less active and some golden investigators.

Ich hab Sie lieb

-Elder Carr

Me and Elder Evans in traditional Lederhosen at Herbsfest