Oct. 20, 2014

Dear family-

First off tell Kelsie I say Hello. That is so nuts that she is home! I saw Jake's (Jake Barnes) interception! That was AWESOME! Kacey nice job on your Test! and tell coach Schultz hi for me. Jake nice mile time. Tj way to be a frisbee machine! Mom keep working hard at school! Pop tell Sarah congrats for me.

 

MAN WHAT A WEEK! It was absolutely great! 

Monday: We didn't really do anything special for P-day but Elder Evans and I want and visited a Weniger Aktive named Geraldo. He is 20 and from the Dominican Republic. We shared a spiritual thought with him and he has started reading in the BOM again!

Tuesday: We had distrikt meeting and it was about using time wisely. Yeah... we have some people in the distrikt struggling with that... so it was needed. We were planning on finishing weekly planning after distrikt meeting but Emily (another Weniger Aktive) called and asked if we could meet so we went and had a nice lesson with her.

Wednesday: I went to Landshut for a funeral. Our Stake President's 11 year old son died in a soccer game. He had a heart condition that they didn't know about and he died on the field. It was really sad but I am so impressed with my Stake President and his family. They invited the missionaries in our zone to go to the funeral and give comfort to non members who were there and teach them about  Der Plan Der Erlösung and president basically bore testimony about it for 20 minutes. I was really impressed because I don't know if I could have used an unexpected tragic event in family as a tool to bring others to the gospel. 

Thursday: We had another lesson with Geraldo and he said that he would come to church this last Sunday but he didn't... still mad about that one BUT I am trying to be patient. 

Freitag: BY FAR THE COOLEST DAY OF MY MISSION! so far.... We had a lesson with Monika about the Book of Mormon because she hasn't been reading so we read with her. She loved it. She said that she hasn't had time to read because she is preparing for a test. Elder Evans and I shared experiences we had that when we read our scriptures first everything was way simpler. The spirit was so strong in there I thought the room was about to burst into flames! We committed her to read for 10 minutes a day and she said she would. Later She texted and said thank you for the lesson and reassured us that she was going to keep her promise to read! Way cool.

Saturday:Nothin' happened we tried to do some vorbei's but no one was home.

Sunday: MONIKA CAME TO CHURCH. It was the first time in my whole mission that an investigator actually came! Not only did she come but she stayed for all 3 hours! She met a ton of members and hit it off really well with them. We set up another appointment with her for Thursday and I will be on tausch which means Elder Evans isn't going to be there for this one. I am pretty nervous about that because I can understand German really well but it feels like the cat has my tongue when i try to speak and she has a lot of in depth questions so i hope i will be able to answer them. After church we went to the Berka's for an eating appointment and i saw a freakin wild hedgehog! Way sweet.

Well Transfers are coming up again and I know that i am getting a new companion next week because Elder Evans has been in Rosenheim for 7.5 months. I hope i am ready to take over the area. I am also scared to get a new companion because Elder Evans has been a great trainer and i feel like we work really hard and well together. I will be interesting for sure.

Love Ya!

-Elder Carr