December 19, 2011

This week has been really interesting.

So first I will start with T. Oh T.... We met with him twice this last week, and it is interesting. We are teaching him to read and are now reading through the children's Book of Mormon.

H on the other hand is awesome. I love this man. He is the best thing ever. We met with him twice this week and all of the members come out from the lessons and say to us ''Wow! He has really made a lot of progress. ''

He did get to bring his banjo and play at the branch Christmas Party. I would have taken a video, except he wanted Elder B and I to sing with him so that he wouldn't be all alone up there. It was funny. We sang Stille Nacht and O Tannenbaum. Both of which I don't know. So I got to practice my fake singing a bit. Woohoo! Haha!

He was in Canada once and loved it. He showed me so many pictures about it. Haha! He is so awesome. And funny. He is going to make his date for the 28th I am pretty sure.

The big thing this week was Zone Conference. It was such an amazing experience. I love President Miles so much. And Sister Miles. They are amazing people. He talked about how we need to use the Book of Mormon a lot more. Which is really true.

I can hardly believe transfers are next week. Calls will come on Friday morning so I guess we will find out what will happen then. Exciting!

Also, I did get my packages! I am excited. Thanks so much! I opened the Dear Elder one. The cookies were really good. I am also probably good for Peanut Butter the rest of mission too. Haha! And the Mo Tab Christmas CD is a nice change as well. It doesn't really feel like Christmas at all. We don't have snow or anything... It is weird.

We are going to go to the Christmas Market today. We didn't last week because it was super ugly. So I sent some chocolate home in a package. Sorry that is so lame. Hopefully today I will get a better package. It's hard because there are so many people! Haha!

Not a whole lot else happened this week. Elder B got sick and had 'extreme vertigo' so we didn't really do too much. I have a little bit of a cold, but I am drinking up a storm. Orange Juice of course. So that is helping. I am doing good though.

As for our Christmas plans. We have a meal on Wednesday with H and his sister, apparently she is a good cook too so that is exciting! On Thursday, we have a meal with another less-active who are awesome. And amazing cooks! On Friday we are going to NeuÖtting and are going to an eating appointment with their Ward Mission Leader, NeuÖtting Elders, and Passau Elders and then we are going to sleep over there and have fun.

On Saturday we are going to be with Z's from 4:00 onward. They said ''You will come here and leave when we are bored of you.'' So we will probably be there all day. Which is awesome. Sunday, we have church from 10:00 to 11:30 (We are only having Sacrament and watching the Christmas Devotional). Then we are going to the R Family. (They are awesome. They have little kids Aiden and Dexter's age, the dad reminds me of a German Matt, and they are good cooks too :) The wife cut my hair and we just made bald jokes the whole time. It was awesome....) (It was actually funny though) (Also, everyone is a good cook when you are on a mission.) then after that we are going to the K Family and then we will Skype from their house, and then we will probably go to the D family. Who had Thanksgiving for us. And then on the 26th we will be with the Al's, who feed us every other week. And they are going to make us duck. I have never had duck before. But I am excited.

I am not too sure what traditional Bavarian Christmas meals would be, but I will let you know on Sunday. Haha!

I am excited. Life is good. I love you guys a lot.

Feed the Missionaries!

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Sincerely,

Elder Connor J. Thompson

P.S. I am glad to see that Jordan wore the tie I sent him.