Well hello family!
This last week has been crazy for so many reasons. Where to begin...I guess I will just start from Monday. So after emails, we went to the Branch President's house and played some games with them to finish our holidays and P-Day. Then on Tuesday, it was back to work. Sort of. Because it was Transfer Day. We had District Meeting, and then went to Munich to do transfers. I don't know how they work in other missions. I heard from a member here, that they do a big transfer meeting. So if you are getting transferred you go to a main Stake Center or something and then they have a little meeting and everyone goes home with their new companions. The problem with that, is that it
wouldn't really work too well. To get from Vienna (the Eastern most part of the mission) to Bern (The Western most part of the mission) is about 15 hours by train? I don't know. But it is far. So usually people just meet in Munich Bahnhof (on transfer day there is always a group of missionaries there. Which is fun because then you can catch up and see how people are doing and what not.) So we went there, then got new companions and just left. It was strange. I got to see Elder B there which was good. We stay in touch a little bit. He is actually training, which is exciting. I love that man. Haha!
Then we came back, Elder P and I. First of all, it is weird as heck to be with him because I knew him before. But we get along great.
We got stood up a lot because of the holidays, we couldn't get a hold of any investigators except for H (who I love) and a new person we found. But despite that, I am feeling good. We are working hard
and Elder P and I are working better together. Which is nice. I can't remember what days we did things anymore, but I will just give you the rest of the week too.
We met with H and he is really making some progress. His Jeep is broken and so he asked us if a member could bring him to church and we said that would great. And so it meant that he was there for all three hours (which was wonderful. Maybe there is a reason that his Jeep broke?) and he gave lots of answers and was really good.
We did some service for the Ks, who we did emails at, and they gave us tons of stuff in return. Their son M, has a photography business here that is really doing well and he is actually getting two
couples from America to come here and work and so he told us that he was going to help them with German and asked us if we would like to as well. Well... he had us at supper and so that will
hopefully help us with our German problems a bit. A real answer to prayers.
The members are really great to us. There is one family, the R's, whose house we went to on Christmas day, and then we went there on Sylvester as well (New Year's Eve). They are really funny. I like them a lot. They remind me a lot of Matt and Kari. It was fun to spend Sylvester with them because it is a huge deal in Germany. It is the only day of the year where fireworks are allowed. And you can
just do them on the street, from the balcony, anywhere. It was INSANE! It was such a neat
experience. It was also an answer to prayers that they invited us over, because they invited us about 2 hours before they wanted us to come (4:00). Which was awesome because otherwise we were going to be staying in our apartment all night playing Monopoly. Which we did there because Brother R has a 10 year old son, but it was fun to be with people, not in our apartment.
We also found a cool new investigator. We were out dooring and it was pretty ineffective and then we talked to this nice guy who told us to go to a certain apartment building because he thought there would maybe be someone there who was interested. Well, the first buzzer we rang this lady opened up and started crying. She had just gotten out of the hospital because her leg was just amputated and had nobody to help her. We were able to give her a Book of Mormon and set up an appointment for the next day, since we need a Joint teach. It was amazing to see that there are people prepared, we just need to find them. I know the Lord is directing this work and that He will help us in so many ways. The rest of the members were super good to us this whole week. I am glad that I am here in Landshut to work with them. Sunday morning, after Sylvester was a little tough to wake up at 6:30 for our Ward Mission Correlation, but such is life. A nice nap on P-Day always makes up for it. :)
Everything is good. Thanks everyone for the letters and things. I love you guys a lot! Glad you are doing well. Hope your Christmas was good. Tell everyone I say hello!
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Sincerely,
Elder Connor J. Thompson
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