Remember the Time we Had to Walk Through a Nazi Demonstration to Get to Stake Conference? Yeah... That Happened....‏

First of all. Don't worry about the title. The Nazi's weren't there yet. The Anti-Nazi protest had begun, so we had to walk to Landshut Bahnhof (Train station) through all of them because that is the only way there. But that was on Saturday, so we will get there later. Haha!

Anyways, what happened this week... Where to begin. It semes like it went so fast, it seems like last week was about 2 days.

So on Monday, we didn't do too much special, we went to Family Home Evening with some members and the Ws and it was good. We are trying to learn the Articles of Faith in German. I can hardly do it in English, but I got the first one and almost the second. Haha! The Scripture Scouts sons don't work so well now. But it is ,,Wir glauben an Gott den Ewigen Vater, und an seinen Sohn Jesus Christus und an den Heilgen Geist.'' Not to shabby eh? I am just going to not worry about number 13 for a while. Haha!

On Tuesday, we had District Meeting and I went to Neuötting with Elder H. It was pretty good. He's a fun guy. It was also Fasching on Tuesday. While we were on the trains in the cities we saw a lot of parades and stuff. Apparently it is like Carnival in Brazil, that somehow got here to Germany? Anyways, it was a little crazy.

On Wednesday, we came back to Landshut and met with R and O. We also had activity night, but because it was a holiday nobody was there, but we ended up practicing for a song that I was singing in Stake Conference. Not just me, Me, President A, and two Sisters from the ward. It was from the old Hymnbook called ''Scheint so lang dir der Weg'' Which translates like ''Does the way look very long'' Or something like that. It was written by Joseph Fielding Smith, so fairly old.

On Thursday we were with members a lot and had two eating appointments. One with the A's, who fed us Schweinebraten (Roast pig essential) with Knudel, the mashed up bread soaked in eggs and the cooked. After that we tried to see R, but she wasn't there, and then we went to the D families, and they had Dr. Pepper for us. Which is awesome. Their kids are funny. And Brother D has a son who is living in Cardston who may go to U of L? That would be weird to meet him. Haha! We did some contacting and didn't really find anyone at all, but still good nonetheless.

On Friday we had weekly planning. We went contacting, but again nothing happened. But we are doing better and trying our best which is the most important thing. I am feeling really good about this week. And I think I have said that for about the past 4 weeks and nothing seems to change, but at least I still have faith right?
On Saturday we did some contacting, and then had to head into Munich so I could sing at Stake Conference. It's less than an hour away, so not a huge problem. Anyways, Saturday was crazy because there was going to be a Nazi Demonstration at 1300. The day before there were adds everywhere for people who are Anti-Nazi, we later found out quite a few were Communists, and then some were just good people. We saw some children there which made me a little uneasy because it was crawling with Riot Police. Anyways, they sent out tons of fliers and everything and were like ''We are starting the Anti Nazi Demonstration at 1100 so that they don't have any room to protest!'' Which seems a little interesting because it seems like conflicts would be likely there. But with over 300 Riot Police (no joke!) I guess not too many problems will happen. Hopefully. All the streets in the area were blocked off and so we were walking there and asked the Policemen if we could go, and they just looked at us like we were idiots...

Then they realized we were dead serious and were like ''Of course you can go it looks safe doesn't it?'' ''We were just like, yeah...?'' And then we just went. It was weird the whole time. But then we found this nice elderly couple who were like, ''It's fine! We're going to Bahnhof too.'' So we just walked with them. Haha! It was interesting. When we were at Stake Conference they talked a lot about having happiness with the work and being happy that we can serve, and happy with the gospel.

On Sunday, we had Stake Conference which was really good. It was a broadcast for all the German Speaking countries and we had Elder Bruce D. Porter (Who spoke in German), Sister Jean A. Stevens from the Primary Presidency, Elder Russell M. Nelson, Who blew a kiss to President and Sister Miles, haha!, and President Henry B. Eyring. It was a really good conference! I loved it. The best part was that H came!

That was our week. This week is going to be busy, but good. Which seems like a common thing on a mission. I love you guys a lot!
Sincerely,

Elder Connor J. Thompson