Greetings from Baden-Württemberg!‏

Hey family!  I hope that you are doing good.  This past week has been pretty crazy to be totally honest.  I can't believe that it is already Monday again, although a lot of things have happened so hopefully that means this email won't be so short.  Unfortunately the internet cafe we are at doesn't have a place for me to put pictures on, so I can't send any, but I will figure it out at some point.  Haha!

Just in case you thought it would change, mail is still appreciated here.  Haha! 

 

So on Wednesday, I was off to Munich with the Zone Leaders, and it ended up that Elder P and I were going to be spending the evening going finding in Munich, which was good to see him again too.  So we ended up trying to talk to a lot of people all evening and not really having anything happen, but it was still okay.  Then On Thursday Morning we headed out from Munich Bahnhof at 9:45.  I took a train from Munich to Stuttgart, which is about 2 hours, then took a train from Stuttgart to Ulm which is another hour, then another train from Ulm to Bad Säckingen, which was three hours.  So with all the delays, and waiting between trains, and missed trains (which gave us a 2 hour delay...) we got to our apartment here at around 7:30.  Which is a really long day...  Haha!  But it was beautiful.  .  The Rhein goes through Bad Säckingen which is really huge (the river, not Bad Säckingen). And then on the other side is Switzerland.  We aren't right in the Alps, but we can see them pretty well.  But we're in a very hilly part which is really nice.  And we have a car which is always really awesome.  Haha!

So my new companions (strange that it is plural) are both really good, but really different.  Elder N is really great.  He's really big into Opera, which is good.  I think he's really excited that he can geek out a little about things an I will have a little bit of an idea of what he is talking about, although to be totally honest a fair amount of it goes over my head.  I didn't really do too much with Operas at U of L.   We have very similar senses of humour as well which is really fun.  On another good note, he is from California and not Utah!  Haha!  He's been about 18 months on his mission.  And has 207 days left.  (We know because there are 210 songs in the German hymn book and so we started by singing number 210 on his 210th day and our working our way down.  Sisters in Zion should have been today, but we skipped it.  Haha!) Elder C is in his third transfer and is so excited for the work.  

I would tell you about our investigators, but to be totally honest I don't really know them that well. 

The members here are awesome. The branch here really loves each other, so we will hopefuolly be able to work with that more.  It's good.  I am excited about things here.  This transfer will be great.

Sincerely,

Elder Connor J. Thompson