May 30, 2012

Hey Family! 

First of all, sorry that this e-mail is on Wednesday.  This week on Monday we had a vacation of sorts.  In German it is called Pfingsten (sp?), but since it is here in Bayern, I would assume that it is something to do with the Catholic church.  I think it may be Pentecost? But to be totally honest, we aren't too sure. 

Things here are really good. 

So, last week was the baptism from M.  It was really nice.  It was the first real Sunday where the weather was really nice.  It was awesome!  We went there to the lake and had the talks, and then we had the baptism.  Brother B was able to get into the water pretty fine.  But it was really cold for M.   And then afterwards we had a barbecue with the ward, which was good because there were a lot of members there.

On Sunday, M was confirmed which was awesome.  I

So, last Monday, Elder M's friends came and we walked around Ingolstadt for a while, and then we went to Augsburg to play games with the elders there.  It was a lot of fun.  I think that is one of the best parts of being on a mission is just getting to do stuff with other missionaries.  After a while on a mission people just start to get pretty ridiculous, so some of the games and things people want to play are funny, but overall good.  The 'best' thing we did was play a game like bump (something with basketball) in socks so that we would slip on the floor.  I am proud to say that I was the best at that and biffed it four times.  Making the family proud.  Haha!  But it was still a lot of fun.  Our District gets along really well, and it is always fun. 

On Wednesday, we had Zone Conference.  Which was really good.  It is always such a Spiritual time, and then on a mission is a little bit like Christmas brcause we get presents (mail) and get to see all our friends.  It is awesome. Then all of the new missionaries, and all of the missionaries going home in the next two transfers bore testimonies.  It was strange because there are so many people going home soon because most missionaries come in the summer. 

After Zone Conference I got to work in Munich for the day with one of the Zone Leaders, and that was really cool.  As much as I love Ingolstadt, Munich is just a beautiful city, and Ingolstadt is.... a city.  Haha!  It was a lot of fun.    My allergies were the worst that they have ever been here.  I think my nose started bleeding 3 or 4 times, and my eyes were super creepy and huge and red all day and I probably lost 10 pounds of snot that day.  Gross, I know.  I think that could have had something to do with why nobody wanted to talk to us, but in the end it was just a very long and tough day.  However, I know that it was important that we simply worked.  I think we were being tested to see how obedient and diligent we would be.  It was tough, but we worked really hard.  But things are slowly picking up here which is good.

Other than that not a whole lot happened to be totally honest.  Things are going good.