Woohoo!!! General Conference! It was really an amazing end to probably
one of the craziest weeks of my mission so far. Where to start?
I
guess with transfer calls. It is strange and I felt like the last calls
were just a little bit ago, time just goes faster and faster on my
mission. It's insane. So despite what we both may have wanted, Elder
H and I are staying together. It was a little funny in all
honesty. Elder H was convinced that one of us
was leaving. Heh... So young...
So on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday we were in Singen to help out with
the Open House of their new chapel there. Which I am assuming that in
comparison to the temple in Calgary it was a pretty lame. Open House.
Haha! How was that? And that is sweet you guys got to go
with some investigators. And got to meet the Mission President. That
doesn't happen too often. Haha! Which is strange. President Miles
only has 7 Stakes, and the members complain that is too much here
(Mostly because about 5 years ago before the missions combined, there
was an Austrian Mission (with 2 stakes), the Swiss Mission (With 4
Stakes), and the Munich Mission (With 4 Stakes), and apparently they saw
the Mission President much more often. Now they can't too much because
the mission is from Vienna to Bern. Which is pretty big). So on Monday, there were hardly any people there and we decided we
needed to change our battle plan. (Which was that 2 people stayed
there, and the other 6 missionaries would just go contacting and try and
get some people to go to the church. It did not work.) So what we did
on Tuesday in order to try and show people that more things were going
on, was set up a ping pong table outside, and then played there and on
the basketball hoop. And it actually worked. Quite a few more people
came out and it was good. We tried it out again on Wednesday, but it
didn't really work so well. But as a missionary, we just do what we are told. It was a
little tough, but a lot of fun to be with the other missionaries.
Especially right before transfers.
Our Joint Teach also offered to help Elder Hansen
(and I suppose I would benefit too by virtue of being his companion and
having to be there with him) by teaching him German throughout the
week. So we will see what happens with that. But I think it will be
good.
Then of course, this weekend we had General Conference. It was so
good. If that doesn't convince a person that the church is true, I
don't know what would. I loved it. I loved Elder Holland's talk, and
President Uchtdorf's. I am really excited for the Sunday Afternoon (We
watch that in Sacrament meeting on the 28th). We also have a really
cool chance to hear again from President Monson because he is coming to
Germany in 2 weeks. He is stopping in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, and
Munich. And although we don't get to go there, we get to watch a
broadcast of it on the 21st instead of church, so that will sweet.
We are actually in Schwenningen
right now and are going to go on a cool hike for P-Day. (I also went
running this morning for Sport. First time since December. That was a
mistake... Haha! I have a lot to improve on before we are in Hawaii).
I love you guys a lot!
--
Sincerely,
Elder Thompson
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