Guten Tag!!!

Hey family, how are you doing? This week was super great.  Not only was the weather nice enough to work without a coat on (which makes you stand out WAY more, something I had sort of forgotten over the winter since a black coat doesn´t stick out too much), but we also got appointments with two people who we have been trying to meet with since I got here.  Finally!!

The first one happened on Monday, where we had Family Home Evening with a family.  The family is really awesome.  We have eaten with them a couple times  and their kids are awesome.  When we walk up to the door they all yell and cream ´Missionaries!!  Elders are here!!` That`s so awesome to hear.  And it happens just about everywhere we go when we see members.  Have I mentioned how much I love this ward? Just in case, I really do love them a lot.  On Sunday during Fast and Testimony Meeting (We had Stake Conference so it was postponed a week) it was neat, I sat there and knew every single person in the ward, and more then just their names and everything.  Then I started to get really sad because I thought that meant I am leaving and getting transferred.  Hopefully not.  We will see on Friday.  Fingers crossed!!!

Anyways, on Tuesday we had Zone Conference which was really sweet.  I had to translate for J into German the whole time so I wasn´t able to pay as much attention as normal, but I still got a lot more out of it than I normally do when I have to translate (which is not that fun). 

Another thing that we have been working on is really getting contact with all of the less-actives who the members don´t know.  Which is not super easy to do.  Or sometimes that fun.  We sorted out the ward list into different areas, and then went by on quite a few people this week.  Sadly, nobody was there at all, except for one persons angry wife.   But we will keep on trying.  We are working with a couple families too so things will pick up in that area.  President Miles told us that if we just wanted to work with less-active families and stop dooring he would be pretty happy because that is just as important.  (Of course we would still talk to people on the way, and maybe still do a bit of dooring, but not for a whole day or things like that. I think that will also go a lot better with Sisters here too.  I don´t know if I mentioned that last week or not, but as of May 1 (or sometime that week) we are getting a set of Sister Missionaries here in addition to the Elders.  Which will be really cool.  The members are really pumped.

Anyways, the other appointment we had was with M.  She is an older lady, who is really friendly.  It was a pretty good lesson  and she was really excited and asked about quite a few of the members, and had a lot of good questions.  We will see what happens there, she had a baptismal date before so maybe something good will come.

This Saturday, we also had the great opportunity to dejunk our apartment, which was awesome.... Missionaries are gross.  There was so much junk.  And we found a nice patch of mold in our bedroom... Right under my bed... Gross!!!  Don´t worry, it has been disposed of.  Ha!  And our apartment looks a lot better now.  It will suck to leave.  Especially if I go to a messy apartment since we were all supposed to clean our apartments on Saturday.  

We also did a lot of work in the garden for a member which was also really fun.  I got to use a pitchfork for the first time in my life! Check that off the bucket list! 

Sunday was also a great day, we went to see a baptism which was really neat, and really spiritual.  Then we had to race back from Heilbronn to Ludwigsburg because we had an appointment with the D's.  They are such an amazing family.  They have a daughter who is 7 who should probably marry Ben.  She´s the cutest little girl.  It was really great.  

Anyways, that was the week.  This next week will be really good.  I love you guys a lot!  Feel free to write or email me!!!  Hint hint!! Haha!!

Oh! I almost forgot, President Miles said that we are now allowed to email EVERYONE!  So all of my friends can email me, and then I can email them.  If you could pass that on to people at home who are good friends that would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks a lot!  I love you guys so much!!  Happy St. Patrick´s day this week!!!  Don´t forget to wear green!!!