Hey Everyone!
Well its weird Iv already been in Germany for 2 weeks! The weeks go way faster here in the field than at the MTC. Plus its way more fun! Alright so today!! Im in Hamburg! Yeah buddy! Our district decided to take a trip down to hamburg to do some sight seeing! We went to some bar here called sams bar. I guess one of the beatles first gigs were there. So that was pretty cool! Yeah but, Hamburg is huge! I love it! Hopefully i can do a transfer or something here! That would be way awesome! I think were gonna go to the docks sometime today. Just really enjoying the German culture so its way cool!
Alright so news this week. Really not much happening! haha We dont have many investigators. Glückstadt was dead on arrival! So we do alot of street contacting and knocking on doors. Its been taking a bit to getting used to it. Like I was way out of my comfort zone when i first started and yah i still am hahah, but ya know itll come around Im not to worried. Im starting to understand people here! Its awesome! My first two weeks here I couldnt understand anything. It sucked! haha but now i can start to pick things up and speak a little. Supposedly i dont sound like an American when i speak German so thats pretty cool! A couple of Germans on the street have told me that haha. I did have someone tell my companion to go back to America and then he looked at me and was like go back to Mexico or wherever your from! hahah I guess i have a darker skin tone? I dont think so but Oh well! That was way funny! haha Were still walking like 20 miles a day. Some serious mileage! Like my feet are toast at the end of the day! The good thing though its really green here and there is alot of shade here! Otherwise, I would be dead already! lol.
Okay so funny story! Yesterday we had a sunday afternoon eating apointment with this old lady named Frau Stoll. I dont think i have ever ate so much in my life!! So germans, they dont bring out all the food at once. They bring it out like if you were at a restraunt. They will bring like a soup out first ( hers was a chicken dumpling soup), then the main dish, then 2 deserts after that. So her soup was really heavy food, like I would be used to just eating that for a meal. Then we fill ourselves with the soup and then she brings out the main dish, and its like white rice with the sausage balls and like some funky tasting white curry sauce. So we started eating that and everytime we would clear our plate she would put more right on our plate. Like she would watch us eat then she would put more as soon as the last bite was done. Neither me or my companion could understand her because she had a weird dialect to her german and slurred it. So we couldnt tell her we were full because she didnt understand. Needless to say we finished this crazy amount of food. Then we were like sweet we conquerred this.....and then she brings out this like log of ice cream probably equivalent to 2 quarts of ice cream. and we had to eat the whole thing. I tried so hard to eat everything it was so hard to finish that ice cream. Then she just gets up from the table and goes back into the kitchen and my companion and I look at each other and were like OH NO... Out walks this massive Cake/Pie I dont know what to call it. At that point I thought my heart was going to stop beating from so much food. haha So we ate one slice of it and couldnt take anymore in... so she just packaged it up for us to take home. I seriously thought I was going to die! haha That was a fun eating appointment. You are always suprised what the Germans will bring out of the kitchen for you to eat! So the moral of the Story. Pray for help before going to eating Appointments!! haha.
Im so excited for this coming Saturday! I get to hang out with Ben for a while! Its gonna be so fun. Me and ben are really only like a hour away from each other so maybe we ll do something for p-day together one day! Well Germany is so cool! I am constantly seeing things that are way cool to see! Im like that dog in the movie UP... Squirrel!!!!.... hahah everything here is awesome! Alot of history and alot of really old churchs that have been bombed out and restored! so its really cool!
All is well here just chugging along. Starting to get the hang of this missionary stuff. Like some days it hits me like, WOW im in Germany, than other days Im like Oh dang! Im actually on my mission lol. Its cool though. So my apartment is really awesome! Supposedly we have the biggest apartment in the mission. Its 2 storys so yeah its pretty big! I love it. but, yeah im having fun. Some days are better than others but, I try to make the best of everyday. My motto is there are only good days and great days. Never bad days.. So i strive to have a Great day but, occasionally you get those good days lol.
Well Thats all here. I hope all is well back at home and my brothers around the missions. Kyle I hope you got to Russia alright and dont get freaked out about your first couple days in the mission. If you cant understand anyone dont worry itll come. Im starting to get there! haha Everyone goes through it. Ben Ill see you monday or talk to you on the phone. LOL. Trev, derek, tanner, Nate, Pdog, Tmoney! Hope all is well in the field. and Jakey 3 more weeks left buddy!
Alright love you all
Tschüss!
Elder Popp
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