Konnen Sie die Wind Sehen?

Hey Everybody! ( Guy From The Simpsons Voice lol.)

 

 Alright so I Have Officially Completed my first transfer! Its not even funny how fast the time goes by on the mission like jeeze! So Ill be staying in Glückstadt with Elder Weitzel so everything is still the same! I really like Glückstadt plus our apartment is sick! Supposedly the biggest in the Mission! Well Elder Gibson is moving out of my zone so thats sad but ill still be able to call him and were gonna be Zone Leaders together anyways so no worries there lol.

 

 Alright so this week we did a district activity in Glückstadt. So me and Elder Blauer decide we should split together haha He is only two transfer ahead of me. But it was cool! We did awesome work! We talked to this crazy guy, He said he doesnt believe in anything, but good energy and bad energy and then related it to something about cars that made absolutely no sense hahah I was trying not to laugh! sometimes I wonder what goes through peoples heads! Einige Menchen Kinder! anyways....but he said that faith is non existant but that its all in peoples mind. so we tried to explain the "Can you see wind" anology and what do you think he said... Of course! I can... Then he pointed to some trees and said look the leaves are moving... Im like dude you cant see wind!!!!! AHH! So long story short i wanted to kick the guy in the jimmy and walk away but it was still a funny conversation. Maybe he will come to his senses and take a look at the church website!

 

 Then we talked to this other guy he was walking his German Sheppard. He didnt wanna talk about anything, actually he was pretty rude and kept walking, but I had a feeling to ask him about his dog... So i did, then we started talking and he asked where we were from... Once I tell people im from las vegas they automatically love me and want to play poker with me hahaha... Germans like to play card games.. So we are meeting with him this thursday haha Hey if you gotta play poker to get in the door than do it!! The spirit told me to go play poker with this man, so I cannot deny what I was told to do LOL!

 

Besides that Just another normal week. This weekend was another rain storm. Pretty much my umbrella is useless because im mostly fighting to hold on to it and the wind will just pull me!! It pulled me like a good 10ft the other day! I thought I was cool haha

 

Well im so excited going to Heidelburg and Frankfurt this saturday to get my Patriarchial Blessing! Gonna be way fun! Well I love all of you!

 

shönes woche!

Elder Poppp

Rain, Rain, and More Rain!

Hey everyone!

   Well, Life is good here in Glückstadt! I really like this little town! Its way fun! Well I have to say I have the best district! Its so much fun being with them! We do the dumbest stuff! haha Ask ben! I mean Elder Gibson lol. but yeah Im having alot of fun! Well my first transfer is pretty much over! We get transfer calls on Saturday so thatll be cool! Im so excited!
 
   So this week, We met with a few investigators: Frau Heyer, She is like 70 years old but we go over there every wednesday and she is so nice! she always feeds us stuff from the backery! But besides that, she has been meeting with the missionarys for like 4 months or so, and now she is actually reading the book of mormon without us pleading to her to read haha So yeah its cool to see people progress. I think the biggest thing she has to deal with is, Why should I join this, Im about to die kinda feeling. So yeah that Kinda sucks but were working with her. Next is Olaf, Olaf is a member but the rest of his family isnt. So we meet with them weekly as well! They are way nice, except we go on tangents about star trek or star wars all the time haha and who would win against each other haha Way funny! We have other investigators but we havent been able to make a appointment out with them so hopefully we can this weekend. Since its such a small town, they do alot of community get togethers or partys lol. So people are always gone at those and its hard to talk with people in those because they are so drunk off their rocker they can barely walk haha People Drink more beer here than water its crazy. Actually i think beer is cheaper here than water! Lol.
 
   Well since Iv been here its been raining alot! so mom I tried using the umbrellas u gave me, but they had no chance with the germany rain!! haha So i had to buy a legit umbrella! It rains like buckets, I cant even explain how hard it rains! like it hurts if it hits you because there is so much lol but on friday we got rained on so hard. It was flying horizontally, like how it does for Nate Waggoner! There was like no way we could go out! It sucked so we were inside for a long time, then it cleared up a little, or should I say eased up lol. So we tried to go outside and as soon as we went outside and were like a mile or two from our apartment, We get hit by a huge rain storm again lol. As Lynn would always say CRRRAP!! hahaha Papa Lynn I miss you! haha But yeah so plenty of fun, excited, tough experiences here in Germany!

  Alright so we went and did gardening work for some member here. So how it works here, is people buy house property and then they will buy like gartening property somewhere in the meadows or what not. So we drove out to here garten, man this place was a mess! haha So we went to work. I showed my companion how to use hedgeclippers and lawnmower and what not lol! Im glad I actually know how to work, because that was a tough day for my comp. I was like this is fun! I like cleaning up these gardens! I always like the look of things after you work hard to make it look good! lol. So, the garden is on a acre and surrounding the garden is like a wall of bushes, so I hedged all of the way around it! Man I was pooped! because the germans, they want everything done in order, or neat looking. So it needed to be in a perfect square shape , with the edges shaved down lol So I felt like Picasso!  Needless to say it was hard, but something different than knocking on doors, so I liked It!

 Well, Thats pretty much all for this week! Oh yeah so if any of you have ideas for object lessons, Send them to me! I will definitely use them. I like object lessons! at first my comp was like thats a dumb idea to do it. Im like well lets test it out, If it sucks then we wont do object lessons. But seriously everyone loves them! So if you got anything let me know!
Well I love all of you! Ich bete für Euch täglich ( I pray for you (all) daily)
Tscüß
Elder Popp

Hallo Buddy der Elf. Was ist Ihre Lieblingsfarbe?

Hey guys!

Alright well another normal week here in Glückstadt! haha Well actually we had quite a few appointments this week so it was way cool! We are trying to work with the members more now because I was tired of doing stupid work and decided to say hey why dont we be smart and work through the members instead of knocking doors and street contacting for like 5 hours! Man i would be so dead at the end of the day. So now we are setting up appointments with members and getting referrals and eating so Alles Gut!!! We just trying to get people to come to church right now, but the Germans are stubborn! Now I know where I get it from! lol

So your probably wondering what the title of this letter means. I know all of you know what movie it was from. So we were doing some contacting in some apartment complexes and the people have to ring you in. so you can get into the apartment. so my comp was just going down the list of people trying to get someone to let us in and said hey let me try one. So i rang this persons name and they answered and I said Hallo buddy der Elf. Was ist Ihre Lieblingsfarbe? hahaha and they let me in! haha Awesome huh?! see you gotta have a sense of humor with people and they will let you in. You cant be too serious, like its all about business. I like to have fun with things! So yeah we got to talk to some people that was cool!

hmm what else... Still walking alot. Went to Hamburg Thursday for Mission Tour. Had a 70 come in to speak to us. Yep saw ben again haha! So yeah that was way cool. Not much happened this week. Nothing really crazy. Just crazy german people who dont believe in god or anything. Its tough. People just seriously laugh in our faces, which makes me just wanna go all kungfu panda on them but I cant. haha The Germans Womens Soccer team lost so everyone is pissed right now lol. Im happy because the USA Womens Soccer team is doing good and the germans here make fun of americans and how we cant play soccer! Well Look Whos Still Going For The Cup!! haha

Well Sorry for the short letter this week not much happening! I cant believe Iv been in Germany for 1 month its crazy! My first transfer is almost done. Seriously the mission goes so fast! haha Alright I love you all! Ich hoffe alles Gut!
Tschüss
Elder Popp

Carefull to what you walk into!

Hey Everyone!

Was ist los! Alright so this week has been pretty crazy! but really fun! So last Tuesday it was blazing hot, not like las vegas dry heat but when its 95 degrees with 100% humidity it really sucks! haha I litterally was drenched the whole day in sweat it totally sucked haha but that whole day we did like 5 hours of knocking on doors because we wanted to knock out this area. Man it was hard! like seriously no one believes in god here! Like not at all. It drives me insane, and then when you do find someone to actually stop and talk, they start talking about there church and how it is centered on Christ but then they dont wanna talk about Christ. Like its something they dont believe, its the weirdest thing Idk how to explain it. Oh well, Ill I can do is provide people the chance to here Christ gospel, I really want to help them but I cant do anything if they dont accept it.

So on Wednesday and Thursday I was on a Tausch ( Exchange) with our Zone Leaders. I was with Elder Grange. He is so sick! We had so much fun and he taught me alot! We had a way good time. We went and stopped at alot of familys Houses. There is a guy named Olaf in our ward. He converted I think like 1 year ago. He had some brain problem that put him in the hospital and the doctors told him he wasnt going to be able to walk or talk again. He told us he couldnt accept that so he made himself speak and learn how to walk again. Now if you see him you wouldv never guessed something like that wouldv happened. Yeah so he is way cool! he loves Star Trek, so we talked with him about that haha He seriously knows every actor who has played in every show and every movie for Star Trek. haha Its funny. There is also the Bast Family. They are seriously the coolest family ever! They help so much with missionary work and they help me alot with my German because they can speak english as well. Their son Bryan got his mission call to minesota so they are really stoked about that and he leaves in October! I told him to start brushing up on american football because Minnesota has a big football program hahah. but yeah I could go on with people in the ward that are awesome.

We have this family investigators right now named the Kloss family. Way awesome family. I love them they are so cool! They are progressing very nicely, its just the husband had a seriousy accident that knocked him silly, so he has a speach impedement now and it is hard for him to put words together. so he doesnt know why god would allow that to happen. but he is slowly starting to come around! Im way excited because we are having a big family home evening with them tonight ( my idea), and we got the Bast familie and the kloss together with us and were gonna play soccer and bbq and share spirtiual thought so IM WAY EXCITED!! haha

Well me and my companion had a interresting few door approaches! so were walking up to this house and two old people are out laying in chairs sun bathing. and I saw them in a split second and went oh crap they dont have clothes on. and my comp kept walking.... im like ELDER ELDER ELDER!!! hahahahah and he keeps walking up so of coarse im not gonna leave him alone and sure enough! Boom! there they are just out laying out nude. Yep that was just a lovely sight. two old naked people, just great. but the funny thing is my companion decides to start talking to them. So im just staring up in the air while my comp asks them .. what christ means to them? and the just laugh and tell us to go away.. Oh then literally two doors down the road, we get this women who answers the door naked. Im like wholy crap, dont tell me that this is a fad or something hahah. So yeah great stuff.... Not! haha So moral of the story.. Be carefull what you walk into!

So today im going to Hamburg again! were going to see this train Museum or show idk supposedly its a big thing that people come around the world to see. But someone in the ward hooked our district up with tickets so we get to go free!! Im so excited!

Well germany is awesome! Im having so much fun, The only problems here are there are like so many bumbs and drunks walking around and it gets kinda creepy. Oh and seriously they have billboards with pornography on them.Really! Im not joking. I couldnt believe it when i saw it! I really just hate Satan. Im glad im doing this to take him out! haha Alright well my family and Friends I love you and miss you. I hope everything is going well at home and in the other mission fields!

Gott Sei Mit Euch
Tschüss
Elder Popp