Fun Packed Weekend!

Hey Everyone!!

 

 

 Alright this week has been very very packed and way fun!! We had alot going on this week!

 

So this week we met with our investigators Frau Heyer, Herr Joachim and Family Kloss.. and each one of them we had great lessons! Frau Heyer even read 14 chapters in the book of mormon!! I was like no way!!! I was so happy haha Our investigators are really starting to progress, I can definitely see some light coming through.. I will be sad though if I get transfered because this is my 3rd transfer in Glückstadt and I think im up to get transfered... I dont want to because I can see our investigators really starting to grow but If I gotta go, then I guess im need somewhere haha So you will know next week if im staying in glückstadt for my 4th transfer or not..

 

Alright so for the crazy weekend...So saturday we had interviews up in Kiel till about 6 at night.. Its so cool to talk with pres! He is the man! But yeah after interviews Elder Redd & I traveled back to Berlin with the AP's because Elder Redd had a old investigator that was getting baptized! So all day sunday I was in Berlin! It was so cool I got to see the Brandenburger Tor! I send a pic.. but Yeah that was way sick and now we traveled all the way back to hamburg! haha So now im in hamburg! Its been a long weekend and later today we still have to travel back up to Glückstadt lol. But, yeah it was such a fun trip.. I was gonna meet up with Ben but we didnt have enough time... sorry ben! haha Were gonna be comps next transfer anyways...lol

 

But yeah everything is going great here.. Im settled into the mission, just living the life in Germany. Things are started to roll now! Im excited... Jeeze but, every transfer is getting faster and faster, its crazy... alright well I love you all and hope everythings going great!!! MACHT GUT!!

 

Tschüß von Hamburg

Elder Popp

Im Still Alive!

Hey Everyone!

Alright sorry for no email last week! but, yeah im still Alive! haha I was just way busy and was stuck in Hamburg But, Alles geht gut jetzt! Alright so im just gonna tell you how my week went starting with tuesday haha Its just easier to remember what I did during the week haha!

 So Tuesday, I had a Tausch(exchange) with my District Leader and our day was completely wide open! suck... haha but we did alot of finding and managed to help one of the members in her Garden! Lisa Jankowski, she is so cool! I really like helping her, she always makes us delicious food and is way funny to talk with! carrying wheel barrels of sawed off tree limbs, we went and took some pretty sick pictures on the Dike! I love the dike, its so nice!

 Okay so Wednesday was a busy day for us! We had 3 appointments! haha Okay, thats alot here for glückstadt! Its hard to get appointments! haha But yeah we met with a part member family a shared a spiritual thought and after met with Frau Heyer again. It was cool because she says she has no doubt that the book of mormon really comes from god but, she has a hard time recognizing the spirit. So she said '' Ich muss des Heiligen Geist finden!'' I thought that was cool because immediately after she prayed to feel it and hopefully if she keeps reading and praying everyday she will recieve a witness that this is the true church! I know she is definitely on the path to finding out the church is true the more she read the buch mormon.

Now to thursday! We met with a investigator family, the kloss familia! It has been like 3 or 4 weeks since we have met with them! I was so excited to see them, they are so cool! They missed having us around, so thats a good sign! Man I love this family! They would be such awesome members, I know it! So right now our game plan is just to serve them, help them out with things around the house, help their son kevin with his English homework haha.. Building trust is the key and not just sounding or acting like some robot! They will be baptized sometime I know it!

Friday we had a district finding activity in glückstadt. It was fun, Elder Cloward and I decided to team up and go do some finding. I knew Elder Cloward from the MTC, he was only 6 weeks behind me, but yeah i cant remember if i told you about him already. lol So while E.Cloward and I were walking out of my apartment, we found this random crab in the middle of the road! haha it was pretty big! Ill include a picture of it with the email! haha

So Saturday was way fun! We had a Church cleaning party and grill. It was fun to clean but there are so many spiders here its rediculous! Its like the movie Arachnaphobia! (Probably spelled wrong lol.)There everywhere! Its so much fun when the members love you! Everyone loves Elder Redd and I, we have a good relationship with the ward! They fed us so much though. Oh man, I was gonna die with so much Bratwurst,hähnchen, and Steak... Oh man it was so good though! Germans can grill! I got to say though the american style steaks I think are better! I mean dont get me wrong these are delicious but, there are just some things about an American Steak! haha

Last but not least Sunday! Well they finally got me here in glückstadt, yep I had to give a talk..haha Actually it wasnt as bad as I thought it would be. I always have to crack my jokes, you know me haha. but yeah Im finding my german getting smoother and smoother. Its way cool! But yeah I talked about prayer and how it is important in our lives and why we need it! so yeah and after we went to the Bast family's house for mittagsessen! mmmmm It was so good lol. The bast are such a cool family! It was cool though because elder redd was in the other room talking with bryan bast( who leaves on his mission to minnesota in 2 weeks) and I stayed in the living and talked with the rest of the family. It was awesome though because I was by myself talking... Didnt need any help translating or saying things... I guess that was like my aww moment when I realize hey I know what there saying!! and they know what im saying! hahah Lifes good thats all i got to say! Oh yeah and Elder Redd is awesome. PERIOD! lol

Alright everyone I gots to go!

Ich liebe Euch! Schönes Woche!

Tschüß

Elder Popp

Getting The Show On The Road!

Guten Morgen!

Well im sure all of you are asleep right now because of the time differences but its a really nice cloudy rainy morning here! hahaha Well my new Companion Elder Redd is way awesome! We get along way good! I could totally hang out with him after the mission. We have a good time together and we both love to cook. So we make some really good food! haha I love it! I especially love making KäseBrotchen! its so good! Its just a roll with cheese melted on it. One one true weekness! haha

Its a little weird though now because I have been in glückstadt 3 months and I know everyone so now I have to show Elder Redd around and introduce him to investigators and what not.. also I have to call and answer the phone for investigators and members.. So yeah i was so nervous at first because i thought my german was good enough but I actually could speak with them in a conversation so I am way happy about that!

Alright so this week was a pretty slow week again! jeeze, throw me a bone here haha Not to many people are interrested here in glückstadt but me and Elder redd are gonna get our bikes fixed and door out all these little small villages around glückstadt so im way excited to do that because no one else has doored these doors! haha

This week we had a meeting with Herr Joachim! He is way cool and down to earth. This was our 2nd appointment with him but this one was really a great lesson. We explained the book of mormon to him and He seems to really enjoy reading the book of mormon. We also taught him how to pray and he prayed for us at the end of the meeting! I was so happy! I could really feel the spirit when he said the prayer. I am excited for him to find out that this church is true and that he can recieve the joy that we have as well! So as soon as we finished our meeting, he was asking for us to come back and teach him more! So I cant wait for thursday!

Man im gonna have to go blow up a car or something to make my emails for interresting! haha Im sorry, but thats all I got! Hopefully next week will be more exciting! Ich Liebe Euch!

Tschüß

Elder Popp