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Monday, October 24, 2011

Guten Morgen!!

Yep, its me again..This week was a good week! We were able to make out 9 new appointments with people..It was way awesome.. Hey who knew, a little hard work pays off! haha

So this week we do quite a bit! On monday we had a family home evening activity with the Keil Familia! They are so cool! and Sister Keil, is the daughter of Elder Kopischke from the quorum of the 70! Way cool family. So we taught the family about the promptings of the holy ghost.. but since they have 3 young kids, we decided the last thing they want to do, is listen to us just give a lesson the whole time.. so we came up with a cool activity! So We made the dad play heavenly father and he went and hid upstairs and we made the mom the holy ghost, who is going to guide the blind folded kids! Then Schwester Keils brother was there so we made him the world.. And the goal was to listen to the spirit to get back to our heavenly father...and the world would try to tempt them and lead them astray... which actually happened a couple a times haha pretty funny! but not a bad idea huh? E. Christiansen & I came up with that! but that was way fun.

Tuesday I was on splits with a golden.. He is like 1 week out of the MTC... so that was interresting.. He wanted to take control of our day, so I let him... and I let him fall on his face a couple times before I started to take over the Reins haha It was fun to watch.. I realized though how far I have come since I was a golden.. It was actually pretty cool.. because sometimes I think my german is horrible but then im like uhh i only started speaking German 6 months ago and now i can pretty much better not fluent but ya know... people can understand me lol but yeah we had to get to an appointment that was like a 45 min. bike ride and so i followed him assuming that he had been there before but nope... we went 45 min in the other direction hahah so I had to call the person and explain lol.. that was funny... well actually at the time it sucked because there was wind blowing at us the whole time so it was way hard to pedal!  I guess the wind always has to blow at us just because were missionarys! haha

Wednesday I we went to this hispanic ladies house! I was so happy!! because she made us mexican food! YEAH! haha I miss it so much haha but she imports good mexican food and I told her I love Carne Asada so she is making that for us next week! Woo Hoo! haha

Thursday, Friday and Saturday were ppretty much the same because we had alot of finding haha Saturday though we had a awesome miracle happen.. It was like 9 at night and were making our way back from the innenstadt ( Innner part of the city) and this kid like 20 years old starts walking towards us.. and im like oh great here we go.. what kind of smart allec remark does he want to say... but then he asked if we could speak german and if we talk about jesus.. and so we said yes and he pulled out one of our cards that he got 3 months ago and said I had an appointment and i was supposed to get a book and talk more about gods plan... but my dad went into the hospital that day so i couldnt make it.. can I still get the book? .... We were blown away  because the spirit was so strong and we didnt even teach anything.. so it was sweet we made out an appointment and yeah that was the miracle on Becker Straße!

For church E. Christensen and I taught the primary kids about prayer.. that was cool and then we visited like 5 inactive members.. so it was a busy day.. I had such a bad headache! haha but yeah it was a cool week. Well thats all I got!

Schöne Woche
Tschüß
Elder Popp

Monday, October 17, 2011

''Mormonen! Fragt Gott ob, Er zeit hat''

Hey Everyone!

So this week was a way busy week! I dont even know where to start lol. We had atleast something cool everyday!

I guess ill start out with Tuesday, we went to a investigators house named Herr Cronemeyer.. He is pretty cool but was totally wasted and was all over the place..lol I taught him a example that was given in Conference about why we need the book of mormon and the Bible together but he went crazy haha He started yelling and drawing all over the table! haha I was trying not to laugh because he was so drunk, I even thought he was going to hit me at some point... and then he started crying saying lifes to hard.. we were all over the place with this guy but at the end it turned out to be a decent lesson.. Its hard to teach drunk people, which pretty much every other german is drunk!! haha

Wednesday we had alot of fallen out appointments but we had one with this guy, who believes god now called him to fight against us and stand up for christ.. so that stunk, hes now dropped... but pretty funny lesson lol. Thursday we moved a lady into her apartment who is moving into our ward... That was way hard!! Of Course she has to live on the top floor and have heavy furniture! Jeeze! haha my back still hurts lol. Then shes like here have some water and gives us hot mineralwater! haha I mean mineral water doesnt taste bad anymore, I actually like it but when its hot! Jeeze haha might as well give me some ''pop rocks'' to quench my thirst haha

Friday was my birthday and I can say nothing spectacular happened haha.. It was just another day of missionary work, but a member took us out to dinner and she bought me a sick tie! That was cool. Saturday was cool because we walked by this guy who was sitting in front of a bar and he said to us..''Mormonen! Fragt Gott ob, Er zeit hat'' ....direct translation (Question god whether he has time)  haha and I turned to my comp and my comp said ''Auf jedenfall, Er hat zeit'' (Of Coarse he has time), and because we turned to answer his joke, he is actually now interrested and starting crying on the street because he thought it was too late for him to repent...Jeeze people.. its never too late! duh! haha so that was way cool!

Sunday, man E. Christiansen and I had to teach the Elders, and High Priest Class about signs of the second coming.. That was fun.. lol actually it went pretty good, and everyone told me my german is getting better so that made me happy haha sometimes my head feels like its going to explode learning a language! haha

So It was a pretty good week! I was satisfied.. no animals on my face this week though...or so i think lol jk! Alright well I hope everything is going great!  GO REBELS & GO STEELERS!! 

Schöne Woche
Tschüß
Elder Popp 

Monday, October 10, 2011

Du hast ein Tiere auf Deinen Gesicht! lol.

Hey Everyone!
 
Alright so Im officially in MInden after being on a train for 5 hours and lugging luggage around.. that was no fun! I took a train from Glückstadt to Hamburg then from Hamburg to Hannover, then from Hannover to Minden! haha Minden is pretty cool, its a small city but way larger than Glückstadt..Glückstadt had about 11 thousand people and Minden has about 80 thousand... So yeah im moving up in the world..lol!
 
Minden is starting to get more into southern Germany, so yep we actually have hills here lol. But the germans think they are mountains its so funny! I have been asked several times, wie mögen sie unsere bergen? (How do you like our mountains?) lol. Im like those arent mountains come see the west side of the states, youll see mountains there lol. So yeah, my comp is Elder Christiansen. He is pretty cool and he comes straight out of the factory in Provo.. but I have to say he is pretty cool.. and his German is amazing, I will definitely be learning alot this transfer lol. So as for speaking German... I can understand everything people are saying, unless its computer science or whatever haha but yeah its coming along nicely...
 
 So this week here in MInden Has been a Great Start! We hade made out a new appointment everyday and our investigators are progressing... We met with a investigator last night and he was like ``hey look I bought a highlighter because I really like some versus so I want to remember these..`` We were amazed, that was awesome! 
 
So funny story... Ill start off by saying, its getting way cold out here... like 5 degrees celsius here with pouring rain... and yeah im freezing my little ``Las Vegan`` butt off out here lol. So anyways we were talking with this one guy for like an hour on the street and what not... pretty much he was telling us his life story..and this whole time My comp & I are freezing because its like 10:30 and were supposed to be home but we want to teach this guy.... so little did I know that it was so cold I guess I couldnt feel my face hahaha So at a point in the conversation this guy turns to me and says ``Du hast ein Tiere auf Deinen Gesicht!``( You have a animal on your face) lol. So im like what an animal that makes no sense.. I thought it was just a german expression so I turn to my comp.. and he looks at me weird and hes like `` Dude eine Spinner!`` ( A spider) haha so yeah I guess this sucker was crawling all of my face haha that sucked, I hate spiders! Lets just say I broke one of the Ten commandments that night...lol
 
So the ward here is way nice! I really like them.. I guess President Hinckleys son.. Richard Hinckley who just got released as a 70... served here in MInden.. So everyone here is in love with him.. and supposedly he is coming to visit soon haha So thatll be cool.. but yeah we have alot of eating appointments here...jeeze I have to get my Rocky on this winter so i dont get fat!! haha
 
Alright well we have alot going on here in Minden! I feel a baptismal date coming so or a couple baptismal dates coming! I hope all is well back at home... Jeeze can you believe Iv been out 6 months... and I turn 20 Friday! lol CR-uh-AZY!
 
Schöne Woche!
Tschüß
Elder Popp

Monday, October 3, 2011

Tschüß Glückstadt

Hey everyone!
 
 Alright so as you can tell by the headliner... im getting transfered! suck... haha Just when the members are lovin me and investigators are going great! haha Oh well I did great work there haha So now I am being sent to the southern part of the mission... Ill be serving in Mindin..with Elder Christianson.. Im excited for change though so itll be good! Tomorrow ill be taking trains all the way down there haha should be fun carrying all my luggage...not!! lol I gotta say though Im gonna miss Elder Redd! He is the man, just like if I was serving with one of the guys back home lol. but, Im sure Elder Christianson will be way cool.
 
 Welll this week was really good with our investigators.. They are really starting to progress and love reading the book of mormon! Im telling you the book of mormon is key to converting.. So hopefully they will be baptized soon, then I can come back up to Glückstadt to see them! None of them came to conference to watch because it was so far away.. We had to go almost clear down to Hamburg to watch it.. So they didnt want to drive all the way down there..Good thing they are recorded on the internet! :) 
 
General Conference was way good! but, it was hard because of the time difference we watch saturday and sunday all in one day, so that was 8 hours of sitting in a chair... and you know how fidgety I get haha Try that one lynn!! haha but yeah great talks, they stick more out since being on a mission. I really enjoyed them! President Monson is so funny, I swear I just want to hear him speak for 8 hours haha.
 
Yeah soooo...not much happening.. oh yeah! Elder Redd & I were stuck in the Elmshorn Bahnhof (Train Station) last night, It was crazy! Hamburg had a huge soccer game going on so after conference was about the time it ended and people were going home... so everyone was completely wasted! I actually got a kick out of it, seeing everyone dancin and singin! haha but yeah then the stupid NOB trains have been falling out because of strikes.. NOB is a company that provides trains throughout Germany, there are other train companys as well though... but needless to say we had like 4 trains fallout so we were there for hours... it sucked! but will be a great memory! Thats all that matters! haha
 
Alright well I guess my next email will be from MIndin! I will send my Address out next week... ich habe keine ahnung was mein neu wohnung addresse ist! = I dont have any idea what my new apartment address is... yeah so Ich wünsche alles gut mit euch! und Schones Woche!
 
Tshcüß und Bis Später
Elder Popp