Zion

Hey everyone!

 Well this one is going to be short, just letting you know, I got transfered... and youll never believe where im going... Eberswalde, Germany Aka.. Zion... Ben was seriously just there, so ill be serving in the place he just left... There are 6 members and 40 thousand people there...this should be fun! lol But yeah the week was great, visited alot of members and said goodbye.. I had a really good time in minden so it was sad to say goodbye.. but yeah I definitely am gonna come back and visit them! Well I still gotta pack and all that good stuff.. So I love you all and Hope everything is going well at home!

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Elder J.Popp

When the going gets tough, The tough get going!

Well this week was pretty crazy and fun, Muss ich sagen! I planned as much appointments as I could, so we could stay busy... But yeah the weather in germany is looking pretty good! Its starting to warm up and were getting alot of rain... Its so wierd, Iv like seen all the seasons in minden lol Not really... but I was here at the end of september till now.. with switching off between snow and rain...I got to say, im getting tired off windy rain, and my umbrellas keep breaking! im cursed with breaking umbrellas, idk what it is!

   Well we had a fun day on tuesday, I was on a exchange with E.Jenkins... and we visited two members... Schwester Lettl, she is so cool, she just got baptized in october here, but she made us some delicious food.. An awesome patato/bratwurst soup.. dont worry I got the reciped and were going over there tomorrow to learn how to make it! Im taking full advantage now of all the good german food and learning how to make it! haha Then We visited schwester krah, she is pretty cool, she is like in love with missionaries though...like i mean literally in love... its kinda scary sometimes... E. Jenkins sung with her on the piano, oh man i was dying life... its was like two pigs dying... Oh wait.. I mean, Bless there little hearts, they sung wonderfully... lol! Oh yeah and then we got yelled at for like 10 minutes by a drunk dude lol It was pretty funny...I just love drunk people, there my favorite!

   Wednesday we had zo-co.. It was really good, president gave an amazing thema... like this is probably the first time I didnt get really sleepy in Zo Co... Way good, I totally wrote down his thema... Dont worry, I share it with you in a year lol! After that we got totally rained out, my umbrella broke and I got soaked! Oh you just gotta love mission experiences!

   Thursday, we visited the Mignanue Family, there from africa.. There so cool! I love going over there, we have a lot of fun, they have a little kid who has autism and I swear he is just the funniest kid ever... like half of my german pick up lines are from him... he is just hilarious! But yeah we watched the testament movie in french with them... they speak better french than german, and Iv seen it plenty of times...Oh Man and after we ran into Drunk Santa again! Im pretty sure I told you guys about him around christmas, he is the dude who said he was jesus...Oh man he came out of a barbara shop and was mad because there was a picture of this cute girl on the window, and he went in and asked them where this girl was because he wanted to kiss her, and they said she wasnt there so he was all angry and stormed out and started complaining to us hahah It was hilarious!

Friday, we met with schwester neubauer again..she was the old lady that we went and visited and looked like she was gonna die, well ya she is back and healthy again, and she was so happy that I hadnt gotten transfered! haha she like loves me because I served in glückstadt, and she grew up there lol. after that we went to my favorite member Martha! Because she makes the best mexican food! She is so cooL!

Saturday, was just a complete work day, totally blank... so we gave out a ton of our cards and did alot of street contacting! The day felt like forever though, those are the tough days... But you know, When the going gets tough, The tough get going!...

Sunday, i gave my 6th talk so far on my mission... man I dont want to hear anyone complain when I get home about giving talks because I have to do them in german! haha but yeah it was good, I gave it on Patience, and I pretty much winged it but it was good, I had a couple members come up and say thank you, I felt like that was just for me! So that made me feel good!

But yeah It was a great week, this will probably be my last week in Minden, Im excited to go somewhere else, but also sad, Iv been here 6 months and already feel like a member of this ward... I swear I have like 4 going away partys from members this week, should be really fun! But yeah I hope everything is going great at home! Love ya all!

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Elder Popp

Fun stuff!

Hey Everyone!

 Well this week was by far way better then the last 2 weeks! I wasnt sick, my comp wasnt ...sick...! lol and we actually got some stuff done! Thank goodness!

   So we have like 3 people in Minden who are like ready to be baptized, Herr von Bieren, Frau Maier, and Thomas (BFG)... As for all of them, there all doing great! Especially von bieren, he has been coming to church, institute on Wednesday nights and church activities! He is just fitting in perfectly.. and Frau Maier was sick on sunday but is still ready and rolling to be baptized, hopefully in 2 weeks! and as for thomas, were moving his date back a little bit just because his mother died, so we dont want to pressure him hard core about it but at least help him stay on the path.. but these 3 know the church is true and there ready... but what sucks is, I will probably be transfered before they get baptized... so Ill have to get permission to come back for them, if they go through! But im happy for them and at least I know I helped them get to this point...

On wednesday we were in bielefeld for district meeting, and we found out there was a sweet castle around the church.. so you know what we did?? We decided to do some contacting around that area, so we could check it out! haha Its Huge! I took so many pictures... man thats the best part about germany, there are so many castles.. you can litterally just pick one out and go walk out to it and do contacting on the way! Super sweet!

Thursday was also pretty cool, so i have been dying to go out to a little dorf called espelkamp, and just give out tons of our cards... i mean this place has so many apartments, its ridiculous! It feels like your in russia! haha but yeah we left at 9 in the morning and were gone all day! We gave out like 5000 cards haha Crazy right? On I found like 20 Popp's That lived there! and there all from kazakhstan.. Weird, thought we were german! lol so I made my comp door them with me haha Most of them were actually jerks, until I said im from las vegas.. Im telling you las vegas is the key! haha but yeah in the end no one had interrest... So I cant be held responsible for not helping my family out! haha but yeah and since me and elder ririe split up on opposite sides of the streets to give these cards out.. guess who got jumped by J-dubs... I did! first of all, I hate it how alot of elders like to just go bash with J-dubs, its seriously just a waste of time...I always try to avoid them but they caught me.... And they asked me the dumb question about if I would donate blood.. and so i said of course what would jesus do, he would help out his fellow man... and gave them cards and left! haha I just dont waste my time with them.. plus I hate bashing!

Saturday, we had a sweet Ping pong tournament and the church! Oh man the Elders destroyed everyone... I got 3rd place... It seriously looked like the olympics, when the results were showing, american, american, american, german, american! haha serves them right! All the members in the ward were talking so much about how americans cant play ping pong and are lazy and just watch tv and eat mcDonalds! haha They got Served! Oh man it was awesome, they were all upset cuz we destroyed them! See what happens when your not humble! lol

Sunday was really cool, we went down to stadthagen to see a baptism.. His name is herr Maierick, way cool guy.. I helped teach him on a exchange, but it was cool to be there and support him! but yeah, it was a great week! and this week should be pretty good, got a full week planned! So im excited! Hope everything is going great back at home! Ich liebe euch!

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