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40 Mark Strasse

This week we were in Braunschweig until Wednesday, Elder Brimhall’s surgery went super, and he got to keep the metal rod! Then Sister Kosak had us spend another day in the apartment in Braunschweig, while Elder B was asleep I studied and played with a soccer ball because the apartment there is huge! The next day […]

Conference

This week we were in C&A checking out suits (on p-day) when this guy said “hi” to us, then kind of waited by us. He then came up and asked where our church was, so we told him and turns out he’s a member. He was baptized in Werdau a couple years ago in the […]

Because He Lives

Special week this week, we found another new investigator! And I also learned something about love. We had about an hour where we were in a weird part of town with no map… so I decided to just wander and see if we could find a contact that we had been to before. After wandering […]

Patience

We found an investigator! He’s a way old dude but we taught him the first lesson and he told us to come back! We honestly weren’t too excited afterward, so l asked “why are we not excited?” Elder Brimhall said “I think it’s because we’re too scared of God humbling us again….” haha I think […]

Uchtdorf

This week was funny! And super hard, but good. We tried to meet with this contact who is an anti-Christ, and pretty much worships the devil, but even he last moment canceled on us. This week we decided to put all the Uchtdorf myths about Zwickau to rest, so we asked a member and they […]

Zwickau is super cool!

Zwickau is super cool! Ghetto but cool! Detroit is 2 times nicer than Zwickau… Well I*** showed up at English class again… super drunk and he tried getting in a fight with the bishop because he didn’t speak Persian… so that was fun. Also we managed to get all 0’s on our numbers this week. […]

Zwickau

Well Zwickau… it’s super ghetto. Really though. I’m about as deep in the old DDR as you can get, my area borders Czech, and the Frankfurt Mission. My first night in Zwickau we went and played soccer with orphans, which I guess we do every 2 weeks! I accidently kicked an orphan in the head… […]

The Iron Curtain

The time has come… I’ve been transferred to a city called Zwickau (pronounced ts-vick-ow) where I will be serving with Elder Brimhall! He trained my friend Elder Williams from the MTC and this last transfer he was with Elder Weirsdorf my companion from the MTC. So Tuesday I’ll have a nice 6 hour train ride by myself […]

Baptism

This week was good being healthier! Fever is gone – just respiratory issues but I’ve been dealing with that since last May. I will be baptizing M***** on Saturday. I’m super excited for him, it’s been cool to see all the changes he’s made in his life and all the blessings that have come. Taking your records out […]

Minden Feva

Well I spent a nice 6 days in the apartment…with a nice fever, but I’m starting to get better so that’s good. Other than that we had interviews with President Kosak in Hannover! I love President. He’s such a great guy. He told me I’m doing great, but to get healthy, and to write him longer […]