Hey, well I'm down to my last
transfer. We had transfer calls on Saturday and I received the good news that I
will be staying in Hamburg! So it's my last transfer to give it all I have. I
appreciate what you said mom about Trail and about the things that I've learned
on my mission needing to change me as a person. They have and I agree with you
about Trail. I don't want to stay there any longer than 8 months. That's like
the max amount of time that I could stay, lol. Germany's so awesome! I also
noticed this week how much I have changed this last year on my mission. I think
that came with the blessing of being called a Zone Leader so young on my
mission and staying one until the end. So nothing has really hit me yet about
the idea of coming home so soon, probably because 6 weeks is still a long time.
But the one thing that has hit me is how I've been stepping up my game a little
bit more each day. I seem to be imperceptibly more intense about doing
everything I can before my time is up.
Elder Cannon and
I are working hard. We had a lot of appointments fall through this week, but
have had good back up plans which have been helping our program. There's
nothing we could do about those ones that fell through; we had confirmed them
and everything. We also have a big teaching pool, and have our focus on 3
specific people now who we feel can be baptized before the end of the transfer.
I hope things work out and that we keep finding new people. The ward here is so
cool. We're really trying to involve the members more and more, but it's tough
when we're not sure if appointments will go through or not. We decided that we
would tell the member beforehand that we have a back-up plan and if they want
to do it with us if the appointment does end up falling through. That seems to
work a lot better and seems fairer for the member.
Something
funny...we got into the bus which was really full and sat down at the back. We
watched others get into the bus too and it was getting pretty full. We started driving
and Elder Cannon looked at a lady who was sitting beside us and suddenly she
YELLED at us 'DON'T LOOK AT ME!!' Elder Cannon jumped - ha-ha and I did too
because I wasn't paying attention and it surprised me. This lady cursed at us
for the next 3 stops just because we were LDS missionaries. We bit our tongues
and didn't say anything at all to her, which I'm thankful for. Some people are
just crazy...even in the west, ha-ha!
On New Years Eve it got dark
at about 4pm so there were fireworks going off everywhere. We tried to go by on
a member and got pretty close to his house. It sounded like a war outside, or a
battlefield so Elder Cannon and I were having fun and made it seem like we were
trying to get to a check point in a battlefield. I told Elder Cannon that I
felt weird and that we have the rule to be home by 6pm because of this exact
reason. I said to him we probably shouldn't be out here. Well, we came around a
corner of a cul-de-sac, and there walking into the middle of the street was a
big man, who had tattoos all over him (looked like a drug dealer) with his car
door open. He lifted his arm up into the air and all of a sudden we heard five
gun shots and saw the ignition from his hand gun in his hand from each fire. We
just froze, turned around and walked from where we came from, and decided it
was time to go home! We couldn't believe it, but we are thankful that we're
always protected. We spent the rest of the evening with the Senior missionary
couples and it was a blast!
Thanks for the love and
support. I love you all so much.
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