Dear Family,
So this has been an eventful week, full of surprises.
Tuesday evening, we went to play indoor soccer and my companion broke his left
foot. He rolled it and figured it was badly sprained. We stayed until the game
was over (only 15 minutes left) and then drove home. We found parking
about 100 feet away from our apartment, so I piggy backed him to the door and
then helped him hop up 5 stories to get into our apartment, ha-ha. I felt kind
of bad, but it was funny at the same time. I kept calling him “crippled”. He
wasn't in a lot of pain or anything; he said it just felt like he sprained it
so he couldn't put any pressure on it. The next day, in the morning, we went to
emergency and after 3 hours, we left, with his left foot in a cast that he
needs to wear for about 6 weeks. He fractured the bone on the left side of side
of his foot. So we spent the rest of the day indoors. Then
on Thursday he had an appointment with the doctor who told him to
stay inside for at least 2 to 3 days and not do anything. So the rest of the
day on Thursday, after we (or I should say a member and I) helped a friend
move out of his apartment we spent the rest of the day indoors. We stayed
home until about 6:30 PM.
We had a Zone Leader Council Meeting in Berlin
on Friday. It takes about 3 1/2 hours to drive to Berlin, so we
decided to leave that night instead of in the morning. We got
to Berlin at about 10:30 PM Thursday night. It was weird being inside
for so long during those 2 days but I tried to make the best out of it, by
studying and doing a little planning.
Zone Leader Council was really good. The spirit was really
powerful in the meeting and we were able to discuss a lot of things that we
would like to see in our mission, and things that we would like to disappear
from our mission. President Kosak is an amazing Mission President. It's really
inspiring to see how the Lord his helping him lead this mission and in making
decisions to improve it. Elder G fixed some of the computers in the office and
then we left with the Elders from Hamburg at about 9:30 PM, to drive them home.
We made it to Hamburg at about 12:00 AM (midnight); then slept there and drove
home to Kiel at 6:30 AM.
Then we had our District meeting at 9:30 AM, and the rest of
the day we planned for Zone Training Meeting (Wednesday this week) and for
District Leader Council, (which we had yesterday in Neumunster). We were
definitely busy, and really tired.
Our Ward Mission Leader is awesome, though.
On Sunday he helped set up 9 splits for this coming week, so that I can
go out and do work while someone else stays with Elder G. We desperately need
to do finding and find new investigators to teach. The ones we have now (besides 2) aren't
making progress. I'm really excited to work with the members. We're going to
spend a lot of time planning out this week and praying for places for to go to
find people.
We met with V this week once on Tuesday, and were devastated
to find out that he started drinking again. I talked with him a couple more
times on the phone, throughout the rest of the week, but it seemed like he was
really depressed. I felt prompted to call him last night and did, and he was
sober, and really appreciated the call. I hope that it was just a little bump,
and that he still has the drive to stay away from drinking. The last time he
was drunk for 4 months drinking 16 beers per day. We'll be trying to do a lot of
work with him daily this week to keep him busy and focused.
So yeah, that's how my week went so far. I was
a little up and down this week (mood wise); just because of everything that was
going on. But I feel really excited for this week, and to see what will happen.
Wow I can't believe Granny passed away. I thought for
sure I would be able to see her again after I came home. You're right though
she is in a better place. I miss her already and thought about her a lot since
I've been out. Having a Great Grandma at home, who's about 103 years old, seems
to come up more than one would think. Thanks for letting me know!
I got Auntie Kirsten’s big letter on Friday while I
was in Berlin. I picked it up from the office and wow, its long! I haven't had
time to finish it yet, ha-ha, but I really love it! Thank them and Uncle Glenn
for the card and letters for me!
I also received a letter from Sister Wilson, who I don't know,
but thought it was cool that she wrote me! Anyway, things are going well and
I'm really excited to see hear where Charlene is going to get called
to. Jamie O wrote me and let me know that she got her Mission Call! She's also
going on a mission and will be in the MTC at the same time as Jeremy (May 5th).
She'll be serving in the states, I don't remember where, I'll have to read the
letter again, but yeah, its exciting seeing how many people we know are going
on missions!
I love you all and hope you have a good week!
Elder Christopher Lüning!
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