Dear Family,
It's so great to hear from you all again! P-day
is almost over, but it was a lot of fun. Sister Uhtermöhlen, bless her heart,
gave us money to go to the Hagenbeck Tropen Aquarium! It was about €56 for the
4 of us. We didn't want to take the money from her but she insisted that we go
visit it, have a good time, and then report to her with pictures about all the
fun we had ha-ha. So that's what we did and man, that was a lot of fun. Saw
some crocodiles, sharks, sting rays, weird bugs, and a lot of cool look'n fish!
Ha-ha. And at the entrance there were lemurs that jump on you and eat carrots
and stuff. It only took about 1.5 hours so it as a perfect p-day activity! I'm
definitely going to write her a nice thank you note for that.
It was nice to hear from all of you and to hear about your experiences that you had this last week. When you told me that my
release information was emailed to you that made me feel weird. Times going so
fast. For Christmas...I thought about it a bit, but you know I'm going to be
home like 2 months later so there's no real point in getting me anything.
Something that I do want is copies of the Christmas music that you would always
play during advent J
I'm totally getting into the Christmas spirit with all the German Christmas
treats already out in the grocery stores! I've got Lebküchen un Spekulatius,
and those Herzlebküchen, and Marzipan and oranges and Caro and fruit tea! I
also have some German Christmas music, but I like the CD we have at home the
most, lol. There are some songs I haven't found yet like the children one that
sings 'eine Maa, eine Moo, eine teteretete'. If I got a copy of the CD I would “freu”
myself! J
That's about all I can think of. You don't need to send money either. I still
have about €200 cash personal money, and I'm sure there's still something on my
account. I don't spend money too often lol. BUT let me know if there's anything
that you would like me to send home to you for Christmas! I can help stock you
up on German stuff again. Just give me a shopping list and I can do it. That
goes for all of you. If there's something special that you would like for Christmas
let me know. I'll be sending home books and stuff soon to help get rid of some
weight for my luggage. I've got a way cool 3 book combination of the Max und
Moritz stories.
So, I wanted to report on the FHE at the member’s
house on Monday last week. It was a really nice experience. The wife’s sister
showed up with her boyfriend and after dinner we taught them the message of the
Restoration. It was really positive. They really liked it and took a Book of Mormon
from us to read. After they left we talked about how it went with the husband
and wife and they couldn't believe how powerful the message and the lesson was.
The husband looked at us both and said 'Es war mir nie wirklich so bewußt, wie
sie als missionare tatsäglich vertreter Christi sind. Heute abend habt ihr
wirklich Jesus Christus repräsentiert.' (It was never really clear to me how
you really are representatives of Christ. Tonight you really represented Jesus
Christ.) J
They loved it and thanked us for sharing that message. They didn't really
expect that one since they told us anything on prayer and Christ ha-ha. We
heard that and automatically thought hmm...RESTORATION! Lol. The sister and
boyfriend left for holidays and said when they're back they want to have a FHE
again and learn more.
We ate African food with Henry, our convert. He
made us some fufu and chicken and fish soup. We looked in the pot and there's a
fish head in there and some cut up chicken legs, wings and back ha-ha. He made
some fufu to go with it which is close to mashed potatoes but really sticky.
You eat it with your hands by taking some fufu, dipping it in the soup and
grabbing some meat with it and then shoving it in your mouth. It's so African
and way good! Henry's like, eat the back Elder McK., it's very sweet! It was
a lot of fun and he's such a great member. We've been visiting him every week
since his baptism in August and he's doing so great. He passes the sacrament
every Sunday and is now going to be practicing the prayer in German.
I love the ward here and the city. It's awesome
and the members are so nice to everyone. We're doing a missionary fireside on Saturday.
We're introducing Mormonism by teaching the first lesson from Preach My Gospel.
We've put fliers everywhere at the student housings and hope to see a lot of
people come. It should be good and we're hoping to see new investigators from
it. Also on Saturday our apartment is being renovated so we'll be in Altona for
a week and have to move everything out on the same day...Saturday. It's going
to be a busy but fast week.
Opa bore strong testimony about how much he's
loving the Book of Mormon, because he's learning a ton from it. He's read it
before, but he's finding things that weren't in there the last time. He told us
he's learned a lot so far. He's now in Alma! I love Oma and Opa a lot and their
food reminds me of mom’s cooking! It's way good! They’re now on vacation for a
month. I'm learning a ton from the scriptures too; it reminded me of how
there's no end to learning, until we choose to stop!
Dad, Thanks for sharing the spiritual thought!
Did you find out more about your passport?
Mom, thanks for the email last week. I printed
it off because it was so long and read it throughout the week and liked how
much you learned from your scriptures study and how it helped you throughout
the day. Thanks for your testimony!
Charlene, full proselyting! Sounds exciting and I'm
sure you'll love it. We'll find out about transfers on Friday during interviews
because next week Tuesday is transfer day. So I'll find out what's happening
here in Hamburg! I'm pretty positive that I'll be staying my last 2 transfers
here. I'm just curious to see if Elder McK. will stay one more transfer here,
making it his 5 transfer in this city, or if he'll leave and I get a new
companion. We've been 3 transfers together so far so we'll see. It'll be
surprising!
Kass and Scott, Ich freue mich total dass
es schon Schnee bei euch gibt! Ich hoffe dass er bleiben wird bis ich
wenegstens zu Hause bin, dammit ich mich auch im Schnee vergnügen kann! Ich
vermisse die Winteraktivitäten. Wie Snowshoeing, and snowboarding, and sledding
haha. But I'm sure it will, it's Canada after all, lol.
Jeremy, mom keeps
telling us good things about you. Like you helped with moving, I'll be doing
that this week too lol. Actually there's like 2 member families who are moving
in the next couple weeks so we'll be helping a bit with that too. Good to hear
you are ready to serve!
I love you all, and hope you have a good week. I thought I'd
send a big email this time, since I couldn't for a while now, but could today!
Love Elder Lüning
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