Word from Wesel - April 4, 2011

4-4-2011

You would be exactly right in assuming what missionaries were thinking about Pres. Ucthdorfs talk. It just so happens that we had an investigator there at that session but one that we have never met with before. He's met with missionaries before and Elder C and I actually ran into him on the way home one night. He said he'd be there and sure enough he was. He liked it a lot but can’t meet with us for a little while. Schade.

  

Thanks for getting me registered to vote! I don’t need the card. You did tell me before I just forgot to mention it. The office is working on getting translations of our licenses. Then we can pay our fee and get a German one. Yay!

Sure enough, that is my companion and Elder D was his trainer. You are quite the detective! Anyone else you found that I might know?

I tried sending shoe pics but the computer was being stupid. I’ll try again today. Hopefully the picture is good enough. You might have to zoom in or something to see the crack.

  

Thanks for the Babylonish update! Sounds like there is a lot going on.

I’m doing good and keeping my hopes up. There is someone golden here... I know it. We just need to find them. Meanwhile we are keeping frequent contact with our favorite investigator Herr L. I’ll have to tell you more about him on Mothers day calls. Coming up soon! Anyways. Thanks for the support and the love and the prayers!

Love

Elder Evan

Word from Wesel - March 28, 2011

3-28-2011

Well senior companion isn't that bad and I've learned that I know more German than I thought. But I still have a lot of work to do...A lot. Elder H and I are only a cycle apart so we are learning together how to do things right. We are changing things up here in Wesel and trying to refocus our efforts closer to the church. We can lose a lot of time traveling in our area so we are trying to kill trips out to Kleve. This is going to be a fun cycle though I think. We teach pretty well together and share in nerdom. If that is how you say it.

To answer your questions: We don't get many opportunities to do planned service. You have to go to the city and they really don't give you much to work with. ZoKo is every transfer. Usually it is in the third week. We have six zones and usually two zones will meet together for that. It takes three days out of president's week. Right now I am in the Düsseldorf zone and we meet with Dortmund. We will just watch conference here in Wesel. We are lucky that we get an English broadcast of it. I think this is one of the first times I've really been excited for GC. It's a great missionary tool too. Sunday we watch like three sessions so we will go to church for a couple hours, then do some finding, do another session, finding and so forth. Saweet!

I've started to realize that my suits are starting to stink. It is quite unfortunate because I have no idea where dry cleaners are here.

Crazy. We went by on this one new investigator Elder C and I found a while ago, but could never make another appointment with, just to see if he was home. His grandson answered the door and said he would go get him. He came back and said that he would be down in a sec. Then the wife came down and said that we could go upstairs to see him. So we walk up stairs into this room where he and this other guy were on the ground praying. This might be cruel and judgmental of me but it felt planned. They happened to finish praying right as we entered. He was like, 'sorry. I've been praying and fasting today because I had this dream that I don't really know the answer to. This is a friend of mine.' This other guy was obviously a priest or pastor or something. We then started to talk about our church and message that we had. We had him read the first sentence of the introduction in the B of M, which talks about the B of M being like the Bible. 'Das ist schon falsch' he said. We talked and now have an appointment with a priest tomorrow. Hopefully it is not a bible bashing session. But the whole situation was just weird and random. The guy we actually came to visit Tschüssed us.

  

It's good to hear that Ten Commandments is now on BluRay. It was always a favorite of mine... you can decide if that is a lie or not. Is Star Wars on blu ray fact or fiction?

Anyways! Lots of crazy stuff happens here. There is someone that is ready.

Tschüss!

Love,

Elder Evan