Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Pres. Uchtdorf in Germany.....
I got the camera cards today, really good timing, exactly 7 days this time...thanks for sending them so pünktlich. Hopefully you got all of the pics off, and everything is saved. Well, that is good news about Amare stoudemire staying, I am totally going to some Suns games when I get back. OH!!! Mom, we went to this party for an inactive member this last week, and there were nothing but non members there. We taught 2 lessons, and we got one lady's contact as a referral for some other missionaries in her area. It was way cool, anyways, I ended up showing everyone at the party, the picture of my family, the one where you are all at the Temple in St. George Utah for the wedding, and everyone saw you and were really surprised that you were 50 ( I told them...) because you looked so pretty and good, so, I thought you would like to know that mom. :) Sooo, this week, yesterday, we had a Zone Development Meeting (ZDM) and it was in Frankfurt, and we had to travel for like 3 hours on trains to get there, but it was good, it was about the 7 traits of missionaries who baptize more, so it was good, then we went and had lunch at a really good place called Vapiano's. We have been having some really good lessons with our Investigators right now. Patricia, from Ghana is really opening up to the message, and waiting for her answer to the BoM and Ewe, from Poland is going well too, waiting for it to warm up so she can be baptized in a lake or river here. We gave her a Polish Book of Mormon the other day, she really liked it. She is also trying to find a job so she doesn't have to work on Sundays, please pray for her to get that. It is finally starting to warm up now, I think it snowed for the last time now, and it is bearable outside to go out without a jacket, but still a little ''nipply'' outside. OH!!! also, we had an area stake conference on Sunday, and Dieter F. Uchtdorf was in Berlin with the area Presidency and addressed all of the saints in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, it was really awesome, he spook in German, and Barbara Thompson from te general Relief Society also. She went on her mission to Hamburg when she was younger, it was sweet. He talked about how the German speaking saints need to step up the faith and start doing more missionary work and stuff, cause the whole world right now is picking up on missionary work, except the German speaking areas. It was way sweet. That is about it happening for us right now, hopefully all is well at home, and you are enjoying the weather. Just to let you know, I will probably not be sending home any more camera cards for the rest of my time, It's not too long, don't worry, I will not lose them like Matt. We'll see...Well, Tschüss! Love Elder Bentz aka Mooker