February 25, 2013

So this week, we have begun to 'tear things up', as previously stated in the letter last week. It begun with calling every last contact in our phone. woohoo! Out of that effort, we made out one fest (concrete) appointment. The only thing we knew about this lady is that she had contact with the missionaries a few years ago. We taught her about the restoration and the Book of Mormon, she seemed to accept everything pretty well. It was a really really good lesson, and we set up another appointment with her for later last week. We met with her and a couple of her friends, and continued to teach about the plan of salvation and the book of mormon again. It was, again, a really super good lesson and so we invited her to church on Sunday. We arranged for a member of the ward to pick her up so that she could be there for sacrament meeting. It was great. I drove with the member there to pick her up, and on the way over to the church... we stellt es fest das sie in Mitglied war! :D haha. she was a member! haha. apparently she had been baptised in Frankfurt years ago. whaaaat?! haha. We don't have her records here, and we'll have to find them soon. If we aren't able to find her records, it looks like we'll be having a baptism here in Kassel :) woot woot! haha. There are some things that she needs to work on (z.B. smoking... she strarted to smoke again about 2 years ago. ahhh! no!) but there's still time to repent! :D

We still have a ton of people to contact and people that we can help come closer to God. It's pretty awesome. I am really seeing the difference in the attitude of the ward as they see us. Woot woot! It's great. Instead of focusing on finding new poeple to share the gospel with, we're going to be focusing a lot on the people who have already been found. There are so many people in the Area pook what we will be calling daily, visiting regularly, and inviting to everything. it'll be grand.

This week we were in Hannover twice... so that means that two days were essentially gone from our week. kinda frustrating. but that's life. I'll get over it. We had good meetings up there and they probably are helping me be a better missionary.

I wrote a ton of letters this last week and sent them all away :) and now I need to get new stamps... I will be doing that today. Our Ward mission leader is wanting to get new things for our apartment! Our kitchen really needs some new appliances. And our Matresses really need to be replaced... blegh. We also need new maps, because the ones we have aren't from this decade.
Yup! lots to do.

Elder Spackman has been sick this last week, and now I think I'm feeling something... a bit of soreness in the back of my throat. bahhh lame. I hope it doesn't keep me confined to the apartment. that would not be fun.

We will meet the guys from Pakistan again this week. Did Grandpa Thorkelson ever go to Pakistan? our member from there was talking about it and it seems pretty awesome :). Andrej is reading the Book of Mormon from the beginning, and things are going well!

I love you!
Elder Braden Thorkelson