December 29, 2013

I am still going strong and remaining healthy! There were a couple days where I started to have pretty bad headaches... I anticipated the worst (That I had been contaminated and was going to get sick), but everything worked out for the best.

So because we didn't really have a P-day on Monday, we ended up using some of our p-day time on Saturday in Hannover. Most of the Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market) was already taken down, but there were still a couple things in addition to Christmas deals. I ended up finding a blue suit for 27€ which translates to around $34. haha. woohoo!

And I did get one of the Räuchermännchen :) He's a lumberjack and has a giant beard :) Haha. I love the little guy. I smoked up some inscents and he puffed them out of his mouth. I don't know if I really explained what they are... but I'm sure you could find one online. We may have to buy some of the inscents online sometime. He's going to be an awesome part of the family.

Things have slowed down a ton fin the Christmas time. We haven't had anything other than member appointments for the last week or so. We will be working on getting some good appointments going. It should be working back up in the coming weeks.

Transfer calls are coming up! It will be on Saturday. I would think that I am going to stay here in Minden, but I might be sent out to some other place, that's also an option. We'll see how it goes.

So how is the weather looking over in Utah? I haven't heard about it for quite a while. Were there any problems with the driveway being too steep with snow? Is it just super dooper cold? It's still cold here, but we don't have any snow here. There haven't been any real problems with the weather. The only problems have been with our bikes. I miss having things that are consistent and don't have problems. That being... my long-board. Haha. I never had flat tires. I never had a chain fall off. With my first long-board the only problem was that my kingpins were too weak and I snapped them both... since then everything has been awesome. ahhh man. Can I have it back? :( Sometimes I think it would be more effective to have razor scooters sometimes. They are super awesome :)

I'm still here working hard. The gospel is still true. I guess I'm just going to keep on going.

Love,
Elder Braden Thorkelson