Broken Bike

What a week! I have been loving the colder weather and being able to wear sweaters!! So last Monday we went to Herbstfest in Rosenheim. I do have to say that it was the most disappointing festival/carnival that I've ever been to. It was just a bunch of expensive rides and drunk Germans everywhere. Basically it was not a place for a missionary to enjoy himself. So after walking around for a bit we decided that it wasn't worth it so we came home and cleaned. Then we were able to go to our new Ward Mission Leader's house. We were able to discuss all the needs of our investigators and I'm way excited to work with him. His name is Bruder Döring.

Tuesday we went out to district meeting and came home and met with Tony. That didn't go too well. and after the lesson we both were thinking about dropping him. He just didn't understand the book of Mormon and the role of Joseph Smith and the Authority of God. Then we came home and did our studies.

Wednesday we had to go all the way out to Gänsberg which is this little tiny village that I've never heard of before. We were going there to help our Romanian member Constantine. He needs to learn German so he can get a job and bring his family out of Romania. So basically to get out there you have to take a train to Ramberberg and then from there it's another 9 km. So decided to take the bikes with us on the train because we were rushed for time. Then as we were almost finished biking to this little motel where he was staying my pedal just fell off my bike! Thank goodness that happened across the street from the motel. After teaching him some German we had to get back to the train station but my bike didn't have a pedal so I had to hold Elder Smith's hand while he pedaled extra hard and dragged me.

Thursday our appointment with a Bruder Schlesinger fell out so we went to Brannenberg to follow up on this old Russian couple we ran into when we were dooring. We brought them a Book of Mormon in Russian but they had no idea who we were. They accepted the Book and were way happy to get that and were really nice. So we're going to follow up on them this week. Then on the way back our train fell out so we were stuck in Brannenberg for an extra hour that we didn't plan for. I'm so sick of construction. ;) We also had an appointment with Tedy but he wasn't home. I was so sad because he made a point that if we set up an appointment that we had better be there on time. We were even a couple minutes early and waited for the exact time to knock but he wasn't there. 

Friday we had another lesson with Tony and this is the one where we were going to drop him but then we surprised us by offering us coffee so we changed our lesson to the Word of Wisdom and he got way interested and really wanted to know more about the doctrine and covenants. So that lesson went pretty well. He also gave us a 15 pound bag of French fries and a gallon of oil. Later that night we had to "babysit" Constantine in the church until Bishop could pick him up and take him home with him. So we taught him some more German. 

Saturday we had such a great lesson with Tony. We talked about the church of the devil and the church of God in 1 Nephi 13 and why we need the book of Mormon. It went really well and Tony started to make some real progress. Yes! We were also able to make it out to Traunstein to contact a referral. The guy was really nice and had seen us on TV and was really impressed that the church puts so much emphasis on families. His name was Josef. A real referral that actually had interest! Then we did some lovely weekly planning.

Sunday we went to church and had Timotei show up again. He is another Romanian that just wondered into church. Connie was also there and it was really good to see her again. Hopefully she will get baptized soon. She is so so ready for it!

Today was kind of crazy. We had to go out to München for interviews with President and we also had district meeting so our Pday was kind of destroyed. I really do love President Kohler though. He is so good and he knows what he's doing. I'm in good hands.

This week has been great, even though a lot of our appointments fell out. I think the cooler weather has helped a lot and also just having a good attitude and realizing the blessings of the lord. I know that he is blessing me and I can see his hands in the lives of the people I'm teaching. It's a great work here in Rosenheim. I love you all and I hope you're doing great. By the way transfer calls are this week so you can hold the letters until I know if I stay or not. 

Tschüß!