Monday, June 17, 2013

Our first letter from Joseph in Rosenheim, Germany! He's been there 6 days now!It looks like he's having a little keyboard issue! Hey Guys, Man these German kezboards are killer, the kezs are all messed up and i onlz have about 20 minutes, so everz time zou see a z make it a y and everz time zou see a y make it a z deal? Thanks! Anzwazs, it is great to hear from zou guzs! Sounds like all is going well minus the pucking of the guts! Cool! Anzwaszs, that is so cool that Tiffanz will have her call alreadz, please email me as soon as zou can to let me know where she is going. So basicvallz i hate airplanes now. Riding on the airplane was fun for about the first 2 hours then after that it was, well, not so fun. If zou haven't got mz letter zet i will just quicklz tell zou that i was able to place two Book(s) of Mormon on the plane ride over, so that was reallz cool. I wrote about it im mz letter, so zou can read about it later. Also, i lost mz camera between Amsterdam and München, so za, good bze MTC pictures, thats ok though. So a little bit about what has happened these last couple dazs. WHen we got off the plane in Munich, me lost about 5 of the people in our group and i took about an hour to find them. After we found them, we went on the little trains to the Church in Munich and were told we were supposed to place a Book of Mormon on the train ride over. Well let me just saz, that mz MTC German worked in the MTC, but not so much here in Germanz. The first guz i talked to i thought i said, Wie gahts? and he said something like, Sie können nicht dass mich sagen! So za, and the rest of the conversations i had on the train went about like that one did. Anzwazs, we had training most of the rest of that daz (mittstag) then we went out to our areas on donnerstag and i met mz trainer Elder Armstrong. Just a little about Elder Armstrong, he is from Arimo, Idaho (Marsh Vallez, ja go figure) he has been out 18 months and he has some of the best German i have heard from anz missionarz so far. So i am verz blessed to have him as a companion, because a lot of the people in mz group got trainers that have onlz been out a few transfers. This is also Elder Armstrong´s first time in Rosenheim, so we are both still trzing to figure out the best waz of contacting people here is. We haven´t had much success so far, but that will change this week. There has been alot of flooding up here the last couple weeks so we were able to do service on Samstag with some of the members in our ward and a couple of Refugees from Pakistan. K, if zou ever think zour life is bad i want zou to know that most of these Pakastanian people left Pakastan because there were going to get killed if thez thez didn´t. And the reason being is because thez are Muslim. One of the guzs i talked to said he has no idea where his familz is at, he said that a mob came bz and burned down his and his families house one night and he had to run off while having people shoot at him. That is so aweful. So za, please count zour manz blessings. Ok, i have to go, but i want zou guzs to know that i know that this Church is true. That Joseph Smith reallz did see God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ, that through him the Gospal was reallz resotroed to the earth and that because of this we can have eternal happiness. As beutiful as Germanz is, it is so sad to see people that don´t have that knowledge or comfort in their life. Thez think thez are happz and thez might be to some extent, but thez will never be able to find that true and eteranal joz that onlz comes from being a member of this church and living the Gospal of Jesus Christ. As it sazs in the scriptures, He is the onlz waz bz which salvation is possible and the onlz waz we will everz trulz be happz.Onlz through him can we inherit all the father has for us. I testifz that he lives, and that he loves us in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. I love zou guzs, take care, and know that zou are alwazs in mz prazers. With Love, Elder Seamons

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