Another letter from our missionary! Love Mondays!!!!

Hey Guys,

Hows it going? Sorry to hear the games didn't go as well as everybody would have liked. I hope you learn from your mistakes this week so you WILL win next week. Wow Ben, that is impressive 50 yards on 5 carries!!! No offense to your coaches, but i think they might be idiots, cause if you do the math if you would have carried 15 times you would have had 150 or there abouts. Anyways, i hope they let you run it more this week, and i wish you guys a win this week (mom said you aren't playing as agressive as you were last year, whats up with that!?!??!) Sam, sorry to hear about your lost man, that is rough to play at 4:30, but hopefully it cools down and you guys won't have to play so early next time. Keep hydrated, from what you said, it sounds like you didn't have enough liquids in ya. I would recommend drinking alot of Power/Gatorade over the 24 Hour period before you play. I know i did that sometimes and i could deffinately notice a difference in my level of energy. Good luck next week, hit hard, play harder (don't loose to Marsh Valley, please!) David! Sorry about your game man, if you are Captain of the deffence line, you got to be nice. Talk to everyone on your back line before and after the game and make sure they understand why you are telling them to do what you are telling them to do. If you are playing center back in the middle, then you can see more then anyone else on the field, if you are on the outside fullbacks though, you need to listen to the ceterbacks, cause they can see more of the field then you can. Also, don't get to obsessed with off sides! Don't try to pull up to pull somebody off sides, it is super risky, and i know when i played, more often then not, when we tried it, it didn't work. Just play smart deffense, don't mess around/worry about off sides, just listen to your coach, and make sure you are always between the front forward and the goal. I'll write you more later!!! Jonathan!!! Good luck with soccer and violin you stud!!! Keep working hard in school and be nice to everyone. Jacob!!! Good luck with Kinderschule!!! I hope you have a great time, be nice, and make sure you are always smiling!!!

 

Cool my week:

Monday: We did a FHE with a less active family in our ward, the Sonnabends. It was really fun, they have two little (1 and 2) who are super funny and both speak better German then i do (how is that for a moral booster?) We had a great time and Elder Armstrong gave a great lesson on Ward Missionary work.

Tuesday: We had District meeting then we had a finding day. I went with Elder Young and we actuallly ended up teaching a lesson to a former investigator together. It was kind of wierd cause i was the senior companion, so Elder Young was depending on my German to get us through the lesson (the blind leading the blind). It went pretty well though, and i understood most of what he was asking us. We also had GMK and German that night (we have 2 German students now!!!) Great day!!!

Wendsday: We had lunch and did service for an older lady in our ward. I gave the lesson on how we need to trust in the Lord to endure through our trials. It went good, we did Garden Arbeit. Went well. Later that everning, we had a Lesson with the Ojo Family, did the Restoration, and had dinner with the newlly weds Thomas and Gerecksich Lubke. Thanks for putting the Ojo Family's name in the Temple, they really need it.

Thursday: We did Service all day in Kiefersfelden, super fun, we had seven missionaries there working, got a lot done. I miss cleaning the ditch, moving pipe and hauling hay.

Friday: We had a really cool experience, we brought one of the less active members in our ward, Schwester Morgner who can speak spanish to come with us to Traunstein to do a lesson with Familie Krugel cause Schwester Krugel can only speak spanish. It went really good, but took an hour and a half longer then expected (those spanish people can talk for quite a while). It was awesome though, cause i think/hope in a way they will reactivate eachother, kind of wierd to say, but they talked a little how "if you come to church i will come to church" sort of talk. Nice!!! We also went and helped Familie De Fillipo paint more of their house, it was super fun! Also, we got transfer calls on Friday, i am staying in Rosenheim, but Elder Armstrong is going back to Hog (his third time there). I get a new compaion, Elder Jerman. He is from Utah and Elder Young went to school with him. Says he is pretty cool. We have transfers this Thursday.

Saturday: We did weekly planning and went and helped Frau Sherer with her yard and assembled a bed together. Super fun, she calls us her Grandkids now, and shared with us a cool experiece that i will tell you about in a minute.

Sunday: Had a great fast, great testimony meeting, and everybody was sad to hear Elder Armstrong was leaving. He bore an awesome Testimony on Member Missionay work and i know it touched a lot of people's hearts, it sure touched mine. Ojo's didn't come to church again though, we went by later that day, but they weren't home. Im not sure what to do, something really needs to happen with them.

 

Anyways, that was my week, to close, i would like to share with you Frau Sherer experience and share testimony daruber. When we were there, she was telling us that the first day we came by her house, she had been praying that morning that God would either send her a big wad of cash, or somebody that could help her with her house and yard, cause she couldn't do what needed to be done. It is important to note, that Frau Sherer is trying to get her house ready to sell, but she is over 70 and has nobody else, no relatives no children no nothing, to come and help her. She said a few hours later, we came by and knocked on her door and after a little while asked if we could help her at all. We came back later that week to help her and ya you know the story from there. Hearing that was a huge testimony strengthener to me that this is really the Lords work and we are really instruments in his hand in helping his Children 1. Draw closer to him and 2. Give and help them with the things in life that they truly do need help with. I know if the Lord was here right now on the earth, he would be doing the exact same things we are doing. Visiting those of his Church who have gone astray, and inviting others to come follow him as he goes around helping others. Remember we are all missionaries, the prophets have said it countless times and as it says in D and C 4 "if you have the desire, you are called to the work." You guys don't have to go tracting or such things, but i promise you if you will truly prayerfully look for the oppurtunity to be a missionary, the Lord will give you oppurtunities to be an instrument in his hand to answer the prayers of others.

 

Ok, i've got to go. Take care you guys, have a great week, remember how much i love and pray for you, and most importantly WIN THOSE GAMES!!! (oh and i guess being happy is important too)

Bis Später,

Elder Seamons