Munich - Week 24

We were with a member at Neuschwanstein for most of the day, which is the one really big castle, which is where the idea came for the Disney castle.

So, I could sum up our week pretty quick.

On Tuesday, Elder Carr and I went out to Landshut to work in their area for a day and to get it going. I got to work with Elder Kaufusi  He's just starting his 2nd transfer. I think we did pretty well. We found 5 new people, and taught a lesson to 2 random guys off the street in just about 2 hours of work. It was really good for a struggling area. I love being in Landshut as well. It's a special place for me. 

Wednesday morning, we had to take a train back at around 7 in the morning, and we got back and were given the job to pick up Elder Hunter from the airport. He's a missionary who went home a little while ago for back problems but came back out. We went and got him from the airport and he spent the day with us. It was really fun. I enjoy that trip to the airport every time. Funny because when it comes for my final trip to the airport, I'm sure it will feel familiar, but so weird and different. We also taught F on Wednesday and went to S's house. 

Thursday was transfer day. Sister Ahlm and Sister Poll and Sister Cherrington and Sister Kramer and Elder Rozan all went home. It was a couple of hard goodbye's to missionaries I've known for a long time. The hardest was Sister Cherrington. She and I had been in Munich for 4 transfers together and had so much fun and became friends.  She's awesome. I got to see Elder Howarth again which was so great. I love that kid. 

So Friday came, and we had a couple lessons, and ran around all day finding people to teach. We ran out of time for weekly planning, but still didn't have much to show for anything, which sucked.

Saturday was member day. We had a service project with the A's. Moving couches and furniture to their new apartment. Then afterwards, we ate at Pizza Hut with them, then had Pfannenkuchen with another member. So another good day. 

Sunday came. S GOT CALLED AS THE SECRETARY IN THE RELIEF SOCIETY. I'm so excited for her! That is SO cool. I was so happy. She's on fire. We taught like 6 lessons at church to random people at church who showed up. We're trying to see if they'll turn into new investigators. I sure hope so. Have a wonderful week!

Elder Sam Hadfield

Lommelstraße 7

81479 München

Deutschland

Saying Goodbye to Elder Samuelson

Elder Hadfield & Elder Carr

Austausch with Elder Kaufusi

Breakfast (WHAT?!!!!)

Picking up Elder Hunter at the airport

Munich - Week 23

Things are great. I've been thinking back on my time here in Munich. I love this place. Heavenly Father has blessed us with so much success here, and it's amazing that that could happen to a couple of punk 19 year old kids in the middle of Germany. It's awesome. I would honestly spend the rest of my mission in Munich and be more than happy. I love it here more than I could tell you in an email. 

Well, this week it got cold. Bitter cold. We've also got about a foot of snow that we've received in the past few days. It's been fun sliding through the empty streets of Solln (where we live) here in Munich. Today is supposed to be -12 Celsius, which is like 8 Fahrenheit I guess. Then it gets colder throughout the week. We will be in Landshut on Austausch tomorrow, which is known as the Windy City in the mission. It's supposed to be like -5 degrees Fahrenheit. Haha. Fun right? Then on Wednesday, we pick up the missionaries from the airport. Thursday is transfer day again already. I'm starting my 12th transfer. I'm so old. 

By the way, transfers affected 13 of the 16 companionships in our zone, so it will be fun to work with some new people. I love that about President Kohler. He doesn't care how long you've been where you've been, or how long you've been with a companion. If he needs you somewhere else, you're on the move. 

That being said, we are one of the 3 companionships unaffected by transfers. I'll be here for at least 6 more weeks. Yay! We are hoping for a couple baptisms in that short amount of time. We will go get them! 

We figured something new out yesterday actually about F. He doesn't know his family. He was living on the streets in Nigeria, then found the opportunity to come here, and took it. He's had a really rough life, and it's been unreal to watch him turn 180 degrees. When I first met him, I never pictured myself standing in a baptism font with him. But that's how Heavenly Father works. F gave his testimony at church yesterday and it was very touching. He also was greeting all the members he didn't know. He's awesome, and on fire right now. 

S is also doing wonderful. She invited the 4 of us over this week and cooked for us. It was really really good. She hasn't missed a week of church since her baptism, and just received her visiting teaching assignments and so forth. She's loving being a member. She's on fire as well. I think the 2 baptisms we've had here are both going to be extremely solid members of the church forever. That's enough in and of itself to make me happy. 

Our teaching pool is picking up a little bit again. I finally got contact with A, and we will be teaching him this week. B and F are best friends from Nigeria and want to be baptized on the 31st. They won't make it, but we hope it will be soon. D is a new investigator this week. He's a member referral and we had THE COOLEST LESSON with him. It was so spiritually charged, and we all could feel it really strong. Including him. He was at all 3 hours of church yesterday and really enjoyed our gospel principles lesson about the mission of Jesus Christ. He's really feeling the spirit strong. We are excited for the progress.

We are teaching a few more people. A is from Germany and is the head boss of a huge project coming up here in Munich (a head corporate kind of guy). Which is very exciting. He knows the Book of Mormon is true, but is jut freaking himself out about being baptized. His parents would kick him out. We have the most powerful lessons but he just isn't pushing himself enough. We will see.

Yeah that's about it. Needless to say, things are excellent. 

I've been really looking at our Time as missionaries, which could relate to time as members. When we look at it, we don't have a lot of time on this earth, and especially less time in a day. We have to make our time worth it with the things we do. Which includes fulfilling our callings, telling our family members how much we love them, performing service, working to provide, you name it. But the time we have on earth is so precious and limited before we meet God again just like Alma 34:32 says. There's my thoughts, and our week. Hope it's a good one for you!

Munich - Week 22

Baptism of  B and F!

January 7, 2016

January 7, 2016 - Rain, Rain....

Munich - Week 21

Things are going really good here. We have all of a sudden a lot of work to do. Which is always a good thing. Now that the holiday is over, people are ready to meet with us. We have a lot going on this week. We met with S this morning and B this afternoon. He has fallen into our hands a little bit. He was in Ingolstadt and taught there, but moved to Munich, and was working with the English Ward, but didn't enjoy it, would like to learn German. So his day is on the 24th. Hoping he will make it. We've taught him the restoration like 7 times and he doesn't really get it. So we are moving on and seeing if other lessons will be better. We will see how it goes. 

Elder Carr comes from a good family in Spokane, Washington. His dad is an animal Doctor. He's the middle of 4 I believe. He's a football player, so we get along there, but a Seahawks fan, so that's where I draw the line. He's got 5 months left. He was in the MTC with Elder Howarth and Elder Killpack. Guys like that.

Elder Croft emailed this morning and has had contact with S over Facebook. We are going to see if we can get something going. We are still working on getting an appointment with M. Other than that, there isn't too much to report on.

We have a really busy week ahead of us. An MLC and a few really important appointments and then more stuff on the weekend that I'll have to fill you in on next week. 

Thanks for your prayers!

Elder Sam Hadfield

Lommelstraße 7

81479 München

Deutschland