Elder Sam Hadfield - Alpine German Mission: Solothurn

The Memories - Elder Hadfield & Elder Harradine - Solothurn, Switzerland

Liebe liebe Grüsse an euch alle!

Man, this transfer is flying by so fast. I can hardly believe it. Now we got Easter, General Conference, and Transfers in back to back to back weeks. We'll go for the 3peat and make them all good!

This week has been pretty great. The sun has begun to shine down on us, and it's been warm finally. It's still relatively windy, but not too chilly.

As for events from our week, we found a new investigator and set a baptism date with him in our first lesson. That was really good. His name is L from Cameroon. May 7 is the date. We'll get him down in that water. We had some really good appointments with members, and got 3 new referrals from members. They are really doing well for us. They're putting in work, which results in more work on our side of things which is really enjoyable. That's a pretty common theme. We go out and find people on our own, but only when we make that effort to go out and hit the streets, then the Lord throws us a bone with a member referral or a golden investigator. We can't expect to not work hard and be rewarded for it. Sometimes it seems pretty tricky that our work doesn't result in too much success, so we stop doing it, then everything falls apart, where as when we are doing our hard work on the streets, then we get the blessings through other people, like the members. I couldn't rave enough about the members here in Solothurn. They are fabulous. They do really well with us. I have already had about twice as many eating appointments in my 3 weeks here than in my 7 months in Munich.

As for investigators and teaching opportunities, this week was kind of a letdown. We had 6 fallen out appointments which we confirmed just an hour or two before they happened. It was frustrating. We were still able to teach a ton of people, just not as many as we would have liked.

One of the coolest teaching experiences from the week was with the family we teach from Ethiopia where the father is a member since a year ago, and his family just got here. We were teaching very basically the Restoration and the role of the Book of Mormon as a part of it. We asked them if they would love to know if what we were telling them was true and they all nodded and said yes. So, we whipped out 5 Amharic Books, and they thought it was just Christmas. I have never before seen an 11 year old so excited to hold a Book of Mormon in my entire life. We couldn't hold their attention the rest of the lesson because all they wanted to do was read. The only thing really holding them back from getting baptized is the dad, who only allows us to come by 1 time every week, and wants us to take it slow and only teach things with his permission first. That could take a while, who knows.

We also didn't get to play golf this week, but we are going on Friday with the dad and the olympic team son. We plan to run it like a business deal, where we take them out to play, and by the end, have them as new investigators. Hopefully. It might be embarrassing because I haven't touched a club in 18 months. I'll take pictures though.

Alright, everything is good with me. Hope you all enjoy your Easter. Check out the Follow Him/Hallelujah video online. It's pretty fantastic.

Love you all!