Swell Week

It's hard to believe that there are 51 great grand kids in the Hall family, Mom. That's more people than there are members here in a 15 kilometer radius. Boy Lisa, if I had a baby sleeping on top of me like that through the night he'd probably end up falling on the floor after 5 minutes. Props to Joseph and JJ. Cray cray how many babies there are. Yeah Andy, I'm not 100% sure what the plan is with Abe, he's planning on starting with fall semester and I (just barely today) requested to be deferred until Winter semester. Still need to figure out what the plan is there. Joey, there are so many myths about the German language, I'm glad to put this one to rest. Typically Germans will only answer in detail to "how are you" if 2 requirements are met. 1) you're a good friend or associate and 2) they feel like talking. In other cases it's somewhat similar to english, just used less frequently and people aren't afraid to respond in the negative. Elder Christoffersen is from Worland, Dad. That's awesome that one of your converts from 38 years ago wrote a card for you.

This week was pretty swell. We're still having problems with fallen out appointments, but we've had some success with visiting former investigators. Ironically it hasn't been with the former investigators themselves, rather with people in the area who the Lord has been preparing. One former investigator said she was sick and that we could come by another time and as we rang the doorbells of the other people in the building, a man let us right in and we were able to teach the first lesson (which is pretty rare in Germany). We have another appointment with him this week and it turns out he's friends with the former investigator, so hopefully we'll be able to help both of them.

Another time, just yesterday we visited another contact in a tiny village who wasn't at home, but as we walked away we met an older lady and her daughter who had interest and we were able to make an appointment for today. It's cool how God blesses us in ways that we don't always expect.

Anywho I don't have much time left, but have a fantabulous week!

Elder Larsen