Wow Mom, 90 adults? That would be a hard number to achieve even with the whole stake of Berlin. I'm curious to see what it will be like being in giant Provo wards again. I'm embarrassed to say that it took me a good few seconds to figure out who the "one very special person" is that won't be going to Bryce Canyon with the rest of the family. That quote about joy is pretty awesome.
Yeah Andy, Scott wrote back and said anything more than 250cc is good and that he "highly recommends" Honda. I hope the dating rant won't inspire you to action too quickly, I'm looking forward to my 4 wheeler.
Boy Heidi, it feels like just a few months ago that you moved into that one house. If you were in Germany people would think you're crazy for moving again so fast. That's cool that the missionaries were there to help, we were also helping someone move on Saturday.
I hear you Joey, planning ahead is killer. The mission has certainly helped a little bit with that though. Way to do that missionary work Bro.
It appears I've underestimated your sarcasm skills, Dad, yikes. Looks like I'll have to repent.
The biggest news of the week is that we got our transfer calls yesterday, and I'll be staying for a third in Tiergarten. Sadly Elder Castillo is getting shipped off to Hamburg, which puts the weight of the Berlin Spanish program on my very weak and feeble shoulders. My new companion will be Elder Mehr, who despite the German name is from South Jordan, Utah and he also started learning Spanish a few weeks ago. So we'll definitely have to work hard together to learn Spanish...our first Spanish appointment together will be on Thursday with a new investigator...scary stuff.
Our friend Dimitri, who wants to get baptized is doing pretty well. Sadly we'll have to push his baptismal date a couple weeks back because of some problems we need to work on together, but he's making progress. Understandably sometimes it takes more than a couple weeks for someone to change their entire life around.
We also had a couple skype lessons this week for our friends who don't speak German as their mother tongue, Karim and Nezhdet. Karim speaks good German but doesn't understand a lot of the gospel lingo vocab stuff. We had a really good lesson with him and were able to get a bit more input from his side; he told us about the warm, good feelings he gets when he reads in the Book of Mormon. He's a really solid guy, we just need to move forward a little slowly because he's from a country that's dangerous for Christians. For Nezhdet we had missionaries from Bulgaria teach him, that also went well, religion in general is still just a little bit foreign to him. But he's been loyally coming to church for the last 5 weeks and even sang in the ward choir...he's awesome.
One of the coolest parts of serving in Berlin is just that there's so much diversity. We've talked to people here from so many different countries and everyone that we teach has a totally different background from the others. It's awesome being able to experience so many different perspectives and see how the Gospel can be applied to each individual no matter what their circumstances are.
Life is da bomb! Love y'all, have a great week!
Elder Larsen
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