Latino People Are the Bomb

Vale.

Well I don't believe there was anything too life changing from this past
week. The most exciting news is probably that despite our very
imperfect Spanish skills things are going fairly well on the Spanish
front. Our boy Marcos from Madrid is currently making the most
progress from the people we're teaching and we meet with the Spanish
members here considerably more often than the German ones. That being
said there are still many Spanish conversations where half the things
people say go right over my head...it's a blast, Latino people are the
bomb.

We also met with a dude from Peru this week and he took us to a
Colombian fiesta thing which was pretty sweet. Interesting to see how
different Latino culture is from German culture.

Things are going a little bit slower on the German side of things.
David's become super hard to get in contact with and Silvio is of the
opinion that the church is too restrictive and is starting to distance
himself. On the bright side we were able to meet with our friend
Dimitri who disappeared for 3 weeks. He's under a lot of stress right
now and is in a rough situation but he still has it as a goal to be
baptized.

This week was also a good reminder of the power of escaping the
comfort zone. We did a street display with other missionaries and
while most of the others sang hymns one other missionary and I were
talking to the people walking by. I've always preferred normal street
contacting to having a street display since it's harder for people to
just breeze by when we try to talk to them, but this time I was
determined to at least get firmly rejected before letting anyone walk
by (because the worst is when people just totally ignore you or give a
really lame excuse). And it turned out to be one of the most enjoyable
and successful street displays I've experienced, which has convinced
me that a better attitude and some determination can make all the
difference in the world.

That's all I've got, rock on dudettes.

Elder Larsen