Transfer to Jena

No Mom, I wouldn't say the birthday gifts were underwhelming. I will say when I pulled out a bag and saw the word heads I was hoping it would be warheads, but airheads are definitely a close second. Maybe I need to start working harder so you guys stop getting sick.

That's too bad, Lisa. I was hoping to come back and hear you speak fluent German. I'll admit I have a fear of having no one to talk to in German and then just slowly losing the ability to speak it. Wow Zeke is like 0 years old and is already more into motorcycles than I am.

Andy you better go call Pete to repentance. Smooching it up with some Texas heathen. I'm pretty jealous about Oathbringer. Have there been any other Brandon Sanderson books coming out since I've been gone?

I had a moment of panic Heidi, when I read what you said about the hard switch from Summer to School. I thought school must be starting up for me in a couple weeks, and then I remembered that I'm a missionary, where all that means is that people are finally going to start coming back from vacation.

Glad to hear Marty is already taking you down at board games, Joey. Looks like he's doing it at an even younger age than I did. Are all the expansions for Cthulhu Wars already out? The secret to Spaniards might be catching them while they're young, Marcos is super chill. Once they hit older teenage years though it seems to start getting dangerous. Granted that isn't just applicable to Spaniards though.

Cool that you guys were able to check out the new MTC stuff, Dad. We had the same lesson about the Book of Mormon in Priesthood, there's another story I read about a lady who was going to gift a Book of Mormon to a friend but got mugged. The guy who mugged her read the book, was baptized and of course gave the lady her stuff back. Pretty awesome.

We had a great week. Sadly I had to say goodbye to my teenage years for forever. I got to celebrate my birthday with a service project helping a family move, which is undeniably one of the top things to do as a missionary. Nothing more refreshing than simple service.

I also got transferred! I'll be spending my last 6 weeks in Jena, a city I visited a few times back when I served in Werdau. It's a university city which is always a plus and hopefully there will be
some Spanish speakers there. It'll be sad though missing Marcos's baptism and leaving Berlin after 10 months of being there. I'll be serving with Elder Openshaw, a fellow Provo boy, so that's exciting.

I know that's not too much information but we've gotta run and it be pouring rain outside. Have a great weeeeek!

Elder Larsen