I never knew I could love so much.

Yeah, so there's no overlap for President Boyer. The transfer call is on the 8th, transfers are the Tuesday after. I would really like to see a new area. Duisburg is so small I've seen it all. I think I will move, there is a rumor that the Zoneleaders are moving up here to Duisburg... they rotate between Düsseldorf and Duisburg, idk why. But I'm loving the Bike! It's way fun haha the only problem is one of them has a broken seat so you have to stand as you ride. And we only ride for an hour at a time. Doesn't matter where we are, we are an hour from where we need to be.

Hey Familie!!! Ja so this week was great! We met with two new investigators, Favour and Lutz. Favour is a regular class homie from Nigeria. He's super open to religion and was excited to get a Book of Mormon so he could read it. And Lutz is a Chinese student who doesn't really have a concept of God. He received his Book of Mormon in Chinese yesterday and is happy to start reading. 

We also spent a lot of time with Die Familie David this last week. So, there's Gerhard and Gabi, the parents and then Samuel and Viola the son and wife. We went to Familieheimabend with Gerhard and Gabi and taught the first lesson to an Ewigator (Avigator) or eternal investigator. Haha he has a testimony he just doesn't think he can live the Gospel. But yeah, of course you can! God set it up just for us! But it was a really spiritual moment. He definitely felt the spirit and we will continue working with him to try to help him see the Light. 

Then Wednesday we went over to Samuel and Violas. It was really fun, Sam is studying to become a dentist so he told us all about his biology class. He has a halved head that he is dissecting. Gross stuff haha. Then we shared the Video "reach out with Love". I highly recommend watching that on YouTube by the way. We asked what they saw change in the young man and how they themselves could reach out with love. 

Being a missionary here in Germany is actually really different than I thought to would be. For those of you who thought I wouldn't baptize, neener neener ;) for those of you who thought I'd be teaching a lot of Germans, you're half right. There are so many people from all over the world here. I've met people from 86 different countries while on my mission. Yes I've been counting haha. I know a little Arabic and some Persian, I can Snap (an African handshake) and I've grown a taste for Turkish food. It's been an unvergleichbare Erlebnis. (Incomparable experience)

I've grown an appreciation and a love for Europe that I never thought I would have. And that Love... the Love is the part that gets me every time. I never knew I could love so much. And seemingly for no reason haha I'm drawn to these people, to help, to teach. 

Jetzt dass ich deutsch kann, ist es wirklich angenehmer auf deutsch zu beten und denken. Nächste Versetzung werde ich hoffentlich nur auf Deutsch sprechen.

(Now that I can speak German, it is really more pleasant to pray and think in German. Next translation I will hopefully only speak in German.)

I've grown in unbelievable ways and for that I am so grateful! 

Oh, and the blackberries are starting to grow, this time of year, Germany is covered with wild blackberries and they are such a treat! So I'm waiting for that with anticipation!

As with a few weeks ago I took some more videos of the "Greener parts" of Duisburg :) 

 

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