Wow, the weeks just get crazier and crazier!!! We have had so many things going on it´s ridiculous!! (I mean that in a good way hahaha) There is nothing better than being busy with the Lord´s errand! I have gotta say though, I am pretty pooped. XD We started the week out with a really good P-Day! We ended up going to this really cool museum in Darmstadt and the grounds were amazing! We didn´t get to go in because it was closed but trust me, the grounds were good ;) hahaha I forgot my camera anyways :P We then had a couple of appointments with some members. We are trying really hard to get a hold of as many members as possible because we want to light this ward on fire!! If we can get them fired up and bringing in more investigators than half of our work is already done for us hahaha. Efficiency is wunderbar! We also have had some really great things happening! We have two new investigators and we have another investigator who has committed to baptism. Oh shucks, I forgot we have two. Things have just been going so well! We have been working so hard talking like crazy and doing everything we can to meet with as many people as possible. I have definitely become well acquainted with a planner and scheduling has definitely played a great role in my mission. I definitely have gained a testimony of planning. When one plans, one is successful, they also have more time to play, which is really surprising...we just give up all of our play time to work with more people hahaha. It ends up that we usually finish P-Day a couple of hours early so that we can meet with more people. I am sure that that isn´t a bad thing!!! I still continue to nap when I have the chance. It´s amazing what happens when you´re truly tired. I drop off like a rock every time my body decides it is time to sleep!! I also got to see everyone who came from the MTC with me this week!! It was great! We had a golden trainer meeting and it took up most of the day but it was such a great and spiritual experience and I just loved it. This really is the Lord´s work and you can just feel it so much, especially when you immerse yourself in his teachings!! I have made the committment to read my Book of Mormon ten times in the mission. I average about 25 pages a day. I usually fit the reading time in when we aren´t proselyting or doing our regular studies. We also have given out 31 Books of Mormon in our District in the last two weeks! A lot of those have numbers, emails, or addresses attatched with it!! It has been really great as well because the ward really seems to be warming up to us. President Schwarz really is an inspired man. We seem to have given the ward what they needed to get rolling because they have been hitting us like crazy with things that they would like us to help with. If we can get this ward rolling there will be nothing stopping it from growing into a stake in no time!! It just needs a little bit of a shove. ;) I ended up playing some soccer this Wednesday with some Germans. We brought them to the church, some of them being investigators, and we played some pretty dang good soccer. I was pretty pumped because these guys were some pretty top notch soccer players and I popped three goals in pretty quickly. I´ll have to thank Jon for the times we played in the church gyms etc. It was just too much fun! A humbled person is more willing to recieve the gospel...Therefore the air was quickly released from my head after soccer when my understanding of Deutsch went Kaput. Either way though our investigators had a blast and we have more lessons with them and they are going to come next week!! We are really having a good time finding people through these sports. It really has been a successful idea here in Darmstadt. I haven´t got much time left and so I just want to end this so that I am able to send it. I had the chance to read in D&C this week for a little bit and I was reading in D&C 46 with Elder Bruneel. We started reading about gifts and verses 12 and 13 really hit me. I would recommend reading it to get the full idea of what I am talking about but I definitely want to say that in those verses I found a simple, but truly profound truth. For some it is einfach to find knowledge and to know things are true. Whether they receive those answers or they come to them through deductive reasoning the end result is still the same. And for others their gift is to believe. I never really thought of it this way but for some of us, we may never have a full or complete knowledge. We may never know with exactness where we go or what we are doing before we do it. Sometimes going through the experience and having proof of that belief we had, that hope is all the more rewarding. Sometimes we have trials that absolutely throw us to the ground and when we look up and find no reprieve we often doubt the truths that we had come to believe that we knew as facts. Sometimes we question that God is really there and that he loves each and every one of us. Sometimes we think that we can´t take anymore and sometimes that doubt eats away at us until we are in the darkest parts of our lives. I do want you all to know though, that we are never alone. In 2 Nephi chapter 2 we read that we cannot have a true knowledge without having both the good and the evil. We cannot know for a fact how sweet the fruit of the gospel is if we haven´t tasted of the bitterness of life without it. Life doesn´t like to play easy. Sometimes we are thrust into situations that we truly feel we will never survive but I can promise you that the dawn will come, and even though the night is darkest before the dawn the sunrise does come. The savior knows exactly what we are going through. To truly know what it means to be alone. For some of us, even many of us, we will never have a true knowledge that things will get better. We may not be able to see, or believe, that that sunrise is coming. I testify to you that it will come. The promised blessings will be recieved. As long as we obey the laws upon which that blessing is predicated. I realize that for me, my gift is to believe. Sometimes I don´t know what I am going into, but I know that when we do what is required we are rewarded. I also want you all to know that I am here for each and every one of you and I know that Christ is there as well. Turn to him, as you gain increased knowledge of the sacrifice that he has made we truly recognize just how great the atonement is. Sorry this letter is so long, that´s just been on my mind. Hopefully I don´t seem too preachy, I don´t want to come across that way. :P I love you all so much and I hope that this week goes great! You´re all in my prayers!
Tschuss! 
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