Can I just say that this week has been absolutely insane!! Either it´s something in the food or we are on a spiritual high because this week has rocked!! I guess we should start with day one. Monday. So Monday was a lot of fun!! We were able to have a good time playing games and just relaxing for a while which was really needed. I then made some spaghetti for everyone for lunch with one of the guys in our ward. His name is Robin Dietrich and he is sick! His wife is a new convert and her year mark from her baptism was yesterday, which means that they get to go into the temple soon! So awesome! I am so pumped for them! We then got to meet with one of our investigators named Constantine. He works with Gold and he is really cool. The appointment went really well and he said that he wanted to come to church and also to have more lessons with us! After that we had to go to our appointment with one of our inactives Andreas Nikulshin. The appointment was so sick because I brought the guitar that I had bought a while back (Don´t worry it was cheap XD And it has kept me plenty sane in the last little while which has been much needed hahaha) So anyways, I brought my guitar because I wasn´t able to drop it off back at the apartment before our appointment. Ends up that Andreas plays guitar! So he had me sing and play the guitar which was definitely an interesting experience but he absolutely loved it!! He then ended up playing for us and singing as well. So cool! He then said that I have to bring my guitar again and that we will practice an English hymn and we will perform it at church. Heck, best way to get an inactive back in church in my mind!! So that was awesome! Then on Tuesday we had Zone training and that really was just such a spiritual meeting that I was just blown off my feet! Okay, I just tripped and bashed my head on the way down...okay, not really hahaha but it really was such an amazing meeting!! We then came back home and had another amazing appointment with Brother Lukachek! He really is so awesome. By the way, he has been reactivated into the church so that was another awesome thing. We then went to the Family Mohr to help encourage their son to keep trying to live the gospel. It really was such a great appointment!! We ended up contacting a couple kids on the way back and it ends up that they´re his friends! They play basketball and so we ended up going to play with them on Wednesday.
Which brings me to how Wednesday went. We started out by doing service all morning at the Taubners again. Moved probably 3 tons of rock...or more Idk it was just heavy we´ll leave it at that hahaha We then went and played some basketball with a guy I contacted on the Bahn named LRG Bahahahaha we ended up going out to Weiterstadt and we played on an outside court in the middle of "the hood" hahaha There were people smoking, blasting music, and drinking, while playing Basketball of course. Best place to start converting people hahahaha! So Elder Bruneel and I ended up dominating everybody and so we got 3 numbers and ended up giving out a Book of Mormon to a guy who kept saying that he has been looking for something like that in his life. He also wants us to talk to his friends....cha´ching! After that we went and played with the kids we had contacted the night before. Ends up we played with guys that were older and were in the Division 1 basketball for Germany. So basically you have me, and a bunch of college basketball players playing some seriously intense Basketball. IT WAS A BLAST!!! I didn´t do half bad either. I held my own so I was pretty pumped about that. We then got a couple more numbers and they´re going to come play at the church on Tuesdays! Woot! Church tours like a boss! We then had soccer that night and by this time my out of shape body was really starting to take a hit hahaha. Either way I still gave it my all and we had a blast. Thursady I went on a split with Elder Emery and we had all of our appoinments fall out but we ended up contacting a bunch of people and so that was great!! Bahahahaha I can´t go into detail but let´s just say we really had a great time hanging out preaching the gospel! Friday ended up being just insane! We met with a pair of Muslim guys who we had talked to a couple days before and one was listening and the other was trying to convert us...pretty hilarious to be honest.
We kept showing him scriptures that proved what he was saying was wrong but he kept going at us. I then just said to him that we were there to invite people to take a chance on what we were talking about and that no matter what it would come down to them deciding to take the chance or not. It really is so difficult not trying to just sit there and convince people that things are true but that is definitely something that they have to want and find out for themselves. So after that we went to the Nowaks and had some great food. They´re really hilarious and it was a really successful appointment. We then went to the Sommer family and had another dinner. Ends up after the appointment we were sprinting for our bus...you can only imagine the kind of work that does on your stomach. Let´s just say I have become plenty practiced at holding stuff down XD The Sommers son Lars then tried to give out a Book of Mormon with us. He was absolutely rejected but he loved it!! Wish I had done those things when I was younger, totally would have been a blast! Oh shucks, I forgot to say. So wednesday night I was on the bus and I had a Book of Mormon in my hand. It was late and we had to be home but I thought to myself we really need to hand this out and I recieved a good feeling about it so I told Elder Bruneel that was what we were doing. So we got off the bus and I got straight up rejected by an Indian guy. That made things a little disheartening but I don´t take no for an answer so I edned up walking towards this girl who was the pretty much the last person in the square. Right as I was thinking that I needed to contact her Elder Bruneel called out from behind me and said that I should. Spirit? I think yes. So I contacted her asked her how her night was going and ended up walking with her to the bank. We talked for about 20 minutes about the Gospel and she was so excited to read in the Book of Mormon. SICK! I then was just giddy by this point because my spiritual impression had been spot on. So as I´m walking we pass by this group of three middle aged people and I just can´t hold it in so I´m like Guten Abend! And we keep walking and then behind us you hear "Guten Abend wie gehts euch?!" So I turned around and this lady comes up and asks if we have bibles in our hands. She then asks if we are Jehova´s witnesses and we say no. She laughs and is like We can talk then. Auf Deutsch of course haha. And we end up talking with her and she goes crazy over the Book of Mormon and she gives us her number and types in Sister Bregeet in our phone. (She really likes the title sister hahaha) And while she was giving that to Elder Bruneel I ended up contacting the guy with her and gave him a Book of Mormon as well and he was really serious about it and said that he really wanted to read. So yup, I just lost it and was skipping around the apartment when we got home hahaha. We then have met with a couple other investigators and more families. We ended up giving out a total of 18 Books of Mormon this week. Edler Bruneel was also told that he would never be saved and Elder Nilson was called an Anti-Christ. bahahahaha all in all though, this week has just been a blast and I seriously can´t get enough of it!! The lord really has his hand in this work. I know for a fact that without him we couldn´t have done we we did this week. I hope that you all enjoy this long letter hahaha it definitely has been my favorite week of this experience. I wish I could say all of the other things that happened. I love you all so much! This gospel is true!!! You´re all just great!!!
Tshcuss!!Elder Lee
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