Cachow!

Boom! What another sweet week it has been!! We have just been having a blast down here and I have really been loving every moment!! We have been getting a lot of investigators and referrals and on top of that we have three really serious investigators that are really interested in the church and considering baptism. One has had a baptismal date before but he is scared that he is not ready. We tried to get him to come to the baptism that we had in the area just this last week but he wasn´t able to because he ended up being in France. Great thing about living by everything. People can just drive for an hour and then use the excuse that they´re in a different country and can´t come to church XD hahaha It was great though, because we were able to have another inactive back in church!! I really love working with inactives so much because I feel like it´s so much more important to get those "lost sheep" back into the fold. It is even better when they come back and they are super excited about things. I really have started just having such a great time serving these people because you learn and see so many different things. We help with refugees, students in classrooms, rich people, poor people, and everyone in between. Each with a different background and different experience with so many things. Either way things have been pretty normal when it comes down to it. Life here is just sweet. Some of the days can drag on and yet when you look back it feels like the blink of an eye. It really has been such a great opportunity to be out here on the mission I have seen and learned so much and I am so pumped to see and learn more. I just wish I had prepared myself a lot more than I had, paying attention in German class definitely would have been one of those things that would have helped hahaha we speak from 9 in the morning till 9 at night now. I guess that is normally the common rule throughout missions but we still used a lot of English here. The change has been great though, I feel my understanding and my language skills increasing exponentially. I really believe that the lord helps us when we give it our all. That´s where I need to be. 100 percent in all the time! I have been reading through all of the standard missionary works and I am just about totally finished...except for the bible....that might take a little while hahahaha and I´ve been reading in German so that takes a little longer but it has been so sweet because I understand about 80 percent of what I am reading. The rest I can usually figure out with context clues so I am pretty pumped about it all. My grammar is definitely not where I would like it to be but Elder Jensen has really great German so I have been picking up on a lot of things really quickly! We also had a way sweet pingpong night the other day. I got to play with some really good asians...ya...I have learned some Chinese so that I can contact them and ask them to play pingpong with us....I think Elder Jensen started it. Genius. They all love ping pong! Such a great way to find some new potentials. We actually shared a small spiritual thought with one of them and he ended up not even really knowing who Jesus Christ was. I know that that is pretty common in some areas but I guess I have been so immersed in this gospel that it just blew my mind when I found out!! Just so cool! 

There is so much more to write but not enough time to write it all down. I have to let you know though, that things are going great! Elder Jensen is awesome, the apartment is...interesting. (Showering with a bucket is actually starting to grow on me) Our faucet is busted and the "House Master" Hasn´t gotten anybody to come fix it yet so I have become quite good with bending metal with my bare hands ;) hahaha We also eat a lot healthier now after Jen called me fat on our skype chat ;) Don´t worry Jen I am going to make sure that I don´t stay that way!! Also, good job at graduating seminary! The hours that you put in were definitely worth it! Keep up the good work! Also, I hope that everything is going well with the family! I pray for you all very often and I really hope that as you do the things that are required of you that you feel the strength of the Lord behind you in every step!! You guys are so awesome! Keep having fun and keep eating well!! Love you all!!!

Elder Lee