First Week

Well, these last couple of days have really brought me back in time. Sometimes it feels like forever but at the same time it feels like only a few days. Wednesday night I headed up to Frankfurt Bahnhoff with Elder Pearson and sent him off to the Land of Eternal P-Days. I´m going to miss the guy, he was an awesome missionary and I have a lot of respect for him. I then went with the other trainers that were called to the Hotel that they would have us staying in for the next couple days. I got my key and was sent to my room...ended up spending a few minutes trying to get the door open. For a couple seconds I was completely stumped as to why I couldn´t get in. That´ll make a guy feel dumb right there hahaha can´t even get in the door. You only have one key so the excuse of using the wrong one just can´t be used. Sooo after a couple of frustrated jerks on the door it finally opened for me. Seeing that new Elder Sprawled out on the bed, having fallen asleep in the middle of writing in his journal, was just to much. I started chuckling, luckily, he didn´t wake up. I then undressed, cleaned up, and got in bed. Probably 30 minutes later Elder Butler woke up and we talked for a little bit. He is from Cedar City so that´s way cool. We then fell asleep and the next morning got ready for our trainings and our pairing meeting. After a breakfast of nutella on bread and an apple. (Ya, I´m known for being a healthy eater) Then the trainers went downstairs to a meeting room and they talked to us for an hour...doomsday had arrived and I had forgotten a change of underwear for the scary stuff. Luckily, the lord blesses his servants and with Bladder under control the Goldens arrived. As everyone stacked into the meeting room President talked with us and went over some more things. They then paired us by lifting up our picture and then lifting up the picture of the Golden we would be with. After introducing myself I was paired with Elder Sollis. He is legit!!! But, I will get to that later. So after the meeting we all went to our seperate rooms and the Goldens came and we studied together. Elder Sollis and I then went with some other Elders and met up with the group again and we started walking to the train station. Halfway in we got attacked by a massive German Shepard...luckily, we were in a large group and so he just marked his territory on the mailbox in front of us and then he walked back to his humble abode. 5 minutes later we ended up having it pour rain so we all booked it to a Rewe and hid there for a little bit. We got some food and then we started walking again when it all died down. From there we went back to my home in Darmstadt. It was great!! I loved being there and just talking with tons of people again. There was a street display there so we joined in on the fun. We talked a bunch and good ol´ Elder Sollis passed out his first Book of Mormon!!! It was awesome! I loved being there to watch and work with him. We then went back to Frankfurt and joined in on that street display. For three hours I walked back and forth talking with everyone in sight. By the end of the night our companionship had handed out 8 copies of the book of mormon and had given numbers, received them, as well as cards etc. All in all I was pumped about the success and the fact that my golden is just super awesome!! Afterwards we went back home pretty late and got in bed ready for the next day with Elder Ballard. Wow, and how amazing it was to be 15 feet away from an apostle of the Lord. He walked in and I literally could feel his presence and the presence of others with him. The spiritual confirmation that followed was incredible. He then told us that we have got to do more work. We just aren´t doing enough out here, and I dare say I have to agree. I haven´t done my best and I was surprised that I didn´t throw up an excuse in my mind. I just accepted it and went to work. He talked about some other things that were really quite special. Sadly, It´s to much to write but I have it written in my journal so no worries. We then returned home and got Elder Sollis filled in on everything and planned for the next day. We then slept and hit it hard. I am so pumped to see how these next couple transfers turn out.  It really is going to be wonderful!!! The Lord is in this work, I can see it, and I saw it when one of his apostles spoke to us on Friday. We need to be doing all that we can to help him hasten his work. I thought that I was but as Elder Ballard spoke with us I realized I haven´t been. We can always do more. Never forget it. Never get complacent. Work your hearts out. I´ll be right there along with you trying to do it myself. I love you all! Thanks for everything!! Talk soon!
Elder Lee