Religion

What an interesting week it has been. I feel like every single one of my weeks here has been interesting...and somehow the next one finds a way to be even more interesting. I guess you just meet so many people with so many different ideas about life that it just throws you on a little bit of a loop every week. This week was especially interesting for me because of some of the people I talked with. I have noticed that there are very common threads with people though. Most of the time every single one of them is looking for something that they can´t find or they feel that they have found everything that pertains to them already. The other day we were able to travel up to Mannheim to go and help with a booth that the stake was putting on. Kind of like what Steph did this past week. It was in a park for a "family day" that the city was putting on. We weren´t allowed to go contact people but if anyone had questions we were allowed to answer. So we tied balloons, played games, and I chilled at the front table where the copies of the Book of Mormon were as well as all of the pamphlets. (Enter nice lady checking out picture of Jesus Christ) She then proceeded to talk to me and tell me that she was completely atheist and that there was no possible way that a god could exist because of everything that goes on in this world. We then were able to have a very wonderful conversation and by the end she was taking just about everything she could get her hands on. I then looked her in the eyes and made sure to let her know that she would be seeing me again sooner than she thought....could be taken creepily...somehow it worked.

Either way, another possible investigator. Loved it. I then was able to talk to some other great people and it was fun sharing my beliefs with them. Afterwards we traveled home and on the way back to our apartment a group of Guys called out to us "Zeugen Jehovas!" they did it a couple times. Normally I would just walk by and ignore them. They all had beer so I assumed that they had been drinking for a while. At the third time though I turned and walked back through a bunch of Patrons at this bar to talk to a group of them in the middle of it. (It was an outdoor bar) We then ended up having another great conversation in the which they told me that they thought it was really awesome that we were out serving others and they would gladly look us up. They also complimented my German, which made me feel great! I´m finally able to really just sit and communicate with people. It has been happening a lot more often lately. People actually have mistaken me to be a German. Yaya!! I must be getting a proper Baddish accent. I am just so pumped! Elder Sollis contacts everybody, he especially loves contacting younger woman because I am the one who is forced to talk. Stuff is brutal. I have to admit that I contact that group of people the least. Give me any other generation but them and I am good. Ah well, you gotta try and help everyone I guess hahaha. I really am  pumped to see how things work out. We ended up having most of our investigators drop this week so I think that the Lord is wanting us to find some others...or help us remember to always be finding people. That could be it as well. I have to head now though. We´re going to be playing a game of soccer against our stake team before the go to Berlin for a big tournament there. Missionaries gegen Members....woot this is going to be awesome!!! Love you all! Have a great week!

Elder Lee

And here are some pics of Elder Sollis and I.........First week.....he´s tired hahaha