March 3, 2014 I am writing to you from, you guessed it, a Turkish internet cafe. Oh, Turkey. Turks just own a lot of stores, not many Germans own any sort of establishment. Cool thing of the week, an El Salvadorian man shows up at church on Sunday, he is working here for the next 5 years or so. Hes been affiliated with the church for a long time, 20 years of so. He went to the temple open house in El Salvador, which he says is good because all the members had to go to Guatemala until then. He was on a Mormon talk show for a while, and he sat next to some famous Mormons on a plane who suggested he come to the ward in Altona. He thinks its fate that leads him to the church again and again. Hes also seen the State of the Union address three times. Ive been thinking about that value of small experiences. Little conversion stories, small miracles, daily tender mercies, they grow over time. They swell up in your memory, they dont grow stale. If you actually value them (and write them down), they form an unseen safety net for you. Its a quiet, firm testimony that survives the storm, not the flashy one supported on one leg. Youll hear people tell great stories of miracles and whatnot, but then you keep talking and see that they dont have any stronger a testimony than you. Here is a good quote from President Kosak: Our President Thomas S. Monson [T.M. = tender mercies :)] said, I am a very simple man. I just do what the Lord tells me to do. The sun came up at seven or so, theres light in the sky when we wake up, which makes morning sport easier. In summer well never see darkness. My comp is cool. We had an assignment to write essays on our personal conversion for Zone Training this week, so naturally we decided to write a 4-act play. Well see how that goes. Our ward is really good. A bit smaller than Braunschweig but still big. This was the area where the APs lived back when the Hamburg mission was around, so they have a lot of history. Weve been working hard to find new investigators this transfer, 4 new this week and 8 or so in total. Its difficult to help them progress, but were having good success in preaching the Word to many people. Our bishop is moving to Flensburg in a few months. We had dinner with him, he cooked Butterteig, or Butter Dough, which is a ham dish wrapped in undercooked buttery dough. It was really good. For dessert we had what is probably my favorite dessert, homemade ice cream. Raspberry. Mmmmmmm holy cow that was good. They made good sauce too. I am doing well, learning a lot of interesting things. Im working on making Dough, we buy a lot of flour. Glad Allie got into BYU, no chance she wouldnt. We’ll have a few semesters together out there. I got the package which contained Jelly beans and the sketch book. The Jelly beans are Irish, and very good quality. They may not be quite as good as Jelly Belly, but they have a higher ratio of good-to-bad beans, of the 36 flavors they have three gross ones. Ive eaten 2/3 or so of them. The book is also good, hardcover with big pages so I can use it on my lap, very handy. It has an odd graffiti motif on the cover, but its a solid book and there is graph paper in the back so Im happy. Thank you! German Language tip of the week. You said: By the way, the German word for Obfuscate is Vernebeln, obfuscation is Verschleierung, which seems like a totally different word. From what I understand of Prefixes and whatnot, Vernebeln means to cover with fog, and Verschleierung is basically the covering of something with a veil. It could easily have been switched, Vernebeln and Vernebelung would have been a functioning pair, as well as Verschleiern and Verschleierung. Anywho Ill leave you in peace for the week. Tschüß
Posted on: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 12:43:52 +0000
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