Elder Grow: Schon Wieder? (Again?)

I wish I could be home with you all! This might be the the first time that I have felt actually a bit homesick. Yeah, I have always missed home, but this time I would do anything to be with yall for a couple hours! But yeah, like you said, last one! I cant wait to see you all face to face soon!

I can't wait to come home and make my relationship better with all the kids. As I have been gone, I have realized that I took WAY too much for granted. Sure it will not be the same when I get home, but it is never too late to start being the person that I wish I could've been.

Time flies. That is all I have to say. The end of the transfer is already here. This Saturday, we'll be listening to the transfer calls again.

A few main points for this week:

- Got sick

- Thanksgiving/Christmas dinner activity in the ward

- Cold

- Wet

- Two new potential investigators in one day

- Helped people

- New Christmas video

- It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere I go

On Thursday, I ate something; Which, for whatever reason, did not agree with me. I ate it that morning, puked after lunch, and later while we were on our way to an appointment, and while on the train at about 3pm. Ha ha ha ha so yeah. That was not fun at all. We turned around to go home and we cancelled our appointment. It was accompanied by a pounding headache; So, I pretty much took it easy for a chunk of the day and tried to sleep it off. It helped. I didn't feel queasy anymore, just a bad headache. It was not that enjoyable.

The next day, I was feeling just fine! We did weekly planning and then we had an appointment with our investigator which fell out. We later had out Christmas/Thanksgiving dinner with the men of the ward. We were able to get a ward member to pick up one of our investigators named Alfred. It was good to have him there! He is lonely and was able to talk with people. The ward members were super great! They made him feel super welcome. The food was good and the spiritual thought was also good. It was a great time!

Sunday, we helped our ward mission leader teach the Sunday school lesson. We introduced and shared the new Christmas video that the Church put out just barely. It is really cool! You should go check it out. It's called, "A Savior is Born." We were able to help get the members excited for Christmas and for sharing the Christmas Spirit with other people. We then had an appointment with a member after church. Lets just say that German food is amazing! I love it here. I cannot really describe what it was but pretty much it was home made Spätzle (a type of noodle) with some good sauce and meat to go along with it. It was simply delicious. We then went to check on some people. One of which was Alfred. We were able to talk with him and to cheer him up a bit. We read with him and taught him how to pray. It was good! I love that man. He's a great person.

That was the highlights of the week! I am super excited for Christmas here. The Christmas Markets are starting to open up. We are going to a city called Mainz today to check out the Christmas Market there. Hopefully this rain will give out soon.

Love y'all! Have a great one!

Elder Grow