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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

I'm Coming Home

Hi All,

Here's Kayl's last post.  Thank you all for your support while Kayl has been serving the in Frankfurt Germany.  Kayl arrives home tomorrow afternoon.



Monday, September 19, 2016

It's the final countdown!

Hi All,

Well, this week flew by. Probably going to be a short email this week. Not too much happened.

On Monday, we went over to the Zeppelin Field and stood where Hitler stood and checked out the area. It was a lot of fun. We also checked out this really cool store where they had tons of nerdy things to sell. They had tons of things that were movie themed and video game themed. I didn't buy anything, but it was really fun to look around.

Wednesday morning I went on a split with a brand new missionary until Thursday morning. It was fun being on the extreme side of how long I've been out, and him on the other. 1st transfer and Last Transfer companionship. He is a bro. He is also way trunky already. It's hilarious! It's probably his trainer who is going home in 4 months who says he isn't trunky but just doesn't realize it. We went by some people and I took him to the chocolate factory in Forchheim so he could by 5 pounds of chocolate for €5. We had dinner and continued going by others.

Thursday we split back and we had Zone Conference. Went from 11-5. It was fun to see all the missionaries in the Zone again. At the end they had all the leaving missionaries from the Zone, all 3 of us, give our testimonies. It was super weird. I remember seeing people do that every transfer for the past 15 and now my MTC comp and I were on the chopping block. It was good though. It felt so weird to be practically saying bye to everyone. We then all closed with the song, "Hark all ye nations" but they only wanted to sing the first verse because we were running out of time. They start to play the music part before people start singing that way I guess people know how it goes and how fast it is. As they did that, I though, Hey! This is my last zone conference and this is a cool song. We should stand up! I then leaned over to a buddy of mine from my district, Elder Honbeck, and I whisper to him, "Hey, want to stand up and sing the song?" "Sure dude!" He replies. A sister sitting in front of us heard and just smiled and shook her head at us. I then leaned forward to Elder Frey, a German elder who is also a friend of mine, and I asked the same thing. He was a bit more hesitant, but quickly said, "Yeah! Let's do it!" Then, as they all started to sing, the three of us jumped to our feet and started singing loud and proud. We were all in the back row, so nobody in front of us saw us really except for those sitting next to us, President and Sister Stoddard, the AP's and the music conductor. To the right of us, I see another Elder, Elder Rowe, stand up shortly after us. Then, the Mission President looks at us, smiles a bit, and stands up with his wife and continues singing. That led the rest of the missionaries to also stand. It was pretty awesome!!! It was too bad that we didn't sing the rest. I then talked with a lot of people afterwards and took pictures with a lot of them and said goodbye to most. It sucked! We then later traveled home and went to meet with our Ward Mission Leader, Bruder Zink.

Friday we went to meet with a new family in our ward who is from Brazil and was living in England for the last year. Before we went there, we stopped by the church to look for Bruder Schlembach's number so we move our appointment. We couldn't find it, but while we were there, a guy walks into the church and we talked with him a bit. Turns out, he had some extra time and was in the area and was curious about who we were and what we are all about. We gave him a Book of Mormon and talked with him a bit. We got his number and will be calling him soon to see if we can meet with him. Really random, but it was cool! We then went to the Zink's place, which is where the Brazilian family is staying for now, and we talked with them for a bit. We helped the Husband with some bank stuff because he can't speak German and the Lady on the phone can't do English all that well. I was the middle man and we figured everything out. It was rough. We then helped them translate their testimonies into German for them because they were going to be sharing them in front of the ward the upcoming Sunday. After all that, Rafael, the husband, drove us to our appointment with Bruder Schlembach. Luckily, he called us earlier and asked about the appointment and we were able to move it a little later. We met with him and had a good lesson. He continues to smoke less and less. It's great!

Saturday we had a street display in Erlangen. It was fun! We got rained on the entire time, but the Pavilion helped out a lot. We had the Erlangen Elders and Sisters, Nürnberg Elders and Sisters, and Grafenwöhr Elders there. We talked with a lot of people. The Sisters got a couple of potentials and we only got one. Kinda a bummer, but whatever. It was good! We then packed everything into the Nürnberg car and they drove it and dropped it off at the church for us. The Sisters and us rode there to put it all away. We then walked home. Elder Smith and I then did weekly planing.

Sunday was pretty chill. We went to church, had lunch with Bishop Dettmer and his family, and went to the church that evening to be around while the Sisters taught two new male investigators that were given to them from the Coburg Sisters. You can't meet with people of the opposite sex unless you have three people of the opposite sex, or a third person of your gender with you. So we were there to make it work. We didn't help with the lesson though, we were just downstairs in the building.

That's about it for the week! I can't believe that I'm coming home so soon. I'm pretty stoked but super sad. It's ok though. Like I said last week, this is going to be my last email home to you guys, that way I have something to talk with you guys about once I'm there! Hope you don't mind! There will be a short video for you guys though.

Love you!
Elder Kayl Grow, signing off.

P.S. Here are some photos:


Elevator iPad Selfie. Hansen, Moeller, me, Smith.


Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Transfer 16 of 16

Hey Everyone,

I didn't have time to write an email this week, so I'm using
Elder Awerkamp's. This email is through his perspective. I didn't
write it. Just a quick update on my personal end, Elder Awerkamp is
going home this Thursday and my new companion is getting here on
Tuesday. We will be in a drit for a bit. His name is Elder Smith. I
don't know him at all. He is somewhat newer on the mission. Anyway:

Monday we went to Rothenburg. Way pretty. I recommend it to everyone.
That evening we met with Roslan. Our lesson went pretty well. He told
us he didn't want to get baptized till he was able to keep the
commandments, which is way awesome. He asked us to work with him to
help him and we had an awesome lesson going through and figuring what
things cause him to drink tea and smoke and figured out how to avoid
those things and what other options he can turn to for them.

Tuesday we met with Auras' who actually had their friends over for
dinner as well. Cool thing, those friends were actually there when
Elder Butler, Elder Peatross, and I met with them my first day in
Erlangen, and they totally remembered me. We shared a really cool
object lesson about trust God and having faith. It was great.

Thursday was my last zone training. Ewwwww. That was pretty bitter
sweet. I got to help with a musical number then I gave my testimony
along with Elder Morris and Elder Leppert who are both leaving as
well. The really ironic thing was the theme of the zone training was
the first six weeks of the twelve week program and it marked my one
week mark. It was really cool to get pumped up about the work for one
last time in Germany. (Gotta put that qualifier in there).

That evening we met with Bishops family and did service and had a BBQ.
Man, I love this Ward. They are so awesome. We were talking with
Bishops oldest so Janek, who is preparing for a mission and already is
a super awesome missionary. He and Arian hang out a lot and are like
each other's spiritual wingmen. Supporting each other in good choices.

Saturday we had a sweet street display. We found a way cool display
stand in the basement of the church so we set that up, along with a
big banner, and a table of BOMs we had about 10 missionaries there as
well. Way cool. What I found pretty amusing is that although I've been
doing this quite a while now and my Germans pretty good, (by no means
perfect, but you know, good) the same thing as has happened most of my
mission happened: I talked to people, had good conversations, but
couldn't give out a Book of Mormon. Then some dude walked up and asked
if he could have it. Hey, works right? Turns out he's a former and he
said he would call once he had a chance to read. Score! We had a
really successful street display.

Then we visited Bru Schlembach. He's doing really well with quitting
smoking and is reading a lot more in the Book of Mormon. He's so nice,
he's way sad I'm going. But we finally were able to find a ride to get
him to church. He was so dang happy. I love to see people so excited
about church. A lot of people said they would come this week, none of
them did, but Bru Schlembach definitely more than made up for it.

Some really crappy news is that Roslan been acting really weird
lately, he told he does want to meet anymore and that it's just too
hard to find out which of all the church's is true. It's really weird
and not like him. Hopefully we can figure out what's up though he's
kind of avoiding us right now. So that kind of blows.

Have a great week!

Love you all,
Elder Grow

Monday, August 8, 2016

Ehhh - Rough Week



Hi All,


So...yeah. The week started out pretty good and then it hit the fan on Saturday.

This last Monday was a heck of a lot of fun! The Sisters and us went up to Bamberg. The Elders in Bayreuth came with us. All of us went up there in Lederhosen, except for Sister Hansen. She doesn't have any and didn't feel like wearing her Dirndl. We also went up there with a member named Andy from our ward. He showed us around and just laughed at us when he realized that we were all getting dressed up to go up there. He doesn't have any either. Bamberg was way cool though! The city was practically not touched during the war. They only had like 3% of their city destroyed. Virtually nothing. It was super pretty! It was really fun to just look around and wander through the city and some paths and the Dome there. We took a lot of photos while we were there.





Tuesday we met with Arian again. It was fun. He tried to teach us how to do this way cool way hard dance thing that he learned. He then told us that he had a problem he wanted to talk with us about. He said that there is the camping party thing in a week and that all of his friends are going to it, but he didn't really want to because he knew what would probably be there and he did not want to be in a situation like that. He explained more and asked us what we though. We already knew what he should do, and so did he, but we didn't want to tell him what to do. We made a chart and made him write down all the pros and cons of going to the party/staying home instead. Because he already wanted to stay home, so he easily threw up a lot of 'pros' for that and a lot more 'cons' for going to the campout. He then came to the decision of staying home and partying it up at his house alone while his family leaves to go on vacation and stuff. Another plus is that his girlfriend is also not going to the camping thing, so he will be able to see her throughout the week before she leaves with her family on vacation for a while. Win win.

Thursday we met with Roslan at the church and taught him the rest of the commandments. He accepted everything; tithing, chastity, fasting, word of wisdom, and all. The lesson was way good and he was super stoked for his baptism on the next Thursday!

Friday we visited with Beate and we celebrated the birthday of her daughter, Fabiana, who came back from Utah to visit. It was way fun. It was nice to finally meet her because she left Erlangen to go study in Utah shortly before I got here in January. She had lots of friends there and none of them were Mormons. There were actually two Americans there. One of them has only been living in Germany since May. I have no idea how she even got to know these people, but it was fun to talk with them. They were super cool. I miss America!

Saturday was...well....could've been better. We got a text from Roslan as we were on our way to meet with our less active who was working on giving up smoking. Roslan wanted to talk to us if we got the chance. We called him ASAP and he told us that he didn't want to be baptized. We were super taken off guard because ever since we set a date with him, he was super excited and pumped for it. He didn't sound like himself. He was super solemn and monotone. He told us that there were two reasons why. The first one being that he smoked a cigarette and drank a cup of tea. He was super depressed on that because he has been trying super hard to stop. He only smokes like 3 cigs a week because he is a social smoker, but it's still hard. The second thing was that he feels like he hasn't gotten a good enough answer yet that the church is true. He feels like it's good and right, but he said he needs to feel it more. Totally understandable. He said there was also more to it but we are going to be talking with him about it today after Pday in person. We then get to Bruder Schlembach's place. We met with him for a while and he told us that he smoked more cigarettes than normal the last week. That was also really sad. We shared a thought about scripture study and about how that will help give him more strength and determination. We spent a little extra time with him because he finds it sad that we always have to go pretty soon afterwards. Truth is, we meet for like 45 minutes and then our bus comes, and if we miss it then it comes an hour later. We decided to miss a bus so that we could spend time with him. It was worth it.

That was about it for the week. Roslan's baptism is falling out for a little while until he feels ready to do it. He will make it for sure :)

Have a great week!

Elder Grow


Thursday, July 14, 2016

Time Keeps Flying

Hey guys! 

I hope yall had an awesome American day. We enjoyed our
Independence Pday as we went up to Bayreuth in Lederhosen and visited
a castle over there. It was a ton of fun. I don't know when it was
made, but the guy who made it just made it for the heck of it,
apparently. Just because he could. It had a really nice garden and
everything. I sent some photos over about it earlier. We went out
there with the entire district. 5/6 of us had Lederhosen. It was fun.
We then went back to Nürnberg and traveled back up to Erlangen. We got
there and ate some McDonalds in celebration of America's freedom.

Tuesday was also a really good day! We met with a less active member
with their home teacher. It went ok. She is just lazy and won't put
forth the effort to 'remember' about coming to Church. It's sad. We
made out an appointment with her for next Tuesday and said that the
Sister Missionaries who would be coming soon would love to meet with
her and she was fine with it. We then went by a referral who lived out
in the Boonies. We take our bikes with us from the appointment to a
train stop near by and travel for about 45 minutes. We then biked
pretty much downhill for about 20 minutes through the German country
side. It was way pretty! I would've gotten some photos of it, but I
was enjoying speeding down the hills too much. We then get to a tiny
little village and find the dude's house. There was a guy working in
the front. We asked him, "Hey, do you know this guy?" He replied,
"Yes." "Are you this guy?" "Who's asking?" "We are Mormon missionaries
and heard that he wanted a Book of Mormon from us." "Well sounds like
somebody lied." He never did tell us if he was the guy or not, so we
are going to continue trying to get in contact with him through email
and telephone. The church now contacts people who refer themselves so
double check that they really do want a visit from the missionaries,
so we can be a lot more sure that referrals that we do get really do
have interest to some extent. After we turned around, our map said
that there was a castle of some kind right up the hill. This is why
Bavaria is awesome. There are castles and cool things like everywhere.
We decide to check it out. Turned out to be the shortest hike to a
castle that I've ever taken and was the tiniest thing of a ruins I've
ever seen. There was just a chunk of wall coming out of a mound of
earth. We took some photos with it. What was cool is that it was made
like 700 years ago and there was a pretty weird trench thing all
around it. We also figured that the wall continued into the ground and
that a lot of the castle was probably just covered by earth with time
because of random doorways that seemed to be buried. We then biked
uphill forever and then caught a train to Nürnberg to pick up the
Sisters. We waited for a while and then their bus finally came in. One
is from Utah and the other is from Tasmania, Australia. They are both
way cool! We helped them bring all their stuff back and then we all
went to an appointment to a young couple's place. We ate lots of food
and had a good time there. We then all went home for the night.

Wednesday we had our district meeting. Because we got 3 new people
this transfer, Elder Awerkamp and I were in charge of the
Get-to-know-you activity. Our specialty. It consisted of your standard
questions with "Where are you from, how big is your family and where
do you fit in, and what do you want to do when you grow up." We then
had everyone draw two slips of paper from a container. Each one had a
super random question what we came up with the night before. Some of
them were like, "If you could replace any limb, what would you replace
it with? You wake up in an alley, beat up, and missing a kidney. What
happened and where is your kidney? If you could make an animal, what
would it consist of?" Everyone was laughing and having a good time. We
ended up choosing weird questions because the way people respond to
them tells you a lot about the individual. That way, you learn about
each other quicker and have lots of laughs while doing it! After we
did that and had other lessons, we went to an appointment with the
Sisters to the Risner family. We introduced them to each other and we
all ate lasagna. The Risner family is so awesome! They just have the
coolest kids and are always fun to be around. After that we went home
and prepared for our lesson with an excommunicated Member. His last
name is Steinbrecher, which literally means Stonebreaker. On our way
there, we are walking to the back of the bus and a guy from Toga waves
at us and says hi. He asked if we spoke English or French. We said
English. He then told us that he was a member if the Church and wants
to know where the Church Building is. He was apparently baptized 8
months ago in Sweden and then a month later he moved down to Germany.
He hasn't had contact with the church since. We told him where the
church was and we swapped numbers so we could stay in contact. He then
got off the bus and we continued to our appointment. We get there and
Bruder Steinbrecher's son was also there. He is like 12. We all ate
some dinner with each other, which was bread and butter with either
some lunch meat, raw meat, or jelly. It was all pretty good, except
the raw meat. It wasn't seasoned enough. It was just bland.  Needed
some salt :) We Shared 3 Nephi 9:13 and the last two verses of the
chapter. It went pretty good. He then kinda went off on a rant about
why he can't doesn't believe certain things and other small problems
that he has with the Gospel. There were a lot of things he brought up,
but it's not anything that we can't easily solve. He told us that we
could talk about it next time, which is good because then we can start
off the meeting nicely and try to keep the spirit there. The entire
time, his son, who's not a member, was telling his Dad that he needs
to go back to church and repent. Along with the spiritual thought, we
had an object lesson with oil in a cup of water. We said that we can't
just pour out the oil because then we loose a lot of that which makes
our lives full and also because the oil will still be in there. We
showed that by adding more water (good things and habits) we can let
the oil (bad things and habits) float to the top and flow out. The son
would say to the father, "Hey! That's another drop of oil!" each time
that the Dad would go on a rant. It was so funny!  Afterwards we
played a bit of Uno and then went on our way. We have an appointment
with him for this next Wednesday.

Thursday we met with an investigator who only speaks Persian and a
little English and German. We skyped a member who lives in the Herne
Ward, the other side of the mission right next to where I started out
at. He helped translate. He taught the plan of salvation and it went
really well. The investigator's name is Arian. Arian wants to be
baptized but can't yet until he finds an apartment. We aren't allowed
to baptize refugees when they live in a refugee home or any other
Government housing until they find their own place. That is the only
thing keeping him back right now. He is hoping to get one in the next
couple weeks.

Friday night we met with Beate, the lady we baptized in May. We taught
the 3rd lesson in Preach My Gospel. It talks about faith, repentance,
baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. We went
really well! It's always nice to meet with her. She is so great! She
is hoping to move to Utah next year, which would be awesome!

Saturday was full of traveling and falling asleep on Busses. We went
by on two less actives. One in a place called Gremsdorf and the other
in Neustadt Aisch. We were luckily able to meet with both of them.
They both live in care homes. The one in Gremsdorf smokes again for
whatever reason, but he is now determined to smoke less! He usually
smoked 20 cigarettes a day, but we made a plan to lower it down to 15
until the next time we meet. We shared Philippians 4:13 with him. We
emphasized scripture study and prayer because that is how you get
strength to do things you normally couldn't. He was super enthusiastic
about it and couldn't help but give us a huge hug a couple of times
before we left. When we were leaving, he came with us and told the
Nurses and care people that he is going to smoke only 15 a day now and
he told them that he wanted their help. They were all for it! They
said that's ey'd support him. We left and went to the next guy. We
also had a good lesson with him. Poor guy is so old. He is about to
turn 87. He is way nice though. We had a good time with him and shared
Alma 34:32 with him and talked about how by knowing the purpose of
life, we can get a better perspective on things that come into our
life. It was really good. We then went home for the night and made
dinner.

So yep. Those were the highlights of the week! I hope you guys had a good one!

Elder Grow

Monday, May 23, 2016

This was a WOW week!

Hey guys!

This last week flew by. We also earned ourselves a few new mission stories. 

It all started on Tuesday. We went out to some small town by bus to go and find an inactive member. We get there, have no luck at having them answer their door, so we move on. Later as we are taking the bus back, a cool bus driver guy from Greece picked us up. He talked to us as we were getting on the bus and we decided to sit up front so we could talk with him as he drove. He was a bro! He is Greek Orthodox and has a super fest believe on Christ. He asked lots of questions about us out of curiosity. He didn't have interest in meeting with us, but he loved talking about the Gospel and Jesus and stuff. He talked about the second coming and how he can't wait for that day to come so that Satan will be bound. It was really neat to just talk with him naturally about such subjects. People always think that religion separates people, but that's totally not true. We are all united in some way or another. It was cool to casually talk about Christ and stuff with someone of another faith and just be united with them. It was way sick. I also learned how to say 'Holy Ghost' in Greek.

Thursday we decide to find an inactive couple who lives out in the boonies who we just got a new address for. We take a bus out there for 50 minutes and then we realize that the next bus going back to where we came from came at 12:00 Midnight on Saturdays....... Why the....? Who makes a one way bus line? We figured we would figure something out afterwards, so we went to the person's house. We get there and realize that there is no name on their mailbox or doorbell. We rang twice but no one answered. We left a card for them with a note on it. We looked at our map and figured out where some other bus stops were. We found one that would come every 2 hours. There was literally nothing near this bus stop so we couldn't really go do much. We figured we would call a taxi to save time. We didn't have their number. We called some missionaries and a member and eventually found a phone number for a Taxi service. We thought it might be like €20 total. Nope. €22 each. We decided that it was not worth it/we did not have that kind of money. We then just resorted to waiting for the bus. The bus we found would take us to a train stop in the middle of nowhere, which would then take us to Nürnberg, which would then take us home. That was the plan. As the time came that the bus should come, one came but turned to a different stop nearby. We figured that there would be a different one coming that would come by our stop. Turns out, for one reason or another, the bus we wanted was going to that other stop because I guess something near ours was under construction. We missed our bus out of here. By this time we were pretty much dusting the dust off our feet and saying that we were never coming back here. I was kidding about the first part, but we really decided that we were never going up to Oberreichenbach again. We then realize that we will have to wait another two hours. We decided to go to the nearest ATM and pull out money for a taxi. Nearest one was only 500m away. The bank was closed for construction. The next closest one was 4.5km away. Forget that. Not even 30 minutes pass and another bus comes by. Our stop was it's end stop. We run over and ask the guy if he was driving anywhere else. "No," he said, "My route is over. I'm taking the bus back and going home. Where do you need to go?" We listed off a couple destinations that we would be ok with. He said that he was driving by one of them and he would take us by a stop with better connections. We were so thankful! We rode up front with him and just chatted. He talked about how that village's connections were just garbage and how one way bus lines are stupid. We agreed. He was also from Greece. He dropped us off at our stop and we thanked him a ton. We then waited for our next bus so we could get home and have dinner. We left to go to that city at 1:30pm and we got back home at 8:00pm. It was so annoying. We learned the lesson of always checking for a way back before you go somewhere small and new. 

Friday we went by an inactive man named Bruder Gonte. It took a while to get to him. Once we got there, we realized that he lived in a rest home. He is like 87. We ring his bell and he is surprised that we came to visit him. He buzzed us in and we went up to find his room. We got there and he answers the door in a wife beater and a diaper. He was also as thin as one can get. It was crazy! He was so happy that we came by. We brought us in and told us to sit down. We sat down at the foot of his giant king sized bed. We talked with him a bit as he tried to put some pants on. He was having a real struggle with it. We offered several times to help him but he said that he's not that old yet. We continue talking with him as he wrestles with his pants for 10 minutes. He finally did it and then we walked over the the living room with him. He is a super nice little apartment thing! It makes the Jamestown care center in Provo look terrible. We talked with him a bit about lots of different things. He shared a really crazy story that happened in his life time. He was living in Berlin at the time that the Russians were bombing the city. He was a young boy at the time. Him and his family ran into their cellar/bomb shelter and they heard bombs exploding all around. All of the sudden, a bomb crashes through their house and through the cellar and smacks the ground about 7 feet away from them and doesn't blow up. They were so shocked and terrified. "God was with us," he stated. He then told us how he moved around from city to city until he eventually ended up where he was at. Before we headed out, we asked him if we could say a prayer with him. He enthusiastically replied, "Yes! Of course you can!" He has Elder Hales say it. Afterwards, he looked me in the eyes and said, "Every step you take in this country, on this soil, does good for all mankind. I bless you that you will see success wherever you go and in what you do in this land. When you go home you will get a wife and have kids and a family of your own. You will be able to raise them in the Gospel and watch them grow up. By doing so, you will be so happy! Thank you so much for the work you are doing!" He then went on to bear his testimony about the Gospel. He then said, "In the name of Jesus Christ I leave this blessing with you. Amen." Elder Hales and I could not believe what just happened. It was just so unexpected and out of the blue. The Spirit was there and was like throwing books off the walls and flipping tables and hitting us with chairs. It was so cool! It's really not everyday that you have an old man prophesy things and pronounce blessings on you. We made an appointment and this upcoming Wednesday. He is such a cool guy! It is so sad that he can't make it to church. If he was physically able, he would always be there. Of all the less actives I've worked with, he is the one with the Strongest testimony. 

Saturday was really stinkin' hot. We were going to meet with a potential investigator, but we missed the second bus we needed to take and would be an hour late. We told her and she said that we could meet on Sunday at the same time because she has the entire day free. We then heaved back home, had dinner and went to visit Schwester Kornhäuser, another less active. She wasn't home, so we spent the last 45 minutes of our day contacting. We decided to walk to the church and back. As we did, we stopped a guy named Muhammed. He was super interested in what we had to say and we had a good chat with him. We made an appointment where we could bring a Book of Mormon to him. We will be doing that Tuesday. We continued all and we found Schwester Kornhäuser having a pick nick in a park that leads to the church. He was with some friends, one of which we met while we visited her in the past. We talked for a while and made an appointment for the future. It was cool that we ran into her as we were finding. 

Sunday we met with the potential investigator. Her name is Martha. She's from Mexico. We kinda just talked with her and told her what we do and asked if she had any questions about us or anything in general. She asked a lot of really good questions. We started to teach her the Plan of Salvation because her questions were going to be best answered in that context. It went really good! We didn't get all the way through the entire plan, but we made another appointment out for next Sunday where we can finish it. We gave her a couple chapters to read from the Book of Mormon so that she could have a head up on what will be talked about next time.

This is probably the longest email I've written in a long time hahaha! So yeah. This week was good. I liked it. Except for Thursday. Thursday sucked. Dumb busses. I hope you guys have a great week!

Elder Grow
 

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