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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