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.
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