Hallo Loving Family, 1/5/15
I cannot believe that another week has come and gone.
Wow. Time goes by really fast. We have not had our transfer call
yet. We will recieve that this Saturday or Friday evening. I am not
certain what is going to happen, it is a good possibility that I leave and go
somewhere else, however, we will see. So if you send anything to me,
please please please send it to the Mission Home and next week, I will let you
know if I stay or go.
So, this week we were able to celebrate the New Year with a
family in the branch, called the Berge's. They invited us over, and we
were able to eat some really good german food, and they come from south
Germany, and alot of southern Germans know alot of english, so the entire time
we were helping them practicing their german. And it is really crazy here
in Germany when it comes to fireworks, especially here in the East.
Because, everyone is able to go over and buy really cheap, but really loud
fireworks from the Czech and from Poland to, so it was really loud. No
matter what time it was, even at 4 o clock to 4 o clock on January 2!
there was still fireworks going off. It was pretty crazy. And
what alot of people or should I said teenage punks, is that they buy these
fireworks that look like grenades, and they set them off and they throw them
into parking lots, or sometimes when it gets crazy, they will throw them into
the street. So we made sure we stayed in our apartment during that time.
There was also a really funny expierence and great one that
happened to us this week. So, normally, how we get around all the little
villages that we go to, is by train. We use the train almost every
day. And they are smart. They put vending machines here and those
things are like my kryptonite. So we were at a train station, and I was
really thirsty. P.S. Capri-suns are like a big thing over here. And
I looked into the vending machine and this little girl next to me pointed out
that there was a capri sun stuck in the machine. And so I decided to try
to loosen it by buying another capri sun. So i got two capri suns for the
price of one! That is not the miracle, the miracle is that I decided that
I did not need two, just one, and I asked the little girl if she would like the
other one. She looked very happy and said Yeah! And the mother was
standing there the whole time, and when she saw that we were nice, she started
to talk to us. We then brought up what we do and why we are here.
We came to find out that she actually met other missionaries, and that for some
reason they lost contact. But she was really interested and so we were
able to give her our number with our address to our ward building and a book of
mormon. It was a great expierence, and it shows me how a little act of
kindness can open doors and new opportunities. We know a little bit about
where she lives, but no where exactly, so this week I think we are going to go
and try and find her. I am pretty confident that we will either find her
or she will call us back.
Also, something great this week, is that we were able to
find another translator for our investigator, Raju. He was our Hindi
investigator, and we met with him this last week and he made the decision that
he wants to get baptized. We were able to set him a date next month, and
we will be working with him to help prepare him so he will be ready to make
this commitment with Heavenly Father. He is so excited and we have been
teaching him how to pray properly and he says that he feels God whenever he
prays now and he has a desire to return back to heavenly father. So we
will be working with him close this next week.
The firsts have been tough for me here too. And I
truly understand when you have people that do not know what to say. I
still know that they love me and sometimes I have to be patient with them when
they are trying to help me, but I know how that feels. The best way that
I have faced with it, is to just keep going forward, and to know that soon the
firsts will get easier and easier to handle.
But things have been going good here, tell me all about how
people are doing back at home. Kristina told me she was trying to come
and see you, has she come yet? Let me know about everything!
I love you all and I am grateful for all your prayers and
you are never to far from my mind.
With all my love,
Elder Bretzing
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