Hallo Mutti
This week has been one fast one, that is for sure. Today is the mark of my
second transfer in Germany. I am still in Meißen because I am being trained for
12 weeks so that means two transfers with my trainer. I cannot believe how fast
that went by. It is a little scary to think about it. I am starting to getting
use to listening to German 24 hours a day. Although, you get that random person
who can tell you 5 stories without breathing and at that point, my brain just
shuts off.
Highlight of the week: we were "attempted" spit on. So yesterday, we had
a lot of time and we decided to go finding. And so there is a loop in that
picture, we will find on that bridge and walk to the other bridge behind me in
the picture and we call it the loop. And those are the two best places we can
find people on Sundays for in Germany, it is kind of of a culture thing where you
will take your family on Sunday walks and that's when we can run into a lot of
families. Well, when we got off the bridge, we rounded this really sharp corner,
and there was a man just standing there, smoking and drinking by himself. He
kind of surprised me, so I just decided to say hello. And I look at him and say
Hallo! and immediately he tried to spit on us, but he ended up spitting on
himself. So we decided to just keep walking then. That was pretty funny.
It is a really weird experience to start getting used to riding trains and
getting to buses, and for Germans, the train is always on time. Sometimes they
are about two mins late, but then people really start to get mad. And it is
really crazy, because the train will probably stay there for about 45 seconds
and once they see no one else getting on, they leave. So we have become champs
at running up stairs and when we hear the train overhead of us, we just book it
so the conductor can see us. This week was also pretty busy with meetings and
what not. We had a zone conference with about 3 other zones on Thursday and it
was great to see some of the elders and sisters from the MTC. I was able to see
Elder Wirthin and Sister Walker and that was really fun.
Something that I was really reminded of this week is the blessings of
obedience. So after we were walking around yesterday, we decided to leave a
little early and get back to our studies. But with the time it took to walk
back to our apartment, we had about an extra 10 mins and we decided we would go
out after our studies and walk around our apartment. Well, while we started to
do our studies, we got comfortable. I was thinking of ideas we could use that
10 mins in the apartment so I didn't have to put my shoes on and to see if I
could get into my pjs earlier. And as the time got down to it, we figured that
we better do it and go find for those 10 mins. I was really feeling too hopeful
for the last time we did a 10 min walk at night, there was no one on the
street. So we decided this time to go up the hill next to our apartment and see
if there were people. As we started to walk up the hill, we noticed an older
gentlemen and a women going to her car. We kind of figured that after she got
into the car, he would leave and go back into his house. But he didn't, and as
we got closer to him, we started to wake up and notice that he was just sitting
and staying at his front porch. And then we were able to talk to him for a
while and after a little quatsching (chit chatting) we were able to make an
appointment with him to visit him again and bring him a Book of Mormon. We then
decided to turn back home. We were stunned. But I thought that that truly was
a blessing. When we do all that we can, and when we keep promises, the Lord
blesses us.
Its really funny you talk about President Bednar, because he is coming to
our mission to talk to all of us this week and even some missionaries are
speculating that we will get iPad's when he comes. Our president told us that we
will soon get iPad's, but he hasn't given us a set date or what not. Its unreal
to me, I know that we will get them one of these days. But a lot of missionaries
are hoping that we get them this week. But tell those I say Hi and I hope all
is going well with them. And it sounds like a lot of fun that there is some
missionary work going on back at home. That is great.
Give grandma a big hug for me and could you please send me the birthday
dates of everyone in the family? I know, i should know all this stuff by now,
but it would be better than not to forget it.
Yes, I received your package! Thank you! And the crush is the best.
Germans drive carbonated water by itself just because they like to and so we put
the crush packets in to make our own soda. I haven't received any letters from
Chad and the kids yet, but tell them to write them. If I do not get to write to
them that week, I will send them something the next week. Hopefully, there will
be more pictures soon to come. It is a little tough, because we have to go to
this sketch computer laden and they don't have ways to send pictures over the
computer. Maybe one of these days when I get transferred to a place with a ward
building I will be able to send them every week. There is a lot of beautiful
things to see here. Did you know that Meißens sister city is Provo?
apparently, the first dean of BYU is from Meißen. Also, we have in our area,
the dedicatory site were President Monson dedicated East Germany back in the
70s. So there is a lot to see here.
Well, I got to go.
Love ya,
Elder Bretzing
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