Hey Family,
So as you can read from the title, we had a lot of fallen
out appointments. We have had almost no
lessons with friends this week.
So that gave us a lot of time to get to know the area
more. I was also on an Exchange twice
this week and we were able to visit a district meeting in a city called Lübeck
this week. It was actually pretty cool.
Because it is the city where my trainer served for a good chunk of his
mission. It was a gorgeous city. And on one of these exchanges, we were in a
small city called Neumünster. It is actually really funny, we had like no
success there. Everyone kept saying no
and there were not that many people to begin with. If we saw anyone in our sight, we would talk
to them. We even did the old fashion
approach of going door to door. And
after every slammed door in our face (a one man who wanted to invite us to his
church) we made our way back to the apartment. It was not a fun experience but
I kept thinking during this whole time (this has to be like a Mormon Message
type of thing). It was actually really cool, as we were walking back to the
train station to meet with the other missionaries, we happen to talk to one of
the last people on the road and he had interest! So the missionaries will be
able to meet with him this upcoming week.
Something that has really helped me to stay occupied and
to keep me busy is setting small goals for the day. Of course, I have big long term goals, like
what I would like to study and what I want to do.
But with these small tiny daily goals, that is really
where I can keep my mind focused on my goal.
Like for example, we try to always find someone new each day who would
have interest in learning more about the gospel. Somedays we do not find
anyone, but that doesnt stop me from
being focused on my goal and that day goes by really fast and at the end of the
day, I am mostly super exhausted. But in
a good way.
So if you feel like you need some help on the daily tasks
and what not, try setting daily goals.
And they can stem from more long term goals. Also mom what is really going to help is
daily reading in the scriptures and if you can get everyone around, to really
hold a family home evening. I have seen
that those are the big points that are helping some of the greatest families I
have seen out on my mission.
Well, I got to go.
We are teaching a German class here in Kiel and so we have that after
this. I love you all and now that I sent
pictures, I hope I can get some pictures in return!
Love
Elder Bretzing
P.s. So have you figured out the whole trip yet? It
sounds like things are started to be set in stone or something. It would be
nice to know what you are planning on doing. But if not, no worries. I'll keep doing what I have been doing.
Little Elders still enjoying a fast car or two
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