Hello Family-
Well another week has come and gone and I just remembered
right after I sent my letter last week, that I did not even share with what I
am grateful for. I guess I can do that now and share them with some
experiences that we had this week.
I am grateful for the friends that I have.
Unfortunately, I am not really in a lot of connection with all my friends back
at home, but I am grateful for the friends that I have made on my
mission. This week I was able to go out on exchange with two
missionaries. One of them is really new on his mission. His name is
Elder Halbleib. This is only his second transfer, so he has been here in
Germany for almost three months. It was fun to go out and work with
him. It reminded me a lot about the beginning of my mission. We had
a lot of appointments during our time together and were always traveling one
appointment to the next. And we met some really interesting people.
One guy that we met with, came to know the church through a very old western
movie which sort of, from how he described it, makes fun of our religion, and
all of his friends used to be members of our church, but they have long since
left. (That and much much more) But as Elder Halbleib and I had the
chance to meet with him, we realized that he really has interested in learning
more about this church. And he even came to church with us too. And
he lives in a very small village outside of Kiel. And then I was able to
go to a small suburb outside of Hamburg called Delingsdorf (but we mostly
stayed in a place called Ahrensburg) with another missionary named Elder
Hein. It was fun to go with him. He is actually going home in one
more month, so we went from a really young missionary to a really old
missionary. But we had some good times. It has been a while since I
rode a bicycle. I felt like we were doing classic missionary work, of
going from door to door of people that we knew and see if we could make out a
time to meet with them.
I am grateful for what I have learned as being a member in
this church. It is just great to see all the wonderful blessings.
Sometimes, they can be hard for us to see. I can see that from people
that we have met on the street this past week. This week was really hard
when it came to talking to people. We talked with a lot of people, but
they all did not have interest. And one lady we met on the street even
explained to us that she has been to Salt Lake City (Which happens a lot here
in Germany) and that she thought it was lovely and beautiful, but from what she
has "heard" from either the internet or her friends, she did not want
to meet with us or even talk to us about these things. And I find that
really disappointing. I would of hoped that she would of given us the
chance to talk to her about the Book of Mormon and more about our goal here on
earth and where we will be going afterwards. But sometimes, we allow
these small things to get in our way from finding out something wonderful or
great.
I am also very grateful for my family. It is always
great to here more about what is going on through the emails! I am trying
to get better at writing my emails because I know there was a time that it was
just a few short sentences. But I am very grateful to hear all that is
going on back at home and to read what is going on. I hope that you are
also able to get something from these emails. Probably 90% of the time it
is just me rambling on about my week.
Well, I love you all and thanks for being awesome and doing
what you do. I hope that this week will be great for you and I cant wait
to come back and here all that is happening!
Love,
Elder Bretzing
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