Servus Zusammen!
Well this week was a pretty busy week, but first of all transfer calls are this Friday, so I can't tell you till next email who my next companion
will be (if E. Zimmerman gets transferred), but I am not going anywhere.
I'll be staying in Stuttgart for a little while because with only a few
exceptions President Miles leaves Zone Leaders in their area for at
least 6 months. Elder Zimmerman is coming up to the end of his 6 so it
is possible that he stays, but likely that he goes. I'll let you know
next week.
This
last week we did an austausch with the district leader and his
companion in Tübingen. I was with the DL's companion in Tübingen, which
is a really pretty city, from Tuesday to Wednesday. This particular
missionary is one that you hear a lot of crazy weird stories about from
other missionaries, but I ended up learning a lot from him. We were in
his area, but he wasn't ready to lead out so he would
ask me what we should do. We went by on a couple of potential
investigators, who ended up not being home, and then when we got to this
one city that was on the boundaries between Tübingen and Stuttgart ward
boundaries I simple told him to pick a street that he had a good
feeling about and we would go dooring. After three houses we found some
people who told us to come by again in two days at a certain time. After
I told him to pick another street on the map, we went there and
within four houses found another potential investigator family. This
happened about 4 more times in a half hour (which is so good with finding since it
rarely ever happens). Eventually we got let into a house of a young
married couple who were super excited to meet us and we had an awesome
lesson with them that lead them to want to meet with us two to three
times a week once they get back from their trip in England. This
missionary I worked with was not necessarily the most skilled
missionary, but when it came to listening to the Holy ghost as to where
to go he was the master of that. It was a great lesson for me.
Later
that week we went up to Munich for our monthly Zone Leader council with
President Miles. Again it was really good and spiritual, but we also
got a lot more specifics on the logistics of all the new missionaries
coming in. All I can say is that mission presidents around the world are
going to be super busy with a lot of stuff to take care of for the next
few months. After that I had an austausch in Munich with one of the
APs, Elder Sullivan (we do austauschs with the APs once a transfer). I
also learned a ton from that experience with him, specifically how to
keep yourself being a diligent missionary. It was a lot of fun with him
and gained a lot of respect for how much he does. APs really have no
time, and they do a lot more than I would be capable of. Because the APs
apartment is in the mission office we got to do some of our studies in
the offices. One of them being the office that President Miles had his
transfer chart in and so I got to have a sneak peak at that (I wasn't
breaking any rules), but Elder Zimmerman was in the undecided zone so I
still have no idea what will happen come Friday. Anyways after our
austausch I took a train back to Stuttgart. Because of how much the APs
have to do, on austausches with them zone leaders are allowed to ride
the trains back to their areas without a companion to save travel time.
All I can say is that it was really weird waiting at the Munich train station
for an hour and half (because the train was delayed) and two hours in
the train alone. I don't know what I will do when I get back home!
Today
for P-Day we had a zone p-day here in Stuttgart. We had a surprise
party for Sister Benson's birthday, who her and Elder Benson are a senior
couple that work as well here in Stuttgart in the German ward with us.
Stuttgart zone is the only zone that has only one senior couple so that
not only do they do their own missionary work, but they have to inspect and
issue repairs for all missionary apartments in the zone as well as a lot
of other stuff. On top of that they both do a ton for Elder Zimmerman
and I and the International Elders as well. They deserved something big
so we made a huge lunch (or rather the sister missionaries in our zone
did) and then we had a talent show afterwards and then just played games
all in our church house.It was a lot of fun and I think they enjoyed
it.
There
is a lot happening this week. There should be a lot to tell about next
email. I hope all is well and that everything is going fine. Love you
lots.
Elder Bodily
Gott sei mit euch bis aufs wiedersehen
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