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| Parker's New District (Photo courtesy of Sister Miles) His companion, Elder Brose, is on the left. |
Those halloween costumes look
pretty cool! Sadly nobody over here really does anything for halloween. There
were some parties that we saw signs for, and a few kids had some costumes on.
They thought that we were trying to be hogwarts characters. But other than that
we kinda forgot that it was even halloween.
Life here in Konstanz is pretty
great! To answer the questions, there are four missionaries in our apartment,
and we live in germany. The other two elders walk to switzerland each day and
we work in germany. We are allowed to go into switzerland anytime though. And
because it is a swiss zone, and elder Brose is the district leader, we do a lot
of exchanges in switzerland. I worked in St. Gallen on wednesday and thursday
actually. It was pretty fun and I learned some more swiss german (Swiss german
is just simplified, less pretty sounding german).
We had interviews on tuesday
with president Miles in Winterthur. Interviews are always combined with
district meeting and it took a long time because my district is huge. We have
twelve missionaries in out district, making it tied for the biggest district in
our mission. We do a lot of exchanges because elder brose is the district
leader. I held an exchange in konstanz on my fourth day, and we somehow only
got lost about two times. It was pretty amazing.
We have been having a lot of fun
over here! It is a lot more fun to be in a four man apartment, and I am glad
that I will be here for christmas. It would be a pretty quiet christmas with
just two people. Luckily we haven't gotten any snow so far but it will probably
come soon. It has been raining a ton lately which isn't the best because we
walk everywhere and the rain means that there are less people on the streets.
But we are doing really well with finding people who give us numbers or
addresses! Our problem is that none of them are really turning out to be very
good investigators. One of the problems that a lot of missionaries here have is
that there a lot of people who live here but are from other countries, which is
only a problem because most of them don't have a job, don't speak german, and
can only live here for a certain amount of time. And these are in most cases
the people who are most open to being taught. But if they don't speak german
and they only speak bad english, then it is hard for the ward to help them very
much. But there is a woman who we are teaching who wants to be rebaptized
before christmas and her 16 year old daughter has a good amount of interest in
the church as well so we are hoping to set a baptismal date for the two of them
this week!
The ward here is really cool
but some of them have a really hard time remembering my name because it is
really hard for them to really say correctly. At church, people are always
coming up to get a better look at how it is spelled and the ask me how to say it.
I have been finding it harder and harder to say myself because nobody has said
it right in a long time. The most common thing that people say is "Elder
Elgreg." It really made me laugh at first but now it is just normal.
I don't know if I ever told you
all about what a döner is, but it is basically the best food on earth. It is a
fresh baked bread taco sort of thing, with a lot of thin meat slices in it, and
than you put on onions, lettuce, tomatoes, this awesome yoghurt döner sauce,
cabbage, and sometimes some cheese. Everytime I eat one I think it was made by
and angel, so I turn around to say thanks and it's just a turkish guy. But it's
still that good! They have a really awesome Döner shop here and I only need to
buy a few more before I get a free one!
Well anyways, things over here
are good as always! I hope everybody has a great week and has a lot of fun! I
love you all and I will talk to you next week!
Love,
Elder Eldredge
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