tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77061217049015952092024-03-05T00:09:04.782-08:00Elder Noah MillerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706121704901595209.post-3427836268219079322017-04-17T10:33:00.000-07:002017-04-17T14:28:03.707-07:00MISSION ACCOMPLISHED - FAREWELL BEAUTIFUL GERMANY!<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;"> I don't know what to say really. Here I have been the last couple of </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">hours, trying to write my last email and I am filled with a heap of </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">emotions, unable to find words. I've always had the thought of this day </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">planted somewhere in the back of my head. I often wondered what my </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">final thoughts would be and how I would be able to put it all </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">together. But the truth is I can't. I realize now everything that I </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">have felt, experienced, and learned out here, are that which </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">cannot be properly described as well as understood through merely </span><span style="font-size: large;">words on a screen, pen and paper, or even face to face.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;"> My mission means the world to me. Im not going to lie, it hasn't </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">been all sunshine and roses, but time and time again I saw blessings </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">showered over me as I stayed faithful and gave my best. I felt the love </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">and comfort of God and Jesus Christ as I pressed on through hard </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">times. I developed a relationship with my Father in Heaven in a way </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">that I never could have, had I not come out here and stayed.</span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;"> My dearest friends and family, I know that we are children of a </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">living and loving God. I truly believe that every single person on H</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">is earth has a role to play, for bigger or for smaller in fulfilling </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">the perfect plan of our Father in Heaven. There is no human being that </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">can fall too far from the outstretched hand of the Savior. It is not </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">possible. I know it is our duty to love, and as we strive to become </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">more like Christ we will better know what it actually means to love. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">We are not perfect, nor will we reach perfection in this life and </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">that's fully okay. As long as we are striving to become better people </span><span style="font-size: large;">everyday.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;"> To my missionaries that I will be leaving that still have time</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">out here, I love you. I really do. I have built friendships with some </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">of you that I know will exceed far after the mission is over and I'm </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">so grateful for the special time we shared out here together. JUST DO </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">YOU. Keep shining! Stay true to yourself and the Lord! That's all </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">that is important. We will see you soon on the other side.</span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;"> And to my support system who I left for a while that I will be </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">seeing soon, especially my Mom and Pops. I couldn't have made it </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">without you. My heart is full of gratefulness. I have missed you all </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">dearly and I look so forward to our reunion on Friday.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;"> I love you.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">It is with mixed emotions that we post Noah's final letter as a full time missionary serving in the Germany, Berlin Mission. We are so grateful for the time he has been able to spend serving, getting to know, and falling in love with the wonderful people in this extraordinary place. We feel so blessed to have had the privilege to be able to share his journey with each of you and we are so grateful for all of your love and support throughout these last two years.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">With much love and gratitude,</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Please feel free to join us in welcoming him home!</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">and people were worried - they were like "Elder Miller everything good?? </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">You were in there forever!" I didn't even realize. With my last normal </span><span style="font-size: large;">interview, I told President about some insecurities I had about not </span><span style="font-size: large;">knowing if I have achieved a successful mission or not because I haven't </span><span style="font-size: large;">had many baptisms. </span><span style="font-size: large;">The last few weeks as I realize my mission is </span><span style="font-size: large;">coming to an end, I have been solely evaluating and drawing to the </span><span style="font-size: large;">conclusion that my mission has not been successful because I have not </span><span style="font-size: large;">been in the water as much as I would have liked. As I explained this </span><span style="font-size: large;">to President Fingerle we talked, he took me through some scriptures, </span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">and suddenly he pulled out his laptop and showed me a video of a mission </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">president seminar he attended with a few of the apostles. Together, </span><span style="font-size: large;">afterwards, we discovered a different conclusion. My mission has been </span><span style="font-size: large;">successful.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">In January with the broadcast to missionaries throughout the world we </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">learned that our job, is to establish the church. There are many</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">two years, whether or not I or others have seen "baptism success." We </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">came to this land and did what we were called to do. Declare the </span><span style="font-size: large;">word unto the people, serve them, and to explain of Christ's love for </span><span style="font-size: large;">them.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">"Come as you are, but don't plan on staying as you are." - Jeffrey Holland</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">This week from Monday to Wednesday we were on super exchange in </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Wartenau. I was with Elder Thiriot and we came back to Bergedorf for </span><span style="font-size: large;">the day to try and get some work done. Elder Thiriot is quiet and </span><span style="font-size: large;">doesn't like to have fun. I learned that from my first exchange with </span><span style="font-size: large;">him last transfer but he's a good kid! We contacted a referral out in </span><span style="font-size: large;">Egypt and he ended up not existing. Well actually, that's not true. </span><span style="font-size: large;">There are 4 different places of his exact address in our boundaries so </span><span style="font-size: large;">we just need to do some hunting for the right one and see if it </span><span style="font-size: large;">exists. Other than that we did some street contacting, gave out some </span><span style="font-size: large;">cards and then headed back.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday was a good time, more street contacting and going by people. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">There was institute that night and it was my first time being at that. </span><span style="font-size: large;">I saw Enrik from Neumünster! He walked in but didn't see me at first </span><span style="font-size: large;">and then I coughed loudly to get his attention, he looked over and was </span><span style="font-size: large;">like ELDER MILLER! It was fun to catch up.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">One month.. Kinda freaking out about it. We have somewhat developed a</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday night was SO dope! We had about 10 people at ping pong! 4</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday was pretty much spent at the train station helping</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">And so it has arrived. The last transfer of my mission. It doesn't really feel real. Kinda want it to stay that way though so I can focus on giving it everything I got and finishing as strong as I can.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Few highlights: We visited Bruder Kaprinski on Tuesday while I was on exchange with an Elder from Lauenburg. This is the really old, less active guy who gets very distracted easily and talks about food 99% of the time. So we are showing him a short Mormon message about Geduld, and I kid you not 15 seconds into the 3 minute video the guy just got up and left! It was a part where Uchtdorf explained an experience while he was in the military and Bruder Kaprinski goes "hey my grandson is in the military!" Leaves for about a minute and then brings out a bunch of old pictures of him and starts explaining them. Absolutely no regard for the video.. it was funny. I think he is just at that age. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Thursday we went on exchange again with the Elders in Wartenau. We went to their district meeting and I kinda never wanna go back to my four man ever again.. They have eight! It is double the size of my district. Unfair. Anyways I was with Elder Lex! He is from Österreich (Austria), and is one of my favorite missionaries of all time. We went by on a contact, talked to a couple people, but then it started to really come down again so we went to the church and prepared for the English class we had that night.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Friday we met with a man name Herr Zirkler. He is a Buddhist and the lesson was verrrry interesting. Basically the guy is super nice, but I think he is crazy. He is Christian, believes in the New Testament, but not the Old Testament, and reincarnation! Don't really understand what's Christian about reincarnation but ya know. I have met with a couple Buddhists on my mission and things don't seem to go anywhere. And this lesson definitely went nowhere so we are probably gonna leave him alone for a while. Elder Hickenlooper was gettin a little heated, nothing bad but I kinda had to step on his foot a couple times during the lesson;) at the end I just asked him to ask himself this week if he was a Buddhist because it was comfortable for him, or if he felt like that was really God'</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Anddd that's pretty much it I think.. The sun shined 3 days in a row this week.. Unbelievable it was amazing! I love you all! Thank you for the prayers, they are needed.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">We are grateful to have had Elder Noah Miller, serving in our mission. I’m sure letters have shown the excitement he has experienced while serving the people here. As we approach the end of his mission it is time for us to prepare for his release.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s2"> </span><span class="s1">Elder Miller will be released and fly home on 20 Apr 2017. Until that time, we feel it is very important for him to continue to serve to the end with all his heart, might, mind, and strength. We will try to make the planning process as little of a distraction as possible and we encourage you to help him to focus on his missionary efforts as well. Nevertheless, Elder Miller will be informed about the details of his release and trip home.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1"> I hope that the last months of Elder Noah Miller's</span><span class="s4"> </span><span class="s1">mission will be among the</span><span class="s4"> </span><span class="s1">most treasured. We are thankful for the efforts and dedication that he</span><span class="s2"> </span><span class="s1">has given in service of the Lord. We are also thankful for the support you have given him</span><span class="s4"> </span><span class="s1">in this</span><span class="s4"> </span><span class="s1">work. </span><span class="s5"><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It was a quick week this week and went pretty well. To start off on Wednesday Elder Sabin from the 70 came and visited us and had some really good things to say. 'Twas rad. Always fun to see half the mission too, even though I don't know a lot of the missionaries anymore. I'm an old man. Something that stood out to me that Elder Sabin said was, if we want to know the truth we have to pay the price. Many times we want answers and truth and blessings but we aren't willing to do the things we need to do in order to receive these truths, blessings and answers. Many things in life that are worth it, with few exceptions, aren't going to come easy.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: x-large;">On Friday we had another Spanish family home evening. Spanish people are crazy. A different kind of crazy than Germans. But it's a good crazy. We had a better turn out this time. I can never understand a word but it's always a fun time. I wanna learn Spanish when I get home. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Those are pretty much the two big highlights of the week. We had Zone pday today and had a cook off. Elder Lex from Austria wanted to make these pastry things and they were actually pretty good but I don't think we won. They were rolled up cooked dough balls and inside them had strawberry and chocolate. We called them wonder balls. But Elder Chadwick and his squad had sisters so obviously that's unfair and they made like some chicken curry something with pineapples and it was spicy and good and blah blah blah. The secret ingredient we had to put in was honey. We won in my book though. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I thought Hickenlooper and I caught fire this week! We planned on having an investigator at church and 2 or 3 less actives. Except we ended up having 0 investigators and 1 Spanish less active who can't speak German. Better than none though right? Happens. We get transfer calls this week which blows my mind so we will see what happens. I would like to stay in Hamburg. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sorry not a lot of time today as usual - my bad. We went to the Hard Rock Cafe for lunch and that was good vibes. Till I saw my bill. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Anyways quick funny story of the week. We got to head down to the temple on Wednesday and that was way good as always. Had our own Harry Potter room to ourselves the entire way down. 6 hours. We rolled into Freiberg a little before 9 and it was sprinkling rain. It's about a 45 minute walk from the train station to the Temple hotel. At about the last 10-15 minute stretch it started pouring HAIL. The temple is on a hill so for the rest of that time Elder Hickenlooper and I were sprinting for what felt like miles through BB pellet hail. It hurt. By the time we showed up to the receptionist, you guessed it - we were sopping wets. We also shared our room with another man visiting the temple. We opened up the door and realized he was sleeping and didn't want to wake him so we both hurried in the bathroom. The first thing we notice? His nice fresh pair of teeth sitting on the sink:) We still had to make some calls so we scuffled out of the room again laughing. We got back later and the light was on this time so I thought we were about to face a grumpy old man but he was so nice. I said sorry we were late and awoke him but he said no problem he was just happy he didn't have to be alone! Cute lil old grandpa dude. Gave us chocolate before we left the next morning. I'm grateful for the temple. It feels like I have been on the go on the go on the go for weeks and I finally got to slow down and have some time to think for myself. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Hoping this week we will see a little more! The sun came out today so </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">that was good! We went to tour the Hamburg soccer stadium for my </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">birthday but it was closed so we're just gonna go next week. Can't </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">believe I'll be 21 on Wednesday whatttt???!!! Time really flies.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">So it was actually a really good week this week can you believe that? Absolutely flew. Probably cause I got to go to Berlin for a couple days... But I still feel like I'm going insane. Not in a terrible way or anything. I catch myself sometimes talking to myself and I think, “ Elder Miller you weirdo why are you talking to yourself? It's so lonely out here on the border of Poland, can you blame me??? </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Anyways Tuesday I went on exchange with Elder Illum here in Forst. I don't even know how to explain Elder Illum. He is the weirdest, funniest, most mysterious kid I've met on the mission. Never know what he's going to say or what he is thinking and he always has this smirk look on his face.. Anyways we went by some members and then it started blizzarding so we went in and tried calling some people. Nothing too eventful. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Wednesday after district meeting Fritz and I took off to Berlin. We exchanged Thursday with the AP's. I got to be with my boy Elder Nearon:) Known him for a long time now. It was a way good time. Taught some awesome lessons, had some snowball fights, and deep talks. I needed it. Good pick me up exchange. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Friday and Saturday we weekly planned and tried making out appointments with people but didn't have a great amount of luck. I ran into some old friends this week! I hadn't seen them in a while and to one of them I said "Du siehst alter aus!" Which is.. you look older! And everyone all of a sudden was like "WOOAHHH" and I was so confused and then I realized what I said was not taken the right way and it was definitely one of the more embarrassing moments on my mission. Die wissen aber doch, dass es nicht so gemeint war;) </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">It was definitely a roller coaster week this week. Highest of highs</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday we headed down to Dresden for interviews with President. I was</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">the last interview and probably the shortest. Frustrating but what can</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">addressed. On our way home he called us while waiting for our train in</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">official Temple workers for the rest of the month! We would live in a</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">4 man with the Freiberg Elders and work in the Temple everyday!! I was</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday we took off and had the prettiest train ride of my life.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Dresden to Freiberg, mountains, rivers, little houses - everything</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">covered in snow. I was trying to take pics the whole time but there</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">was a stupid glare on the window so nothing turned out. We got to</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Freiberg late, it was blizzarding, so we had to wait to be set apart</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">until the next day.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Thursdeeee, the Temple is a 30 minute walk from the apartment and we</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">needed to be there at 6:30am everyday. So as an AZ boy walking in a 0</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">degree blizzard at 6am... definitely new. But we got set apart and the</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Confirming (that was kinda hard), sealings and sessions! It was the</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Friday the Temple Pres called us in his office and let us know he</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">found out that as full time missionaries, you are actually not allowed</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">to be set apart as Temple workers.. we had to turn in our white coats</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">okay but still, I didn't wanna give my things back! Later that evening</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">We called the Freiberg elders and they made calls but nobody knew where the</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">the credit card thing. I laughed and told her that doesn't work, but a</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Saturday was the usual Temple work but a little slow because there was</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">a big conference going on in Dresden. Something really cool though</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">about Freiberg is that it's an international Temple, meaning people</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">countries. Got to meet a lot of people from different places. We got a</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">AGAIN. Except this time I was in a hoodie and flip flops. So</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Luckily we finally got ahold of a spare key and only had to walk 30</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">The week started so well and ended pretty rough with some other things</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm so grateful for the opportunity I had to work in the Temple for</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">those few days. Really felt the love of God. Everytime I am in there</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">I thought I would die before this year got here but look at me ehh ;) I am exhausted. One of my New Years goals is to get more exhausted though, if thats possible. Gotta absolutely milk everything I can out of the short time I have left in the mish. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">On New Year's Eve we were by family Bode. It was a lot of fun. We just hung out and played games until we had to bounce. At midnight unfortunately, it wasn't as cool as Berlin last year. It's a little different. Instead of fireworks shooting in the sky (they still had some of that though) they just use legit bombs from Poland. So the sky doesn't light up, but it is LOUD. Till about 4am. Now Germany doesn't top America in many things, but in New Years they most definitely do.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Because of the holidays it hasn't been the busiest week for us! Lots of people out of town and/or busy which is understandable. We did have an eating appointment with a less active though! I think it went well. But other than that, Elder Fritz and I had lots of cleaning to do anyway. It was unreal - I go into the kitchen this week and I see, I kid you not, seven different drinking glasses. SEVEN! All Elder Fritz. Not the first time he has done this. So I took the liberty of hiding the majority of the glasses. I have a water bottle so I don't use cups. So I have left him with 2 cups, plenty! and if he wants a 3rd cup he's gonna have to wash one of his 2:) Kinda funny cause it reminded me of all my water bottles I would leave strewn around the house at home all the time and it would drive mom crazy</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">We head to Dresden tomorrow for interviews with President. I'm excited, I'm going to have a good interview. Hopefully the work picks up this week now that the holidays are over! Sorry for the short email but I'm out of time. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">It was so good to see the fam on Sunday!! You all look so good. I hope everyone had the merriest Christmas! It was a great way to end the last one for me out in the field. Now I can listen to I'll be home for Christmas next year hehahaheheh</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">On Monday we got to go to Dresden for pday and overnight there because of ztm. Best Weihnachtsmarkt ever. It was so dang cool! I got some rad German Christmas items. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday early morning we took off to catch the early temple session. I haven't been in the temple for like 18 months so I felt like I was going through for the first time again. It was fun to see it all in German. Afterwards was ztm and President showed up and gave a really good first lesson. The theme was fear not. He had to leave right after though and from there unfortunately everything just kinda went down hill. It's all good though. We went to the city center afterwards as a zone and "Christmas Caroled” except it was so cold anytime you would try to open your mouth and sing it would just freeze your throat and you would start coughing hahah. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">The rest of the week was quiet until Christmas Eve. In Germany the families open all their presents on Christmas Eve. So all the families, even the ones who don't normally go to church, go to church for an hour. While the family is at church, that's when Santa comes. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Lots of member appointments kinda came up at of nowhere just before Christmas so that was nice. Lots of member time, lots of games. President even let us watch Disney movies for the 3 days of Christmas. Fritzy and I watched Inside Out, How to Train your Dragon, Monsters Inc, and I watched tangled by myself;) so good. Felt so so good to watch a movie again - wow. Hopefully that's not all I do when I get home cause it was honestly incredible. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Hard to believe we're coming up on 2017. I can't wait. It's going to be a great year - I know it. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">I am outta time! But I love you guys like always and I'll write sometime next year:) Happy New year!!</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-size: large;">It was an interesting week.. it does not feel like Christmas in the slightest. I cannot believe I get to see your faces on Sunday! I cannot wait. I have tried to have a positive attitude since I have been here in Forst. I have always tried to have a positive attitude in everything I have done my entire life. But I've discovered recently for myself, sometimes it's okay to be real about things, even if it's not so good. So I'm gonna be real, and I don't know, maybe just try and laugh it off. Forst is honestly terrible. It is bad. Not the ward, the ward is fine. But everything outside of that. Sooo words of encouragement especially now around Christmas would be super appreciated:)</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-size: large;">Fast forward to dope Thursday and my bike was stolen. We had been doing some contacting and then we decided to take a break at the church and do a short language study. 45 minutes later we came back outside and I thought, welllll I ain't no mathematician buttt I think we got one less bike here then we had when we walked in! Yes my bike was locked and no I don't know how the person took it. We went to the police station after with a member to file a report. They asked for a picture and the one I sent was the only one I had so I gave it to them hahah. Luckily Bruder Bentke made, I kid you not, the best schnitzel I have ever had since coming here. So at least the night ended good:) </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Tuesday we took some pday time out because Monday we painted the entire day. We pretty much just slept and sat around cause we were so tired and there is 0 to do in Forst anyways. But that night we had a lesson with Mike. I don't know if I explained already who Mike is? But he has had a really rough past and has completely turned his life around. He has come to church the entire past year and has stayed out of trouble. I asked him why has he not been baptized yet or why does he not have a date and he said because the previous Elders told him he wasn't allowed. Elder Fritz and I said umm actually no…. that is not their decision and I texted President and he called me 10 minutes later and wanted to talk to Mike! They talked for a while and President said he wanted to come meet Mike and interview him. Fritz and I were pretty pumped afterwards.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We had a ping pong tournament this week as well. I have not lost a match in 2016;) I was pretty nervous going in because I did NOT want my streak broken and this old fart named Wolfgang is pretty dang good, bringing his own german hand carved paddle while I have this terrible walmart wood. I won my first 4 matches and I was with Wolfgang in the championship. Took care of him no prob tho, just like I have taken care of Rhett Rasmussen, Rigden Brinkerhoff, Tanner Erickson, Nick of course, and anyone else who thought they could contest ;) hahahah</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thursday I was not feeling good. We went to service anyways like we do every Thursday at a place called the Water Mill. I love to serve and help people, but when we go there I don't even know who we're serving or why. Not that there has to be a specific reason but this guy just tells us what to do and then leaves and that's that. They usually have us stack wood or something. Not to mention it's like 30 degrees outside. But one of the guys there kept giving us a hard time because we don't drink coffee. He kept telling us it was healthy because it prevents him from getting headaches, while he was drinking his cup and smoking a cigarette. I don't know what the guy was doing working at the water mill… he should be a nutritionist!! But after an hour and a half I had about enough of that so I was like alright Elder Fritz let's go. Then he threw another fit about how we weren't there long enough blah blah blah. So if it's up to me, Elder Fritz and I will not be going back to that. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sunday rolled around, President came and then after sacrament meeting we drove to Cottbus to see Mike in the hospital! On the way there he says" You guys are literally in the boonies!" Haha were like thanks Prez - we know! Mike had an operation on his ear for something so that's why he was there. To make a long story short Mike is not quite ready for baptism yet. We made a plan together to prepare him so that when the time comes he can be baptized and he will be ready. Mike is fully willing to do what it takes to get to the next step and that is something really cool to see. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">To be honest this week was just eh....its ok, it happens. We didn't really get a pday because we helped Monday morning with building a stage for the primary program. They had a play they would be performing throughout the week in the church. It was hilarious. Every time at the end, all of them would come back on stage, which was about 8 of them, and they would sing a song. Out of the 5 times I saw the play, including the last performance, they forgot the words halfway through, and all just started mumbling and laughing. Never got old. Cracked up every time. Hahah but Monday night when it was time to write emails the wifi decided to stop working:) Still doesn't work:) Elder Fritz and I just feel kinda awkward about going to a members house and emailing for 2 hours.. maybe we are just overthinking it? But yeah, pretty much got nothing done on Monday that needed to get done. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Sorry this is late.. the Church wifi has been out so we have been mooching off the wifi in the grocery store. It's slow so we only have time to load the emails we get, then we bounce out of there or else the workers get suspicious. I am writing this email in my notes so I will just send it whenever the next time I get wifi is and then I will write some emails on the computer when the wifi at the church feels like coming back up. Hopefully Thursday night.. But yeah I hope everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving! I sure did 2 days later on Saturday when we celebrated it, so all is good. But on the real Thanksgiving I had some terrible off brand of cheerios and then a not good at all Maggi pack.. Do we have Maggi packs in America?</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">This week felt super fast and super slow at the same time. There's not much going on out here at the moment to be honest. But Fritzy and I make the most of it. It has rained literally EVERY DAY since I've been here. If I see another drop of rain I'm going to go insane. Which is probably tonight. We have no means of transportation other than bikes, and there is not a single piece of flat ground in this Gosh forsaken city. 100% cobblestone, huge potholes randomly everywhere, dirt etc.etc. The elder before me was like 6 foot 2 and the seat is way too high for me so my feet barely reach the pedals. I wanted to lower it but unfortunately for me the last elder took the bike tool with him? Mix all that in with rain and you get Elder Miller nearly falling off his bike every 10 seconds. Elder Fritz has fallen off twice already. I'm sick of being soaking wet and having a soar rear end all the time so I'm pushing for a car - we will see what happens there. We can't even reach a couple of our Dorfs in our area because they are too far. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">ANYWAYS, we meet with this guy named Mike a couple times a week. He's kinda got a rough life backstory and he has recently gotten it back on track. He has a smoking problem and we are working on that with him right now. He comes to church every Sunday though and I can for sure see a baptism there in the future so I am really excited about that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1">Landry is one other guy we are trying to teach. He's from Africa and I have sometimes a bit of a hard time understanding him. Super cool guy but every single time we go over there, no matter how hard we try not too, we end up back at the subject of "How do we know Jesus wasn't black? I think he could be black." And he's 100% serious. He says he wants to be baptized but until he gets answers to his questions of what skin color did Jesus, or Adam and Eve have, he can’t</span><span class="s2">…</span><span class="s1">. It's honestly really frustrating. He came to church </span><span class="s2">on Sunday though so that was awesome! </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">I can't remember if it was Thursday or Friday but we finally got around to celebrating Elder Fritz' 20th birthday. His family sent him a cake and frosting. We made the cake, but then something must have happened to the frosting, cause it was all watery and yellow and nasty looking.. So Fritz was like, “ well we can just make our own frosting, I know how." A stick of butter, some milk, and an entire box of powdered sugar later we still did not have frosting. I don't even know how to describe what we had. So we kinda looked at each other and decided we should probably just go buy frosting at the store. Unfortunately, it was too late at this point - we weren't allowed to go out - so we put the cake in the fridge. We looked back at the substance we made and we didn't want everything going to waste so we just started throwing random ingredients in there: eggs, baking Soda, vanilla, and then we put it in a cupcake pan and threw it in the oven! Actually turned out not bad, tasted like vanilla powdered sugar bread! We were proud. Made something out of nothing:) </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">We went by some contacts with no luck, saw a fight break out at the train station, what else... Forst is kinda rough. This is the first city I've been in that when I walk the streets at night I am always checking my back and making sure I'm aware of people around me. The only bank that Forst has got broken into so we can't even pull money out here right now.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">All in all I like Forst though. It's what you make of it:) I'm grateful I'm here with Elder Fritz and that we are having fun regardless of maybe some not so great situations. It could be worse. We went to Berlin today for Pday because it's only about an hour and a half away. I have missed that place so much. It's so happy/sad being there because we can only be there for a few hours before we come back and there is SO MUCH TO DO. I can't wait to come back after my mission.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">I hope everyone had a good week! I'm doing well. Just chillin out here in the boonies, aka Forst. It's not bad! There is just nothing here - it's literally empty other than like a grocery store and Döner shop... So we're going to Cottbus for pday today to do some shoppinnnn.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Monday and Tuesday consisted mostly of me just packing and saying goodbye to people. It was really sad to go. I didn't want to leave baby Ashby. It was weird to see my pictures off the walls of our apartment and my stuff taken out after six months of it being there. We spent our last pday in Kiel and went bowling. I literally bowled 4 strikes in a row one round. I ended with like a 171 score - I should honestly probably go pro. Anyways we went out to dinner and ended the night at a traditional bayrisch restaurant where we all had schnitzel. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">We did transfers on Wednesday so after sticking around for as long as I could, I boarded my ICE. I gave one final wave goodbye out the window to my friends as my train departed from the infamous Hamburg Hauptbahnhof and disappeared into the white abyss of the Northern Germany snow. I traveled alone reflecting on the past 4 transfers I spent in Neumünster and could do nothing but smile and chuckle to myself. I eventually wound up in Cottbus, met my companion, Elder Fritz, and we boarded another train to get to Forst!</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm still kinda trying to learn my way around this new area. Meeting members, investigators, figuring out where stuff is etc. etc. Shouldn't take too long considering how small the city is. There is a lot of youth in the ward. Well not a lot, but for Germany a lot. We play soccer every Saturday and I've barely been able to walk the past couple days. The ward also on Friday had this cook off competition between the young men and women. Elder Fritz and I, along with a couple others, were the judges and it was way fun. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1">Yes yes the rumors are true. After 4 transfers in Neumünster I am being shipped off. I struggled the whole week with sleep at night. I knew I was leaving, I just didn't know exactly where. Transfers are actually a really scary thing if you can't already imagine. In Germany, certain areas have built reputations </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">for themselves over the years and these reputations are bounced around from missionary to missionary like teenage girl gossip. So everyone is pretty well aware of cities they want to steer clear from. My next area, on the border of Poland, on the dark and scary threshold of Sachsen, deep in the east, bombed to smithereens in World War 2 and never rebuilt, is a city with an extremely well known reputation. The small city of FORST will be my next home for at least the next 5 weeks, and could very possibly be my last area before I am home bound. Forst Forst Forst... My entire mission I have known about Forst. And have heard mostly not good things about the city. BUT, everyone very well seems to know that they have arguably the best ward in the mission. Win - lose. Bombed city, bomb ward. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-size: large;">But gosh I'm gonna miss Elder Ashby so much. We had so much fun these last 2 transfers and I'm so lucky I got to train him. He's got a good mish ahead of him. I'm a proud father. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-size: large;">I will miss this place. I feel like here is where I really learned how to become a missionary. How to really work with people and how to really figure things out on my own. I came into contact with a lot of friends that I will love forever. Crazy another chapter comes to an end. Neumünster will always have a place in my heart. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Monday night we ate with family Jäger. I love Bruder Jäger! He's such a solid, funny guy. His wife cooks awesome too. After we ate and chatted about mission life we got up and were getting ready to head out and he said, "ich finde es toll das Sie hier auf mission sind." I think it's really cool that you guys are here serving missions... I just about cried on the spot. Nobody has ever said that to me in this country like that so directly. He served in Switzerland so he just understands missionary life in Europe..</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Tuesday good old Herr Gerlich. I love Herr Gerlich. He would be the best member. It's just plain and simply not his time yet. The thing is, when we have differences in doctrine or different outlooks on scriptures, there is never contention. Never. We simply put ourselves in each others shoes and see it from the opposite point of view. He said that's one of the reasons he loves meeting with us. I remember when I first started teaching him, I asked him regardless of the differences we had, if he felt the spirit when he met with us, and he said no. But this last time as we ended with a prayer he stood up and said, "Ya know guys we discussed a lot of differences today, but I definitely felt the spirit." </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Wednesday we ate at Familie Nwadilim. The guy is half Nigerian but raised in Germany and his wife is from the Netherlands. I kid you not we had 4 different languages going at once. They have a baby and the dad only speaks Spanish to it, the wife only speak Dutch to it, we were speaking English to it, and then mixing German at the dinner table. Crazy. It was so fun. Where have they been my whole time here in Neumünster dang it!? </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Thursday was shot because we had to go to Rendsburg. A city a little north. I did a baptismal interview for a 9 year old stud named Arkhadi. He's from Armenia and his parents just moved here about 6 months ago and speak Russian. They were baptized last year but wanted him to wait until he grew up a little bit and then make his own decision. A year I guess. Well he passed with flying colors yeeeeee!! #getaufed</span></div>
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<span class="s1">The rest of the week was normal mish life but good! We had a zone pday today and carved pumpkins and played mafia. Was a good time. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">He is totally fine, but Elder Ashby got hit by a car while riding our bikes. And that pretty much perfectly describes how our entire week went hahah. Other than that, not a whole lot going on here in Neumünster with the exception of a few appointments and cold weather but Ash Ketchem and I aren't letting it get us down.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Monday we had an appointment with Herr Gerlich. He struggles with believing that Jehova and Christ are the same person. So I prepared, found a bunch of scriptures that proves it, and we full on went for it. I don't know what happened, but he still wasn't having it. Some stuff that just comes and seems so easy for me to understand, is hard for others. Especially a man who has been Catholic his whole life. Makes sense, just hard.... Just bettering my patience aspect. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Saturday we ate at a members and then helped short notice with a move. Took like 4 hours but everyone left half way through for no reason?! They are literally like, "yeah the elders can finish it." It was super nice of them to help and I am grateful but…...</span></div>
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