Woche 20

Grüß euch! 

Langen ist wunderbar, wie immer! 

This week was awesome! 

Elder Sticht and I trying
 to find out way to the
church in Darmstadt

We went on a split with the Darmstadt Elders this week, and I stayed here in Langen and Elder Sticht came up and joined me! He's from Washington near Seattle and he's a way cool dude. We had a lot of fun talking to a lot of people. He's a sweet missionary. Also the next day before we split back we left the house at 7 to catch a bus to get us to Dietzenbach so that I could pick up my Aufenhaltstitel (residency permit/visa). It took forever to get there for my appointment, but literally took 5 seconds for them to hand it to me and me to sign that I picked it up, and then we were back on the bus again haha. We traveled on a bunch of crazy busses and trains trying to get back to Darmstadt. We even had to walk through a forest at one point haha. It was way crazy, and it took about 4 hours all in all. Verrückt! 

Elder Clarke and I found a cool new Investigator last week named Marius. He's about 22 and we have him a copy of Das Buch Mormon. When we met with him a few days later, he had read the first 10 chapters already! He's pretty cool, we'll see where he goes :) 

Simone and I

Also way funny experience from a few weeks ago. We were teaching Simone about the Godhead. We were trying to explain Der Heilige Geist. We didn't know it in Italian yet, so we tried to see if he knew it in English. We said Heilige Geist is 'Holy Ghost' in English. He said 'ah! Yes I understand'. So we continued on teaching about the Holy Ghost and he kept looking more and more confused. He finally stopped us and said 'Heilige Geist ist Holocaust?'. We died laughing that we had accidentally confused the words 'Holy Ghost' and 'Holocaust'. We clarified it and all was well. It was way funny. 

This week's thought is about goal setting. 

This month as a mission we are focusing on using our time wisely. It comes from chapter 8 in Preach My Gospel. It involves a lot of things about goals and plans. 

I don't think I ever set a single goal before my mission. But now I set tons of goals. And I think goals are really important. 

"Through goals and plans, our hopes are transformed into action." - Preach My Gospel 

When we take time to write down goals and set visions/long term goals, we clarify where we want to go in life. It makes us organize ourselves to write out our desires and ideas. When we have a clear vision of who we want to be, and what we want to do, we can evaluate and prioritize what we do in a daily basis to get ourselves there. 

"“I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the techniques of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When one learns to master the principles of setting a goal, he will then be able to make a great difference in the results he attains in this life.”

–Elder M. Russell Ballard

Talk given to Salt Lake Area young adults, Oct. 18, 1981

I can attest to this that is we don't set goals, we will not reach our potential or become who we want to become. 

My challenge this week is to take 5 minutes right now and think about who you want to be at the end of the year. Our three end of schooling. Our the end of life. And just wrote down a description of that person and if all help you a LOT. The more detailed the better. Your hope will increase, you will be happier and more focused on what is really important to you. Just sit down and take a few minutes to really ponder. 

I love you all! Germany is awesome! I hope you all are also doing awesome! 

Ich hab euch Lieb! 

Elder Harps

President Stoddard and I before he leaves to return home next week.