Gruezi wohl miteinand! (that was Swiss German)

This is me in my first area...it`s called Dielsdorf, Zuerich Stake, Switzerland! Woot!! :) I love it here even though it is supposedly one of the most difficult areas in the Mission. I get why people would say that. Yup. It`s small. It`s just a bunch of small towns and villages near Zuerich. We have no investigators right now and only two less actives we can really work with, but we hope to change that! By employing the names from the HUGE binder full of potential investigators. Like, seriously, it`s so big, I would normally say that everyone who lives in our area is in it. This is not quite true but almost...on Saturday we tried to contact about 15 of them. 14 of them lived in very close proximity from each other (as in, a few houses apart from each other). For number 15, we had to climb up a very steep mountain for about half an hour. Needless to say, the man was not home. Oh well. It was good exercise. Gotta love serving in the Alps, especially in the great AGSM :) Generally, only one of the 15 was home and she happened to be in the shower right as we rang her doorbell. Her daughter answered it and said we could bring by an Albanian Book of Mormon sometime. Success! By far my biggest one in the field thus far. Granted, most of this weekend was spent with watching General Conference so we didn`t do much else. Wasn`t it just great?? I was a little upset that no one really started pushing Missionary work, until Elder Ballard came! And he rocked it as usual :) So, I plead with you, even if you`re not a Missionary...get a Preach My Gospel for FREE, set up a family Mission plan, have the Missionaries in your area over for food and invite your friends to join in! It`s really a lot less awkward than you think ;) We are all in this together! 

This upcoming week...we have three lessons and two dinner appointments! Pray with us that they all happen. That`s a really good number for our area, actually, and we really want this to be the standard for the future, or even better, increase it even further :) Elder Marshall and I are really here to roll up our sleeves and work :) In fact it`s warm enough for short sleeves. Anyways. We all get along great! :)

I hope all is well with you all!! Much love! :)

Elder Friedmann