I would like to begin my weekly e-mail to you by acknowledging that I have passed my three-month mark this week. One eighth of the way done, and it feels like I just got here. Oh well, I have faith that things will go even better.
With pleasure we saw that the Friedrichsdorf Germany Stake was created yesterday. What an amazing day for the Church in Germany to finally create a stake again. I`ve seen the work speed in Germany, clearly, and now we are just trying to set Switzerland on fire as well. It will come, I`m sure, to a point that the Zurich Switzerland Stake will be able to survive without help from Germany. It would be great to live to see it on my Mission but really, time flies!
Now on to our actual week. It was quite good. We taught a few lessons, one of which was with G_____. We went over the baptismal interview questions and yeah, there was a little problem that we need to resolve. But it`s definitely feasible and he WILL be baptized, most likely during this transfer. We also taught our new/old investigator, C____! We had a great lesson and she definitely wants to read in the Book of Mormon and continue meeting with us. :) We also went by L_____ and she wants to meet with us too! And we had a street display in Regensdorf where we gave out like 20 Books of Mormon and got some really cool potentials along the way. We also taught a record in member lessons. Looking at the weekly newsletter, the whole Mission has been doing much better lately. Four baptisms this week and apparently a lot more coming up, which is exciting :) There were also some disappointments this week but I already forgot...
We also had a cool experience with weekly planning a few days ago. Schwamendingen Elders found a potential for us who was supposed to live right here in Steinmaur. He`s a Hungarian named A_____ and he wants to have a Book of Mormon and meet with us. They got his address and we looked up on the computer where it was. Now, the street didn`t really exist and his name wasn`t in the phone book either. We looked around the other nearby towns and nothing was there either. We were super close to giving up and just putting him into the no-contact file when I felt a prompting to use google once again. Turns out, he obviously didn`t give the Missionaries his street address, but told them that he lived next to a restaurant whose name they mistakenly took for the name of the street. We looked it up again and it all fits and makes sense, so we`ll go by him this week. Wish us luck! :) Just don`t give up too early, is my message to you :)
Random AGSM Moment: We went to this town called Niederhasli one night last week to go by on some potentials. On the way there we noticed a little problem. Switzerland was playing in the World Cup and people tend to be quite passionate about watching the game. So it would have been an insane and probably even quite dangerous thought to visit them. BUT we were in Niederhasli already and had some time on our hands, so what could we do (with the streets being deserted because of the game)? We go SHOPPING! Now, Niederhasli is one of the bigger towns in our area but it`s still quite small. There`s maybe five or so shops if you add them all up. However, the first shop we came by on was quite...interesting. We thought we`d just get some drinks for the four of us in the apartment. However, all they had was beer and ice tea. Literally. Nothing. Else. To. Drink. It took us a little while to figure out what was going on, but then we noticed that all the products in the store had the same brand. We were the only people in the shop, there wasn`t even a cashier for a while, and the whole scenery was just...well. I found it quite creepy, at least if you`re used to regular supermarkets. So we did some research and it`s some kind of storage/shop place for this very famous Swiss brand called N_____. But yet, it was quite the experience.
I know that the Gospel does indeed bless people`s lives! I love being able to see people change for the better each day as we share our message with them :) I`m so grateful for my decision to serve a Mission, it was worth every sacrifice :)
From Dielsdorf with love,
Elder Friedmann
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