Hahahaha you all are a very hilarious family, you know that? Thanks for raising me in a houshold of humor :)
I bet the box will come tmrw or wed. Normally works out that way :PWe tried to go by on Hr. Nenner, but the address we had was wrong, and then when we got his real address, it is forever away, and my bike still has a flat tire. So we will either have to fix the bike again (tried once, new inner tube thing has a problem with the valve, sigh) or plan in a good chunk of time to walk there and back, haha. But we are going by tmrw, either way. I will let you know how it all goes :)
It took me like ages to figure out what your abbreviations there at the beginning meant, Mother dearest...but hahahahaha is that an inside joke you all have going on back there? I want in (iwi)!
It COULD be worse, Emma! You could be working as a bagboy/grounds-maintainance-boy-girl at Smith's!Did you guys just watch the RM again or something? Hahaha...
That was a cool realization, Pops. It really is a process to conversion, and the process doesn't end there, it continues until we have become perfect even as the Father. I was reading in Alma the other day, where it talks about the Lord not wlking in crooked paths, in like Alma 7:20 or so. But right before that, v. 19 I think, it talks about us needing to make the paths of the Lord straight. It also talks about that in Matt ch. 6 or so, don't rem. where exactly. But I thought it was quite interesting that it's as though our lives are the Paths, and the Lord can only walk in them if they are straight and pointed towards him. He cannot walk into our lives if our paths are crooked. We have the responsibility to make straight paths for the Lord to walk in, otherwise he won't help us. Just like where Mormon asked if the miracles had ceased, or if God had ceased to be a God of miracles, and they only cease when we destroy them through our lack of faith. Our paths are always left up to us. I thought it was interesting...
So did the girls get new phones again? Or did you mean the ones they got a few weeks before I left? I have no big problem with that phone I had, even if it is older. But if you want to, go for it. Technically it belongs to you :) But as long as I can keep that info I have on there that would be stellar. Na ja. It will all work out.
I don't really know anything about a new version of the Bible, but we missionaries (well, those who paid for it) are getting mini Triple combinations. About the size of your little English Bible that I have right now, but in German. A privilege that only Berlin missionaries will have :) The mision leadership contracted with a private publisher/binder to get a one-time run printed off and made. They cost 50€, but we could use our mission money, so it was all good. Anyway, that's what I was talking about earlier...I think...about a new Bible, I don't know...
My heels aren't wearing out on my black shoes. Not really, at least. And I don't really wear my cordovan ones at this time. Need to get the guy here to put some new heels on them before I'd really wear them again. But don't worry about it. No problems right now. I'll let you know if anything changes though.
Wisdom teeth!!! Get them out of there! Hahaha it shouldn't be too bad, Sis. Painless removal...I hear... :/It has been raining a lot here too. I don't understand our weather patterns either. It's crazy here. Raining one minute and then sunny, over and over and over...hahaha but it's nice to have rain :)
well now I am excited for this box!
We have a big Evangelisch tent set up near where we live and every night they have some sort of speech or talk or activity. I am so tired of talking to zealous Protestants and hearing about how we only need the Bible to be saved. Aaaaaaccctually, no. Sorry. Technically we are not saved by the scriptures, but by the things they teach us to do. I'll just be glad when the tent goes down in a few days...maybe check out Google earth and find our apartment and then look a tiny bit east and you might see a big white tent...
Anyway, this past week was good. We had a tausch (an exchange) with the distrikt leader and his comp. I went to Gera with his comp, and the DL came to Werdau with Elder Downing. Well guess who the DL's comp is! My trainer! Haha well there was a bit too much deja vu in that tausch...
We found this one lady who lives far outside Werdau in a smaller town named Königswalde. She is interested in learning more about the Church, but we haven't been able to really start teaching the lessons yet. So we will start that this week. And we have ZoKo on Wed, the last ZoKo with Präs. Borcherding. It will be VERY interesting to see this changeover. And sad to see Präs. go. He really is a hero to all of us.
Well, this has been a bit of a long email and I need to email Präs and I don't want to sit here by this smoking guy anymore. I hate smoking. So I am gonna go. I love you family, and thank you for your laughs and support. Keep praying for the Nenners please! Love you! Tschüß!
---Elder Sterling Mason
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