Familie
So, the reason for the subject. This week I really learned the difference between High German, Hoch Deutsche, and otherwise. Luckily, the people of Kassel speak Hoch Deutsche. We had a visitor in Church from München. He spoke Bavarian. Impossible to understand.
Seriously though.
Anyways. This, my first full true missionary week, was awesome. We traveled to Stadthagen for our zone training meeting, and I had another interview with Präsident Kosak. I lso learned that September 13th, David A Bednar will be coming to our mission, and every missionary in the mission will be together in Germany to hear him speak. This will be the first time under Präsident Kosak that the whole mission is together, so I expect it to be a pretty cool experience.
After that, we worked worked worked. My Deutsche is improving, slowly, and I am understanding people better. It really just takes time. 4 to 6 months to be exact.
Oh dear.
I hear that Luke is going back to school. Weird that he is the only one left in the family. Well, actually, Sarah and Jason are still in school. Which is awesome. I wish I was that devoted. I'm not. Probably just gunna be a bachelors and done for me. I don't think you can ever have to much school though, particularly if the field requires it.
Now, more about me. I'm really really enjoying Germany. Everywhere is so beautiful, and even when it smells like tobacco, its great to be walking around seeing the city. I have discovered that I am short on a few rather essential items, so if there are charges on the card today...please don't be too angry...
So something I had to eat this week was Quark. I also had Taziki, which is similar, but absolutely terrible. Quark good, Taziki, bad.
Since I've been here, I have also had weiß wurst, mexican food, several meat and potato dishes, and malt beer. Yes, I had Malt beer. No alcohol, but still. It was seriously, the strongest drink I've ever had. Not terrible, but I won't exactly go buy it for myself anytime soon...
I also have had these little chocolates a few times called Kinder's. Oh. My. Gosh.
Unbelievable. Unglaublich.
Something that Germany does lack is Root Beer. Weird huh?
Actually, some of the members in our Zweig, or Branch, love love love love love Root Beer, but they can't get it, it is too expensive. So question...could you include 3 or 4 small things of root beer extract in my first care package? Our ward mission leader would die of happiness.
Speaking of which, I guess the rule with the mission home is really a guideline. They don't care if you ship me stuff at my Whonung, or residence. We receive mail once a month or so from the office, at zone meetings. Packages should probably go to the Mission Büro, but letters and stuff are more than welcome in Kassel.
The exact address is
Kirchweg 31
34121 Kassel
Deutschland
and the Mission office is
Zerbsterstraße 42
12209 Berlin
Deutschland
Please google how to mail letters to Germany. I'm not really sure. It is weird though.
But yes, root beer extract, if it isn't too expensive, would be amazing!
If it isn't too expensive.
And In exchange, I'll ship back a couple things of Kinders. Deal?
Now, In response to your letters:
It is really cool that Luke is starting French. The Germans make fun of the French and Italians a lot, but still a cool place. Stick with it. You never know what might happen.
I have taught some people, Andrej, Valerie, John, Familie Renkewitz. We also met with Awala, Udo, Familie Richter, Familie Jäger, and a few others. Quite awesome actually. I have placed, personally, or as a companionship....4...Books of Mormon now? We call them Bücher Mormon, but same thing.
I don't know about in Italy, but with so many missionaries in our mission, it sounds like the standard is 2 companionships per Ward or branch. A lot of the times too, its a pair of elders and a pair of sisters. Even when 2 companionships aren't technically in the same area, they see each fairly often because they are in the same city. We, however, have a huge huge area all to ourselves. The closest Elders are in Göttingen, and they are by themselves too. if you look at the mission map on the mission blog, We have everything from around our city all the way to the border. By ourselves. It takes something like 4 hours by bus or straße-bahn to reach the edges of our area. Lonely.
Oh well.
That's all I got today. Rootbeer, money, chocolate. Good. Everyone be safe, stay in drugs, don't do school. Stay away from girls, but close to your wives. What am I saying.
Tschüs!
Elder Burton
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