Oops!

So I was planning this week on sending a short, individual email to each and every member of the clan...but I will do that next week. I am having a little...digestion trouble....right now from too much cheap lebkuchen, and I only have limited time.

Some short things:

This transfer is actually 7 weeks, not 6, for some reason. We will receive transfer calls not this coming Saturday, but the next. The 25th of October that is. No guarantees, but Elder Poch will most likely leave. He has been in Kassel for 6 months, so...yeah.

I did get the opportunity to see a bunch of the missionaries from my MTC group in Hanover this last week, and it was awesome to see how much each and everyone of us has grown so much, and learned so much, over the past 2 plus months. 11 weeks actually. It made me wonder how different we are all going to be in 20 months--the end that is. hmm...strange to think about.

I did have a scary-Jason moment this week. We were blowing up balloons for a talk Elder Poch and I gave at our Zone Training Meeting in Hanover--don't ask--and because of my amazing trombone-player lungs, I over blew, and it popped. The Rubber hit me in my right eye, and a bunch of powder too, and i turned all glowing red and all the blood vessels broke and I had a black spot in my vision and everything. Sound familiar Jason?

So yeah, we went to the Pharmacy--which basically acts as a doctor here--and got some eye drops, and in 3 days it was all basically gone. I still have the black spot occasionally reappear--it happened last Wednesday--but Elder Poch and I are pretty sure it is just trauma. if it still is happening next week, I might start worrying about it.

Oh, did you know that you can get callouses on your knees from kneeling to pray? Yep.

Oh, and thank you for the back-roller. It helps SOOOO much. It is getting better, though this week was still rough. Hopefully it will ever get better, like in crescendo, as we in the Berlin mission say.

Oh, and I finally learned how to roll my Rs like a German. It sounds a lot like the wookie noise actually. It only took 11 weeks in German. Furchtbar.

Oh, and I can't load any pictures this week--I don't have my cord--but I promise next week I will do lots. Like, a lot. I promise.

Oh, and also, this week I get to go to Hamburg!! I will take lots of pictures, and tell you all about it next week.

Oh, and it is getting cold here. Really cold. I don't like it. And it gets dark at 7:00 already. Why is it so cold already?? As for the Christmas box...yeah, no root beer extract. Thank you. I still haven't used the stuff I have. I might give away a couple...but that is alright. Thank you!

That's all I have today...if you'd like, a really really good talk I listened to this week was ''The Doctrine of Christ'' by Elder D. Todd Christopherson. Neal A Maxwell is also amazing, I have listened to a lot of his talks recently.

Gotta go, Love you all!! I'll send you more specific emails next week...don't let me forget!! Tchüß! -_Elder Burton