I Love This Place!

So, first of all, there is a picture of me and my zone in Dresden on the mission blog right now, which means I can remain lazy and not send my own pictures--yes!!--and I even managed to be near the front on this one. Yay! 

Secondly, can I just say again how much I love Dresden? This week sucked, we had terrible numbers, our most promising investigators have serious problems--such as believing that we are satanic worshipers--and nothing seems to work out like planned. But you know what? It ain't bad.

Maybe it is just because I am confident that I am in the right place. Maybe I just am still in the Honeymoon phase. Maybe it is even because today the sun is shining and it is a balmy 8 degrees celsius. I really have no idea. But I love this place still.

I have been doing the new yoga-exercises mom send me, and although my back pops rather loudly whenever I get to the weird t-cross-leg-lift thing, I de believe they are helping. I am also now reading that book Lectures on Faith, and loving the cool insights and perspectives it gives. I am not sure how I find time to read, only about a page a day, but it is worth it anyways.

I am also still enjoying my time as a district leader, though I have yet to prepare for this weeks district meeting...although it--luckily--has been delayed to Thursday, due to a variety of reasons. Elder Gerhartz is still super-supportive and hard working, though the signs of trunkyness are coming through, and having the Zone Leaders in my District means that the only people I really need to keep an eye on are the Sisters--and you know how women are. Throw an inspirational Scripture and a ''I know how you feel'' their direction every few days and you are the best district leader they have ever had. (Jkjkjk, I try my best to help them. Most of the time.)

I am still missing several things and people, and may have had the MOST unromantic, unloved Valentine’s day of my existence--a long time if you think about it--but still looking forward to another 16 months in Germany!! Or in other terms...roughly 500 days...12,000 hours...720,000 minutes...or 43,200,000 seconds. Only the blink of an eye, really. ...please don’t ask how long it took to that figure that out...and, as Elder Gerhartz just pointed out, he only has 8 days, 192 Hours, 11,500 minutes, or 691,200 seconds. Thank you Elder Gerhartz.

Most of that will be spend sleeping anyways. ;)

Anyways. Nothing incredibly new today. Shout out, however, to 3 of my most fabulous friends ever, Shelsey Brinkerhoff, April Erickson, and Abbie Forsyth, who got their mission calls to Alpine-German Speaking, Virginia Richmond, and Little Rock Arkansas--Sign Language respectively. Congratulations, my fabulous friends.

I hope that everyone has a great week!!

Elder Burton