Hey....a.
So I'm not sure if I told you last week, but we got transfer calls, and I am staying Lauenburg at least till August. And, in the first week of August Elder Simmons goes home, so most likely I will stay at least six weeks after that, which means I may be celebrating my birthday in good old Schleswig-Holstein (the state of Germany to which Lauenburg belongs.).
But in this last week we had some mild success. Remember how when I came the program had 0 investigators? Well, we have 6 appointments with non-members scheduled this week already, 3 of which are actually with multiple people. It's pretty cool to see the work in this area slowly turn around with some grit, spit, and a whole lot of duct tape.
We also received our LAST weekly email from President Kosak today, President Fingerle arrives on The 30th. President Kosak says that he has received 98,600 pdf pages of letters in the last 3 years of
service from his missionaries, every single one of which he read the week it was written, and every single word of which he now plans to re-read. Well. That is about 10 pages a day, every day, for 3 years. That seems impossible, till you consider that at certain point in his mission, there were 300 missionaries in his mission. Every one writing even only 1 page a week, in 3 years 250 missionaries could write 40,000. Then there are the missionaries who insist on writing like 3 or 4 pages every week...then the sisters...
Being a mission president would actually be an amazing amount of joy, But that is certainly a lot of work, just that by itself.
Still loving it...still having a hard time with my allergies...still wishing that would stop...still dealing with a trunky companion...but hey, no situation is perfect. And it only gets better. Until transfers.
Viele Grüße,
Elder Burton
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