February 2, 2010

Hey Mom,

So did Kiersten not get accepted to BYU or what? That's sweet that you were able to go to the Fieldings. So I got a letter from Becca Adamson this week. She is a funny girl.

So this week it snowed about a foot in 48 hours. It's actually snowing again right now. All the buses and trains have been pretty crazy. We've been able to use our Missionary muscles (we don't have any) and push some cars out. It's been kind of fun to have all the snow.

So some HUGE news. We got a call from President on Friday morning. He said that they are changing mission boundaries starting July first. There will no longer be a Hamburg mission. We are getting a part of every single mission, Hamburg, Berlin, M端nchen, and the Switzerland mission. Pretty sweet stuff. We will be getting some of the missionaries from those other missions and luckily no one from our mission will be leaving. After all this is said and done there will be a North, Middle, and South Germany mission. Oh well. If I remember right our mission will go all the way to the Czech Republic. It'll be huge. I am Way excited if you can't tell.

So you should be going to Disney land here pretty soon. Have fun soak up the sun for me.

So we are working way hard right now. It's way tough right now for finding new investigators. The people are really holding back right now. This morning I was studying about how we could do some big effective finding time. I thought about making some fliers that say that they are invited to learn about what the Mormon's believe. We would meet at the church and then teach a first lesson. We would throw all these fliers into peoples mailboxes (it's not illegal here). We are both pretty excited about the idea.

It's crazy that the mission is already half way over. I feel sometimes that it seems like it took forever but then I feel mostly that it has flown by. I'm loving being with Elder McGowan. Yesterday we had a wrestling match. I'm bigger than him so it's pretty easy to put him on his back. We have a lot of fun together.

Love you all and wish you all the best.

"No Regrets"

Love
Elder Merrill