It was such a great experience watching General
Conference on the grounds of the temple!!! That's right, we were in Zolikoffen
for General Conference Weekend! (That’s right where the Swiss Bern Temple is),
They showed conference in 4 languages (English, German, French and Italian I
think)! Pretty cool! It was an amazing conference and I loved all of the talks!
My favourites were the same as Ashleighs, which is pretty weird but Elder Jörg
Klebingat, those 6 steps were just so perfect, they are: 1. Take
responsibility for your own spiritual well-being. 2. Take responsibility for your own physical well-being. 3. Embrace voluntary, wholehearted obedience as part of your
life. 4. Become really, really good at repenting thoroughly and quickly.
5. Become really, really good at forgiving. 6. Accept trials, setbacks, and “surprises” as part of your mortal
experience.
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| Conference Weekend at Zolikoffen (Temple in the background) |
So as you know my
trainer is District leader so we have to do work overs with every elder in the
district! I had my first Ausstausch (exchange) this week!!!! I worked with
Elder Lossau from Germany and we went to his area in Interlaken! Now,
Interlaken, Chur and Innsbruck areas are the most beautiful areas of the mission,
and no doubt it didn't disappoint! It was stunning although because of this the
work is really slow as it is full of tourists or just non-interested people as
they just assume you are just a “norsy tourist”! But it was such a great
experience and the area is stunning, I hope I get to serve there one day!
We also finally have our first new investigator- P T. He's from Sri Lanka and we teach in English! we've only had one lesson with him so far, sooo... J we will meet with this week hopefully!!! So I'll let you know next week how that goes! On Friday all of our appointments fell through, Elder Little and Meyer found an amazing family when I was in Interlaken and we had an appointment on Friday, but either Elder Little copied down the address wrong or we got a fake address. However, the great thing about Switzerland is you can track people down, as everyone’s name, address and telephone number is on some directory which we have access to! Mwahaha!!!
We also finally have our first new investigator- P T. He's from Sri Lanka and we teach in English! we've only had one lesson with him so far, sooo... J we will meet with this week hopefully!!! So I'll let you know next week how that goes! On Friday all of our appointments fell through, Elder Little and Meyer found an amazing family when I was in Interlaken and we had an appointment on Friday, but either Elder Little copied down the address wrong or we got a fake address. However, the great thing about Switzerland is you can track people down, as everyone’s name, address and telephone number is on some directory which we have access to! Mwahaha!!!
The attached picture is mainly for you Ashleigh- 'I bet your Book
of Mormons don't come in this size'! We use this when we do finding days in
main cities as a zone! And as tomorrow is zone conference and we are joined with
Zürich zone as it is in Zürich and we have a Das Buch Mormon flashmob planned
around rush hour time in the city centre. I don't know what exactly is
happening but it should be cool with about 60 odd missionaries from the 2
zones!!!
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| The Largest Copy of Das Buch Mormon |
So on Tuesday I had my first Zone Conf. in
Schwammendingen/Zürich! It was great to see President Kohler again! And it was
pretty inspiring! Wednesday
rolled round and we had a DA with the S family again, they are such a hilarious
couple in like there 70/80s and they feed us loads.... And we had a brilliant
lesson with our Weniger Aktiven Sister D about Family History and temples, so
hopefully she'll start FH! Friday we also went to the temple as it was the
Gemeinde Tempel Abend (Ward temple evening) It was beautiful, we were on
the 7pm session with the ward.
the 7pm session with the ward.
The weekend (not that weekends feel like weekends) was great! Football
in Zolikoffen which we have every week to build member and investigator
relationships was great! I may start to be getting a bit better at it... I
hope! haha! Sunday was brilliant. Church was great, and I understood quite a lot this
week!!! Happy times! We had a lesson with one of our investigators which went
okay. Then we had the CES Devotional from September as we are the JAE
missionaries. It was pretty good by Elder Christofferson.
Then P-day what a crazy day! We went to the Niederhorn near Thun to go
Trottti Biking. We basically go up this mountain in a cable car and come down
on the trotti bike. It's basically a scooter with bike wheels and brakes. It
was a poor weather day to do it as it was raining (this is like the 2nd time it
has rained since I've been here) and the Clouds were really low so you couldn't
really see anything more than 10 metres in front. Crazy! Probably not the
safest thing to do on a day with that weather! We went as quite a big group.
The Bern Elders, Biel Elders and Zolikoffen missionaries so 11 in total, It was
such a good time! I fell off once and now have a really badly cut knee and
grazed hands, but life is great!
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| Trotti Biking in Niederhorn |
