April 4, 2011
Great email from Scott today with a couple of pictures. From the sound of his email he’s doing great!
Well hey everyone how’s is life!? Things here rock. It’s been going well. I started keeping a list of things I need two make sure to write about throughout the week so I’m just going to run down that list.
First, I discovered pretty much the best cereal in the world! haha actually no but it’s good! It’s called NOUGAT KISSEN and it is cereal with nutella in the inside haha! It is pretty rich and I can only have a small bowl but it’s so good. I like to just have it dry mostly. It’s a good snack to just have sittin on the desk ya know!
There is this candy called PICCO BALLA.. Oh meine güte. It’s so good! haha dad’s type of candy for sure. I will send home a bag. I hope it stays normal haha. It really is like little things of unbelievably tasting sugar slash licorice. Quality stuff.
Elder McCann and I were doing doors like three days ago k. We were waiting for our appointment with this HUGE kid names Moroni. How cool is that? We really gotta teach him he could be in the ward and fit in nicely. Anyway as we were klingling the doorbells on buildings we rang one, and it just kept ringing.. So weird it went on forever! We finished like 30 minutes after and it was still going. haha I just thought it was really funny.
I decided why I have been called to a foreign mission. It’s so I can focus on REALLY listening and not just yappin my mouth. I wasn’t ever really a yapper. But here I can’t be at all and in order to really understand I have to listen so intently and try really hard. It’s a good trait I hope I can acquire quickly. Along with speaking German haha. I actually had an instance where I was talking to this girl on the street and I did the WHOLE thing! It was so sweet. I felt so cool and really boosted my confidence. I am speaking with the kids in the ward and the members and they are helping me a lot.
General Conference was so good wasn’t it!? I loved it. So many of the talks just like reinforced me. I loved the one from the 70 talking about pain and how we grow stronger from everything. It’s so true and I feel like I have experienced that along with every single one in the world. But not every single person in the world looks at our pains in a beneficial way. Especially here in Germany. It’s alright though. We actually went to talk to these two people sitting by the river after they got done and were just chillin. They told us they didn’t have any time. I was so mad haha. They were watching paint dry!! But Elder McCann helped me realize all the many possibilities they could have said no as well like they were on a date or something. It was just the worst excuse they could have used haha.
This last week we got to spend a couple days in Görliz because that’s where General Conference was being broadcasted and we got to sleep over at the other Elders’ apartment. It was really interesting to see how other older elders functioned.
These are great elders but they kind of are just going through the motions I felt like. It kind of really made me realize it’s easy to just start going through the motions and how important companionship unity is. It made me really not ever want to lower my standards no matter how long I am out here on the mission.
The rules are not just guidelines they are rules ya know? We are blessed if we follow them and no one is above the rules. I just thought it was interesting to see them function. It’s interesting how you can see someone react and choose to be good because of their example, and in spite of their example. That’s what I decided my mission is about. Setting an example. I know that’s the best way to help and serve. Someone in General Conference said that, it’s so true. It was good for me. I had a cool experience here one of my first couple days that I don’t know if I wrote about.
Did I say anything about when we went to the Berlin Wall site? Let me know maybe I will share.
Love you all! Take care!
Elder Henderson
We have his new address and have included it in the blog here. It seems like the mail is taking less than a week (or thereabouts) to get here. We’re still not sure how long it’s taking to get to him, yet but write away so he can receive a steady flow.
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