Hey-ey
Umm, still no packeage.... i think it was eaten by a killer whale.
Anyway, nothing much new, my danglish is freaken bad.
I put German words into my English and English into my German...without eaven realizing it...well I guess that's what you get for living with a German.
Here's a couple of cool stories for you.
First is an awesome appointment with A. We didn't have much time, so it had to be kept short. She's an interesting investigator because she searches, she reads and prays and looks on the internet. We have to be on our toes sometimes (like when she asked us about the word of wisdom and the law of chastity) but it's all good. We decided that she needed strengthening on her testimony of Joseph Smith. We read the portion of Joseph Smith history where he's looking for the true church, and she talked about that and said that she's praying every night to know if it's true. She said that she feels that it is, and that it's growing. She just wants to take things slow.
Another cool experience:
On Friday we had nothing, so we were talking to people on the streets, which isn't too bad. After two hours it started raining. That was about the time we needed a little switch. Something to change it up. So we remembered a less active member who came to church a few weeks ago, we tried meeting with him but he doesn't answer his phone. So, we thought, “Let’s go by to see this guy and then we'll have something different, and after that we can hit the streets again." Well, he wasn't there, though his neighbor was- he showed us where R. lives - so I gave his neighbor a card with a note for him. Nothing more than a “Hello. Missed you at church. Your phone doesn't work.”
Then on Sunday, at church R. came. I was naturally thrilled. He came up to me and showed me the card I had left for him. Then he told me how the man I had given it too was completely interested and kept on asking him (R) about his beliefs, so naturally I was again thrilled. Now we've made plans to have an appointment tomorrow bring a Book of Mormon and everything. I don't know what comes out of it, but it sure ensured my testimony that the Lord uses every little thing we do to get to his children.
Alle liebe
Elder McDonald
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Shh- It is Elder McDonald's Birthday soon
Our Elder sent an email this week that essentially said, "I have no time to write this week- I will write next week." So, I am using my perogative as a mother to commandeer his site to mention the fact that Elder McDonald will be having a 20th birthday soon.
It would be great for him to receive lots of notes and letters from friends and family. Send a letter- with a picture or something to put on the wall. Let's all use a theme of "ties". I started it with a card with a necktie on the cover.
Russell's birthday is Sept. 2 (the day after labor day.)
Thanks for reading his blog and keeping in touch with him and us too!
Cyndy McDonald
Monday, August 18, 2008
Really short
Well, as far as normal stuff goes, I've got nothing new. My German's improved a million fold.
The work is on fire. For example, two investigators who we've been working with for over a cycle are finally in a position to make progress, though part of that entailed handing them off to other people. That doesn't matter. We also had a new person to church and she loved it!
Speaking of which, she's our miracle of the week (one of the many) Though actually, I wasn't personally at the appointment, I was at the street display (we did a mini split). This lady was actually the first contact Elder T. and I ever got. Considering that was in March, and this was probably the fourth or fifth appointment with her, things have been moving slow. But we persevered, we were averaging an appointment every other month, with a lot of fallen out appointments in between. At one of the appointments it came out that she really was interested, she really wanted to know, but whenever she tried to read in the Book of Mormon she'd get a panic attack. She even almost came to church. But again she panicked. So we prayed and prayed and hoped that she could overcome this obstacle. Anyway, the day I was at the Street display, Elder T. U. Elder F. walked up and said that she's overcome the panic, she has been reading in the Book of Mormon, and decided that this is the path she wants to go on. We have another appointment where we'll give her a baptismal commitment, and then Elder T. goes home. Miracle? My vote’s for yes.
The work is on fire. For example, two investigators who we've been working with for over a cycle are finally in a position to make progress, though part of that entailed handing them off to other people. That doesn't matter. We also had a new person to church and she loved it!
Speaking of which, she's our miracle of the week (one of the many) Though actually, I wasn't personally at the appointment, I was at the street display (we did a mini split). This lady was actually the first contact Elder T. and I ever got. Considering that was in March, and this was probably the fourth or fifth appointment with her, things have been moving slow. But we persevered, we were averaging an appointment every other month, with a lot of fallen out appointments in between. At one of the appointments it came out that she really was interested, she really wanted to know, but whenever she tried to read in the Book of Mormon she'd get a panic attack. She even almost came to church. But again she panicked. So we prayed and prayed and hoped that she could overcome this obstacle. Anyway, the day I was at the Street display, Elder T. U. Elder F. walked up and said that she's overcome the panic, she has been reading in the Book of Mormon, and decided that this is the path she wants to go on. We have another appointment where we'll give her a baptismal commitment, and then Elder T. goes home. Miracle? My vote’s for yes. Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Will kücheln
sent by Elder RAM on August 5, 2008
Don't ask won't tell.
We'll leave it with the fact that missionaries are weird.
I'm going to be real short today because I don't have a lot of desire being stuck in an internet cafe with the guy who smells like smoke.
Anyway, life's been good. Right now there's three of us missionaries, (zum dritt) because elder Thorne has to go home early, and by early I mean next week.
Now I have a new companion, Elder Franke. He's from Hamburg, which is funny cause that mean he already knows families and stuff. He's a real German so my language skills are improving at a wonderful rate. He's big, funny, and relaxed, just what we need to do some awesome missionary work.
Love ya'll. Here's a story
This Sunday E. came to church alone(which I thought it was cool that he came regardless of whether T. could make it. He's really dedicated). After asking him how T. was, he said that she was sick. So we went over to their place after church. We explained a little about the priesthood and then gave her a blessing. It was odd, Elder Thorne knew at the beginning what he should say but then there was a block. However there came a point where the spirit flooded into the room and Elder Thorne was able to keep on going. It was quite an amazing experience.
Bis aufwiedersehen
We'll leave it with the fact that missionaries are weird.
I'm going to be real short today because I don't have a lot of desire being stuck in an internet cafe with the guy who smells like smoke.
Anyway, life's been good. Right now there's three of us missionaries, (zum dritt) because elder Thorne has to go home early, and by early I mean next week.
Now I have a new companion, Elder Franke. He's from Hamburg, which is funny cause that mean he already knows families and stuff. He's a real German so my language skills are improving at a wonderful rate. He's big, funny, and relaxed, just what we need to do some awesome missionary work.
Love ya'll. Here's a story
This Sunday E. came to church alone(which I thought it was cool that he came regardless of whether T. could make it. He's really dedicated). After asking him how T. was, he said that she was sick. So we went over to their place after church. We explained a little about the priesthood and then gave her a blessing. It was odd, Elder Thorne knew at the beginning what he should say but then there was a block. However there came a point where the spirit flooded into the room and Elder Thorne was able to keep on going. It was quite an amazing experience.
Bis aufwiedersehen
Four cycle feat
sent by Elder RAM July 29, 2008
I didn't get transferred!?! This means I'm in my Golden city for another six weeks. Seriously, that makes it six months, at least a quarter of my mission will be spent in Darmstadt.
On a more tragic note, Elder Thorne will be dying soon. It's sad but true, I will be killing him, with the help of a German. Because Elder Thorne is going home in the middle of the cycle Elder Franke will be coming to live with us till Elder Thorne kicks the bucket.
Cool news is that Elder Franke is German, and his English isn't so good. So i can't even be lazy, my German is going to rock the hizz-ous.
My address is the same of so that you have no worries when mailing, so come on and send the love. WOOO HOOOO.
The Polish couple we are teaching came to church of course. But also someone else did who we actually didn't expect. On our first day here in Darmstadt we had a contact with a woman. After about three fallen out appointments we had an awesome first lesson where she told us that she's been searching for something but she doesn't know what it is...That was in our second month here, for two months we couldn't get an appointment with her or find her at home. Something always came up. Finally we got an appointment with her. That she tried to cancel, thankfully we were on a split and I had the phone and we had no way of getting a hold of the other two. So they went to the appointment anyways, that's when she said that something was trying to stop here from learning about this church. She'd pick up the Book of Mormon and get a panic, once she tried to come to church, panicked and went home. This week we had another fallen out appointment, but we did a go by and talked to her and invited her to church. Well to my surprise she showed up, I was talking to a member and looked over and all of a sudden there's this sister standing next to Elder Thorne, what's even better is that the members talked to her, a member invited her to sit with them, and another member took other two investigators. Elder Thorne and Just kinda stood there and said, well our investigators don't need us to sit with them...what to do now?
it was an awesome miraculous experience,
Welbis aufswiedersehen
Elder McDonald
I didn't get transferred!?! This means I'm in my Golden city for another six weeks. Seriously, that makes it six months, at least a quarter of my mission will be spent in Darmstadt.
On a more tragic note, Elder Thorne will be dying soon. It's sad but true, I will be killing him, with the help of a German. Because Elder Thorne is going home in the middle of the cycle Elder Franke will be coming to live with us till Elder Thorne kicks the bucket.
Cool news is that Elder Franke is German, and his English isn't so good. So i can't even be lazy, my German is going to rock the hizz-ous.
My address is the same of so that you have no worries when mailing, so come on and send the love. WOOO HOOOO.
The Polish couple we are teaching came to church of course. But also someone else did who we actually didn't expect. On our first day here in Darmstadt we had a contact with a woman. After about three fallen out appointments we had an awesome first lesson where she told us that she's been searching for something but she doesn't know what it is...That was in our second month here, for two months we couldn't get an appointment with her or find her at home. Something always came up. Finally we got an appointment with her. That she tried to cancel, thankfully we were on a split and I had the phone and we had no way of getting a hold of the other two. So they went to the appointment anyways, that's when she said that something was trying to stop here from learning about this church. She'd pick up the Book of Mormon and get a panic, once she tried to come to church, panicked and went home. This week we had another fallen out appointment, but we did a go by and talked to her and invited her to church. Well to my surprise she showed up, I was talking to a member and looked over and all of a sudden there's this sister standing next to Elder Thorne, what's even better is that the members talked to her, a member invited her to sit with them, and another member took other two investigators. Elder Thorne and Just kinda stood there and said, well our investigators don't need us to sit with them...what to do now?
it was an awesome miraculous experience,
Welbis aufswiedersehen
Elder McDonald
Bump WHAT! six months out already!
sent by Elder RAM on July 22, 2008
Well, as of tomorrow I’ll be a quarter through my mission...weird.
We went to the temple this morning so I'm in a really good mood but I'm really tired. It's a lot of complicated German.
Since Ii'm really tired and I'm not really feeling a writing groove so I'll just end with a cool story.
We're teaching an American who's only going to be here for a few weeks. He's got lots of questions and knows the Bible very well. Well, we were teaching him, and finally we just said "You don't have enough time to get baptized here in Germany, but we want to help you to prep to get baptized in America." He was in agreement. So we decided we'll meet later to figure out the steps he needs to take.
Bis spter
Elder McDonald
Well, as of tomorrow I’ll be a quarter through my mission...weird.
We went to the temple this morning so I'm in a really good mood but I'm really tired. It's a lot of complicated German.
Since Ii'm really tired and I'm not really feeling a writing groove so I'll just end with a cool story.
We're teaching an American who's only going to be here for a few weeks. He's got lots of questions and knows the Bible very well. Well, we were teaching him, and finally we just said "You don't have enough time to get baptized here in Germany, but we want to help you to prep to get baptized in America." He was in agreement. So we decided we'll meet later to figure out the steps he needs to take.
Bis spter
Elder McDonald
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