Transfers!!

  Hey everyone! This week was good. We did have transfers and my boy Elder Forsey headed out! It was a bummer to see him leave but this will be his first time in a German area, so that’s good for him. My new companion is elder Adam and he’s a great guy! We’ve already been working hard so there has been no problem getting along. He is also only a couple transfers behind me so his German is great and it’s easy to just get stuff done.
     As far as the week goes, we have been really busy meeting with investigators and members. Kind of a funny story, last night Elder Adam and I decided to go by on some part member referrals from one of the wards here. The member that referred them, said that she had recently talked to the mom and she told us that the mom wanted to have the missionaries over so that she could be reactivated and get the rest of her family to church. This lady has a couple kids that we aren’t sure are members or not and her husband isn’t a member. So the member told us that they just lived across the street from them so we decided to run by!
     Well we get there and they answer the door. All we tell them is that we were friends of their neighbors (the members) from across the street and they said that we should just stop by and see how they were doin! Their daughter said her parents were home so we just came in. Well we get talking with the parents and the one kid and they were telling us about the mission that the husband served in Guatemala and how they talk to the members every day. They also asked why they haven’t seen us at church on Sundays. I had only met them a couple of times, so I didn’t remember that they were active members. In my defense we are over three American wards and it’s hard sometimes to keep everyone straight!! Haha! Anyways, they got some Chinese food for us to eat with them and then we left for our next appointment.
     So the reason why that’s so funny is because the people that we thought we went by on actually live next to the people that we accidentally went by on. So we will be going back to that town to meet the actual people that we meant to visit.
     Well other than that it was just a crazy week and I’m about out of time. I hope everyone has a great week and remembers the importance of Thanksgiving that is next week! I hope everyone can think of something that they are grateful for leading up to Thanksgiving AND after Thanksgiving. I know that if we recognize those simple things that we take for granted or even the big things that we can’t live without, our gratitude for so much will be deepened. And everything will mean more to us. Everyone have a great week!!!
Elder Rogers