Germany

July 18, 2017

Well I am in Germany now in a city called Ingolstadt. There is a nice city center with a lot of foot traffic. We have bikes here and that is taking some getting used to after being in a car area for a while. My Companion is Elder Swenson and he is from Provo, Utah. 

Transfer day was a bit fun. The travel plan from the office took us to the wrong station where we needed to change trains. So I missed my scheduled train to München with the other missionaries going there. I had to ride to München by myself. 

On Saturday, there was a wedding that we were invited to for a couple in the ward here. It was held at the church (which is in an office building). I took a couple of pictures.

That's it for this week,

  Elder Gavin Damron

P.S. Attending Weddings are for Show Offs.

Goodbye Haag

July 11, 2017

This last week was transfer calls and I am going to Ingolstadt in Germany. We also had Zone Conference with the new Mission President. 

On Thursday, due to how early we had to be in Salzburg, we stayed in Neumarkt with the Elders there. Neumarkt is the area just south of ours. They are fun couple of Elders and their area is pretty rural just like ours. On Friday was when Zone conference and interviews were with the new Mission president. After Zone conference, we stayed in Salzburg for the rest of the day. We did some finding and it was my first experience Street finding on the mission (Street Finding is not an effective use of time here in Haag because there aren't cities that are too big here where a lot of people are usually located). It was fun and we got a Waffle Iron from the Zone Leaders Appt. 

That is really about it, Tomorrow I go off to Ingolstadt and begin anew there.

Till next week,

       

        Elder Gavin Damron

P.S. Austria is for show offs.

AMERICA!!!

July 4, 2017

Happy 4th of July to everyone out there and just remember, on this day in 1776 a group of Americans said "Screw the English". Sadly they don't celebrate the Liberation of the greatest country ever here so no big celebrations here. 

This past week not too much happened but there was some stuff that did.

The new Mission President came in on Friday and I haven't met him yet but I will later on this week. My bag also broke and it is no longer usable but I got a new bag to replace it so everything is all good in the hood. 

On Saturday, The Youth here in the Branch held a Bistro to collect money through donations. They had an assortment of good food and they played some videos that they made. We some less actives come as well as some Seniors Missionaries. 

So on Sunday we got an Investigator with a Baptismal date. His name is Barbod, he from Iran and we can only really teach him on Sundays because his Hausmeister is really rude and does not like religion. But we still got him on date and now we just need to meet with our other Investigator so we can get him baptized.

There are 2 things that missionaries in this mission love, it is Snitzel and Dönners. This Thursday, we plan on getting a Dönner Grill which should be fun and we can start making our own Dönners which if you don't know what that is, look it up. 

That is all for this week.

     Happy Independence Day,

                  Elder Gavin Damron

P.S. The English are for Show-offs

Last Zone Conference With PK

June 20, 2017

This week was a bit less eventful than last week but nonetheless stuff was still done. Some more service and the last Zone Conference with President and Sister Kohler. 

This last we had austausch (exchange) and I went to Linz while Elder Price stayed in Haag. While in Linz we had lunch with a member there at a Chinese buffet and it was really good. While we were at the buffet, Elder Mühlestein (one of the Elders in Linz) got a call from the Wels Sisters and they said they needed 2 Arabic Book of Mormons, so we went to Wels. The Wels sisters got held up at an appointment so they were late getting to us and we missed our train back so we went finding in Wels for a bit and we found a really cool guy that seems interested to just learn more about our religion. The one word that I used to describe him was American because he was a lot more open to learn than most of the locals here. 

After tausch, Elder Price and I went to got help our Branch President and his wide with their garden. We pretty much just moved dirt from one place to another for several hours. It was fun though and they also fed us some really good food. 

On Saturday we had Zone Conference with the Kohlers for the last time. Sister Kohler started crying at the beginning of the meeting when we were doing our aufsagend (reciting, this is when we recite our Missionary Purpose, 3 Nephi 5:13, and LuB 4[D&C 4]) Both of Kohlers told me that it was time for a hair cut which I still have not gotten yet but will this week. President Kohler gave all the missionaries a flash drive with a lot of stuff on it and has the mission logo it (Picture included) and a glass Obelisk also with the mission logo on it (Picture not included). I then got a picture with the Kohlers as well as other people that were in MTC group that are also in Austria. The Sisters in our District, however, could not make it to Zone Conference. Sister Church, one of our sisters obviously, was, and still is, sick not really sure what is wrong with her but it seems pretty bad. The Kohlers did go to visit them though so they got see them one last time before they left. 

That was it for this week do people still read these or not, if not than I should probably take people off the email list so if you are reading this and still have desire to get emails from me go ahead and reply just saying hey you are a cool dude and your emails are pretty bomb. 

Bis Nächste Mal,

       Elder Gavin Damron

P.S. Tausch is for show offs.

P.P.S.pictures are the Kohlers and I, people in the MTC that I met and one of the 2 gifts we got