This week was a rough one. Mika and I have so many blisters and I burned my hand super super bad so dats gonna leave a nice big scar. Then one night we were going to miss a train and so I ran in my bare feet for almost a mile and a half on a rough rocky cobble stone road to catch the train and my feet were bleeding and man looking back it was just so bad. And my bed still squeaks so I don't get any sleep so I finally moved my bed on the ground and that helped. I'm just super overwhelmed but it is my first transfer so nothing that I didn't expect. I got to go to Berlin a lot for meetings, and I love it in Berlin. So much is going on it’s so cool!
Elder Mika and I joined the University rec basketball team to try and be chill with some college kids and find new things to do. Turned out to be a great time and we met this 37 year old from Uganda who is married and lives here and he loves us. We are going to try and get his contact because we literally see him EVERYWHERE. We were just on the Straßeban (which is a city train) and he was on it with his family and we chilled with them. He has the most beautiful children oh my goodness.
The language is coming along okay, but now I'm being thrown into the Arabic program after my training is done. Ola, the Arabic teacher, found out I can read Arabic while I was at her house as I was reading the candy label she has and she heard me muttering the words so after 12 weeks of German I'm in the Arabic program apparently… Just a lot of stress but I know God doesn't give you trials you can't overcome, but sometimes you don't see how you can overcome them but somehow, whether it's what you expected or not, you make it out.
This week I learned a lot about why it's important to surround yourself with good friends, good people, and most importantly surround yourself with Godly things, not worldly things. This woman named Schwester Gewetz had a daughter pass away, and now her sister is in coma so she is struggling. She said she's lost her relationship with God and has fallen back into who she was and who her friends and the world wants her to be or expects her to be because faith and the plan God has had for her is a hard path. Elder Mika bore his testimony about how we need God on our side, and become who He wants us to become and it can be hard but it’s worth it. She said we can come back, so I hope that she decides she wants to start coming back. Just remember that who you surround yourself with, and who other people want you to become isn't who you should become. What matters is the reason God put you here, which is to try and learn and become like Him. There are so many types of people I've seen here. But the light and happiness you see from the members and those whose lives are based around Godly things and surround themselves with good people are always happier and really know who they are and they have purpose.
We had twenty people at sacrament yesterday including four investigators which is really good--the ward was like what? I basically became the choir director because I can sight read (thanks mom and dad) so I was directing it. This week is a busy one, so hopefully it's better.
Thank you to everyone who sends me emails throughout the week and letters. It means more to me than you could ever know. Love you all, and thanks again for the awesome support.
Elder Rhondeau
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