ELDER RHONDEAU

Ahhhh, it’s Frühling [Spring]! I have never worked so hard or been so exhausted in my LIFE. What a good week though! Tuesday started out with a good old Manfred and Friends meeting with his friend Frau Belling (she wears a choker and dresses like she's eighteen but she's eighty and it kills me). Then we took the Zug to Eisenhüttenstadt to help Mathias move yet again:)) He's hilarious though, and I got to push the baby stroller, so it was worth it. Later that night we had a basketball game at the University and all the Germans now call me Steph Rhondeau because I dropped 24 in 2 games. I was feeling it man. Then, Wednesday was a day. We had appointment after appointment that all went well, and we met with Sister Wilke who is a less-active member. She has a disabled son and she is stressed. Mika played the cello and she loved it and is going to try to watch General Conference. Then of course we had volleyball and Älder (the 90-year old) was going so hard that night just diving all over the place and we were dying. Thursday and Friday were also super busy, and we had to go to Berlin for district meeting and come back for English Klasse, and that was the last time I'll probably see them because transfer calls are in a week and a half — can you believe that?? Already done basically with my 3rd month in Germany. General Konferenz was super, although watching TV for the first time on my mission was weird. We also had a street display that day where I talked to probably 80 people (or tried to anyway) and probably actually had a good conversation with 6 or 8 of them. They were all Africans or from the Middle East, and I gave out a few Books of Mormon and learned a lot of interesting words…

Then I had peanut butter for dinner. Not kidding -- I just bought chunky peanut and ate that because it's been the longest time. It was the bomb.

In General Conference I loved Elder Hales talk about how the gospel has to be woven into your fiber and the Lord will help you get to where you want to be, if you follow Him and strive to become like Him. I've been working and studying on how to have more Christ-like characteristics, and that was a perfect talk for anyone striving to be more like Jesus Christ and a true disciple of Him. In order to be like Christ and better ourselves, we can't change immediately. I remember hearing the 1% change talk about how 1 percent better a day on something makes the biggest difference. It doesn't have to happen all at once. It takes time. What I mean is it really takes a lot of time to become more like our Savior, but little pieces at a time is the way to go.

Hope everyone has a great week! Don't forget to watch the new Easter video on lds.org: https://www.mormon.org/?cid=HP_SU_9-4-2017_dMIS_fMORG_xLIDyL1-A_
It's awesome. Annnndddd it's April—what??-- just realized that! Welp, love you all and thanks for the continued support!

Elder Rhondeau