ELDER RHONDEAU

Man, this last week was nuts! I had 2 Tausches [an exchange with other missionaries], and a street display and also Zone Conference, which was good. Just going going going every day all day.

Started out with a Tausche with my zone leader, Elder Ausobsky. He is a nice guy and works hard, so it was great to learn from him. We met with this guy Maik who lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere and he is great. He has 8 horses, 6 dogs, 2 kids, and 4 guns. He only showed me one, but it was cool. Then I had another Tausche with Elder Allen who goes home in a week and we had fun. His first area was Frankfurt Oder, and so I set up a lot of appointments with members he knows and we met with them and he was loving it. It's weird to think he served here first and is going home. It got me super trunky for a day or so... but all is klar. Then came Zone Conference. Zone Conference was good, and it's always fun seeing friends and hearing about different areas. We got Facebook as a mission! Super nuts. I can download it in 6 weeks after I pass off a few German tests, so I'm excited. We are only the 18th mission in the world to have Facebook, so we are interested to see how it works. Then on Saturday we had a street display where I set a goal to give out four Books of Mormon (which is actually hard in Germany) and I gave out five, and we have three new investigators who we are excited about. One is from Cameroon and his name is Steve, and he's way cool. Speaks French and English but his German is sooooo hard to understand. Then, we had a baby shower for Della and Matthias in our ward. [On Sunday] I was surprised to hear Mathias invite me up to be in the circle for the blessing. It was such a great experience and I'll never forget that. It's really rare for missionaries to get called up, especially because the only others in the circle were his dad and Della’s dad.

Easter is coming up and we find out Saturday where we are off to next or who knows what's going to happen. It's hard trying to anticipate because apparently President throws surprises out there, but I bet I will be transferred! Who knows?

Hope everyone has a great week and a great Easter!! Always in my prayers, and again sorry for no pictures. I am in the library again...
Elder Rhondeau