ELDER RHONDEAU

Hello!! 

It is so much more humble here. People want to listen and welcome our help gladly, which is a blessing because Frankfurt Oder was a little rough sometimes with people not talking to us and not caring about our message. Church was amazing. You and dad would be proud; I started doing the dishes for the entire ward, and ended up doing them all and did close to 200 dishes. Pro dishwasher right here!! The members were so happy I did them, and all thanks to your  examples:)

But alas, all lucky streaks of no accidents must come to an end as I got in a small accident last week. It was a fender bender, and we can laugh about it now but in the moment let me tell you it was scary. I didn’t think it was my fault but then apparently it was and I don’t know. Germans sometimes confuse me but we are alive and well. I was in his blindspot and he switched lanes and hit me so I think it was his fault but oh well. It’s life. Maybe the laws are different. I feel like the others weren’t entirely honest, but sometimes you have to be the bigger person and just take the 35 dollar ticket instead of maybe compromising the name badge… but we ended up getting a baptismal date later that night!!!! Blessings:)

We are so excited!! Denise is 17-years old, and her mom Zdenka is 45 and they are great. They haven’t come to church in almost 8 weeks, and yesterday they came!! So we were excited and the date is set for July 8th!!

Other than those two events, nothing else really happened that was too exciting or different. We helped Frau Byar in her yard and got strawberries in return. We do at least 4 hours a week service usually working with old wood and in cellars and it is funny because Elder Hofeling is deathly afraid of spiders, so I usually end up going into the dirty places. I love it and it is fun really.  We had a lot of appointments and the work is going well here at the moment. We are looking forward to another week! 

I have seen the hand of the Lord a lot, just in knowing what to do. Knowing how to recover from a hard day, and always listening to the promptings, which are an everyday occurrence. It is great!

Hope all is well, and we have a super busy week next week so my email will be better. Life is good, the mission is good.
I don’t know who won the NBA Finals but go Warriors woot woot. Love you all!! 

Elder Rhondeau