A Gondola Full of Missionaries

Bonjour!

Colmar Boat Ride

Last pday we had the opportunity to go to Strasbourg to be with the District. It was incredibly fun. We went to this buffet at night called Flam's which serves all you can eat flammenkuchen, an Alsatian specialty. Basically it's like pizza with a really thin crunchy crust and instead of red sauce they use white sauce. The toppings range from a variety of things but are usually cheese, ham, and/or vegetables. It was delicious and incredibly filling.

Tuesday through Friday was a lot of proselyting. It was good, we learned during the week that the amount of tourists in the city goes down enough to where we can do effective contacting. We actually had 9 appointments set up but only 2 of them went through. Haha.

Those two appointments were pretty cool though. One was with a Malagasy man named Olivier and the other was with someone named Ali. They both now have Book of Mormons and will hopefully read them.

The direction asking from tourists still hasn't stopped. Speaking of which we had some old German women come up to us asking us where the post office was. I pulled out a map and realized it was really far away but because that was too hard for me to explain in German I could only tell them to take their next right. Haha. I hope they found it eventually.

Saturday we had the district come in to Colmar to do some finding for us. It rained all day but we still had some pretty good success. I got to go contacting with my MTC companion Elder Nagloo for the first time. That was really fun. Additionally, for one of our breaks throughout the day we took a gondola ride down the "petit Venice". I will attach some pictures but I'm sure 8 missionaries on a gondola would have been a sight to see for some tourists. Haha. It was overall a terrific week.

God has been blessing us with people to teach and I am happy. Have a good week! God Bless

Elder Hein