Colmar!!!

Colmar

Bonjour!

This past week was terrific.

Tuesday we took our pday and said our final goodbyes to the members in Lille.

Wednesday I said goodbye to Elder Mansfield (which was really weird after having been together for 3 transfers) and met Elder Pixton at the train station. The worst part about whitewashing into an area is Transfer day. Usually when you get transferred you have a new companion that can help you with your bags. Unfortunately when you are whitewashing your companion also has his bags, leaving you on your own with all your bags to haul around the crowded, sweaty metros and trains of Paris. It's terrible. Anyways... we made it to Colmar after what seemed like a never ending train ride and it's been terrific ever since.

Colmar

This city is incredible. Easily one of the most beautiful cities I have ever been to in my life. I'll attach some pictures but I am literally blown away everyday. The unfortunate thing about this is that the city is full tourists. This makes it literally impossible to do contacting in the downtown areas because everyone is either a Chinese tourist or from Germany. It doesn't help that we are wearing our white tshirts and ties because everyone thinks we are tour guides. It's ridiculous. We've had countless people come up to us and just start asking us for directions in German. It's helped me to get to know the city well but is really annoying when contacting. Anyways, we have started to do a lot more door to door stuff because it seems to be the only effective way to find for now. It's really too bad because I love contacting, so to end a mission doing door to door stuff wasn't exactly what I had in mind but I'll go hard nonetheless.

The members here are incredible. We had 57 people at church today and apparently it's because everyone heard missionaries were back in Colmar. The members are so excited. We are hailed as gods. They picked us up from the train station, gave us groceries, invited us to a BBQ last Saturday, made a branch mission plan, started having branch council again, and invited us over for lots of dinner appointments in the coming weeks. It's crazy to see how not having missionaries for such a long time can really effect the way you see things. The member base is really made up of one family that accounts for 30 members in the branch. They are all extremely nice.

I'm excited, Pixton is excited, the members are excited, and we are working hard. It's a recipe for success. We have already been blessed with new and old investigators and things can only go up. It's great.

Have a great week. God Bless

Elder Hein