November 7, 2011

Hello Family,

So this week was interesting. Halloween was nice. I was able to catch up on all of my letters and take a lovely nap. Guy Fawkes day was pretty entertaining. I have never been a big fireworks person, but it was a nice change of pace. The most interesting thing that happened besides that was on Thursday and Friday. Thursday Elder Smith and I had a very large disagreement about obedience (I felt he wasn't being obedient deliberately). That conversation ended up with Elder Smith bringing up various concerns. He was so upset that on Friday we ended up at the mission home from 10 until 3. That was a good time and I think Elder Smith has overcome a lot of the concerns and struggles he was having. After the mission home our mission president actually came and fellowshipped for one of our lessons, haha. That was certainly the oddest day of my mission so far. Things are fine now though. We also had the non-member husband of one of our members say he wants to be baptized. Woo! We have been teaching him. He wont set a date to be baptized, but says it's something he wants to do eventually. We also deep cleaned the flat today and now it is gorgeous. I love clean flats. Other than that, not much happened. I did go on exchange with Elder Chan who is Chinese. It is great to see him share the gospel in Chinese. We had a lot of funny moments.

Overall life is good and the gospel gets truer every time I check. I hope everyone is doing well. I wont be emailing again until Wednesday or Thursday of next week, it's transfers again.

love

Elder Misbach





October 31, 2011


Hello Familia,

This last week was a very busy week. I was on exchange for the first part of the week in Widnes, then we had our zone conference with President Kopishke, and on Friday I had my Mission District Leaders Council. So I worked in my own area for only about 3 days last week. Zone Conference was very interesting and different from normal. It was basically just an open discussion about various gospel topics for about 6 hours. It was enlightening. Friday was great. I love being around other missionaries that just know what they are doing and have a desire to be their best. We had a lot of discussion about how the mission is going to move forward since President Kopishkes visit. The biggest change is that the Assistants will now have their own area. I'm super jazzed to see how that is going to work. D and L came to church again but D refuses to live one of the commandments. They have reached their point of stagnancy. It's unfortunate. Hopefully things will change soon though. Today is Halloween so we just worked for three hours to make up the three hours that we will be staying in this evening. I'm quite excited; especially because fireworks are allowed on Halloween here. We also have Guy Fawkes day on Saturday which should be interesting. Other than that, things are good and life keeps moving forward. It's crazy to think how long I have been out. I hope that everyone is doing well and staying safe.

Happy Halloween!

love

Elder Misbach

PS: I wont have much time at all to respond individually. Sorry if my responses are lame. Thank you for the emails though!