Yeah, this week was pretty much a normal week of being a missionary. We only had one day that had anything really weird go down and that was Friday.... Friday was one of the nicest days of weather I have experienced in Germany. The sun was out, and it was just perfect to go out and do some basketball finding, so we started off our Friday walking around Itzehoe looking for people playing basketball. After about 30 minutes of walking around we came to the conclusion that there is only one basketball court in all of itzehoe and the gate to said basketball court is locked..... so basketball finding was a bust!
Moving on from our failed attempt at basketball finding we decided the best course of action to take would be to walk to a small village about 9 kilometers out of town called Münsterdorf and test out our luck there..
That Friday morning as we were packing up to leave the apartment, Elder Garner and I decided that the weather was way too nice to be carrying around a umbrella and that we should instead carry a waterbottle. Little did we know that on our walk to Münsterdorf we would be needing our umbrellas!
Luckily we made it to Münsterdorf without any trouble. No one wanted to talk to us there and we had the choice of either taking the bus back or walking through the Itzehoe forest and try talking to the people enjoying the nice day walking along the paths. We decided that walking through the forest would be a better use of our time, because of how many people are there.
We started into the forest when all of the sudden it seriously, in a split second, the nicest day ever turned into buckets of rain! It soaked us through and through, scared away all of our potential investigators, and conveniently destroyed our map!
As we were soaking wet, wandering through the forest without a map, we stumbled upon something that really freaked us out! A weird little demon statue that inspired us to blaze our own path out of the forest to the Autobahn to see if anyone would be so kind to give two soaking wet missionaries a ride into town..... no one was so kind! We did get a couple cars that honked at us, but Elder Garner said its probably because we are soaking wet and wearing white dress shirts! ;)
All in all it was a great week! I loved hearing about the Spring Break adventures!
So as of two days ago I have hit my 7 month mark on my mission! isn't that INSANE? It's a good thing I love being here because that is a long time!
Thank you for your love and prayers! Have a great week!
Love Elder Schmalz
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