March Zone Training Meeting

Neumünster Zone

Mmmmm, food

Classic German food in the form of pickled Herring. It's called rollmop!

This is why missionaries gain so much weight in Germany. 

The 3.8% milk that the members make you drink!

This was weird...tortilla chip chocolate!

Easter in Pinneberg!

So this week was Great!
Nothing really that exciting actually happened this week, just the normal missionary work that I have learned to love so much!
So that means:
Service
Walking for hours
Teaching about our Savior
Riding buses and trains
Studying
and last but not least,
Church

But yeah, we had a great week!

The Easter holiday is one of my favorite times of year. Almost everything in one way or another points towards Christ and his Atonement. Whether it be flowers blooming or the sun rising, everything gives testimony of that time when the Savior waged war against death and sin and came out victorious. Because he did this amazing thing we may all live again with our families forever and with our Heavenly Father.

I am so grateful for our Savior and his Atonement. I am so grateful that I have been blessed with the knowledge of His existence and accomplishments. I love Him and His gospel. And I love being His servant here in Germany!

Thank you for your prayers and your emails and letters.

Love Elder Schmalz

P.S. make sure to prepare yourselves to hear from the prophets of God this coming weekend!

The service project life...

Das dienst projekt leben!

Renovating houses for refugees!

P-Day Bowling!

Candid Picture of me at Soccer this Week...

Well as you can see by this "super accurate" picture of me...  

I pretty much crushed it at soccer this week... 

In all reality I was still really really bad, but there was some definite improvement from my last week of FAILING! 

  

We also crushed it at missionary work here in Pinneberg this week!

Next week we are going to be soooo busy it isn't even funny! We will be running from appointment to appointment all week, and it is actually the busiest I've been on my mission and for that I am so grateful!

  

I don't have very much time this week to do emails due to our busy schedule but what I can do is recommend these two websites that are super awesome!

https://www.mormon.org/easter/virtual-hallelujah-choir

https://www.mormon.org/easter

Thank you so much for your prayers and your emails!

Have a fantastic week!

Love Elder "Messi" Schmalz

Spring has sprung!

Zone training meeting with my awesome trainer, Elder Bretzing!

Pinneberg Week #1

First and foremost I arrived in Pinneberg after 5 hours of train travel in safety!

My companion here in Pinneberg is Elder Partridge. He has been on his mission for about a year now, and he seems like a great missionary so far, and I am excited to be working with him.

Pinneberg is a really small city, but the ward here is actually one of the bigger wards that I've seen on my mission with a solid 60 members....and let me tell you, they are REALLY good at soccer, and I am not.....so lets just say that both my body and my pride are sore at the moment....but we get to play soccer once a week with the elders quorum so hopefully I will get a little better.

In the investigator department we are seriously lacking. We have no one to teach so we will be doing a lot of finding this week. Hopefully we will find someone who will want to accept the gospel.

We are meeting with quite a few less actives and new converts in the area and helping them, so we do have someone to help right now, but we need to find some new people.

I'm doing pretty good. Just adjusting to a new area and a new companion.

Thank you for the prayers and all the support!

Love, Elder Schmalz