Training or Being Trained?: Wetzlar Week 7

September 21, 2015

Subject: training or being trained?

Hello,

Oh my, what a a wonderful week and how time flies. I feel like I just started working with Elder Domine and now I´m training! Elder Regehr is my new companion, he´s from Sandy Utah, grew up playing soccer and is overall awesome, I´m learning so much from him. I´ll attach some pictures of the two of us as well. That bird came back the other day while we were at the church, companionship tradition at this building :) It´s a magpie I guess, likes shiny things and was probably attracted to the iPad the first time it came to us [dad note: I plan to post a short video with Hayden and this bird soon]. It came to the sisters this last sunday and then taunted a cat, that was a lot of fun to watch. Yeah, Elder Regehr, he took no German before the MTC, but for 6 weeks his German is really solid. The gift of tongues is real! It doesn´t have to mean that you will wake up one day and be fluent (although I´m sure that isn´t impossible, just not the most common) but that as we work to learn the language and really communicated with people God will bless us with an increased ability to communicate. I am learning so much, speaking more German and explaining concepts is improving my German as well. Knowing that our time together will be truly the foundation of his mission, I´m that much more motivated to work hard and be my best.

Other things from this past week.. I ate fufu, a tasty African food (search it on the internet, really tasty, fun experience) with a man in the ward named Thomas, from Ghana. Elder Domine enjoyed saying goodbye to some of his favorite people. Elder Regehr arrived, fun with the ward and fun teaching.

We´re teaching a man named Mr S, he´s from Eritria (by Ethiopia) he doesn´t speak much German at all and it´s hard for us to understand each other´s Englisch as well. We had started chatting and really on
both sides were struggling to understand each other, prayed to start the lesson and asked for the spirit to help us understand one another and we all really noticed a difference, not perfect, but better, especially for Mr S. Immediate answers to pray, Heavenly Father is so helpful.

Have a great week! Carry on!

Love,

Hayden

PS. Could you send me that video from the Jujitsu tournament, the guy I fought who had corn rows? He arrived in this group of missionaries but looks a lot different now :)

Nashville tribute CDs would be awesome for my birthday/Christmas, Taylor gave me one CD but the files don´t work on the DVD player I have in the apartment. Nerds rope (it´s Elder Regehr´s favorite
candy). The bigger of the two family pictures please. And I have always wanted a Christmas package from a primary class... That would be cool... My Green journal that I left at home that doesn´t have many entries in it, if it takes too long to find don´t worry about it at all. Should I keep brain storming over here? Let me know. Thank you!