Assignments

His first assignment was in the Jagst River Valley in the city of Ellwangen, Germany with Elder Middleton. After he broke his leg and ankle on July 18th he was hospitalized for 10 days and then he returned home to recover. He served one transfer in the Albuquerque NM Mission from January 4 - February 15, 2010 and served on the Navajo Reservation with Elder Lee.

He returned to Zurich on February 16, 2010. His first assignment was to serve with Elder King in Offenburg, Germany. The city is located in the Kinzig River Valley and adjacent to the Black Forest. The nearest large town is Strasbourg, France. He then served in a companionship with Elders Baird and Vaniturt in Offenburg.
On June 24th he was called to serve in Heilbronn with Elder Aeschbacher, who is from Switzerland. He is excited to serve with a native German speaker and hopes this will help him improve his language skills. On August 18, 2010 he was transferred to the city of Tubingen and called to be a companion with Elder Mildon.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Proud Wearer of the Currywurst Belt

So this week was pretty good we ended up meeting with Simon, our less active young adult, who watched the new joseph smith movie with us and we also played some board games and talked about what he could do to become a priest which is what he is now on his way too.
On monday we got to go to Freiburg and meet up with elder merkley and his parents. Since he just finished his mission he was wanting to go through all of his old areas and meet missionaries he knows in or around the areas. His family was way nice and, if I say anything else I know they will read it, so I will say nothing else about these AMAZING, FUN, People!!!! Sister merkley went up to try and touch a statue and didn't realize it was just some dude in gold paint and so that was pretty funny to see when he kind of jumped at her. We also went by and got some currywurst and I got to beat Elder Owen's record of 9 pieces of curry rated at 1 million scoval units. I ate 6 pieces of 2 million scoval units and now am the current belt holder (literally we bought a belt).
On tuesday after district meeting me and Elder VanUitert went by another less active.  He has been coming to church for the past couple weeks. He gave out the sacrament the week before and so we were excited to go by on him and talk to him. We ended up being there for about 2 and a half hours and we met in his second house. He owns two houses right next to each other plus this huge barn thing. And it is pretty impressive to have even one house to yourself. He was way funny and kept wanting to take us to burger king. But we had already eaten plus he took us there last time and so we told him not to worry about it. He even pulled out one of those apple peeler things. You stick the apple on it and just keep twisting it till the whole apple it a huge spiral thing and the stem pops out it was way awesome. He opened up about some stuff and so hopefully next time we will be able to bring a message for him that could help him.
Later in the week another two baptisms in Freiburg happened. We didn't go to these though since we did not know the people and we had appointments.
On sunday however our branch president was very excited. Because Offenburg is about 10-12 active members and we had 32 people in church lol. And it was only about 10 regular members then about 10 less-actives and yes 10 investigators! It was way sweet. Especially since Elder Vanuitert and I have been focusing on less actives out here and the other two have focused more on investigators. We found out it will be going down to one companionship next transfer and we know it will be someone from the other companionship most likely so we are letting them take all the investigators for the most part so there will not be a huge awkward change at transfers. But yeah we had a ton of people and the other two elders even set a baptismal date with an investigator named Ebraham (like Abraham and no I didn't spell it wrong) He is set for June 12 so that will most deffinetly be something to look forward too. Can't wait to see how that goes.
Mom, I read your note that you had sent me garments and some green chile.  Did you also happen to send the recipe for enchiladas?  Thanks.  Zone Conference is this week so maybe I will get the packages then.  I'm hoping if I get transferred to either stay in Germany or go to Austria.  I think Switzerland is basically out for non-European missionaries, unless they change the VISA rules or you were lucky enough to get one.  Mine expired when I was home.  Me and my companion are doing the workshop for zone conference it is on "getting members to do missionary work".  We're trying to think of something cool to do, especially since it is President Matern's last one and probably the last time  I will see him. 
Well that is about it for this week. I know that we have been blessed this week and I'm very grateful to be in an area with these type of awesome people. Till next time.
Love ya.
Elder Hargett

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