I Am Now 20

While Elder Pinyon and I was emailing each other back and forth, I refreshed my email. I saw that I received a new email from Elder Pinyon (very sneaky of him) and the subject was "blog stuff :D" I clicked on the email and saw the update.

Here's what he said;
"Life is going great over here in Germany. I woke up this morning feeling weird, knowing that I am now 20, but I am just enjoying myself and am loving my new area. Adjusting to my new area has been pretty easy this time, which is really nice. It has been the easiest out of all 4. So that is really great. Also that I have a super great companion that is just super awesome makes life so much easier. It is also weird because I knew my companion before I got transferred into here. So it made the whole getting to know each other part a little less awkwarder, haha.

Our week was super busy tho and being a Zone Leader again just reminds me of my last area a little bit and I keep calling my new area my old area, but it will all become normal soon. The Zone is going great though, especially for Germany. We really want to build a stake of Zion in this zone. We are still living in a district, just like my home.

We just had a baptism before I got here and the son of the the new member will be getting baptised in a few weeks, so I am really excited for that. It will be so sweet to see him get baptised. He is a 12 year old and his mother and him live together and they love each other, they are such a cute family.

Also on my second day, I found out that my area is HUGE. We have bikes and I think we rode about 60-80km that day (According to the map). I was absolutely dead after that day, but so far being here, I have lost about 2-3 Kg, so I am excited to keep shredding them if I can. Also on Saturday we had our Kinder fest (childrens festival), what happens there is there is a lot of stations and there are about 20 Russian children that come over and they come and enjoy themselves with all the games that are available. So we were on the balloon station. We had a few investigators there and also our new convert. It was a lot of fun.

On Sunday I gave a talk for my first Sunday. I introduced myself and then I gave a talk about Jarom 1:11 and how we can become a bishops ward. They really loved it and they want to work with us a lot so they can bring their friends to the Gospel, so it is really great :D
I am loving the mision and everything"

Stay Tuned. 

Birthday Reminder

Hello to all readers, I have a reminder to remind you all. Elder Pinyon's Birthday is upcoming Monday and he has asked me as Megan Green to remind everyone that his Birthday is coming up. 

It is best to send your Birthday wishes to him directly through emails. If you would like to send a Birthday Card or Birthday letter or Birthday Package, please send it to the mission home. Both of his e-mail and the mission home address is under "Contact Details" on this blog. 

If you decide to write your Birthday wish to him on Facebook, I will pass it on to him on his Birthday and the week after. I hope you all are having a great week. 

If you have any questions, don't be afraid to email me and my email is megangreen20131@gmail.com

Stay Tuned.

Getting Transferred to Oldenburg

A little update from Elder Pinyon for this week.

"So on Friday last week, we got our transfer calls and I am being transferred tomorrow. I will go to Oldenburg and stay serving as a zone leader. I didn't expect to stay zone leader, but it's what the Lord needs at the time. Next week after my birthday we will also be getting a new mission president. So that'll be super interesting. I am not to sure what to think yet. We will see how everything goes. My new area is inside of a district, so it's going to be like home. I am hoping to help along with the working towards building a stake there. So they can have the blessings of one. Also I can learn how to do that, so when I move back to Mackay with my family, I can help turn the district into a stake."

You may ask what is transfers? Transfers lasts for 6 weeks. So on the Missionary's 5th week in the area, they normally receive a call to find out if they are staying in their current area for the next transfer or they are getting transferred to a new area within the Mission's boundaries.

Stay Tuned. 

Amuse are called batteries in German

I was laughing while reading Elder Pinyon's email of the update for this week. It was good to able to chat with Elder Pinyon. I was all ready for bed and I closed my eyes. I couldn't fall asleep so I looked at my phone and I saw an email from Elder Pinyon. I stayed up chatting with him until I told him that I better get some sleep.

Anyway, here's the update.

"Yesterday at church was so funny, we had 35 visitors from Salt Lake City and of course they couldn't speak any German, so we only have 20 translating devices. The bishop gave the last talk and he noticed 2 things. 1. There wasn't enough devices and 2. There was about 40 minutes and he had only prepared a 20 minute talk. So he asked the Sister in the ward that was translating to come up the front and translate from the pulpit. He asked her to translate things directly, so she did and a few of the sentences were super funny (also the fact that I could understand both languages). He said "auf Deutsch nennen wir sie Akkus" so she translated "in German we call these Batteries". It was so great to see the bishops face after she said that, it was priceless. And everyone had a little giggle. It was probably the most entertaining sacrament meeting and most learning and most spiritual. The bishop used batteries as an example in our lives, that we have spiritual batteries and that we need to
charge them. We can do that through going to church, prayer, scripture study and so forth. He gave a great example, he said his charging station for these batteries is on the table at home and the cord that is plugged in is actually going towards the ceiling. He said that we need to face our cords towards the sky/Heavens so we can also recharge our batteries.

Elder Pinyon"

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Super Amazing Week!

I loved what Elder Pinyon mentioned for this week's email and he said the following; 

"Hey everyone, 

So this week was super amazing. I got some great news about someone at home, someone that I actually knew since a long time got baptized on Sunday, that was a super cool miracle. The Lord is always preparing His children so they can one day enter the gate into baptism. Baptism is something that is really amazing. But it is not fully complete without the receiving of the gift of the Holy Ghost. All people who are baptized with correct authority can and will receive not only the gift of the Holy Ghost, but also a remission of sins. So what is a remission of sins? The word remission actually means "cancellation". So this means a cancellation of all of our past sins that we have committed. This is so amazing to think that we can have such a gift in our life to receive this in our lives. Always love God, He will always be there for you. He loves you. 

Have a great week,

Elder Jacob Pinyon"

Teaching the Gospel via Ipads

While emailing back and forth with Elder Pinyon, he mentioned the update. I would like to share with you the normal message and he said the following;

"Well after having the iPads for one week, I still don't exactly know what I will do with them, but it is really good for the app that I am using a lot for teaching. It is called LDS pamphlets, make sure you all check it out, it is super awesome and interactive. It's good for teaching children too. I have also been sick this week, so it has been a bit of a long and unsuccessful week, but that is ok, this new week is a new challenge and I feel better than last week. Other than that, things are going great here in Germany, I love being here and I love the people too!!!
Take care and have a great week"

Stay Tuned.