Tuesday, March 31, 2020

March 31, 2020 - Quarintine in Apartment

Hello. This is going to be short because nothing really happened this week. 

This week we did nothing much.  We got our router, so that was fun. We can communicate from apartment now.   We got the bikes from the church and we rode those around, also fun. We've been relatively busy, which is not that busy.  We've had a lesson about every other day either with a friend, or members.  We Skype.  Staying put as far we know.   Staying happy on quarantine. 

See you next week. 
Elder Brown 

2nd Week Quarintine





Enjoying an hour outside on a bike ride 

Looking out back window of apartment - looking at our deck 
Standing Back Deck - reflection in window

Looking out back window of apartment

On our back deck we enjoy this view during quarantine.  



Beautiful Spring Blossoms we can see off our back deck in our apartment complex 




 Wonderful meeting up with our bishop who checks on us regularly.  Had a private party at the church. We had dessert and he gave us American candy and soda pop he had got when in America 



Tuesday, March 24, 2020

3/24/2020 - 10 weeks

Hello. Ten weeks out and Today marks week one of isolation. 

Nothing really happened that's worth mentioning. I sat around, studied alot. I've watched a bunch of videos from the gospel library. I downloaded every video under the video section. My phone is at around 110gbs used, and the gospel library app accounts for 60gbs. It's been a kind of rollercoaster of emotions this last week. We went from thinking we were going home, because the President told us to clean apartment and be ready to pack at a minute’s notice. I was thinking I'm going home for sure, to now we know for certain we won't be going home. We learned this morning that all European countries for the most part are staying put. I think that means me and Chandler are both staying put.  We also got a call from president Brown asking how much room we have in our apartment. That might mean we will get more elders at our apartment. That would kind of crowd us, but that would be way fun. More guys to hang out with -  I really hope it happens. Well that's about it. In apartment or we can walk to church a few blocks away.   Tschüss Elder Brown 

Wednesday, March 18, 2020


PHOTOS MARCH 17, 2020





OLD GERMAN BOOK OF MORMON - 1824




SCENES FROM THE COUNTRY SIDE AS WE RIDE ON THE TRAIN




AUGSBURG CITY CENTER

Found a health food store and excited to see a Golds Gym shirt and .PORTIEN - MISS THE GYM.
Movie Poster








Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  and Austrian composer 

Apartment - Man mowing the lawn so it must be SPRING


Tuesday, March 17, 2020

March 17,2020 - Letter

Hello again    This week has seemed really long. We've had a ton happen. Dounerstag. I got up, and yeah. And then when I was getting ready I could hear what I thought was a lawnmower, so I looked out the window, and I could hear one, but I had no idea where it was. I kept looking, and then I noticed a guy mowing his little 10 by 10 foot lawn behind his bushes. I guess that means its spring. That day we went finding, and we meet up with the sister. For some reason they were in Augsburg. They were on tausch(exchange). With the München sisters so I think that's why. We  traveled by bus to a members house. It was really close to the bishop's house. We ended up just reading from the Book of Mormon and it was kinda hard doing that in German, but I did ok. I also bore my testimony and he understood me so that was cool. Freitag. This day was really crazy. So today was supposed to be when we   tausched(exchangeed) with the zone leaders, so I got my bag all ready that morning. When i was getting ready we got news from the zone leaders that we'd needed to delay. They said sister sharp was getting sent home because she had bronchitis and it is her last transfer, and they wanted to say goodbye.  So we changed our plans to do anAufstellung, and we went to get our bike
We then went out finding . We stoped some guy and he pranked up. We asked him if he knew about the book of Mormon, and he said he knew it by heart. So we asked if we could exchange numbers, so he gave us some number, and it was several numbers short of a real number. We asked him about it, and the next number was an American number, so we asked him and he was like no that's an English number.  We then traveled to the church and got my bag and then traveled to München.  We sat there on the street and this drunk guy walked up to us and started talking to us.  We talked to him, and at one point Elder Porter told him he was a son of God, and he started to cry.  So that was pretty cool.  I'm not sure if it was him being drunk or if he really felt the spirit.So we then met up with the zone leaders and we'd just decided we'd just go find the sisters, so we then traveled to the office. We found them, and we were able to give them the stuff we had copied for them and then we were able to say goodbye. I then said goodbye to elder porter, and I went and stayed at the zl's Wohnung. It was kinda a mess, but whatever. I cleaned their dishes for them, that was fun I guess. Samstag.  We woke up at 6:30 and the bishop of the München ward came and picked us up at 6:45. We went and helped move his son, it was a lot easier and more fun that the move we did a week ago. It was weird because the Wohnung(house), was set up almost exactly the same as the other one, it was just not disgusting. We then moved them and I slept In the car a bunch because it was a ways away. After the move they fed up which was nice. We also went to get gas after, and I guess its cheaper in Österreich(Austria) . So I was able to go there for the first time.  When I woke up the bishop told me and elder Fairbanks his story of when he went to America. It was really cool. It really helped me to believe a little more in the gift of tongues. We then went to the zns Wohnung and got by Rucksack. We then took a Zug and a Bus to a church in München. We then filmed some stuff for something. I meet elder porter then and we then traveled back to Augsburg.Sonntag. We got up and got ready and went to the church, but we just watched a thing on elder porters tablet. We then went finding. Then we came home and ate. Then we went out finding again. And then we had a lesson. Then we went finding again. Then we went to the church and watched a zone thing with President Browns. The we came home and slept. I dont think I have done this much finding in one day. I'm getting kinda get frustrated and a pit overwhelmed over the whole rushed feeling I'm getting. I understand working hard, but we're constantly running around trying to accomplish a whole lot of nothing, which is fine, but still, WHERES THE FIRE. Montag. Today was supposed to be a little slower, but we still did a bunch of stuff.  Went to the store bought some snacks, went to the Augsburg sisters old apartment. Then we got the Ingsbrocck sisters from the Bahnhof. One of the sister is sister Martin, she was in the MTC with me. We then took them to their apartment and helped with there bags. Then we went with them to help them shop.  When we paid it was like 150 euros. That's a lot to carry. And we had a bunch of cans. So we carried their groceries back to their apartment. We got our bags and went shopping for us. We then carried all of our groceries  back to our apartment. We then cleaned the apartment  Elder porter cleaned the fridge out and I mopped the floors. We then had a district meeting, but we found out we could just Skype in so that's what we did. This is when we found out that we are quarantined . We can go out if we need stuff, but we're supposed to start doing a lot of stuff online.Dienstag- It's raining. Communicating by email with a few members so we are at the church – going to play a little basket ball – alone. Love you – Talk to you bois in a little bit

Friday, March 13, 2020

Pictures in Munich Germany, from the train window riding from Munich to Augsburg - 3/9/20

Carson riding the missionary bike
Crazy Carson puts on an Emoji over his companion - fun to see his apartment  and hear his wonderful laugh 



Bishops BMW on Autobahn and Listen to the bells 























Church bike used on street to promote conversation
Freuda - Joy, Gladness
Glaube -Belief 







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