Elder Heilmann: Adventures in Serving the Lord

Daily Doings This boy, I tell ya. He is having the time of his life serving the Lord in Germany. When he is on his personal time, he loves to do fun things like go to game stores and get new treasures! This week, he was able to go to Spielzeit , which means 'game time,' to get a new set of Magic the Gathering cards. He picked up Ghost Vikings! Oooo!!! He was all sparkly and smiley, showing us his latest treat. Mmmm. Fresh card smell. ;)   He also enjoys playing the piano and guitar whenever he gets a chance and he just acquired all of the songs from the Kiera Knightly version of Pride and Prejudice.  I love that music! Another love is cooking. He has always loved cooking and baking things, and that skill has blessed his life on his mission. He has also been blessed with companions who ALSO like cooking! Elder Tillett cooked well. He would say, "No. I'm cooking." and would cook for the companionship. Elder's Chamberlain and Jones wouldn't let Elder Heilmann...

Daily Doings Still in Krefeld with a new companion! His name is Elder Lahman, and he is from Grantsville, UT. So far, Elder Heilmann knows that he likes cars. ;) That's about it. His last companion, Elder Wright, was on the plane home as we were chatting. So he was officially 'killed off.' Mission slang is so funny.  Again, we were able to have multiple people on the call. Me, Daddy, Aveline, Elder Heilmann, and then Tristan joined us from the other room. Elder Heilmann greeted Tristan in German. We were all quiet for a moment, and then Daddy said, "This is where you say, Bien! y tu?" LOL Leave it to Daddy to break the ice.   Elder Heilmann shared some good news! They found the key to the linen closet, so now they don't have to sleep on bare mattresses! YUCK!!! Sheets and towels. Yay for the closet key. Why do they even  have  a key? Oh well. At least now I don't have to keep asking him if he wants me to buy sheets.   I super like buying things for him...

Daily Doings Elder Heilmann was in Duisburg today with his District and only had a short time to talk.  He let us know that he had a mtg to attend.  A geminda missions cordenantions (no idea how to spell it), a Mission Correlation Mtg.  They call in Gemico for short and it was cute to watch him have to translate from German to English in his head.  We thought it sounded very French and apparently a lot of German words are borrowed from the French language.  Cool! For instance, 'chance' in German is 'chance' pronounced SHAWN-suh.   Even though he didn't have much time, we had a little surprise ready for him!  GRANDPA!!!!!   Grandma and Grandpa Heilmann are visiting us, and Elder Heilmann was SO excited to see Grandpa. Grandpa's father was born in Hamburg, Germany, so they enjoyed figuring out where Elder Heilmann was in relation to there.  He went on to tell us that the companionship is having a hard time. They are just facing a lot ...