Schwarzenberg

So this is where it ends. Schwarzenberg. The black mountain. Mordor. Doom. This is where missionaries go to die.

But seriously. I am the third missionary in a row to end his mission in Schwarzenberg. My companion Elder Horrocks, has been here for three transfers, and has sent two missionaries home in that time. I’m number three.

All in all I don’t think that it is a bad place to end my mission. The “city” is really a town. It is what we call a “Dorf-hopping” area. As anticipated. We just break up the day into 2 hour time periods where we go to different cities in the area and go door to door. Follow up on people that said we could come back. We actually had a lot of potential, even a couple of lessons this week through follow up. Then came the ax.

They are taking our car away. Roughly. We have to share it with the ZL and STL who have been moved from Dresden, which is in the middle of the zone and has a train connection to every other city, to Freiberg. Since President Fingerle wants to put a focus on the temple and the temple is in Freiberg. Freiberg has no train connections, except to Dresden. And since the sisters are still STLs, they have to get to Berlin for exchanges. That is a four hour train ride at best. They need a car. The mission doesn’t have any extra cars. Who is the only companionship that has a car in the zone? Us.

So in the next two weeks, we have our car half of the days.

It doesn’t help that, as I already mentioned, there is no direct train connection between here and Freiberg. The only connection takes three hours.

It is going to be an adventure.

Remember, there is no price for the blessings of the temple.

Have a great week!

Elder Evan Perez