So I didn't get to write last week because I was at the Health Clinic with my companion like all day; my companion broke his nose playing basketball. I don't know if I've told you, but my companion is kind of a clutz, he has been hit in the face playing basketball twice which broke his glasses and his nose, and slips on the ice and trips on the strairs daily, so he's gotten beat up quite a bit in the MTC. He just became my Senior companion since we are half way through the MTC experience, and he is struggling to actually take control and lead our meetings and plannings, so I've been trying my hardest to help him remember what his responsibilities are now without being rude in any way. He says it's hard for him because he has never been a leader in any way, but he'll learn quickly =)
So, since the last time I wrote you, we got a new mission President and counselors... I don't know who they are, but I'll tell you when I know haha. I also am the new District Leader which is pretty cool. My district is awesome and they follow the rules really well, so it makes it easy on me. The only thing I have really had to work on with my district is I have 2 Elders that are really uncomfortable with the language. They know a LOT more than me, but they are afraid to make any mistakes and embarrass themselves, so they never speak. I've been trying my hardest to get them to have enough faith that even if what they are saying doesn't really make sense, the spirit will testify of the truth. With my companion, he knows so much German, but he tries too hard to focus on how to say things correctly, so he losses the spirit and is only speaking the words of his mouth, not his heart. I don't know how to really help him with this, we've talked about it a lot, he is just terrified of making mistakes. Last week in one of our lessons he was explaining how Prophets got called, and he decided to use Jesus calling Peter to "Feed his sheep" I thought he was making it extremely difficult to explain, but he said he knew what he was doing, he ended up saying, "And Jesus told Peter to Eat my Sheep" Our "investigator" started laughing hysterically, I was too. That didn't help with the fact that he is so afraid of making mistakes, but, I felt prompted to bear my testimony after he said that, it was so strong, it got us right back where we needed to be. Hopefully my companion took my advice after the lesson to heart, it seemed like he did, but I never know.
For our Tuesday devotional we had Elder Holland come and speak to us. It was amazing, there wasn't a moment of him being in the gym I didn't feel my spirit, and I my District felt the same way, we had a testimony meeting after and almost everyone in the room was crying, so it was super awesome.
The German language is going great, I still don't really make sense when I speak, but I guess I get the message across, because of our 7 "investigators' we have 4 with a 'baptism' date. Our teachers are having me bring other missionaries with my companion to teach to try and get them more involved in the lessons because they are struggling with teaching, I had one of the Elders from my district, Elder Goble, teach with us, and I couldn't get him to participate at all, so at the very end I asked him to bear his testimony, and it was just amazing. The spirit was so strong, the teacher who was acting like the investigator wanted him to come back, when I spoke to the teacher afterward, he said that he was still in character and he really did want Elder Goble back just because of how amazing his testimony was.
I'm still waking up early every morning and working out, I haven't gained much more weight, but that's okay because we all know i'm super strong already =) My companion stopped working out in the mornings with me about 2 weeks ago... He has gained 18 pounds, so I think i'm going to force him to wake up from now on. I still haven't printed off any pictures, but, I think i'll order a bunch today, they take about twelve days to come in, so you'll get some pictures in about 2 weeks. I was also wondering how much money I had on my debit card, i'm starting to run out of the Hotel supplies, so i'm going to need to buy some stuff, and i'd like to know how much I can spend.
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