To fill a chapel...

Hello Family!

I just had my first week in Würzburg, and I really like it,
it´s not really doing super good right now, but, we can change that
haha.  This area has had some, not so obedient missionaries in it for
over the last year, so the members of the Ward either don´t trust the
missionaries at all, or they invite us over to play with the kids, and
expect us to stay like 5 hours instead of only an hour.  Apparently
some of the other Elders would spend 7 hours with some of the families
just talking and playing with the kids, so, some of the families
really liked the missionaries because they were friendly, but, they
weren´t really working with the family, only hanging out to pass the
time.  So, yeah, there´s a lot of work we can do here.

Even though there´s a lot to do, we´re going to have a lot of
success haha, I can just tell.  Right now we don´t really have a lot
of investigators, but, we are working WAY hard.  In the 4 days I have
been here we have found over 20 potential investigators which is
awesome, and we found this one guy named Abbey who is now an
investigator.  We gave him an introductory lesson, kinda just setting
expectations and stuff; we are now meeting with him three times a
week, and he already said he would get baptized once he felt like it
was good.  We set a goal for him to get this answer in 3 weeks, he
said he believed he can do it, so, we´re basically way excited for
him.

We then stopped by a lady, Frau DeWolf, we saw that she had been
taught a while ago but was super hard to get a hold of, she lived like
2 streets down from Abbey, so we decided to stop by.  She was there,
we shared a spiritual thought and she had some tears come into her
eyes, she said it amazes her how much faith we have.  She apologized
for being so hard to get a hold of and then made a lesson out for us
which was pretty nice haha.

So those 2 people are way cool, but, it´s also way cool because we
have a list of about 6 people that said they want to meet with us, we
just need to find a time.  So, basically Würzburg is ready, we just
have to work way hard, which is how it should be haha.

So, I have no idea how to spell this guys name, but, President
Kapischke (Kuh-Pish-Kuh) the area President, came to Würzburg right
after the last General Conference, he didn´t tell the Bishop or
anything, he just showed up.  He stood up to talk to everyone and he
then made a way cool promise, he said that if all of the Members would
put out the effort and try to share the Gospel, the entire Chapel
would be overflowing within a year.  So, that means in a year they
could have over 200 new people in the chapel.  Elder Chambers and I
were way excited when we heard this, but, the Ward hasn´t taken it to
heart, and nobody has tried to set goals or do anything different.

So, we decided we are going to meet with all the members to get
some goals going, and we  also decided we should prepare ourselves, so
we did something pretty cool.  We actually read this story, an Elder
and His companion had a fast, they fasted to know the things they
should change to have the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost,
they wrote down everything they were prompted to change, some of them
were big things, other things they thought were silly and dumb, but
then wrote them down anyway.  They then set a goal to never do these
things, and as they did this, they noticed their desires changed, and
well, they basically became super awesome missionaries and had a lot
of miracles haha.  So, Elder Chambers and I set a similar goal, we
know that there are people who are prepared for us.... at least a
chapel full haha, we just have to make sure we are prepared to receive
them, God won´t send his Children to 2 missionaries who are going to
mess up.  So we are preparing ourselves the best we can!

Thanks for everything you do for me, I´m happy and having a blast
in Germany, the German is coming a lot, not perfect, but not getting
worse haha

Elder Collings