So, this week was way super awesome. Like I said last week, we dropped like almost all of our investigators because they weren´t progressing, but, we found 2 AMAZING investigators this week. In 3 days, we taught one of them 3 times. So, one of them is named Herr.. or Mister Dietrich, he studied and taught the bible for like 30 years. At one point in his life, he saw the missionaries and spoke to them for a while, and then invited them to teach his class for 30 minutes. So, we started teaching him, and he was really interested in the Apostasy and how it all happened. So, we made like, the most amazing apostasy outline I have ever seen in my life (I´m quite proud of it haha) we gave him scripture references and everything. He was so happy when he saw it, he wanted to start studying it right then (during our lessons he writes almost everything down and then studies it). He then asked about Doctrine and Covenants, and when he found out what that was he got SO excited. He was like "So, the Book of Mormon is another book about the Doctrine of Christ, and the Doctrine and Covenants is modern revelation on how the Church should be organized?" We said yeah and explained some things, then he took my Book of Mormon because it has Doctrine and Covenants and he instantly started to read it, he was SO excited, it was like a little kid at Christmas haha. Then he ended up turning to the Articles of Faith. He read all of them aloud, and when he saw something he really liked, he would turn around to his wife and read it extra loud 2 or 3 times haha. At the end of our lesson we invited him to Church and he said "I want to go just to tell them that you two have almost convinced me to change religions". So, basically Herr Dietrich is super awesome haha.
Then, we contacted another guy, Erol, on the street. He´s the guy that we taught 3 times in 3 days. He is so honest and open. When he was younger he didn´t want to get baptized into the same church as his family because he didn´t really think it was right. He ended up getting baptized but he said it didn´t mean anything, he just did it. Erol really wants to do what is right, when we asked him to pray, he said,"There are so many bad things that are happening in the world, I normally don´t pray because I don´t want to occupy God´s time when others need it. I don´t really have anything I really need right now, only small things that aren´t too important." Then, one of the ward members that we had with us, who also teaches Kindergarten, talked about how she loves it when the kids come and ask for help for all the little things. She said that she wants to help the kids as much as she can, whatever it is, and when they don´t ask for help and she can tell they could use help, it makes her sad. She then said that´s exactly how our Father in Heaven is. He wants to help us, He loves us and He wants to help us with everything, what´s important for us is important for Him. Erol loved it and agreed to pray haha.
So, Coburg is doing way awesome, unfortunately, I am being transfered to another area. Elder Johnson is staying in Coburg, and he is training a new Elder. I am going to Würzburg with Elder Chambers. Elder Chambers has been out only 6 weeks longer than me, so, we are a pretty young companionship haha. I was in Würzburg like 4 weeks ago with another Elder, and they had no investigators when I was there, so, we are going to be working really hard so that we can be blessed with success =)
This week, I also got to give my very first talk in Germany. I didn´t want to just write everything out and read it.... but, if I wanted to talk about one subject for 10 minutes I kinda had too haha. I can speak German for 10 minutes, but, my vocabulary isn´t good enough to expound on things. So, that was fun, I think that I said most of the stuff right, I didn´t see any wierd looks from members, and nobody laughed, so I think it went good haha. I saved the talk so I can go back later and see how my German has improved. I wrote a talk in the MTC, which I never ended up having to give, and I wrote it in a small notebook. My last day in the MTC I decided I didn´t want the notebook, so I put it in a "Free Bin" someone from my district ended up taking it with them to Germany. That Elder was in my District this last transfer, so he showed me the notebook and I got to read my first written out talk, it was pretty terrible haha. It was actually so terrible that it made no sense at all. And, at the time I was pretty proud of it haha. So, it´s cool to see how I am learning, even though it doesn´t really seem like I am.
I´m glad you all had a good time on the vacation. Germany is way awesome and has TONS of history. That´s also way cool that you saw Coburg. It´s way beautiful, I think my favorite part is Markt Platz, that´s the place right down the road from where I live (Probably where you guys were standing when you saw me) with the statue in the middle and all of the buildings around. It´s way cool, and they have something new there almost every day (last night from 10-1 they had a band playing...really loud) I read that Con-Man and Mom saw me, I will not lie, if you guys were 10 minutes later, I probably would have run into all of you haha. We were just getting ready to leave and go to a lesson when the Klingel rang haha.
Anyway, I´m way happy, and having fun in Germany!
Elder Collings
Markt Platz
Steve's apartment
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