Hello Family!
So, I know one of the missionaries serving in Tera´s ward, his name is Elder Schwendiman and I was actually in the MTC with him, and he was my first split in Germany. There is only one Church in between Coburg and Tera´s ward, but there are no missionaries there. Apparantly there is some apostate stuff that goes on there, so missionaries visit once a month or something like that. I honestly don´t have any Idea what´s going on down there, but, the missionaries don´t go there.
This week I had the opportunity to serve from Monday-Thursday with Elder Siebert. My companion was at a leadership training for the week, so I was in Würzburg for most of the week. Elder Siebert was born here in Germany, and doesn´t really speak any English, so it was fun. His area is pretty rough right now, they don´t really have any investigators so it was contacting all day. Würzberg is actually way awesome, I think over half of the people we talked to were Tourists, which kinda made things hard haha. There´s a whole bunch of awesome buildings in this town, and it is just super awesome, I can´t really explain it, you´ll just have to go and check it out! The coolest thing about serving with Elder Siebert was that he could actually understand my German haha. I could understand most of what he said too, so I was quite happy with the progress I have made in about 6 months =)
The rest of my week was of course back in Coburg. We had 15 appointments made out in the little time that we had, but 8 of them fell through, 3 of them yesterday. it would have been so cool if all of them went through, but, they didn´t, so that´s that haha. We actually met with this guy yesterday named G2, he has a real name but apparantly it is way super hard to say, so he tells us to just say G2. This kid is so super busy, he is 22 and going to school out here. When we went in his appartment he had piles of paper all over the place and he said he hadn´t slept like at all the last month. I don´t really know how to explain it, but, you could just tell he hadn´t slept and he was freaking out about tests and stuff, he was like... wired, he was super jumpy and he would repeat stuff like 50 times, it was kinda crazy. But, the wierdest thing was when we talked to him about prayer, we found out he has a "God" in his room. He is Hindu, and his "God" that his Mother gave him is a little porcelien frog that sits on a towel on his shelf... Apparently every now and then, when he feels like it, he prays to his "God"... "But not a lot because I am super busy with school and I don´t have the time to pray to God or anything, but that is my God and when I pray he is the one that I pray to and my Mother gave it to be but I don´t really pray to it much because I don´t pray man, I don´t pray." We heard that like 50 times. It´s weird how some people choose to worship something they created.
Other than that, we saw a couple of random, cool miracles this week. The coolest one was we were on a train coming back from Grub Am Forst going to Coburg, this guy comes into our Cart and says, "Come with me." We followed him, then like 2 carts later he said "I´m American" that was nice to know, but I still had no clue what the heck was going on. Then a couple of carts later he said "I´m a member." We sat down by him and his wife, apparently he had served in Coburg 4 years before, and he was coming back to visit because Coburg was his favorite place. We talked about a lot of random stuff, and then we left to go do some work. So later that evening we had an appointment at our Church. When we got there, this couple was there. Apparantly the Hotel they were going to use doesn´t exist anymore, and Hotels are not too common in Germany, so they remembered we said we had an appointment at 8:00 at the Church, so they had been waiting there for us so they could use the computer.
They used the computer and were able to find a place to sleep, but as Elder Johnson and I thought about it, they were way blessed to have seen us so that they would know when to go to the Church and find a place to sleep. Earlier that day, we were in Bad Staffelstein, and we had like 6 minutes before our Train left to Grub Am Forst, we were going to just stay, but, we randomly decided to run and catch the train. We ran as fast as we could, and it was not fun, I´ll tell you that haha, but, we barely made our train. And then, the couple was way lucky that they saw us when the train went by because we were back in a small corner checking out other train times for stuff. So we decided they must be living right... otherwise they would have had to sleep in a park or something like that because there are like no hotels out here.
Anyway, the work is going good out here, I´m having fun and enjoying it out here. I actually have a talk in Church on the 12th, so that will be fun haha.
Bis nächste woche!
Elder Collings
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