Hello Family! It was basically another super awesome week. This week we worked really hard on meeting with all of the families that we found last week. We were able to make out lessons every day, however, almost every single one of them fell out haha. We are still in daily contact with everyone, things just keep coming up to prevent us from meeting with these people. This week we´ll of course be able to meet with all of them and basically have super awesome epic stuff happen =) The last 4 weeks our District has been focusing on finding; Basically the area of Offenbach was finding an average of 3.5 new investigators a week, and then the other two companionships were finding 1 investigator a transfer (6 weeks) So.... we obviously needed to work on that. Basically this week everyone did super awesome, the sisters found 5 new investigators and the Elders in Hanau had found 2 families doing doors and then another random family called them up and said they wanted to learn more. The entire district is doing super awesome. Elder H is doing great, it´s not like I am training him at all, his German is fantastic, he knows all of the lessons, he can basically do everything. The goal of the new training program is to train the new Elder to be a Trainer in 12 weeks, I told President in an interview that Elder H could be a trainer easily at the end of 6 weeks. President then interviewed Elder H and told him to prepare to be a trainer by the end of this next transfer haha. Elder H is way nervous, but, he´s a super awesome missionary so he should expect some awesome opportunities to stretch and grow. We´ve got an investigator we have been meeting with since I got here in Offenbach. He had a baptismal date previously... actually 2. The only reason he isn´t baptized is because he smokes. That seems to be the problem out here, everyone smokes and can´t give it up. He lies and tells us that he doesn´t smoke anymore. He came to church this week, and he said he needed to use the bathroom. We then watched as he went outside to use the bathroom.... He then came inside and sat a row away from us all by himself. When we talked to him afterward, we could see a pack of cigarrettes in his front pocket.... We told him we know he smokes, and then he said he just holds on to cigarrettes for others in case they need them. We told him he´s a liar haha, and then he said he´s a Doctor and knows that smoking is bad and wouldn´t do it. He keeps asking us when he can get baptized, and all he needs to do is give up smoking... kinda hard to help him quit smoking when he says he doesn´t have a problem with it though. The work out here is going awesome, we have had so much success the last couple of weeks, I´m way excited to see how it continues to grow, our Branch President was talking to us about the Ward Mission plan, he said that last year they had set a goal of 4 baptisms in the Ward. They had had one (Pepper) and then he asked us how many people we are meeting with right now that want to be baptized, we told him 3 (Wolfgang, Norbert, Frau K.) He then asked how many fallen out baptisms we have had, we told him 8 haha. He said that for the next year he set a goal for 12 baptisms, but, if Elder H and I stay together, he said we better have 12 before we leave. It´s way possible too, we are teaching SO many families, we just need to really help them on their way and make sure they get lots of friends in the Ward. Anyway, everything is going awesome, thanks for your love and support! Elder Collings
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
January 16th
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