Tuesday, January 24, 2012

January 16th

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

No comments:

Post a Comment