Feb 27th

Hey Family!
    We basically tore it up this week and had lots of success and
stuff =)  Actually there really was a lot that happened this week that
was both super awesome and also kinda bad haha.  I´m not sure if I
told you about Herr P, but, he is a Buddhist but, he wants to
be Christian.  He likes the teachings of Jesus but he doesn´t like the
evil in Christianity, so he says he´s budhist and teaches from the
Bible... kinda weird.  But we had a super awesome lesson on Thursday,
Herr P had read through Jacob (2 weeks) and marked like every
page with tons of notes and it was basically just awesome.  We taught
him the second lesson with a member who taught way deeper than
necessary (He told all about the spirit world being here on earth and
the World becoming a Urim and Thummin in the last days and sons of
perdition and the three grades of glory in the celestrial kingdom...
and more haha) but, at the end Herr P said that everything he
has learned from us goes right in line with what he has studied
personally.  He said he has met with Jehovas Witness, Catholics,
Baptists, Protestant, Muslim, and Jew, and all of their faiths go
against them in some way, or contradict.  But, he couldn´t find
anything like that for us =)  So, we invited him to Baptism and he
said he would like to pray about it first.  Then, some members invited
him to breakfast on Saturday.  One of the members had a grudge on him
(His first week in Church Herr P made a comment that Jesus
was no God, that was before he had ever met with us or learned what we
beleive) This member was still mad about that even though it wasn´t a
problem anymore and started arguing with him about basically nothing
other than he didn´t like him.  So.... Now Herr P doesn´t want
to come to Church because of this member.... so, that wasn´t that
good, but, we´ve got repentence for that =)
    Other than that, we´ve basically been working our tails off trying to
get some baptisms for this ward we´ve been here 6 months, that´s way
super long, and we´d like a couple of new members =) I got those
packages by the way, do you know how long it´s been since I had
Flaming hot Cheetos?  That was so awesome, thanks a ton!  The cool
slipper things are awesome too, thanks a ton!  And that pooping deer
thing was awesome too haha.
    Now... I kinda have a confession... so you remember that camera I
just bought and I was super happy and taking lots of pictures...?
well, I haven´t been sending pictures because it got stolen a couple
of weeks ago...  We put up fliers and everything, but, the only thing
that we got back was a note that said," Viel Glück"  that means "Good
Luck".  So, here's what happened....It wasn´t even anything cool, like, there
was no knife or gun involved, it was just dumb.  Elder H and I were
15 minutes early to an appointment, so we decided to prepare a little
for the lesson, we took out all of our stuff and set it on a table by
us.  We both had our Book of Mormons out, and then this guy came in,
so we decided to talk to him, it had been like 20 minutes and then we
noticed we were late, so we ran upstairs to get to our lesson, and
then we realized we didn´t have any of our stuff with us, so we ran
back down stairs and everything was gone.  So basically all I can say
is poop, that was dumb, so now ya know, (I´ll refrain from using a
smiling face at the end of that sentence and put one here instead =) )
  So things are super awesome!  That´s so cool that you´re working and
stuff, I can´t think of anything funner than giving people shots in
their eyes, maybe tattoos, but I´d have to try it first to let ya
know.  Thanks for everything you do for me, you´re all awesome!
 
Elder Collings