February 20th

Hello Family!
    This week was super awesome, I actually wasn´t in Offenbach much
at all because I had to do a bunch of splits this week, but, it was so
awesome to have the opportunity to work with the other Elders.  We
have these 2 Elders in our District serving in Hanau, they have really
been struggling to get anything going, theý haven´t heard from their
only investigator in about 3 weeks.  I got to go there on a split, and
it was just super crazy how much success we had; we ended up getting 4
people's numbers, making out a bunch of lessons, and giving out a ton of
Book of Mormons.  It got that other Elder way excited, and now they
have a little more to work with!  Then, on another split, we went by a
member and had them write their testimony in the Book of Mormon so we
could find somebody super legit and give it away.  Like 10 minutes
after we got the Book of Mormon, we talked to this girl by the train
station and she had tons of interest, we gave her the Book of Mormon,
sat down and taught her a lesson, and made out another appointment with
her.  She isn't Christian but, she said that she feels like she has
been missing something in her life, so she has studied tons of
religion to figure it out, she said she already owns 3 Bibles.  And
then here in Offenbach we also found 5 new people to teach, 3 Romanian
Brothers and then a German Family.  The Romanians can´t seem to find a
difference between their religion and our religion..... They know the
Book of Mormon is different, but, other than that, they can´t seem to
put it together that our religions are different.  Another friend came
in during a lesson and asked what we believed, then the Romanian said
it was exactly the same as what he believed just with another name.
So..... we need to get over that, but, they are all super legit.
    We had the opportunity to meet with the Branch President this
week, he is very excited for the missionary work, for the ward mission
plan we set the goal for 12 baptisms, the rest of the ward council
looked at him like that was way too high (last year Pepper was the
only baptism) and then he said if the ward really worked their
hardest, we would get way more than that.   He is really excited and
supportive in everything that we do, it is such a difference from when
I first got here. I remember when I first got here we couldn´t get him
to come to lessons and I didn´t get to sit down and meet with him
until I had already been out here for a little over a month.
    Basically things are going good and should keep getting better.
Thanks for everything, you´re all awesome!
Elder Collings