March 25, 2012

Hello Family!
    So, I have been in Düsseldorf for the last 2.5 days, and it is
super crazy and not at all what I expected haha.  I am working with
Elder C, he only has 4 weeks left on His mission.  I was pretty
excited to go into an area that was doing good with Investigators and
everything, but, that wasn´t the case haha, they didn´t have any
investigators and basically the entire zone is struggling.  In the
entire zone right now, the companionships average 0.3 New
Investigators every 6 weeks.  There´s definitely a lot that needs to
be done haha.  We´ve been way blessed already though, in the 2 days of
work we´ve had, we have already found 5 new investigators =)  There is
tons of potential, and I´m way excited to see how everyone improves
the next couple of weeks.  I´ll tell ya about Sunday just so you can
see how awesome things are going.
    So basically the Sabbath day is the best day in the world for
missionary work, so it all started at Church.  The Sisters had given
us a number for this guy named K, he told the Sisters he would come
to Church and he wanted to learn more.  We gave him a call at 10.00 he
had forgotten to change the time(daylight savings), but, he came to
the Church as fast as he could, he came for a while, really liked it,
saw the sisters and told them a promise is a promise haha, and then we
made out another lesson with him.  Then later that day we did some
street contacting, we contacted this guy by a potential investigator
who I´ll tell ya about pretty soon, made out an appointment for him 10
minutes later in a restaurant, taught him, and made out another
appointment. Then right after that we went by on a Chinese family that
we had found the day before, who just happened to be the Potential
Investigator we wanted to go-by on before, they let us in, we taught
them, they are awesome and want to learn more.  And then there was
this other guy we contacted on the street and talked to for about 20
minutes, he wants to learn more, so we made out a lesson for today.
And then doing some more street contacting, we contacted these 2 guys,
one from Essen, the other from here in Düsseldorf, we asked if they
had 15 minutes to hear our message, they said yeah, but, there was no
bench!  So, we walked for about 15 minutes looking for a bench, found
one, taught them and it was super legit.  It was a great way to end
the week, and really strengthened our testimonies that there really
are people out there willing to hear our message and learn more.
    So.... that´s kinda how things are going now.  The difference with
the work now is that we have to do a TON of stuff with the numbers to
see where all of the individual areas are at, so I get to learn how to
use Excel and Word really well, we also have to send these reports to
President Schwartz and talk to him about it every week.  Other than
that, everything is basically the same.

    I got some more pictures for ya, those are other investigators
that we had been teaching in Offenbach. 
The last lesson with F, we actually
talked about Baptism and he said he had been thinking about it.
Things are going great, thanks for everything you do for me!
 
Elder Collings