July 16, 2012

Hey!   So remember how I told you I´d be going on a split in an area that has been dead for a way super long time?  Well, we went there and had a TON of success.  We found a new family and some random guy that was atheist until we convinced him to not be haha.  I put a picture of a lady, she´s the mom of the family we found.  She has 3 little kids, they are all super awesome, and her husband drives down every week to Stuttgart for work.  She´s basically super awesome and prepared, she read the introduction to the Book of Mormon, and her first response was, "I need to read this book and pray about it as soon as I can.  Is it okay if I compare what I read with the Bible too?"  She said the Missionaries could come and visit her every day.  The other guy we found, told us right away there was no God because he had never seen a God.   So, we asked him if he had a mom.  We then asked him if he loved his mom.  We then told him to prove to us that he really had love for his mom.  All he could do was talk about his love for his mom, so we told him we didn´t believe him that he loved his mom.  Then we explained to him, he knew without a shadow of doubt that he loved his mom, but, he couldn´t prove it, give evidence of it, or even really describe it.  He knew for himself through experience.  We then told him he could do the same thing with God, because we had done it, and we knew that God was there without any doubt.  This guy put his beer down and told us to sit next to him and teach him some more haha.  So, it was a good split =)

    This week we also  accomplished the goal from President Schwartz to teach 20 lessons in a week.  He said if we teach 20 lessons a week, we will double baptisms.  We have had weeks of 18, 19 and 17 lessons,  but this week we got to 20.  It was a great way to end the transfer.  We had our 20th lesson on Sunday.  We have been teaching this Muslim named Mohammed from Africa.  He is actually the leader of one of their Mosques  (where they go to pray).  Every time we have taught him, he has invited about 10 of his friends to come and listen to us.  This time he brought some friends that weren´t too friendly, and wanted to argue with us.  Mohammed  said, "They say there is a new Prophet!  Let them teach us this, it´s important!  We need to hear what they have to say, so be quiet!"  

    Oh yeah, I found out I am staying in Düsseldorf with Elder H another transfer.  I´m so glad I get to stay here longer, and this will be the longest I think I have ever been with one guy (Already been with him like 3 months, and now I have 6 more weeks to go)  Love the guy to death, but that´s a long time.  Anyway, we´re having a lot of success, and seeing miracles so it´s all good!  This transfer my trainer goes home!  And Elder Ha (the Elder I trained) is now training!  Elder M called  up (He was my trainer) and we talked for like 40 minutes last night about Krefeld and everything that happened. 

    Things are going great in Düsseldorf!  We are having lots of success and seeing lots of miracles!

Thanks for everything!

Elder Collings