The next day we had Zone Conference, and Elder Schütze took a liking
to using me as an example for everything haha. But, he spoke a lot
about how the Missionaries need to help the Members to find people to
teach. At this point, in our Mission we rarely ever get referrals from
members, I think I have only gotten a couple since I have been in
germany, so he told us we need to share stories of success that the
members can accomplish too. He said, it is always great to talk about
the miracle contact on the street, but, if we talk about the
conversation on the bus where you got a number, and they later became an
investigator, the members can relate to it more and be moved to do it
themselves. I thought it was a great thing to bring up, because most of
the missionaries don´t talk to people in the Buses anyway haha, when I
go on splits, the missionaries seem astonished when I just have a
conversation with the person I´m sitting next to. Hopefully that will
get the Members more involved, and the missionaries more excited!
So, I kinda need to tell ya´ll something. You´re probably
wondering why i´m taking so long to send in my application to BYU, and
why i´m procrastinating. Well, i´ve actually had everything done for
over a month, but, I keep having thoughts about coming back to Germany
to study. I personally wouldn´t think twice about studying here,
because the people are nicer in America, living conditions are better,
jobs are easier to find, the schooling is better, and the weather is
much nicer haha, but I just keep having these thoughts come up that I
should study here. So...... I´m still praying about it and everything,
but could you possibly help me find out what opportunities there are to
study in Germany? Probably a big shock, but, I gotta say it eventually
=D
Anyway, now that I got that out in the air, can I just say this
Ward is super amazing, i´ve never felt so welcomed, or loved. Members
invite me to sit next to them now, they bring us food, and every week
they invite us over. The ward has really opened up to us. We had a
member come up to us on Sunday after Stake Conference, she said that she
had been praying and had a very strong feeling that we should start
teaching her husband the missionary lessons. Her husband has always
been against the Church, it took her 20 years to get baptized because of
him! But, she feels that his heart has been softened, and she is going
to invite us over next week to share out testimonies of the Book of
Mormon. This same member also told her friend about how much
missionaries had helped her, so her friend asked if we could come and
teach her what we believed, and give her a priesthood blessing. We then
had another member call us up and said they hand a friend from Sri
Lanka that wants to learn more, and we had another friend ask us if we
could give a church tour to about 30 of his friends on the 18th of
November (Happy birthday KK =D ) Isn´t that incredible? I´ve never
had so many referrals from Members haha.
This week I was on a split with a brand new Elder, I told him
we were going to go and work on the University. We have a member who is
studying there, so I had planned on going by on her, praying with her
real quick, and then do some work in the student houses by her. When we
got the the door, I told him that it was a potential investigator that
understands English. He started to talk to her, and then I saw an
actual Potential Investigator that was in Utah for a foreign exchange
thing, she visited church every week, and wanted to learn more. I
started to talk to her, and I heard the Elder speaking, "I´m missionary
from the Mormon church, and I talk about the book of Mormon, ever heard
of that?" She told him she had read the entire thing, the Elder got
pretty excited and asked if she wanted to maybe learn more, and she told
him she was already baptized and invited him in. He was way super
confused and didn´t know what was going on, but he turned to me and told
me she wanted us to go up and teach her more haha. We prayed with
her, and ended up finding 3 people that had been in America on foreign
exchange and met the church, and we made out a couple of awesome
appointments, we got a total of 3 new investigators so far.
Anway, i´m doing well, it was pretty strange going to the
testimony meeting and seeing all of my MTC group give their last
testimony, i´m the only one that extended. Things are going great
though, and I´m loving the work!
Thanks for all of your love and support, and thanks for the Present!
Elder Collings
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