Things are going pretty super awesome. I don´t really have my own
area, I work in 5 areas haha. And all 5 areas are doing pretty good.
We seem to always have lots and lots of success when we are on splits.
I was on a split in Schweinfurt and we found
2 new people, and taught 5 lessons, I was then in Bayreut, and in one
hour we got 4 numbers and made out an appointment with someone else, it
was amazing, but, by the end of the week, all of the companionships were
kinda bumbed, because that doesn´t happen with their own companion.
That even happens here in Bamberg, we have been finding TONS of people
to teach, but, the missionaries don´t seem to teach anyone.
So.... that´s pretty annoying, President told me he wanted me to work
with all of the companionships and show them how to work. When I am
there, it doesn´t seem like I need to show them everything, but, when I´m not there, they don´t seem to have any success,
does that mean they aren´t working when I'm there? No idea haha. Anyway, I´ve just been making plans on how to get them to see success by
themselves, got a couple more weeks to help them!
This week we had the opportunity to teach an excommunicated member.
He studied Theology, and basically knows
everything, he can read Greek, and Hebrew, and he is a free mason. He
was offended, and left the church. Now, he spends his free time
searching for ways to prove that the church is wrong. We got to hear
him speak for 40 minutes non-stop, throwing off dates and scriptures and
facts about why the church isn´t true. Then we asked what church he
belonged to now. He said he´s catholic. So........ I asked him what
made his church true, and he said it was the oldest haha. This guy has
been so twisted by his anger he doesn´t even know what he believes
anymore. He was always searching for ways to bring our church down, and
he accepted a church that was commonly accepted in society. It was
completely obvious that he no longer was looking to do the will of God,
he accepted what brought social acceptance, and then looked for ways to
turn words and statements from past Prophets to prove they weren´t
really called of God. I told him he was acting like the (I don´t know
how to spell this) Pharisees at the time of Christ, and he should accept
that the only perfect person who ever lived was our Savior Jesus Christ, and he then said the prophets of old never made any mistakes,
and all we needed was in the bible........So, I read Ex 33:11 with him,
then John 1:18 and then John 6:46 and asked if man can see God. Then
read John 3:22 and John 4:2 and asked if Jesus baptized, and then we
read Acts 9:7 and Acts 22:9 and asked if the others heard a voice. We
then told him again he needed to accept that people make mistakes, and
that he can choose to forgive and come back. But, he ignored
everything we said and said it was time to eat..... It was sad to see
that he was so closed up, that he would just search for faults in the
Church and the Leaders.
Anyway, there was quite a bit of snow.... like 4 inches, but, now it
has all melted and it´s raining again haha, so I´m super warm, my socks
are just always wet. My old pair of shoes still has holes in them....
and my new pair does too. I don´t want to use money on a new pair of
shoes either haha, just have a few more weeks.
Thanks for everything!
Elder Collings
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