Another week come and gone! I'm glad the Lord is protecting
you throughout the bad winter weather. We have no snow at all, and last week Monday
we ran around without a jacket on because we were too hot! It's cooled down
since then but still doesn't get under 5°C. It's also a bit rainy now but hopefully
that starts to clear up again soon. We dropped some people with whom we couldn't
contact again, and found some new ones. We found a cool family. The wife is
German, and the husband was born in India but has been here in Germany already
for about 10 years. I gave them a call yesterday to see if they had time to
meet and they did, so we'll be meeting on Tuesday. I went on exchanges with a District
Leader in Pinneberg. He just got transferred there from Dresden. We worked hard
together and did something cool. So, Elder C., (my companion) and I made a plan
to talk more with people in the trains and buses by making a game out of it. We
have to talk to at least 2 people every day, no matter what, and if we talk to
4 people we get a bonus point. If we talk to 5 we get 2 bonus points. These
points can only carry over one day. If you have 2 bonus points you can buy
yourself something from the bakery at the end of the day for Abend Brot. If not
then “pech”(too bad)! Lol. So I told this Elder from Pinneberg about it and
decided to do some Bahn-tacting (train contacting). It was a lot of fun. Since
we're not allowed to proselyte in the trains and buses it gets you outside of
your comfort zone. I used to do it a lot but got out of the habit about 4
transfers ago. I forgot how fun it is to talk to people about random things and
how it always comes freely back to the gospel because you have a big black name
tag on that says Church of Jesus Christ, lol.
We also have an investigator on baptismal date
for the 2nd of February but will probably have to move it one week back to make
sure he understands everything. He's from Ivory Coasts in Africa and speaks French,
and basically no German. But we have 4 members who also have their mother
language as French so it works really well. We've taught him the three lessons
from Preach My Gospel already, and made sure he understood everything during
the last meeting. We went through the interview questions with a member to see
where he was at and to show him what kind of questions would come up during the
interview. He said he needs to find out if Joseph Smith is a prophet and is
working on reading and receiving an answer from the Book of Mormon. He's a
really solid guy and really sincere. He's been to church twice now and likes it
a lot. So we're praying and hoping that he'll receive an answer and continue to
build his faith in the restored gospel of Christ!
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