Monday, March 5, 2012

So you're prophets, ummm, no, but we do have a Prophet these days named Thomas S. Monson...

Received February 20, 2012

Yeah so this week was pretty good. I have been doing well with adapting back to German life and dialect. There is something to be said for mail coming on Saturday though, something that was missing in Austria. The members are wonderful and we seem to have about 4 eating appointments a week, which is wonderful and means that we don't have to spend too much money on food. I have a feeling that I may actually be able to save money in this area. It's always a little disappointing when your investigators drop you because they no longer want to learn more. Even worse however, is when they see you at a parade (with their girlfriend) and say, "Yeah, it's just a little too stressful with meeting once a week so this next week is going to be the last time." when you know full good and well that it was really the words of his girlfriend who thinks that you are coming between them, when in reality what you can give them will actually help them beyond this life. Eternity is a lot more than 45 minutes a week. Someday he will come to the realization that we were right and that he shouldn't have let what he thought was good and correct get pushed out of his life by his girlfriend.
Everything else is going pretty well. We found a lady yesterday who has had a Book of Mormon for a really long time, but has never read anything in it. As we shared some things out of the Book of Mormon with her, she kept saying, "Wow, I should really read this." I'm sitting there thinking, "OF COURSE YOU SHOULD!" She has actually come to Waiblingen quite a few times and has tried to go to the church, but (like all LDS churches) there is never anybody there. She told us that she would come in two weeks to check it out. I know that I've said it a lot, but I really do believe that she will actually come. I guess we'll see, but it is always a wonderful surprise to see someone actually come to church for the first time after overcoming that barrier to just take the first step and check it out. Most people have no idea that we welcome visitors to our services.
This week and part of last week constitute the German celebration of Fasnet (Fasching or Carneval). It's pretty crazy and I got some cool pictures of people in costumes at the parade. Friday was the beginning of the Narrentage (think Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame Feast of Fools) and it was pretty crazy.
Anyway, I should be getting to emailing the President. I hope everyone has a great week. Tschüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüß!

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