Well this has been a pretty interesting week to be honest! We are kind of
having to start at square one because all of our investigators are having a hard
time meeting this us. We had about 4 appointments last week drop out because
people not wanting to meet or just not showing up! It was crazy and hard to deal
with. On Sunday as we sat down to break our Fast, I was looked at what we
had planned and what had happened and saw a huge difference. and then I started
feeling like I had failed as a missionary. Me and Elder Bulkley talked about it
and he told me that it doesn't matter what we are doing with numbers. It easy to
get caught up with numbers and baptisms, but in the end Offenbach is a tough place
and you do a lot of seed planting, but that's when we have will see the miracles. Thats when I realized that even if I follow the spirit and want to see someone baptized, that sometimes that is
not the Lord's plan for us, he has something different in mind. This work isn't going to be easy and we are not perfect, but through the Atonement of Jesus Christ we can overcome our weakness and they are made
strong, just like it says in Ether 12:27.
Well this week Uhli, wouldn't call us back and I got pretty frustrated, so I started my fast early on Saturday and later that day got on a train so we could travel
an hour away to a town called Schollkrippen. We knew we would go through and
right past Uhli's house on the train so I prayed hard that we would see him
outside. As we traveled by, we we saw him outside working on his car. I had a
feeling we should get off but was scared thinking we were going to bother him.
But I put my shoulder to the wheel and just did it. We walked up to him and he
was suprised! But invited us in, and we got to teach him a lesson!! It was cool.
We knew that day the Lord needed us to go to Schollkrippen so we could run into
him. Later we were contacting in Alzenau when I had the impression to walk up to
a kid and talk with him. As I did I talked about the Das Buch Mormon and he took
the book. then he said, "One of my friends is Mormon." (That doesn't happen here)
Then I said who? He said a girl in our GEMINDE or Ward!!! It was such a cool
experience for us to find him!!
Germans don't really celebrate Halloween especially in Offenbach, so it was
kind of just another night. But I had an idea to get more ward support and we
did a pumpkin craving Family Home Evening.The Germans had never
done it before, so its kind of a fun American thing.
The sun goes down by 5:30 pm here and it feels like 9 when its really 6
in the evening. Germans go to bed when the sun it down so people yell at us for
contacting them at 5 o clock in the evening. It's pretty funny sometimes.
We only have 4 weeks left of this transfer which is flying by and we
had to say goodbye to our district leader which he was a great
missionary and a good friend. But we got a Golden from Utah named Elder Hansen, He is a studd!! and Elder Bulkley is the district leader
Well All i know is that the church is true, Jesus is our Lord and Savior
and through the Atonement we are made clean and stronger. We are all not prefect
and find faults but when we are humble and patient we will see miracles in our
lives. When the going gets tough, the tough get going!!
LOVE,
ELDER WHITE
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