First off we saw a wonderful miracle with RL, we had an appointment
with an untersucher (investigator) in Samstag. We got the prompting to
go by RL. So we walked over and klinged him. He says " Ich bin Tod (I'm
dead)" I told him that he wasn't dead and that we wanted to talk. He just said okay and came down 5 minutes later. We started walking down the street and he said "I have my own bodyguards." We just laughed with him and started asking
him how he was doing. He told us he had a new problem because his TV is broken.
Finally after we made it to the park we sat down on the bench and he looks at us
and said, "So, what do you want to teach me about God?" We were blown away! He had
never said that before!! So I just started asking him about faith then started
talking about the Plan of Salvation. He said that he doesn't believe that their is a
life after death, but then Elder Bulkley pulled out the diagram of the Plan of
Salvation. He looked at it and then just stopped arguing and acted like he had
seen it before. Then we asked him if he would come and church and he said "Yes".
We went by on Sunday and talked but he said he was too tired. But that doesn't
matter, the fact was that he sat down and listened to us, He then accepted an
invitation!! Wow there are miracles in patience!
The other one was with IC our Romanian. Monday he called us and asked
us if he could borrow 50 euro. I told him very straight forward that we are not
allowed to hand out our money. He just hung up. Later we made an appointment and
then when we went over to meet, he badgered us for an hour about how we were not Christ like and that our work wasn't good enough and that we need to learn love
and not care about money. Because he had prayed before he called us and said the Lord told him to ask us for money. We walked out feeling like we had lost him,
but we still had made an appointment to go to his church. So Sunday we went to
church with him, we just decided to be respectful and hopefully repair our
relationship because he didn't want to hear us anymore and thought he needed to
teach us about being Christlike. We went to church and he had told us he wanted
us to preach to the congregation. We really didn't want to and after about 2
hours of the service we had to leave and catch our train. We left and then after
5 minutes this car pulls up next to us and it was his friend ME. He told us
that Issac had given us 30 minutes to teach. We couldn't tell him no and so we got
back in the car and went back to the church because he said he would give us a
ride home. We walked in and up to the pulpit and I looked at Elder Bulkley
knowing we hadn't planned anything and now we were suppose to preach. I opened up
the Bible and stalled by introducing ourselves and then I remembered. John 3:16
I started talking about Jesus Christ and then the thought popped in my head just
talk about Christmas and He is the Gift. So I started talking about that, we
read from Luke 2 and John 3 and then bore testimony and were finished, We
talked for about 5 minutes but we knew we had said exactly what needed to be
said. After we got a ride home and we got home fast, we were doing 180 khm in a
30 year old van, "ME drives it like he stole it!" (This is a saying we have in our house when we are trying to get somewhere quickly." For Real!! Then IC told us he
wanted to meet again this week and that he was coming to church with us next
week!! The Lord will open our mouths in the time when we need too. Like it is
promised in DC 88, because he needs to sometimes see our faith. I was super
sacred standing up in front of a another congregation but I realized that the
needed us to deliver the message, we just had to show him our faith.
It really cool around this time handing out the "He is the Gift" cards to
people because they open up a little more. It really cool because I was shown
during Zone Conference a Christmas story in the Book of Mormon. It is in 1 Nephi
chapter 11. It is about 10 verses long talking about Nephi seeing the birth of Jesus Chirst. It was super good and actually the whole chapter is awesome!! I
would challenge you to read that and share it!!
We just had our Christmas party or as we say in German Weihnachtfeier. It
was super fun to make waffles for the members and laugh with them. It was funny
because they had asked us to do a waffle stand we made the cool waffle stand the
members were blown away!The ward is
really coming to together and things are going great here.
All in all it was a great week.
LOVE YOU ALL!!
Elder White
Waffle Stand for the Branch Christmas Party
Trying to keep warm
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