This week was insane, I'm kind of liking this play by play
email thing so I'm going to continue doing it!
Monday!! Was insane, we had to move our meeting with the Mission President so we met
with him in the morning and then it ended up taking until noon before we were
done it was a really good meeting though and it was a super inspired meeting
also, so it was fine except we had such little time for the rest of our p-day
but that is okay!! We still were able to eat ice cream and buy groceries. Later
that night we were suppose to leave for Dortmund, but T. didn't show up to the
church and so we had go and meet him at his house (he took the wrong bus). It was
good he wasn't able to make it because we did a little bit of a bump in and the
road because he had some concerns. It was super stressful but the spirit was
super strong. We got to the end of the appointment and it was super
cool. I just had this thought in my head that I needed to give him a blessing.
So I asked, and he said, "Yeah that sounds good". We laid our hands on his head
and gave him a blessing. We finished he had for sure felt something special. It
was super cool to see the spirit working in him. We ended up finally leaving and
then drove to Unna actually where I went on a split with Elder Dederiech and
Draper, while Elder Fitzgerald and Elder Kress went to Dortmund to go on a split
with the Zone Leaders.
The next morning we woke up and it was fun to be reunited with Elder D, who
was in my MTC district. It was fun to get to talk with him about the good old
times. It was fun the night before I felt to pray and ask the Lord that we could
find 3 new potential investigators. It was awesome as we went out finding we
actually ended up find 2 potential investigators and a new investigator! I have
really learned the power of asking the Lord specific clear questions. It was
overall a great split and they are awesome Elders. After that my companions
picked me up and we drove another hour and a half to a city called Wesel it is
in the near from Dusseldorf. There I went on another split with another one of
my friends from the MTC, Elder Hall! It was awesome. I got there super late and
so we just went to bed. I ended up sleeping on the floor because they didn't
really have a blanket or a mat for me. LONGEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE. But the next
morning I woke up and I was ready for the day. We ended up getting some studies
done and then racing over to Dusiburg for the District meeting. But then I
realized that after the district meeting if I went back to Wesel I wouldn't be
able to have a ton of time to work with because I had to be in Dusseldorf at 4
so I went on a split with the missionaries in Dusiburg, Elder Lewis and Elder
Kenley. It was awesome we found this super prepared girl who had lived with
Mormons in Canada we got her contact info and everything it was great! Well
after that they took me to the train station and actually I had permission to
make the 20 minute train ride to Dusseldorf alone. It was weird because it was
the same train I use to ride in Hamm, memories! But yeah then my companions met
me at Bahnhof and we drove home to Frankfurt to met with T. again because he
had more questions! The lesson was amazing and it was a awesome experiences, he
was becoming more and more prepared and was reading the Bible like crazy. LONG
DAY but miracle filled day.
Thursday was a pretty normal day, we met with T. again who was getting
more and more prepared! We also got to meet with S. who is the brother of
D. and J. ! He has a baptism date and is doing amazingly well, we had a
lesson and bummer but we were late, as usual, but so amazing and the spirit was
so strong and he is super prepared. Overall a great day but pretty normal. Then
after that we starting working on transfers because we have a lot to do to plan
for the next transfer. Crazy hectic day but great.
Friday the day of the baptismal interview for T., we had some stuff to do
in the morning like District Meeting which was fun, good opportunity to meet
with the district and see how everyone is doing, then we had to go to the office
and prepare the CCM Reports for president, which is a quarterly meeting that
happens and all of the stake presidents and the area authority comes and meet
so that took forever, but it was a good chance to get paperwork done. Then we
helped a member scan a ton of his old pictures into the computer so that he
could download them onto family search. I have been doing a ton of family
history lately! It was pretty fun when you figure it out! But yeah then we had a
meeting with one of our investigators who was drunk and we told him we wouldn't
met if he was drunk and he got mad and tchussed us, bummer, but that's life.
Later that evening we had the baptismal interview from T. He and President
Stoddard sat down and talked for about 30 minutes we were waiting for them to
finished then they walked out and and T. is all sad and he was like "I don't want
to talk about it, I'm leaving." The President came over and said, "Did you not teach
him the word of wisdom or law of chasity?" We were like, "YES we did." Then they both started
laughing and said the hugged each other and said "He is amazing and ready for
baptism." Back story was he and T. became best friends during the interview. At
the end he told President Stoddard "I want to mess with these guys," President S
toddard was excited and told him "Sure", T told him that according to them
this meeting was horrible and President Stoddard said "say no more" that is when
they walked out! Overall great evening!
Saturday was the evening of the baptism we spent most of the day preparing
the baptismal things. We rode out to T. house and we escorted him to the
church. He was kind of nervous but had told us he had spent the whole morning
praying and repenting and that he was at peace with everything. We got him
dressed and started organizing everything. Then we walked into the baptismal
room and T. was looking over the water and singing this song he had written
about baptism. We all sat down and watch him and listened to him sing. It has
been an amazing process watching his conversion, T. was probably baptized
before but the Lord is giving him a new start to life and that meant another
baptism, what a privilege that the Lord would have trusted him in our care. He
is an amazing man and when we confirmed him a member of the church it was such
an amazing experience of peace and he received the gift of the holy ghost.
I have felt so humbled the last months from the number of baptisms I have
seen from T. to T. and now S. will be baptized in March. What humbling
blessing that the Lord has been pouring out onto me. I feel humbled and ask
every day why the Lord is doing this because I feel like I don't deserve it, but
its the Lords plan. I have learned so much patience and have learned that the Lord will lead and guide us every step of the way.
Elder White
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