Friday, May 6, 2016

Great things happening in the Germany mission

 Germany is finally warming up and it is amazing! Today we got a
guided tour by one of the members through the huge Catholic Church in
Frankfurt!! Way cool!! All this week was insane because we were
driving around like crazy! We found ourselves in Düsseldorf and had to
move some missionaries around, after 5 hours in the car we finally
made it home that night at 12:30 it was insane then we had to get up
the next morning and run like mad dogs again. But it was nice because
we are all healthy and we didn't crash the car this time!!
 This week was cool because all of our miracles happened on Saturday. We met with
our family from Portugal which is awesome we are starting to make
progress and starting to understand what we are teaching. Another cool
story was T has not been coming to church for a while and we thought
he wasn't coming this Sunday. Then he called and said "I'm trying to
come to church but no buses are running" turns out that because of the
Frankfurt Bike Race all the buses on Sunday weren't running. So we are
standing thinking "he got up to test his faith with church and now
THIS" But then I saw this member and we were literally in the middle
of sacrament meeting but we were in the foyer waiting for someone. I
asked him if he would drive us to pick up T. and he said, "yeah sure no problem."
 After we took the sacrament he took us to his car and FLEW out of the parking lot. He
is the craziest member alive and we were drifting around corners and
flying downs street you would of thought that the devil was chasing
him. But he was the man for the job because all of the turn offs to
T. house were closed, he just kept flying around and soon most people
would say "no hope let's turn around" but no it turned into a pride
thing for him he was dead set to get there. I'm just sitting there
saying "Heavenly Father you promised that there would be a way, T.
has done everything please make this happen" then we finally asked a
cop and he got us there! We finally got T. to church and he had such
an amazing time and I think all of he things that have offended him
are water under the bridge now, all because he exercised his faith. 1
Nephi 3:7 really does happen, sometimes in the most crazy ways!
Also went to the S. "S Brothers house" to visit with them.
But this time, J. the Wife, had her best friend over!! She was so
prepared!! She actually lives on cruise ships as a travel agent is
staying in Germany for one month in Frankfurt. She actually took the
lessons in Brazil when she and Jessica were 12 years old and loved
church. It was so cool because as we talked you could see the look on
her face like "I'm home!" What a tender mercy! We are going to try and
baptize her while she is here in Frankfurt because she has no home,
but she knows the church is true! Her name in D.!
Overall just feeling so blessed to be here on a mission! The Lord has
truly opened doors that I thought were never possible! Truly I'm
ending my mission on a high note it's weird to think that in 2 months
I will be home again, I'm going to miss Germany so much these people
are some of the most goofiest, loving people in the world! Yeah they
can be way mean, but you got to crack eggs to make omelets. No greater
place to be then serving the Lord. Dad I finally know what you mean
about your mission!!

Love
Elder White

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