Well this week is going to be insane right now I'm in Nurnberg Germany, we are going to visit one of the Nazi Museums today which is going to be way cool! Then I go on a split with Elder Butler (the missionary I trained) in Erlangen, then tomorrow they are taking me to the train station and I'm taking a 4 hour train ride up north by myself on a assignment from President Stoddard. Then after working up there I'm heading back to Frankfurt on another train where my companions will pick me up. Craziness but I'm excited, I definitely need your prayers this week because I need the lord to help me as I get a chance to work with these missionaries!
This week was way fun though, but kind of weird we spent 2 straight days from 8am to 23:00 at President Stoddard's house planning for the upcoming transfer it was draining, weird too because Elder Fitzgerald is going home. Then afterward we got one solid day to proselytize in our area and then Saturday we had more planning with President Stoddard. It was way cool though because he invited us all over to his home to meet his family that was in town for the weekend. He had us talk with his grandkids about why we serve missionaries and it was a really great experience. His two grandkids were way funny because they reminded me so much of myself! They are a great family and it was a privilege to get to meet them!
Sunday was way fun because we figured out the Bruder L. (who we have worked with over the last couple of months) is engaged to one of the members in our ward! He is getting married on October 21! It was way exciting and he super excited! Then we thought F. wasn't going to come to church but then he randomly showed up! Had great lessons during church then went over to his house after church and taught about temples. We tried a different approach this time instead of just focusing on baptism we focused on the reason why we get baptized and that is so that we can go to the temple. He was way interested and starting say, "So if I got baptized I could meet with the bishop and then go to the temple so I could ask the Lord if I needed to go back to Mexico!?" It was way cool he is doing amazing. He picked a temple in Mexico, we printed it out on huge paper and are going to hang it on his wall so if he is ever tempted to sin he can remind himself about the goal of got to the temple. I think it finally clicked in his head that yeah you can be baptized in other churches, but we are a temple building people and there is no other church on the earth that practices baptism as preparation to enter the house of the Lord. It is simple. I just started to see the big picture too that people are waiting now the other side of the veil for him to get baptized so that they too can receive that saving ordinance. I told him that sometimes we feel a desire to be baptized not only because it's something we need but because other people from the otherwise of the veil are relying on us to receive their covenants. It shows that this life isn't just about us!
Overall great week I'm excited for the upcoming week and the adventures I'm going to have, I'll make sure and take tons of pictures!
Love you
Elder White
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