Grüß euch!
AH! still so little time, ill try to catch up where i left off last week...
REWIND! Saturday- the 26th!
After we did the Area book work, we got a text from THOMAS! we
offered to help him do some work at his house, and he totally took us up
on the offer! So we caught a bus right when we got home from Ulm, and
rode to Schlat to work at his house. We were there for FOREVER.
Thomas... very interesting guy. and he LOVES us. like seriously- best
friends. He bought us cake, huge chocolate bars, and then, he rode back
to Göppingen that night, and bought us CHICKEN! and the whole time he
was talking about going to visit the bakery sometime, going bike riding,
going to see some watches (hes obsessed with watches)- and we kinda had
to burst his bubble- just a little bit- and remind him that we were
missionaries and that we have a different purpose. I dont think it
dissapointed him that bad.
Sunday though, thomas came to church! He wanted to talk to someone
about geneology, but both the women in charge of that were sick. But he
LOVED church, he loved that the little kids can run around, that a
young women gave a talk, and he really felt peace he said. After church,
he wanted to hang out with us again, but we really had other things to
do, so we had to say no. man, ive never had an investigator who
seriously wants to spend aLL THE TIME with us!
Now, to this week!
Monday we climbed that MONSTER of a church- pictures to come on another day!
Tuesday
was our distrikt meetin- and then we were super late coming home from
the meeting, but we managed. We went to see Francesco again, but he
wasnt home. we wanted to leave a note, but we were out of cards! So we
ran back to the church, ran BACK to francesco, and then on the way home-
we met these two AWESOME guys- they are jehovas witness, but still way
nice. that night, we taught a man named Imad Jud, he was taught by the
sisters. There is a serious language barrier, but we had a pamphlet in
arabic, and he read it, and he wants to be baptised! Hes going to need a
lot of time, so we said
April 6th, next year. But if hes ready sooner, we might change the day. yay!
Wednesday morning, we tried to get in contact with some less
actives, and we met some really cool people- one guy was sweeping his
porch, and we offered to help. we ended up talking for a really long
time, and becuase of the testimony we gave, he took a book of mormon and
promised to read! He was totally prepared! That evening, we taught
Fritz, the old man we found last week, with a member. we watched the
restoration video, and talked about finding answers. hes such a funny,
stubborn old man. he reminds me so much of Kurt Haidvogel. Then we ate
dinner at the Fingerles that night!
Thursday was AWESOME! On Saturday, we had pulled some names of old
investigators from the area book, and we went by on the them all
afternoon- Some really crazy things happened. First we talked to a lady
on the street about family home evening (something ive never really done
before!) and she wanted us to come teach her family how to do it! Then
we went by a less active- who then claimed to have never heard of the
church before, but wanted us to come teach her about it?? no clue. Then
we took a train that night to Eislingen, a little town about 5 minutes
away- HUGE miracle. a lady standing next to us in the standing space
asked us which church we were from! So we talked and both got out in
Eislingen, and she was really interested to hear more! Then we went
through Eislingen to find an old investigator that the sister taught and
lost contact with- James. hes an american. and we found him and he was
super excited to invited us back! So it was a happy halloween all in
all. Lots of little kids running around- its not as big as america, but
it was still fun.
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