Oookey Dokey....
I don't feel like this week was anything particularly exciting, just kinda one of those keep chugging weeks.
Well, one thing that was quite cool - On Thursday we had our first appointment with one Frau P. We found her through the klingel (the doorbell - loudspeaker on the outside), and she was just like yeah, come back later, then tried again the next week, then she said, come tomorrow, so we did. We didn't imagine she was that interested, but was at least willing to let us in. So Thursday when we came, she greeted us really warmly, and To our surprise there was already a Book of Mormon sitting on her table. It was an older one, and it had been decorated with all sorts of pictures of Jesus and Joseph Smith and so weiter (on an on). She told us that her mom was a convert to the church, who was really excited about it and always said it was the one true church, but after some years, suddenly said it wasn't the true church and left it. Frau P said a missionary had given her the Book when she was 14 or so, but that she had never read it, but also never thrown it out. So she decided that maybe it's time to read it, and she was glad to meet with us. And ta da - we have a new investigator.
It really is a struggle for me a lot of days to get out there and do the work - I've just been going through one of those mopey spells, but as I do it, it usually gets better too. And the allergies don't make it any easier. They have been killing both me and Elder Welker. Sometimes our noses are just so runny that we can hardly think, much less preach the gospel, but we try to do it anyway, and it usually works out alright. I also have always said that I need 10 hours of sleep a night to function properly - well, I'm not gettin' it. :P I've just been so sleepy recently, which has been making it difficult. Then on top of that, I've been taking Zyrtec, which I used to think just did nothing, but I've now discovered it does the same thing as Benadryl - That is, put you to sleep so you just can't feel the pain from the allergies. But maybe someday my body will decide to cooperate. Well, that was my whining for the day.
Yesterday was a good day too, albeit a bit of a different schedule.... After church, Bruder Borcherding, our High Councilor, as well as President Pimentel's Predecessor, pulled us aside after the meeting and had a really nice talk with us. It was a good pep talk. Not just a peppy pep talk, but he really talked to us about the importance of our work here in Nienburg, and how desperately we're needed. It helped to refocus our perspective toward the good we can do here. He told us about how the branch had been founded because of a dream that the damalige (at that time) Mission President, President Dahlquist had. Then he shared with us an experience from his Mission President training in the MTC - He said that during one of the meetings, he and his wife got to sit in the second row, which was great, until he met Elder Perry's eyes, and felt that maybe it wasn't such a good thing. Right after the meeting, Elder Perry came up to him and said, "President Borcherding, Double It!" And a couple more times throughout the training just came up to him and said, "Double It!" He then told us to Double it, and talked to us about the importance of always aiming higher, so that we can always have growth and always be making progress. It was pretty cool. He also pulled aside pretty much everyone in the branch leadership, which is part of why we didn't leave the church for our eating appointment with the H's until 3:30 or so, even though church gets out at 11:40. So then we made lunch, and ate lunch, and helped them with their computer, and made some plans for our Ausstellung (display) and my Birthday, and by that point it was like 6:30, so then we finally got out and did some doors. quite the party.
Well kids, I love ya. I know that Got is our loving Heavenly Father, and that everything he does is geared toward our wellbeing. I know that he sent his son, Jesus Christ, to the world, in order that we might again live with him. And I know that it is through his restored church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, that we receive the ordinances that allow us to take hold of his atoning sacrifice, and enter into the path back to him. And I say that in the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Have a great Week!
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