June 28th - Letter
Hey Guys!
A new transfer started already. Time just flies by. We all came together at the church two
Saturdays ago and we listened to the Transfer Conference Call. I am staying with Elder Niebergall this
transfer. Another Elder arrived here in Krefeld on Thursday. The three of us went to pick him up. His name is Elder Kay. Pretty close to my name huh? I like it. We got to Dusseldorf and we picked him up. All 4 of us are completely out of money, so we
had to wait a couple hours until it was late enough for us to travel back for
free. It was a long Thursday. Elder Kay seems like a pretty cool kid.
On Friday, we went by a potential investigator. We have tried several times in the past but
have had no luck. We spoke with her
about 2 or 3 weeks ago and then we lost contact. She wants to come to church and meet with us,
but we just could not reach her until now. We stopped by and she was very glad to see us.
We gave her our contact information
again because she lost the previous information. We talked for a long while at her doorstep.
She is a super nice lady! I can tell that she will want to talk a lot during
future appointments. I dealt with this in my last area and it can be hard. It is ok though. I think it will be a little different this
time. Later that day, we met up with the
other Elders in a different part of Krefeld where none of us have been. The
companionships split up and went "dooring" here. No luck. Lots of people thought we were
Jehovah's Witnesses and that was really annoying. There were also a couple
people who were D-Bags but hey, that's life. We later had an appointment with an older man
in the ward and it went really good. We are trying to get him to go back to the
temple. He wants to but keeps telling us
that he is not yet ready. He is 80 and
was inactive for a little while. We had
a discussion about the General Conference talk from Jeffery R Holland titled'Where Love, Justice, and Mercy Meet'. We focused on the fact that we sometimes
need to make a leap of faith and believe that Jesus will not let us down. He
will catch us. I might have been a little too blunt, but I straight up told
him, "So, I do not really know how to say this, but..." and then I
addressed his concern about not being ready and not wanting to go too fast. I then said, "None of us here really know
when you are going to be ready to go to the Temple, but God knows. I want to
invite you to really ask God when you should go. Going to the Temple is a good
thing and it is what he wants, so he will tell you when. Will you ask God and
make a plan with him?" We did not get any concrete answer from him, but I
believe that the point came across.
Saturday was pretty eventful. We woke up and we left to go
get a Birthday Card for the member who was returning to activity. He was
getting picked up by his daughter to go and celebrate his birthday at 10am, so
we had a time limit. While we were out, we were stopped by one guy near
Hauptbahnhof and he asked how to buy a ticket. He was Albanian and could not
speak much German. We ended up finding
out that his English was a little bit better. We tried to explain to him what he needs to
do, but he did not fully understand. We
ended up telling him that we will wait for his bus with him. We made a little bit of small talk while we
waited out the 5 minutes. Eventually, we
were able to help him get on his way. It
is always nice to help people. It makes
me so happy to see other people happy! I
have been trying to focus on 'going about doing good' like Jesus would in the
Bible. I have been trying to recognize
opportunities to help out people. We finally bought a card and wrote in it
while we were in the train. We put it
into the envelope and we hurry to his place. We made it! We surprised him when he saw it was us
knocking. We gave him the card and it
made his day. It was great!
Sunday rolls along and the less active Bruder comes to
church. We talk with him and ask about
his birthday party and he said it was wonderful. He told us all about it. Later, after Sacrament meeting, he comes up to
us and tells us that he knows when he will go to the temple now. I was bubbling with excitement and I asked him
when. He stated that he would go after
he recovered from his eye surgery which would happen on the 30th of September. I was super excited to hear that he made this
goal that I completely forgot how far away that actually is. I am just hoping that he lives long enough for
him to complete this goal. He is 81
years old now. He is a super great man
and I love him to pieces! I can't wait
until he makes it to the temple!
So these were the highlights for the week. I am sorry it is
not super long, but at least it was longer than the last letter! I hope you
guys have a great week! I love you all!
Elder Grow
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