Another Week Flew By!

Hey Guys,

This week flew by. I can't really think of anything super amazing that happened this week. Probably the coolest thing this week was a street display that we helped out with in Bayreuth. It was a lot of fun. There were six of us there. We set up a little pavilion thing and had a table on two sides. We drew out the entire Plan of Salvation on the ground with chalk. It actually turned out a lot better than I thought it would! Erlangen has some artistic abilities. People were so confused at what we were doing and it was a great way to talk with people. Our stand also looked so out of place that people couldn't help but wonder what was going on. 

We were able to get several potentials for the Elders there. We gave out Book of Mormons to 19 different people and had some great talks and fun experiences. There were times where one of the elders or I would talk to one person in a big group walking by and the entire group would stop and practically surround the individual as they listened. It was pretty fun!

For example, I stopped one guy who was walking with his family and another family and a couple of their friends. They were all Muslim. I asked the first guy, "Hey! Why are you here on the earth? What are you doing?" He thinks about it and another guy comes in and says something. He seemed kinda defensive and was talking in a tone of voice that was as if he was trying to say, This is what is right and you can't tell me otherwise. I can't remember exactly what he said to me, but I just nodded my head and smiled real big and said, "Yeah! That's what we believe too!" He then was taken off guard and was all like, "Oh, well it looks like we have similar beliefs!" "Yeah we do!" "What church are you guys?" I then proceed to tell him the full name of the church. They were kinda like, Ok, I've never heard of them before. I then asked them if they have heard of the Mormons. The first guy and the former defensive guy and a couple other dudes exclaimed, "Oh the Mormons! Yeah yeah!  Is that you guys? We love Mormons, man! They are all such nice people!" "Eh, not all." I reply. "What do you mean?" they ask. "Well, nobody is perfect. There are naturally going to be some who have trouble with being nice." They laughed at that and agreed. We then talked a little bit longer but they were kinda in a rush. I gave them a card for later of they had questions or wanted to learn more about us. They gladly took it and went along their way. One word: Homies.

Other events like this happened for other people. A group of Indian exchange students, Korean students, random people who happened to hear one of us talking to someone and decided to join the group and listen. It was really fun! We started the street display at 10am and went until 3:30pm or so. Time flew by. We then were picked up by the Senior Missionaries who live kinda nearby and we cleaned up our stuff and ate chips and dip at the Church building.

Hmmm. Some other highlights... It's been getting warmer here! That has been nice! Hopefully it will continue to do so! Hmm. Other than that, we are still working on finding more people in our area and we are helping the bishop and his secretary to clean up the ward list and figure out if the less actives still live where it says, and if they do, to help bring them back to activity.

Yeah, sorry for the short email. I hope you guys have a great week!

Elder Grow