Hey again,
This last week was pretty fun. We met with a couple members and I also went on a split up to a city called Bayreuth. We also had a street display on Saturday that went for 6 hours. Boy was that long! All in all, the week was pretty good.
Monday evening was when I went up to Bayreuth (said like 'buy-royt'). I went on a split with an Australian named Elder Butler. It was a ton of fun! I was with him until Wednesday morning. We had a lesson that Monday with a new investigator of theirs. He was from Africa and we taught in English because we didn't know French. We also had a member, Shannon, who came with. She is a student in the area who is from Scotland. It was really fun to have 4 different types of English going on. It was fun to realize that I was being looked at as someone who had a different accent as the rest. I am so used to having an American companion that I sometimes forget that we sound weird too. It would be cool to someday have a comp who is not from the USA. Tuesday we had another appointment. It went really well too. The investigator's name was Princess. She was from Africa too. Her friend is a member and got her to investigate the church. His name is Prosper. He too is from Africa. He is the coolest! He's a new convert and is fired up for missionary work. Princess can speak decent English, but sometimes she doesn't understand. She speaks something that is called 'Pidgin' English. It's essentially super simplified English. Prosper speaks it as well and was there to help out. That evening we had a member appointment which Shannon and Prosper came too. The member said that they are only going to be speaking 100% German that night. Butler and I were cool with that, and the other two were about to get thrown into the deep end. The evening was a lot of fun though. We all had a good time. We then went home for the night and split back the next morning.
Something new this week was a street display that we did. We started at 10:00 and ended at 16:00. It was really long but it was pretty cool. The main thing that we were talking to people about was Genealogy. We had Elder Butler here in Erlangen (yeah there are two of them) draw out his Family tree back to his great grandparents on the sidewalk with chalk. It would catch people's attention and they would wonder what it was. It was pretty cool. We were able to talk with a lot of cool people and a lot of crazy and angry people. It was fun. Sadly, we were unable to even get one potential. Later that evening, we went to go visit a less active family. Their last name is Schlegel. It's pretty cool because it is said just like your maiden name, Mom. There's just a 'Sh' sound at first instead of your 'S' sound. They were way cool though! I really liked them a lot. We will be meeting with them again next week. They were glad to have us over.
This last week was pretty fun. We met with a couple members and I also went on a split up to a city called Bayreuth. We also had a street display on Saturday that went for 6 hours. Boy was that long! All in all, the week was pretty good.
Monday evening was when I went up to Bayreuth (said like 'buy-royt'). I went on a split with an Australian named Elder Butler. It was a ton of fun! I was with him until Wednesday morning. We had a lesson that Monday with a new investigator of theirs. He was from Africa and we taught in English because we didn't know French. We also had a member, Shannon, who came with. She is a student in the area who is from Scotland. It was really fun to have 4 different types of English going on. It was fun to realize that I was being looked at as someone who had a different accent as the rest. I am so used to having an American companion that I sometimes forget that we sound weird too. It would be cool to someday have a comp who is not from the USA. Tuesday we had another appointment. It went really well too. The investigator's name was Princess. She was from Africa too. Her friend is a member and got her to investigate the church. His name is Prosper. He too is from Africa. He is the coolest! He's a new convert and is fired up for missionary work. Princess can speak decent English, but sometimes she doesn't understand. She speaks something that is called 'Pidgin' English. It's essentially super simplified English. Prosper speaks it as well and was there to help out. That evening we had a member appointment which Shannon and Prosper came too. The member said that they are only going to be speaking 100% German that night. Butler and I were cool with that, and the other two were about to get thrown into the deep end. The evening was a lot of fun though. We all had a good time. We then went home for the night and split back the next morning.
Something new this week was a street display that we did. We started at 10:00 and ended at 16:00. It was really long but it was pretty cool. The main thing that we were talking to people about was Genealogy. We had Elder Butler here in Erlangen (yeah there are two of them) draw out his Family tree back to his great grandparents on the sidewalk with chalk. It would catch people's attention and they would wonder what it was. It was pretty cool. We were able to talk with a lot of cool people and a lot of crazy and angry people. It was fun. Sadly, we were unable to even get one potential. Later that evening, we went to go visit a less active family. Their last name is Schlegel. It's pretty cool because it is said just like your maiden name, Mom. There's just a 'Sh' sound at first instead of your 'S' sound. They were way cool though! I really liked them a lot. We will be meeting with them again next week. They were glad to have us over.
Church was really cool. During the sacrament meeting someone was giving a talk and the spirit was really there. I ended up understanding what people mean when they say that you can be listening to someone and be taught by the Spirit yet not remember anything of what the speaker is saying. Like, the lady was talking, but my thoughts got carried away to different ideas and random tangents that all prices together and taught me something new. The lady mentioned the story in the Bible where the lady with the Issue of blood, who was sick for several years, touched the hem of Jesus's robe and she was healed. Jesus then asked, "Who touched me?" His apostles replied with something along the lines of, "Lord, you are walking around with a crowd of people about you and you ask 'Who touched me?'. What kind of a question is that?" I then got carried away with the fact that Jesus asked who touched him. He didn't know. I've spoken with some people who have told me that Christ cannot be perfect because he says that 'neither [he] nor the Angels in heaven' know of the time of his second coming, thus making him not the Son of God like he said he was. "If he was really perfect, he would know when he is coming again," they would tell me. I was reminded of that during the talk the lady was giving and I kept thinking. (Sorry if this doesn't make sense for you guys. It makes sense in my head, it is just hard to put it into writing.) I then realized that Jesus probably wasn't perfect in the sense of knowing things. Could he do trigonometry or tell you how many gallons of water are in the ocean? Probably not back then. He was perfect in the fact that he lead a perfect example and was perfectly clean and sinless. He was perfectly obedient to the Father and did that which was good in the sight of him. We don't worship or praise Jesus because he was a mastermind or a know-it-all. We worship him because he was perfect in every way necessary to be able to successfully fulfill the Atonement so that we all can one day live with him. He gave us the perfect example so that we might know how we should live (3 Nephi 12:48). His perfect love and guidance is there for everyone who searches sincerely after it. Just a pretty cool little thought that popped into my head during church.
That is about it for the week! I hope you guys have a good one!
Elder Grow
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