Another letter from our ausgezeichnet missionary!

Hey Guys,

Good to hear from you again and good to hear that everything is still going well. Ben, that is super cool you got to score a touchdown!!! Thanks for all the indepth details, i reallly appreciate that. Im glad you felt you played good, and i hope you and your team get the job done next week!!! Good luck buddy! Sam, sounds like you had another good week at football. Sorry about the loss bud, but it sounds like your team is playing alot better together. Keep up the good work buddy, stick in there, and.....WIN!!! Hey David, thanks for telling me your playing center defender on the left side. That is really cool, and hopefully my letter can help you understand a little more on how you could play your position better. I would be careful though David, i don't think you are allowed to play both rec and competitive soccer. It was against the rules when i was younger so be careful. Also, did you not have a Competitive game this week? You should tell me more about your games, i would love to hear more! Anyways, have a great week buddy, play hard, score some goals, but most importantly, play good deffense (oh and have fun too)!!! Jonathan my man!!! Wie geht's dir?!? Es freut mich von dir zu hören!!! Wie geht es das Fußball speilen? Hast du es gern? Wow, das ist wunderbar, daß du so viel in "Scouting" getan hast! Es freut mich das zu hören!!! Danke für die Geschichte von Nephi. Ich mag diese Geschichte und wir können so viel davon lernen. Du hast es recht, der Glaube ist ganz vichtig. Wir müssen Glaube immer haben, damit der Herrn uns helfen darf. Wenn man keinen Glaube hat, ist es ganz schwer zu leben und Glücklich zu sein. Johathan errenerst dich das immer und ich verheiße dich mit meinem ganzem Herz, daß du immer glücklich sein wirst!!! (Tell mom not to judge my German). Jacob!!! Glad to hear that you have finally got to start school!!! How is it? Are you having fun? I hope you have as much fun in Kintergarten as i did!!! Watch out for the girls, they got cooties!!! Take care little buddy, and i hope you have a wonderful week at school.

 

Ok here is my week:

Monday: We did a FHE with one of the less active ladies in our ward (Schwester Morgner). It was nothing more than a lesson and essen, but i think it helped her alot and she seemed really happy to have someone visit her. We talked about putting our trust in the Lord and how that when we do that he will bless us and make our burdens light. We tried again to commit her to chuch, but she is still thinks that nobody in the ward really likes her. AHH!!! Kind of frustrating, but we'll keep on working with her, im not giving up on her.

Tuesday:  Had District Meeting and then we went contacting most the day cause our German class fell out. We found a really cool young man though who had interest in life after death. We swapped numbers and gave him a Book of Mormon, hopefully we can meet with him this week.

Wendsday: We did service for Schwester Morgner, then we had another Less Active lesson with the Less Active member we found in Bad Endorf. His name is Peter Schlesinger, and it seems like he has had alot of health problems the last couple years. He also got kicked out of his house earlier this year and is living in a "concentration cell" at the edge of Bad Endorf, which is really sad. Despite all that has happened though, his faith seems as strong as ever. He has a year bahn card which means he can travel free from here to Denmark, so he says he tries visiting a differnet LDS Church in Germany or elsewhere every week. Super cool guy, hopefully we can meet with him again.

Thursday: Basically went searching most the day trying to find this less active member in our ward. The good news is we found him, the not so good news is it took three hours to do so. We took a bus down to Nussdorf, and stopped there thinking that he lived in that stadt (it's what it said on the Mitglied list) but it turned out that he lived about 6 kilometers out of town in a little dorf over the mountain. It was amazing we found him, cause we only had a map of the city of Nussdorf, and really had no idea exactly where we should go. What was really cool was after we had been walking for about an hour looking for this member, Elder Jerman and I felt impressed that we should stop at this one house and ask if maybe somebody knew where this street was or the member we were trying to find. Well, we knocked on the door and an older lady answered. We asked if she knew where this strasse was at and she actully did, in fact, she knew the member we were trying to find. That was super cool, and after getting directions from her, we went to his house, unfortunately he wasn't home, but hey, we know where he lives now!

Friday: We had an eating appointment with the Krugel family and actually started teaching his little girl the lessons in preperation for her baptism. She wasn't to interested in listening and left about half way through our discussion. We then attempted teaching Bruder und Schwester Krugel about how because Joseph Smith was a Prophet that the Docterine and Covenants is indeed scripture from God. It went a little to long, and it ended up turning into a an argument at the end. Im not gonna lie, i was getting pretty frustrated with him but luckily Elder Jerman took control of the situation and we left them with all of us laughing. I don't know what to do with them though, it is super hard and im not really sure what to say to them. Bishop Kainz is going to come with us next time, so hopefully he can help us resolve some issues, including if there daughter will be able to get baptised when she turns 8.

Saturday: We did service again for Familie De Fillipo then later that day we met this guy who was trying to get to Budapest, but for some reason got stuck in Rosenheim with no money, and no way to get home. He really had nothing with him, his cell phone was dead and he didn't have enough money to take the train to Budapest. So, we talked to him a little bit gave him some money and said we would come talk to him in the morning.

Sunday: Had church went well. Found somebody's wallet on the side of the road and walked 5 km to give it back to him. Bought our Budepest friend dinner, great day.

Monday (this morning): Woke up and went jogging with a BOM auf Hungarien trying to find our Budepest friend before he left. We found him, talked to him a little about the BOM, got his address back home in Budapest and told him we would send our missionary friends to his house sometime.

 

So ya, that was my week pretty awesome. To close, i would just like to add my testimony to that of Jonathan's that when we truly have faith in the Lord, he will indeed make a way possible to do what he asks. It is really interesting that Jonathan chose this story to share with me, cause for personal and companionship study today we studied this very topic how faith and hope are tied into one. Briefly i would like to share a scripture i found today in Romans 4:18that talks about Abraham and how despite the fact that he and his wife were super old and it was, as most people would think, impossible for them to have children he never doubted that the Lord would keep his promise and provide a way for him to indeed be "the Father of all Nations". He had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and he also had hope that the Lord would indeed keep his promise. I love what it says in Ether 12 about this topic. In verse four it says: "wherefore whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world...which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men." and in verse six it says, "and now i Moroni would speak somewhat concerning faith, i would show unto the world that faith is things which are hoped for which are not seen which are true....for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith." I bear testimony that as we have faith and hope, trusting in the Lord and his atonement we will be deleiverd through our trials and tribulations and in the end have the "knowing" that Jesus is the Christ and all things are possible through him.

Ok well i got to go. Take care you guys, have a wonderful week and remember you are always in my prayers. Love ya!!!!