Montag
Well, to start the week off being away from Schwenningen, we went
to Singen for P-Day. We went there to play Basketball with the
Schaffhausen Elders, the Singen Elders, and the Singen Sisters. It
was a lot of fun. Of course, I don't get that intense and neither did
Sister Kutschke, so we kind of had our own party on the Basketball
court. Funny right? Unfortunately, we missed our train going back to
Schwenningen, so we had to stay an hour later. I went with Elder
Wilkins to some store and the guy was way nice. We started talking
and then he started speaking English and then he gave us a 10%
discount because we were missionaries. He said we can keep that
discount forever. So, I bought the gift for this week. We will be
having a gift exchange in District meeting tomorrow. And then we
went out to go finding after we got back and showered. We had some
great conversations. The "He is the Gift" movement is
working really well. It is a great finding tool.
Dienstag bis Donnerstag
Tuesday to Thursday was all one big exchange. Tuesday to
Wednesday I was in Bad Säckingen with Elder Acuna Moreno. And then
on Thursday I was in Schaffhausen with Elder Meyer. Both were
actually really similar. We went by on some less actives and then
went out finding. But on Wednesday I started an amazing personal
study on Charity. It has actually taken me until today (Monday) to
study and I am still not done. I will send some notes next week.
Freitag
Friday morning we exchanged back in Geisingen and then we went
back home to eat lunch. Then we went to Gutmadingen. We were
going by on some people that we met earlier. One lady wasn't home so
we went by on someone else. He is 15 and looks 30. Last week we
invited him to watch Er ist das Geschenk and then to share it with
his family. He said he would. This week he said he watched it and
really enjoyed. He said he felt the spirit during the video. He said
that his parents didn't want to watch it though. Then we asked him
if we could come by again and share a small Christmas message. All
of a sudden he started to get really defensive and told us they
didn't need this and that they had a faith and belief already and
that we shouldn't come back. We should go help those who don't have
a faith. And then I had a strong impression to tell him what this
message entailed. We told him that this message isn't only for those
who didn't have a faith. This message will help us all build our
faith that we already have. Our message is about the true restored
Gospel. We told him that we believe in something other Christians don't believe in. Or at least that it doesn't exist anymore. We bore
our testimonies of Prophets and told him this message could help him
and his family. He then accepted the invitation and said we could
come back. It was a very special experience of how the Holy Ghost works.
Samstag
On Saturday, we had a once in a life time experience. We
slaughtered a pig, with Romanians. Unfortunately I don't have
pictures, or very many because my camera decided to die on me. So I
will borrow them from the other Elders next week. But it was
definitely crazy. The couple kept talking back and forth in Romanian
and it was so funny. And they also eat the skin right after they are
done burning the pig. It was something else. But that took a long
time. And then we went to their house to eat it.
Sonntag
Sunday was a little weird but way spiritual. We had Church like
always and it was really good. One of the speakers is from Oregon
and had her talk translated by Elder Wilkins. He did a really good
job at translating. She gave an amazing talk about how The Christmas
Message is a Family Message. She talked about the Divine Roles each
person played, Mary, Joseph and Jesus Christ. She also talked about
the divine examples they give us. It was way good. And then we
eventually went over to the Ziegner's for Lunch since they won't be
here this week. They fed us Triangle Hash Browns called Rusties or
something of the sort. And we also had pork with it. Then we went
with them to a Nativity display. It was a lot of fun and some of the
nativity sets were beautiful. Afterwards we went back to the parking
lot and sang Stille Nacht and then said goodbye.
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