Woche der Einladung
(This last week)
Montag
Monday... Well, we cleaned. We actually bought food this time. We
bought Trachten suits for 15€. They are way sweet! And then we did
emails. After emails we passed out invitations to people in the city
for "Meet The Mormons!" We met some crazy drunk dude who
called himself God and Jesus, but he had a vision of Jesus, but
wasn't Christian.... But it was really cool, because he asked us
what we thought God and Jesus were. I got to bear a really solid
testimony of our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. And even though I
know he was way to drunk to understand anything, God heard me. That
was a real testimony builder! And then it rained, so we got soaked!
Dienstag
Tuesday, was the day we met with Hamid. We taught the Plan of
Salvation using the whole church. We started in the chapel with all
of the lights on and explained that God wants us to come back to
him(AKA the chapel). And then we went to different rooms for the
different parts of the plan. And then we got to Judgement Day. And
so we did judgement at a table with a white board and acted it out. "H" loved it and even threw in some questions of his own! Of
course gospel related! And then we did the three kingdoms! We set
the lights low, medium and then high to emphasize the glories! And
of course, where God lives was the brightest, back in the chapel!
Hamid really loved it and understood it, even through the
communication barrier. And then we passed out even more invitations!
And then it rained again, so we got soaked again!!!
Mittwoch
Wednesday we had District Meeting with the two Senior Couples
here! It was pretty good! We shared what we learned from the
scriptures this past week and shared comments and stuff. It was
great! And then we had a lesson with "H" and "A"! "H" went
home the night before and taught "A"everything! So when we
reviewed, they were both answering questions and filling in the
blanks! It was way awesome! We also went over the Gospel of Jesus
Christ and how it is the way back to God, we drew pictures on pieces
of paper to help them understand! It was way awesome! And then we
went and passed out some more of those invitations in the rain! Got soaked!
Donnerstag
Thursday, Sis. Schaunig took us to some Market in the city. I had
Grießnockerlsuppe. No idea what that translates to, so just look it
up. It was so good! And then I had Wiener Schnitzel and fries. And
then I had a Poppy seed fruit cake thing. It was so good! And then
we went to the east side to pass out invitations. We just went to
the apartments, and hit them up. We actually met a way cool lady
while over there. We decided to door the building until someone let
us in, so we could get the invitations in the building. So some lady
let us in, and we got to give her a Book of Mormon, bear testimony
of Jesus Christ and His Atonement, and she said we could come
back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was so awesome! And then we ate at the
Danilliants! We got to play with their kids for a little! They were
so awesome!
Freitag
Friday, we finally finished passing out the 5.000 invitations!
Wooh!!!!! It was the best feeling ever! But, we did it in the rain! And then we went dooring for a little! People just were not
interested in learning more. One guy took one look at us and
said, "Ugh, nah! Ihr seht kommisch aus!" or in English,
"Ugh, nah! Ya'll look weird!" Haha, he was nice. But then
we had GMK. We got to do a small lesson with a member there. He is
from Klagenfurt, but lives in Graz. It was really cool, and the Spirit was definitely there. We even got talking about all the bad
in the world and about God letting it just happen. We got to bear
testimony of God's love for us individually. Unfortunately bad stuff
does happen, but that does not mean He doesn't love us! He is there!
The spirit was just so strong!
Samstag
Saturday, we got sick. Wonder why... So, we tried to study German
to feel somewhat effective... But, we did get to go to the movies...it was just for "Meet The Mormons!" This is the work
that we and the ward put in:
-5.000 invitations passed out
-150 letters written and sent to officials in multiple cities
and company owners
-25 posters plastered around the city
-posters at the movie theater itself
-online invitations sent out by email, facebook, whatsapp, etc.
-invitation sent on meinbezirk.at
So, the ward worked extremely hard on this! So we went and there
were about 50 people there altogether. And about half of them were
nonmembers!!! It was so awesome to see it pay off! And the movie was
great! We watched it in German! Awesome!!!!
Sonntag
Sunday was awesome! We had Ward Conference! So members from Linz
were there. Well, just the Erlachers and their kids. But it was so
awesome to see them!!! And I played during the last hour for
Primary. It was awesome! Because they don't usually have a pianist.
It was a good reminder at how simple the gospel is and how innocent
kids are! And then we had a potluck afterwards! It was great!
~Elder
Albrecht~
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