Things are great. I've been thinking back on my time here in Munich. I love this place. Heavenly Father has blessed us with so much success here, and it's amazing that that could happen to a couple of punk 19 year old kids in the middle of Germany. It's awesome. I would honestly spend the rest of my mission in Munich and be more than happy. I love it here more than I could tell you in an email.
Well, this week it got cold. Bitter cold. We've also got about a foot of snow that we've received in the past few days. It's been fun sliding through the empty streets of Solln (where we live) here in Munich. Today is supposed to be -12 Celsius, which is like 8 Fahrenheit I guess. Then it gets colder throughout the week. We will be in Landshut on Austausch tomorrow, which is known as the Windy City in the mission. It's supposed to be like -5 degrees Fahrenheit. Haha. Fun right? Then on Wednesday, we pick up the missionaries from the airport. Thursday is transfer day again already. I'm starting my 12th transfer. I'm so old.
By the way, transfers affected 13 of the 16 companionships in our zone, so it will be fun to work with some new people. I love that about President Kohler. He doesn't care how long you've been where you've been, or how long you've been with a companion. If he needs you somewhere else, you're on the move.
That being said, we are one of the 3 companionships unaffected by transfers. I'll be here for at least 6 more weeks. Yay! We are hoping for a couple baptisms in that short amount of time. We will go get them!
We figured something new out yesterday actually about F. He doesn't know his family. He was living on the streets in Nigeria, then found the opportunity to come here, and took it. He's had a really rough life, and it's been unreal to watch him turn 180 degrees. When I first met him, I never pictured myself standing in a baptism font with him. But that's how Heavenly Father works. F gave his testimony at church yesterday and it was very touching. He also was greeting all the members he didn't know. He's awesome, and on fire right now.
S is also doing wonderful. She invited the 4 of us over this week and cooked for us. It was really really good. She hasn't missed a week of church since her baptism, and just received her visiting teaching assignments and so forth. She's loving being a member. She's on fire as well. I think the 2 baptisms we've had here are both going to be extremely solid members of the church forever. That's enough in and of itself to make me happy.
Our teaching pool is picking up a little bit again. I finally got contact with A, and we will be teaching him this week. B and F are best friends from Nigeria and want to be baptized on the 31st. They won't make it, but we hope it will be soon. D is a new investigator this week. He's a member referral and we had THE COOLEST LESSON with him. It was so spiritually charged, and we all could feel it really strong. Including him. He was at all 3 hours of church yesterday and really enjoyed our gospel principles lesson about the mission of Jesus Christ. He's really feeling the spirit strong. We are excited for the progress.
We are teaching a few more people. A is from Germany and is the head boss of a huge project coming up here in Munich (a head corporate kind of guy). Which is very exciting. He knows the Book of Mormon is true, but is jut freaking himself out about being baptized. His parents would kick him out. We have the most powerful lessons but he just isn't pushing himself enough. We will see.
Yeah that's about it. Needless to say, things are excellent.
I've been really looking at our Time as missionaries, which could relate to time as members. When we look at it, we don't have a lot of time on this earth, and especially less time in a day. We have to make our time worth it with the things we do. Which includes fulfilling our callings, telling our family members how much we love them, performing service, working to provide, you name it. But the time we have on earth is so precious and limited before we meet God again just like Alma 34:32 says. There's my thoughts, and our week. Hope it's a good one for you!
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