Tuesday morning I took Elder Horrocks to the train station and put him on a train to Schwarzenburg--I miss him :( We got along really well together. I stayed at bahnhof that whole afternoon putting people on trains/helping them make connections/picking them up. Here is a picture of our leadership training meeting before all of these transfers:
That afternoon my new companion came, Elder Despain. He grew up in Spain but his family has lived in Arizona for the past couple of years. He is only a transfer older than me in the mission and is a really nice missionary. We went to an appointment that evening with the man Elder Bakly and I found last week who said, "Yes, absolutely. Come over." It was real. The man loved the Restoration! We are going back there tomorrow.
Wednesday we had a really good appointment with a less-active member Elder Bakly and I contacted last week. He was baptized in '06 and I think was kind of converted to the bishop and missionaries. He stopped coming to church when the bishop was replaced. He was mad that that happened. Our lesson ended up being on service. It was really good. We talked about how none of the local leaders in the church receive money for what they do--everything about the church involves service. He said, "Oh wow, I had no idea." We commited him to reading in and praying about the Book of Mormon so that he could develop his own testimony of it. That night Elder Pilling and his trainee came back from Berlin and overnighted at our wohnung (apartment).
Thursday we had two awesome lessons, one with Peter, a super German man, and one with Grace, Fred's cousin. Both lessons actually were about the plan of salvation. Peter came to our appointment with questions written down, he had read all the pamphlets and had even done the question/answer section in the back! We had a great lesson were we walked him through the plan of salvation as we drew it on a piece of paper. Elder Despain drew it because he is a better artist.... He opened up about his parents dying. It was a good lesson. We were running late to our appointment with Grace so he offered us a ride! Our appointment with Grace was super. We did the same drawing thing. At the end she said that she wanted to be baptized. That evening we had a good night of soccer with a pair of investigators.
District meeting was held on Friday. I had talked to the Bremerhaven sisters about focusing on placing good questions in lessons so I gave the lesson on that. We read about Ammon teaching King Lamoni, disected a clip from one of our training videos, and role played with current investigators. It was a good lesson. Afterwards, Elder Despain and I went to Doris' house. We ended up just teaching her 15-year old son Joshua because she wants him to learn the Bible. We started off with the Bible but eventually turned it into a lesson on the Restoration ;) He ended up being really open to it and said he was free everyday after school to meet.
We met with Richmond Saturday morning and taught the plan of salvation. He is doing well. We also met with the random guy that stopped Elder Horrocks and I in the train station a couple of weeks back. Turns out he was actually baptized a few years ago in Leipzig and wants to come back to church. He also gave us a referral! That afternoon, we met with Nanakofi and taught the plan of salvation and the gospel of Jesus Christ combined. He loved the drawing of the plan of salvation and he said he is really looking forward to being baptized on the 2nd of May. Elder Pilling baptized his investigator that evening. The baptismal service was nice. Nanakofi stayed for it and even Peter came!
Yesterday at church, Grace, Nanakofi, and Michael were there. Michael has been a little evasive. I have been practicing being bold and straight up, but loving and so I told him Michael, we are here to baptize you--you want that right? He said yes. So I told him he needs to make time to meet with us and we will gladly get him there! That afternoon getting on the bus some German guy said, "Are you guys missionaries?" We talked to him about what we do and are meeting with him on Friday. Gotta love it.
Our days this coming week are pretty booked. Looking forward to a busy and productive week.
Love,
Elder Germann
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