Working Through Things

This week was a busy one. Tuesday we went out to München for zone training. We had a sick discussion about flooding the earth with the Book of Mormon. It was way good and we set some good goals as a zone. Then we came back to Rosenheim just in time for a lesson with David. But when we got to his place he wasn't there. We saw his roommate Tony and had a lesson with him instead. As we were leaving David rode up on his bike so then we went back in and taught another lesson. When we finally left and got home I realized that I left my iPad at Davids.. Yikes. So we rode as fast as we could and picked it up.

Wednesday we met with Tony again. We're also teaching him German. He wants to meet with us almost every day but it's really hard to get him to actually progress so we might have to drop him soon. After that we went out to Kiefersfelden for a joint teach with Bruder Hunger. We taught Walter the word of wisdom. Thank goodness we had Bruder Hunger there because I don't know what we would have done without him. Walter has a hard time with smoking and he does not want to stop. So luckily Bruder Hunger saved that lesson and we talked for almost two hours about why the word of wisdom is important and what he should stop smoking. Walter was saying that smoking in not deadly even though it says so on the package. Towards the end of the lesson he was more quiet and the spirit was really working on him. He said that he would pray about it. I think this is going to be really hard for him but I know we can get through it together.

Thursday we also met with Tony. Then we went out to Brannenburg to talk to an old investigator. After that we doored in the area for a bit and luckily found a lady who had a book of Mormon. She said that members of our church visit her a lot and that she would love for us to come back. We found out that she's Russian so we're going to bring a book out to her this week. Then that evening we went home teaching with Bruder Hunger in Bad Aibling to Sister Bartnik and Schrank. That was nice and we shared a good message about not living below our privileges. On the way back I was able to get a lot of information about the less actives here in the ward. It was very helpful because we didn't know a lot about most of them. 

Friday was going to be an intense day with helping Bruder Schlesinger, as less active out in Bad Endorf. But he called us the night before and cancelled because it was supposed to rain. So we went out to Bad Aibling to go by on a less active and do some contacting for a little bit before we had a lesson with Dominik. When we were dooring we ran into a former investigator's wife. She said that the husband loved meeting with the missionaries but that they randomly just stopped coming. So hopefully we can keep meeting with him. Then we had our lesson with Dominik. We talked a lot about prayer and had him commit to pray every day. We had a joint teach there too but she was about one hour and a half late. So we spent two hours with Dominik and had to cancel our other appointment with Tony. The joint teach was good though. I guess she is Dominik's third Grandama. They have a really good relationship and she is a good example in his life. She lives in the München 2 ward. 

Saturday we had lunch with Brajkovic but we weren't able to teach him afterwards because he had to leave. We then went over to Tony and gave him a really good lesson on why he needs to read the Book of Mormon along with the Bible. Then we had weekly planning. 

Sunday was pretty good. Although there was a bit of drama at church. In our investigator class we were teaching about the word of wisdom and Svonimir was talking about how in one of the Apocrypha books it says it's ok to drink wine. Then one of the members in the class explained why that wasn't right and Zvonimir interrupted him and told him he was wrong. The member just kept talking like all Germans do and said, just let me finish and then you can tell me if I'm right or not. With that Zvonimir just got up and left... So that was just lovely. After church we got to go with Bishop Kainz to his house in Maitenbeth for dinner. He has a way nice family and we had a great time there.  

We've been pretty busy here but I have seen the blessings of the lord push us along here. I know that this church is true and that it brings lasting eternal happiness. I hope this next week is good for all of you and you can feel the Savior's love. I love you all so much and I wish you the best.

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