Montag, August 27, 2012

This past week was really good! We had Zone Conference last week. It’s always great just listening to President and Sister Miles. Then, I got to see Elder Carter. We got to meet with a lot of members, as well, since it was Elder Kuhlo's last full week in the mission.

We got to meet with Denise quite a few times. Sadly, because of her Krankenheit (medical awareness/problems) she has still not been able to come to church. She is doing great, though. She has made it through the Isaiah chapters (2 Nephi Chapters 12 - 24, are commonly referred to as 'the Isaiah chapters') in the Book of Mormon (lol).

Something cool happened this week. A man named Stefan called us this past week wanting to know more about the Restoration of the Gospel. He got a pass along card from us some time. He looked at the website on it and then called us. As we were preparing for the lesson, Elder Kuhlo and I did a roll play of the lesson. We do that a lot as missionaries, and the Lord really prepares us for lesson when we do that sometimes. He helped us this time. We did an entire roll play of our first meeting with Stefan. Then we went and met with Stefan in the Young Single Adult center here. During the lesson with Stefan, everything we did in the roll play happened. The exact same questions we asked in the roll play, Stefan asked during the lesson. Then, the answers we gave in the roll play, Stefan gave with exactness in the lesson. Even when we asked if he knew somebody else who would like to hear our message, as well. He said he didn't know because nobody wants to talk to him about ‘gospel stuff’. That happened in the roll play, as well. It was flippin’ crazy! Stefan became a new investigator, though, and he came to church on Sunday. He said he wants to be baptized, as well. We will be meeting with him again tomorrow. Then, he will be in Moscow for 2 weeks visiting his sister. He's a cool dude, as well. His German sounds cool.

We had transfer calls on Friday. I will be getting a new companion named Elder Zimmerman. He is from Texas. I've only met him once, really, before - and he was chill. We'll have two Southern boys here in Stuttgart, though, which is cool.

Hope you liked the pictures. Peace.

[ Elder Caraway ]

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There is a hill in Stuttgart called ‘Birkenkopf’.

During the war, 45% of Stuttgart was destroyed through bombings.

They piled all the rubble into one hill.

In the rubble, they took out all of the Nazi signs and stuff after the war.