Montag, November 5, 2012

Our last week was okay. We didn't get to teach too much sadly. Then, none of our investigators came to church :/ . We only got to meet with two of our investigators in the last week. Well, that’s half of them - so I guess that's good. The two really good investigators we have, though, are students. So they are really busy and it’s hard to find time to meet with them.

There was a baptism in the ward yesterday, and the cool thing is that Stefan baptized her! Stefan was baptized 3 weeks ago himself; last week he got the Priesthood and yesterday he baptized somebody! It's pretty cool. The girl that was baptized, we meet with her family once a week. The mom is from Chile and all of her children were born and raised in Germany, but all of them can speak Spanish. So actually, at the baptismal service Elder Zimmerman, the two other daughters in the family, and I sang ‘Love One Another’ in German, English and Spanish. It was pretty cool. There are actually a lot of Spanish speaking people in our ward, and they were all pretty much there for the baptism and they got so happy when we started singing in Spanish. You could tell. They were also really surprised (lol). It was good, though.

We are teaching a very interesting lady who we believe did a lot of stuff with black magic at some point in her past. So it is very weird teaching her. I don't know how much longer we will teach her, because she hasn't made any progress. It's interesting, though.

On Wednesday, we will be going to Munich for 3 days for a meeting. All of the Zone Leaders and District Leaders will be going to this meeting. They do it every 3 months. I'm excited for that because they are always cool.

(In response to comments from home:) I bet that must have been cool to see Elder Bednar. Especially since there wasn't a huge group of people there. It was just like a normal amount of people. Was everyone just, like, way surprised when he came in the room? That's cool what he said, though, about answering people’s questions. That's the biggest problem with members that I've notice on my mission. They don't know how to give a simple answer. They explain everything so complicated for someone who has no idea what they're talking about. They think they have to explain everything so that they can finally get the point they want to explain. That's a good thing about the mission. You learn how to teach the gospel very simply. Because we teach people the exact same stuff that the kids in Primary learn. We teach people on a Primary level. And there's nothing wrong with that, because thats what the people need.

[ Elder Caraway ]