The First Lesson

Not much new this week besides that we TAUGHT THE FIRST LESSON, yeah we’ve taught it before, but this time it was different. We talked to someone on the street, made an appointment, then we went and the person was actually there… and he was pretty normal. It was I think the first time that I’ve taught the first lesson where it was like how I thought being a missionary would be. We met at his friend’s house who is an atheist, we got to know them, they’re both in about their mid 20’s, and then we taught the restoration, ACTUALLY how we practice every day. I don’t know how to explain it… I felt like I was in an episode of the district or something.

He and his friend found it really interesting because we gave it to them straight at the end, we told them that we are just inviting others to try out what we’re sharing, because we believe it brings joy, and that we can receive an answer that it is true… they were shocked… because we didn’t try to force our beliefs on them (not naming any names). But it went well and the atheist even found it interesting.

Last week on Wednesday I went on exchange with Elder Perez in the city of Plauen, we had a lesson fall out then we taught a couple guys from the Middle East. The one guy spoke only Arabic, so we had a Book of Mormon, one in Arabic and one in German side by side, to help him understand… then we worked on teaching him how the alphabet works, baby steps…

Then later the other guy we taught German to speaks pretty good English, and he really wants to learn German, so we taught him German for a while and he taught us Arabic for about 45 minutes! Crazy hard language, but I learned some things.

Things are going better right now, maybe because it is summer right now so people don’t hate us as much… haha, but it’s good, last week we taught 3 lessons! A ton better than the week before when we only had 1, but progress is coming!

On Sunday the ward mission leader let us know that the person who was supposed to give the lesson in church, wasn’t prepared so they threw it to the missionaries! So last minute we planned a lesson on the spot to teach the ward. So we taught the… 1st lesson! (Restoration) we went through every point and asked “Why it is important that investigators understand this concept?” go look up in preach my gospel and ask yourself the same questions! (Chapter 3)

When things get hard “Pray, and then go to work!” – Captain Cronin

Elder Winkel