New Year’s Eve

New Year’s was insane. Literally hell breaks loose, and a straight riot is started in the streets. Bombs.

New Year’s Eve we were invited to a member’s house for lunch, and then a member in a branch next to ours invited us over for the night. Interestingly enough we ate lunch at the same member that we ate with on Christmas Eve, the member is great and so nice.

That night we went to the other member’s house in Köthen and I got to hang out with my boy Elder Burns! The members drove us home at 9, it was a merry ol’ time.

Next morning we woke up early (too early) and headed to Leipzig for our mission 5k, to kick off our morgen sport for 2016. Luckily it was a fun run so our inconsistent technique of sprinting/walking made for some fun.

Well New Years. New goals. Want a good goal? The Book of Mormon. Yeah that’s a good one. It’s the “keystone to our religion” and “a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book”. Make the goal, read it, ponder it, and be strengthened.

My good friend Elder DeMass down in the Frankfurt mission had Christmas with a couple seventies, while talking about questions of the gospel and life, one of them told him that:

“I am not brave enough, to NOT read in my scriptures every day.”

It’s not just that we SHOULD read the scriptures, it’s that we NEED to. I hope and pray that we all will.

Love you all, Happy New Years.

Elder Winkel