House Hunters International

Transfers came, transfers went. Elder Headley is off to Görlitz, and I will be receiving an Elder Anderson from Texas, I think it will be super.

This week we will be going apartment hunting with a senior missionary couple, pretty much if our current apartment was in America they would have condemned the whole thing by now, along with every building on the block… “How firm a foundation?” Not very…

Tuesday I went on back to back exchanges with the Spanish Elders. With only one lovely meeting that was completely in Spanish so I wasn’t lost. We had a few fallen out appointments – then we met with their solid 23 year old investigator from Kazakhstan, who’s lived in Germany the last 10 or so years. She was actually found by my companion who saw her reading the bible on a train. She’s quite sincere, but boy she had a big problem with the telestial kingdom!

We had some little cards to represent the plan of salvation and she just stared at the whole thing, covered up the telestial kingdom with her hand and such. (Haha) But we were able to clear it up a little with the bible and because she’s so cool, she let us know how she would go home and pray about it. In the lesson there came a point where we brought it back to Joseph Smith and asked her if she believed he was a prophet, she kept insisting “I’ve got no problem with Joseph Smith! That’s obvious and logical that he was.” Then we explained how important that it is that we not only know it in our mind, but also in our heart.

And OH how important that is.

“When the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.”

May we all think and ponder in our minds that the spirit may testify to our hearts.

Elder Winkel