Barmherzigkeit

We had an interesting day in the woods this week. Awhile back my companion and I did some doors on a street that we picked out with a member family and we came across a dude and the only way to describe him is a mix of the Underminer from “The Incredibles” and a bit of a spitting image of Radagast the Brown from “The Hobbit”.

And the man can’t hear/understand our German to save a life… But awhile back we gave him a Book of Mormon and told him to call us if he needed help picking up wood from the forest and such. So this week he randomly called us and needed our help. So we met over by his place and his “hardcore German old man” friend pulls up on a scooter and a random Russian guy pops out of nowhere and they all pile into his “Home Alone” van and we followed them 30 minutes deep into the woods. Well here comes the joke, a couple Germans, a couple Americans, and a Russian all go into the woods, how long does it take them with all their strong accents to agree on how to stack the wood in the trailer?

Well longer than it should have.

The two Germans started to really go at it, and we and the Russian guy had a nice laugh about it. And in the end we gave our info to the Russian dude and he said he’d be happy to meet with us.

Read a bit about Mormon this week – the man was observed as being “quick to observe”. I thought about what that meant to me, for me it is being “quick to observe the prompting of the spirit”. And that is not easy. This week we were about done with finding and parked the car and were about to go in and make some phone calls, when we felt like we should go walk around the last 15 minutes. In 15 minutes we saw only 1 person and gave out 1 Book of Mormon. How interesting how the spirit works, blessings will always follow.

Elder Winkel