Das Sühnopfer

This week Elder Perkins and I taught a lesson in ZTM in Leipzig, our
topic was “The Atonement”. Well we were quite pumped to have such a
great topic, but then after 3 days of trying to plan on how to teach
it, it put it back into perspective for me of how big it is. Really
big. Super big.

The Book of Mormon is one of THE BEST tools we have as missionaries!
There are so many examples of the Atonement being used. Enos shows a
great example of applying it, along with many others. And as it comes
together it stands as a testimony of Jesus Christ and that He
lives. Not bad.

The atonement is about love, and I’m happy I’ve got a great mom who’s
showed me love for almost 20 years now.
Jeffery R Holland’s talk hit a walk off last week:
A wonderful young mother recently wrote to me: “How is it that a human
being can love a child so deeply that you willingly give up a major
portion of your freedom for it? How can mortal love be so strong that
you voluntarily subject yourself to responsibility, vulnerability,
anxiety, and heartache and just keep coming back for more of the same?
What kind of mortal love can make you feel, once you have a child,
that your life is never, ever your own again? Maternal love has to be
divine. There is no other explanation for it. What mothers do is an
essential element of Christ’s work. Knowing that should be enough to
tell us the impact of such love will range between unbearable and
transcendent, over and over again, until with the safety and salvation
of the very last child on earth, we can [then] say with Jesus,
‘[Father!] I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.’
Meine Mama ist ganz wunderbar.

Have a wonderful week,
Elder Winkel

Last week’s BMX P-Day