Hope

This week we went by Herr G and he had a friend over. His friend apparently comes over every Wednesday because Herr G is most of the time alone, and… he has pretty bad Alzheimer’s. We had no idea but that explains why he hasn’t been following any of our commitments… because he just doesn’t remember.

But his friend said he’s met with some of our missionaries before and asked me the question “why are we here on the earth?” Before I could give him the answer, he cut me off and said he’ll just give us his address and number and we’ll have lunch at his house and talk about it. So hopefully we can get that arranged this week.

We also have a new investigator, he’s been a contact on our list and we’ve been over a billion times but he’s never home, but we finally made contact and made an appointment. He IS the fastest speaking German I’ve talked to… The members have told us that he talks fast… my trainee didn’t know what hit him. And in my head I was always a few sentences behind. But we taught the 1st lesson again and he committed to read so we’ll see how it goes!

Later today we are going to Berlin for Zone Conference tomorrow and spending the night in Merzahn with the one and only Elder Glissmeyer (from my MTC group) it will be a hoot.

Studied a little about “Hope” this week, Romans 8 gives a nice insight:
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for
what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it?

Hope requires a trial of faith, really a time period patience with faith that you will receive.
Faith that you WILL receive. The Lord will make it happen!

Tschüß!!
Elder Winkel