Month of May

Right now my 4 elder district is just us and the Spanish program, so this week I was on exchanges with my amigo Elder Castillo from Nebraska! His family is from Mexico and he reminded me of my trainee Elder Burns (so he’s the best). We went and chopped some more wood for a member and got in some finding time before we went and finished the night with some nice burritos.

Saturday we went and had brunch with a member, who happened to invite a member from my first area. It was nice especially because when I met the dude I couldn’t speak pretty much any German, so I guess you could say it was nice to actually talk with him.

After we made the drive to Hamburg so we could practice for a musical number we’ll be singing at a zone conference. Well what do you know, I ran into a member from my second area! (S/O Sabrina) cool, cool. Afterwards I wanted some Burger King because we don’t really have that stuff out in the boonies, so we hurried and grabbed the “king of the month” made the drive back to our area so we could teach a lesson to our friend that reminded me of an old man elf in “Lord of the Rings”. He’s a really a cool guy and understands everything thing we teach him pretty well, but he also has a rough case of OCD, and has lived alone for a really long time.

But what’s cool is that before we were meeting with him he hadn’t really prayed for 50 years or so; now he prays often and has read half of the Book of Mormon. The man also understands it as well. Right now we’re just trying to figure out what we can do with him, his OCD is actually pretty severe, it can take him 10 minutes or so just to close the door, open close, lock re-lock, open close etc. Nevertheless it’s cool to see someone take a small step into the light of Christ and see how it changes them.

Elder Winkel

-Our investigator showed us a sweet pic of him and his old motorcycle, unfortunately he wrecked it and had to spend a couple years doing physical therapy…

-Hamburg

-Sabrina from Zwickau