Stake Conference

Last Monday we spent some time in Hamburg and we went and visited this park that’s got these giant swings, it was pretty cool. Right when we got there a guy came from the city to hook up the zip line (that you sit on). Well after tightening it all up he let us have a go at it, Elder Adams and I decided that if he pushed me it would make for more of a fun filled experience… So with the city worker watching from his van, I go speeding down this zip line that’s only a few feet off the ground, I went fast all right, as I hit the stop spring at the end I swooped up to the top of the cable and came down so hard that it snapped the rubber cord connected to the seat… which made for a pretty solid landing not on my feet. So the dude in his van got out and kind of scratched his head and put a new one on. I was holding a camera the whole time – I’ll try to send it with.

We did a lot of finding this week to continue on with our goals. Wednesday our goal was to give a Book of Mormon out, and so we went to the old GDR city of Boizenburg. We went by a member to see if they had any ideas, the family are converts of about 8 years and they are great, the husband is currently the Stake Clerk. We prayed together and then looked at a map, he had a good feeling about a street so we went and doored it to death and what do you know, we gave out a Book of Mormon.

The end of the week we went up and stayed with my boys up in Hamburg for Stake Conference, always great. Elder Adams made some killer German pancakes for breakfast as well.

Stake Conference was good, we had a couple seventy there and there is something special about when a man gives his testimony in broken German he learned years ago on his mission. Simple and from the heart.

Elder Winkel