Transfer calls! Elder O’Keefe is going to Plauen? I don’t know where that is. But I’m staying and an Elder Paul is coming (hopefully a Paul Hatch). He’s been on his mission for 13 transfers and is American but lived in Germany for 6 years before his mission because his dad’s in the military or something. So cool! I’ll be picking him up in Hanover on Tuesday!
L**** came to church yesterday! It’s hard for her because she has 3 little kids and one of them is 2 months old but she told us she could make it to sacrament and she did! She’s the one from Ghana and she said her husband wants to meet with us next time he’s in town, so that was cool!
Hamburg was cool! It was a long train ride but it was fun to be on a train with 30 other missionaries! After mission tour I went straight to Bielefeld for an exchange with Elder Rhode! He’s only been in Germany for 6 weeks but he got us around like a champ. It rained the entire day and all we had planned was dooring. We found this huge apartment building with 50 door bells on the klingel so we went to work on it. At 25ish the door unlocked so we ran in, took an elevator up 6 floors and some kid was at the door. He went and got his dad, and his dad said “we’re all Muslims but come in” then I freaked out because I realized that Elder Rhode speaks not a lot of German so this would be interesting.
So we went in and I told him who we were and that we are sharing the Book of Mormon and that our church didn’t force us to come here and we paid for it ourselves (people find that interesting). Then an atomic spiritual bomb went off and we taught him the gospel for an hour and a half! I’ve never spoken so much German in my life! He just kept asking questions that the gospel could answer, then the spirit asked him (through us)”what would it mean to you if we had a prophet on earth today just like in biblical times?” He said that that would just make sense and that the world is going to a bad place. We explained the Book of Mormon, the plan of salvation, and the first vision, and it all just seemed to make sense to him. In the end he said he could not accept the book or the pamphlets we gave him because his wife would be really mad, but he accepted a card and said he would look up more. Another seed planted, so hopefully it grows!
The Spirit is real.
From what we’ve heard M*****’s records have been reviewed and he can be baptized again! So probably in the next few weeks!
Love Elder Winkel
Eating a Döner on the way to Hamburg.
