September 24, 2014

This week we had to teach another lesson in German, which is not easy, because at best I could teach 4 year olds the gospel. So I tried to go into the lesson with the spirit and to listen to it. Because it’s not a real investigator I hadn’t been taking the discussions as seriously so this time I did. I gave the opening prayer and I really wanted to ask the Lord to help us (our investigator was baptized but used to be a Catholic priest and received death threats for being baptized so had his records removed from the church – so kind of weird). I couldn’t remember the word for help, quickly in my head I decided to just speak and see what came out. And after the prayer I realized I had said the word help but I don’t ever remember learning the word help. Also during the lesson I had a feeling that I should ask the investigator if he believed that Joseph Smith was a prophet, but since my comp knows so much German I didn’t know what they were even talking about. So I just went for it. And it just so happens that my comp was at a loss for words teaching the restoration and that what I said was perfect, you could feel the spirit with the way we taught.

The food isn’t bad but it isn’t that great either…… haha we do get Creamery ice cream on Wednesdays and Sundays. I’ve made tons of friends in my branch, which can make it hard to stay focused but it’s still good.

We had the opportunity to listen to Elder Ballard last night, amazing to hear from an apostle. And I was able to be in the choir! Half of the guys in my district are going to sing in the priesthood session which is cool, I would have too but you had to fill out a survey on your choir resume, and mines not that big…… Cade moved up from west campus and is now 1 floor above me so I’ll be seeing him a lot more! I’m tired of being tired and not taking naps….. but it’s all worth it! I love this work and can’t wait to get to Germany!

-Elder Winkel