Wonderful

This week went well, we kept ourselves busy enough.

Saturday night we went and took our dinner hour to play some basketball at the park, we played with a couple guys (safe to say we won;)) Afterward taking a drink break, I talked to one of the guys we played with about the NBA. I mentioned I liked the Utah Jazz and we got into the conversation why no big names ever want to stay there, a couple of his reasons (which are partially true) were that Utah is in the middle of nowhere, and it’s full of Mormons… The conversation moves on to what in the world as an American am I doing in Halle? So I looked at him with a grin… ” weil ich ein Mormone Missionare bin!…” (Cause I’m a Mormon missionary) haha! We both died laughing, great guy, gave him a good chance to see that we’re just normal guys.

I got a nice little slap in the nose from the spirit, we were on our way to a member appointment, and as we got off the street car in the corner of my eye I noticed a rough looking couple, nothing out of the normal, so we just went and got off as normal. As we took a moment to check our map, I heard this guy call out to me, (this is normally the “ah great here we go…” Moment). Well this guy starts asking me in broken English about my US bag and the USA and Deutschland pins I have on it. He thought they were cool, and then asked us if we needed any help finding an address…

It was a nice little wake up, I’m grateful that our Savior looks at us with the perspective of what we can become, not what we are.

“Sow a thought, and you reap an act; sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”

Elder Winkel