April 14, 2014

I was thinking about the challenge with Elder Ballard this week. In conference, he was following up to see who was doing missionary work! There is something he invited all members to do: Reasd Preach My Gospel. Now, have you done that? He mentioned specifically the introduction to the Guide to missionary work. It makes sense that members read it as well as missionaries because, after all, every member is a missionary. We are all called to this great work!! Remember, you are not the exception. Preach My Gospel will teach you how to do work as a member. That is also my invitation to you all! I encourage all of you to read this inspired book to know how to teach.

This week found success in finding a lost sheep. 7 years lost. We had previously talked to this woman on the street randomly one evening and found out that she is a member of the church, but the phone number she gave us to contact her with did not work and she never replied to an email address she gave us nor did she write a hand-written latter from her home address back to us. We had not an idea of whether she existed, so we took the matter into our own hands to travel to the treacherously beautiful city she lives in to find out if she existed. The walk through Eifel-countryland ended with the fortunate news that she and her husband in actuality live there and that he has interest in what we have to share. The Lord truly does work in mysterious ways to bring all his Children back to him. 

The week was rather difficult compared to other weeks in the near past. I never thought I would say this, but it is quite fun to go door-to-door. We try to do mor effective methods of finding people, but when it comes down to it... sometimes you just have to do it! It is really fun. Having a door closed in your face is actually not so bad. You just feel bad that someone is not willing or desirous to learn about truths which have not been on the earth for a long long  time. Why would someone not want to learn lost truths? That's the only hard part.

Apparently this transfer is only 5 weeks (they are normally 6), so we are doing what we can to help the area here! My goal is to bring a wonderful family back together in the Gospel as well as inviting the spouses of some of them to take part of this glorious truth! I am excited to see what we can do; or more like what the Lord can do through us, His hands.

Read Preach My Gospel! And then go Preach His Gospel!!

Liebe Grüße, Elder Jack