Hello to all!
This has been the craziest week yet! But before I get to the stories I want to say my headaches have gone away and thanks for all the prayers, they were felt!
This week the work really shot through the roof! Monday of last week we were walking to the bank to exchange some money. The Neüotting Elders needed to get some money for the week as well. On the way back from the bank, a man eating a döner at a table outside, asked us what church we were from. We told him the we were missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He then gave us his number and said he wanted us to call him and set up a time to learn more about the church. We called him and met with him last Wednesday and taught him the Restoration of the Gospel. It was a good lesson. He is Romanian and speaks very little german, but enough to communicate. So the whole time we were playing the ultimate game of charades trying to help him understand what we were teaching him. He just didn't quite get it, but invited us to come back over on the following Saturday. When we went he ended up inviting his family and his friends to hear the message we had for them. So instead of just teaching Alex, we were teaching 5 more people and have another 10 he wants to introduce us to! They, as well as Alex. can't speak german... We were able to invite them to church even though they knew they wouldn't be able to understand. They came! Now here are two crazy, behind the scene, parts to this story! Before I start, I have to explain the layout of the city. If you start at our apartment and go straight on the road that we live on, there is a bank and then the döner shop where we met Alex. Next, there is the Bank that we were able to use to exchange our currency. We had tried 3 times to go to the first bank that would transfer my money and every time we went, something stopped us from being able to do it. When we were able to finally exchange currency at the final bank, and were leaving, Alex stopped us. The reason this is so crazy, is that if any of the first three times we went to go exchange money, and we had, then we would have just gone to the normal bank and never would have passed Alex.
Now, part two of craziness. There is only one elder in the whole mission that can speak Romanian. He had been in Switzerland his whole mission. Normally, once you're in Switzerland you are always in Switzerland. Not only that, he had been Zone leader in Switzerland. Last transfer he got transferred to be the ZL in the München Zone, which is unheard of for someone to go from being a ZL to ZL. If he wouldn't have been in München then he wouldn't have been unable to joint teach with us this week just like we are going to do! God loves each and every one of his children and makes things line up perfect so they can hear of the gospel in any case!!
Now Story number two. We have places here in Germany called Asylheims. They are a shelter place for africans who are tying to get away from dangerous situations back home and start a new life. And they stay in these heims until they have worked and have become contributing citizens to the community where they live. And once they achieve that, they become citizens and can move out of the heim. But we have a member who has been less active but is now officially active his name is Albert and he lives in the heim. Three weeks ago Bayo (bio is how you say it) moved into the same room as Albert. And as we were teaching Albert last Tuesday, he introduced us to Bayo and Bayo invited us to teach him about the stuff we were talking to Albert about. We met with him and taught him the Restoration but had to teach it very slow so that he could understand it, He really wants to have Christ be a bigger part of his life and to quit smoking. We challenged him to pick a date for a baptismal goal, and thus, we have our first baptismal date in Oktober!
The work here in Landshut is about to explode and I don't want to hear the work is hard here or there or you won't have any success there or in that area, because we don't decide that. The Lord puts people where they need to be when they need to be and He knows His children. He is going to do anything for them and we as missionaries need that faith and to allow ourselves to be God's vessels and to bring the world his truth. When we do that, and do His will and forget the things of this world and serve diligently WE WILL SEE THE SHEPHERD GATHER HIS SHEEP.
Elder Killpack
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