Elder Robert Scott Killpack October 26, 2015

Monday: We went to the military base with the Bos´s and got loaded with american stuff and had TACO BELL!!!! I missed me some good ole taco bell. 

Tuesday: District meeting and start of the tausch with Elder Gibson, who is a golden in Ulm right now! He is a great guy and ready to go for his mission. We had a lot of fun together in Ulm

Wednesday: End of Tausch with Elder Gibson and start of tausch with AP Elder Rozan in Stuttagart. We went and taught Bruder Heuer. He was our first lesson with him after the baptism and we talked about what the next step is. He taught about what goals we can set now to help him get to the temple. He is way excited and ready to keep making progress!

Thursday: End of tausch with Elder Rozan and finally working with Elder Hunt again. We also played some soccer with the youth that night as well. 

Friday: We helped a lady in our ward move her stuff into a moving van. and got transfer calls... I will be staying in Stuttgart, and Elder Hunt will be going to Salzburg to be ZL there. My new companion´s name is Elder Rahlf and he comes from Liberty, Ohio! I just have a thing for not having companions from Utah, two of 7 which is really strange... but ya I am way excited to work with Elder Rahlf, but I am really going to miss Elder Hunt. We had a really good time together!

Saturday: We were able to visit Bruder Heuer again, and that was good! He is a great man! And to be honest I really cant remember what we did on Saturday, but probably something good! haha

Sunday: The day of eating appointments. We had three eating appointments within 5 hours of each other! it was pretty intense, but I made it! But ya we just ate a ton of food! and then Elder Hunt and I just talked about how it stinks that we are leaving and reminisced all the good times we had together!

Love you all!!

Elder Killpack

p.s. emails and pictures sent through email are much appreciated:) 

America!!

Elder Robert Scott Killpack October 19, 2015

Friends and Family, 



Monday: CLEANING CLEANING CLEANING

Tuesday: Zone training!! It was a good one! I was super excited to share the wonderful things we learned at MLC with the Zone! IT was a great Zone training! I love being with other missionaries and just trying to help them help themselves. Now whether or not I am good at that is another question haha;) Then I went on Tausch with Elder Howarth, my MTC comp, but we had to do splits on splits, We had a baptismal interview for Bruder Heuer, and Elder Adam is the DL, so he had to do the interview, but I needed to be there, because it was my investigator, so Elder Howarth went with Elder Donald during Tausch, confusing I know...

Wednesday: Was kinda sick, so Elder Howarth and I didnt get to do too much, and then we tausched back.  Elder Hunt and I then proceeded to teach the most amazing lesson on my mission! Her name is Frau Golombeck. We gave her a 5-10 min overview of what we do and teach as missionaries, so she could have the expectation of meetin more with us and so she could have the big picture in front of her, then we told her that we wanted to fill in one of those blurry holes in the big picture today, which we call the plan of salvation. She had lost her three month old daughter earlier in her life and a few other family members. We taught her what the plan was, what our goal was, why we are on the earth, where we are going, and we also told her that children who die are brought into God´s presence, because they are both clean and waiting to be ressurrected. She had asked earlier, "Wo war Gott als mein Kind gestroben ist? Er war nicht für mich da." So we addressed this question when we had taught the full plan. I started off by telling her of my experience with losing my mother when I was 10 and that is was hard for me, but what this plan meant for me, to know that I can and will see her again. I then looked at her in the eyes and told her without a shadow of a doubt, I know where God was when your Child passed away, He was greeting your daughter into His Kingdom, He was there for you and your daughter, and I can promise you, you will be with your daughter again. It was such a powerful experience. She told us afterwards, that she could feel a warm feeling in her chest, and she admitted she was feeling emotional about the topic, and that it was bringing her peace and joy. She asked us we are meeting again to fill in the other pieces to the picture! She is so amazing! When we were saying the opening prayer, I had this overwhelming feeling, that she was someone I was supposed to meet and teach on my mission. I now know why I had that feeling! I cant wait to teach again this week! I will keep you posted! We also taught a wonderful lesson with Bruder Heuer, helping him stay focúsed and true to the commandments so he could get baptized saturday.

Thursday: We went out to a less active who fed us lunch, and we talked about the importance of doing... Hopefully he will start acting on the truths and testimony which he has! I really hope so! We also played some fußball with the Jugendliche!

Friday: Tausch with Elder Werner. We ate food and taught two member families and had a great talk about life and how we can both improve ourselves and that there is no better place than the mission to do it! Or at least that is what I got out of it!

Saturday: Hans Ulrich Heuer got Baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was so great! I am so proud of him making it to the end of his old life and starting on the new life comitted to the gospel of Jesus Christ! He is a great man and I love him so much! He is just amazing!!!!!

Sunday: Bruder Heuer was confirmed, and I was really sick. All I did was go to sacrament meeting just to be there for his confirmation. and then Elder Hunt and I crashed at home later and slept and slept and slept! I am feeling better today, but still a little weary. I am just conjested now. But all is good in ZION!

Love you all!!!!

Elder Killpack

The Baptism

AMERICA!

Elder Robert Scott Killpack October 13, 2015

Dear Family and Friends, 


Monday: P-day We went to Volksfest in Stuttgart with the district. We then went to Famile Heim Abend to follow that up!

Tuesday: Did some service the Familie Happel in our ward, we laid some sod for them, which makes them one of ten houses in all of Stuttgart with a lawn... We then went to District meeting and were spiritually uplifted. then we went to the district meeting of the Pforzheim district right after that, and were spiritually uplifted again! It was absolutely fantastic! Then I went on Austausch with Elder Brady in PFORZHEIM! I was able to go back to the Goldstadt again. It was a lot of fun being able to go finding on the good ole streets of Pforzheim. 

Wednesday: We finished tausch and went to work again in Stuttgart. We taught Herr Heuer and helped him prepare himself for baptism! We also visited the Familie Bendle and taught their cute little family of three children! 

Thursday: We taught a less active named, Stefan. He is trying to make the steps to coming back. He is a great guy, just needs to start acting. We then rode a bus from Stuttgart to Munich which is the equivalent to A bus ride from Logan to Provo:) and then had a prelude to MLC by watching a talk from Elder Holland. WOW was it a good one! MTC talks from Apostles are the best! 

Friday: We played some basketball for Frühsport with all the Zone Leaders and the APs, then got ready for a 6 hour meeting with President! I love MLC they are the BEST! I always come out a lot better than I went in. He is bestimmt a master teacher! I mean it helps when he was one of the guys writing Preach my Gospel with the Apostel and all those guys! So he knows it pretty well! Then we took a bus back to Stuttgart and got home just in time to be home at 9:)

Saturday: A lot of planning for the next week and Zone training. We were able to teach Herr Heuer again, Felix, and one of our buddies, whose name I do not know how to spell haha! He is from Afghanistan. He is way cool! 

Sunday: CHURCH! we had Herr Heuer, Felix, and Lucca in church this week! We had a great talk with Herr Heuer about if he wants to make his date that he needs to know and commit to living the commandments bis ans Ende! He is a little worried that he wont be able to hold to the rod, but we help him find his own strength so that he wont ever go away! I love that man so much! We went to dinner at the Familie Happels House, the ones who we helped with their lawn. Their kids are a ball of energy!! I was mount everest for the day, and they emptied everthing out of every pocket I had! haha Then we them about the importance of having a Prophet on the Earth today, and helped thetwo older boys write their parts for the childrens program, and then ate tacos!!! Elder Hunt is still shocked with the amount I ate... I dont understand I dont gain weight, but I can eat eat eat eat and eat some more haha, hopefully that never changes! But simply stated Elder Hunt ate 3 Bruder Happel (the father) ate 4, and I ate 7... They were good okay?! I would have had more, but we didnt have any more time, because we had to get going! 

Well that was the week last week LOVE YOU ALL!!!!

Elder Killpack

Elder Killpack with Stake President Auras. 

Elder Robert Killpack, October 5th 2015

Family and Friends, 

Hello! How are you all doing!? This last week, was a week of
Conferences for us. First, we had zone conference 200 M away from
Oktoberfest. And it was a good one... I mean the zone conference;)
Every topic that was touched on, was directed towards me I swear! It
was everything O needed and more. My favorite part personally, was
President Auras's testimony and training segment he had for us. He
talked about how we need to have better contact and relationships with
the member, and that we should realize what kind of impact we can
make. He talked about a missionary that he would never forget, because
of the relationship they had developed while this missionary served in
his ward. He then said Elder Killpack and I have a very special
relationship, and that it will be one he will never forget. It touched
my heart to feel of his love for me, and also to know that I have
helped someone in the ways that were unique to me, through the
experiences God has entreated me with. I love that man! Second, and
obvious, is the fact we had General Conference, also a million answers
to the questions I had! I am so grateful that we have living servants
of the Lord today who are truly inspired to share thought with us to
give us answers, that we have been searching for! I know that Thomas
S. Monson is a Prophet of the Lord and that the twelve ( including the
three new ) apostles are men called by God! I love you all and hope
you had just as good of a week as I did!

ELDER Killpack

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Elder Robert Scott Killpack. September 28, 2015

Dear Everyone😉

Thank you so much for the love you have shown me this last week! I
feel a great sense of the Lord's love for me, for you and for everyone
of His children. So thank you for your support and love, it has
touched my heart. I wanted to share two simple things that I have been
trying to do this last week that have helped me get through stress and
helped me work more positively. First, preparation instead of
procrastination. Elder Hunt has a quote that stuck out to me, " poor
preparation precedes pitiful performance. If we are always prepared we
perform better and we dont have the feeling, like something isnt done.
And that gets rid of a lot of anxiety, but that is a hard thing to
do... To ALWAYS be prepared, but the Lord will help,me be better at
that😀. The second is to always be kind. I feel like sometimes, when I
get with other missionaries, or with my comp I get too sarcastic, and
dont really think about what I am saying. I dont say anything super
rude, but small things add up, and I have noticed that saying those
small things, over time, take their toll on me as well. I have being
trying super hard to ONLY let nice words come out of my mouth
Ephesians 4:29. And james 3:2-5. As I have done that, I have had so
much joy! Be Kind = Joy :) I have the strongest testimony, that the
strongest force of good is the pure love of Christ. Romans 8:35-39. I
love these people so much. And Christ' s love is what changes peoples
lives! Love you all! Have a fantastic week!

Elder Robert Killpack September 14, 2015

Family,

Wow, that was the fastest 6 weeks of my life! I dont understand how it
is possible that time can go by so fast. Well lets get started with
what happened this last week. First, we had a week full of tausches
which means I was only with my comp for three of the seven days of the
week! Elder Miller and I had a solid tausch here in Stuttgart and then
right after that with Elder Donald in Stuttgart as well! We had stake
conference this last week which was a blast! We had an amazing zone
council! Transfer calls ( i am staying with elder hunt). My son Elder
Bates is having a son, so I will be a grandpa! Life is great! A
baptism in Innsbruck, a guy a taught one time there right before I
left, but it was cool to see that first lesson take place and know he
ein Bündnis mit Gott geschlossen hat! A mew baptismal date in our area
with Kevin! Sweet lessons with Felix! And a whole lot of good
conversations on the street and seeing the spirit working within them
as we testified of the truth! Love you all!

Elder Killpack
One more thing,

As we were at stake conference, one of the members from Pforzheim came
up to me. While I was there she had this disease on her hands. She had
had it for years, and could not get rid of it. The disease made her
hands blister all over and made her hands hurt really bad, and limited
her use of them, perhaps even harder for her, was how her young
students would act when they saw her hands while she was working with
them. She had a really hard time with it. She had tried many different
medicines but nothing seemed to be working. With our mortal
understanding, the situation seemed hopeless. As I was serving in
Pforzheim she very humbly asked me to give her a blessing after
church. We went into the primary room with her and her husband to
perform the blessing. I still can remember the tears coming down her
face as she explained the situation and how it was affecting her
physically and emotionally. I dont remember what was said during the
blessing, but I can still to this day remember what I was feeling,
thanks to the holy ghost. I remember feeling the greatest sense of
Love the Savior had for her. I remember feeling a peace after the
blessing that her faith would be made manifest through the healing of
her hands. I didnt think too much of it after though. The days just
passed by and then I was transferred. As I saw her again this last
sunday and shook her HAND, I realized there wasnt a SINGLE blister on
her hands. She just looked at me and starting crying and thanking me
for the blessing. I know it wasnt me and that it was the power of God!
And that because of her faith that her hands were finally healed after
years! I was over flowed with the sweetest joy to realize I was a tool
in the Lords hand in bringing somebody such joy. I am so grateful for
the power of the priesthood and the reality of its restoration!