Holy Dyna! I can hardly believe that this has been 6 months already. Time on a mission is weird. There is never enough of it (especially between 10:30 and 6:30) and it goes so fast, but sometimes when I think about being here for another 18 months, I can't imagine it. It is strange...
As for the important things first. I decided I was going to try and take at least one picture a day, and then I can send a couple pictures home every week instead of trying to send a whole bunch home. Good plan eh? One is our car. The Opel Corsa... Look it up. They are probably the worst cars ever made. It can somehow be Automatic and Manual. Obviously I drive Automatic. Hah! But the transmission or something is really bad so it seems like I am just driving Manual for the very first time. Lots of fun.... Haha! It is also really slow, and the dents and stuff on it are not from me. We also have a picture of a sweet one seater truck. They have lots of them here. I don't know what they are for, but apparently it's better for the environment, so obviously in Europe you drive them.
So this week has been super good. Usually, on my mission we would be around 10 lessons a week, a couple times in Landshut, we got to maybe 15 or so, but this week we had 23! It was crazy!! But really good! We were so busy, and it is nice because we found a lot of investigators who live on the one hill in Landshut. And we have a car now! Haha! I am so lazy... But riding a bike is not as fun as I remember. Especially in the winter and the rain. Luckily, we haven't seen any snow yet which is nice.
This week we found a lot of people, so I will tell you a little bit about them. On Monday, we found an awesome guy dooring named C (At least, that is what we think. We are too embarrassed to ask him again...) and he started to tell us that he wasn't interested at all. Then we bore testimony that with the Book of Mormon, we can pray and receive an answer directly from God, and that every single person can do it too. He let us in (which really does not happen in Germany that often. I have had it happen twice my whole mission) and we taught an awesome first lesson. The spirit was so strong there. It was awesome. He told us how he hadn't been religious before, and told his father he didn't believe in God at all, and then after that everything in his life went to pot, his girlfriend left him, he lost a lot of money, his band kicked him out , pretty much the worst things that can happen. Then he bought a Bible, started reading in it and now he felt that God was there again. It was cool. We are really excited about it. He is young and that is what we need in the branch right now. The branch is really close to being a ward (There were 70 people in Church yesterday) and he is a good addition.
On Thursday, we met three awesome investigators, one is S. He lives a little ways away, and is 17 in school. We talked to him about the Book of Mormon a couple of days before that and about how he could find out if it was true and he said he would ask because he had nothing to lose. So on Thursday, we went back and it was awesome! He was like ''I think this is true. I looked at the website that your church has as well, and I really want to go to the temple. I have a list of places I want to see when I turn 18 and the Frankfurt Temple just took the number one spot. What sort of things happen there?'' We were blown away. It was awesome. We also met C on Thursday, we had talked to him about the Book of Mormon and then he told us he didn't believe in God at all but would meet with us to try and convert us. We thought that would be okay, and so we met with him and talked about the Plan of Salvation and about some basic church beliefs, then used the Book of Mormon for the Knock-Out Punch! Haha! By the end he was really excited to read it and to find out if it was true or not. We were able to help him with a couple of his issues and get him to understand that the worst that can happen if he asks God if God is there, is nothing. But he has so much to gain. I think that is something not many people understand about what we do. But we are just trying to help them to find out for themselves. We know that it has helped us, and that it can help them too and if they try and are really sincere, then it can only be good for them.
We also found a sweet old man named E S who is a nice old man and we are helping him to try and find out if God is there.
On Friday we had a pretty awesome experience with a Less-Active member. She had mentioned that she might be getting a new couch and would need help to get it to her apartment, and so we said she could call us and we would come help her. We stopped by again on Friday to see if she had managed it, and then she invited us in. We told her we couldn't because we needed a man to be there, and she said it was okay because her boyfriend was there. We were able to teach him a first lesson and she was able to give great testimony as well. Something that I think helped both of them, Helped him to see that it was important to her, and helped her to remember why she was baptized and what the church meant to her. It was really awesome.
T is still progressing, sort of, to his baptismal date on the 8th. We have been having really good lessons. We got to teach the Law of Chastity, something that is always fun. Luckily, we got to do that in English. I don't know some of the 'fun' words in German, but I probably should learn to avoid awkward situations later on. He came to church and is making a lot of progress. He is also getting better with reading and writing as well. We give him the Children's version of the Book of Mormon soon and then he can read that. Hopefully. I am still a little anxious about him because apparently, he is having some problems with the Word of Wisdom and we don't know how mad the language barrier is, but he is a good guy and really wants to change, so it is hard to judge him.
H is also making a lot of progress too. We met with him a couple times this week. I also got a video of him playing his banjo for us, and he is going to play at the Ward Christmas Party, which is good. I love him. Somehow I forgot to mention this last week, but Brother K in our ward took us shopping the other day. It was insane. Dad would have died. He told us to get 2 karts, then asked like ''What Cereal do you like?'' Uhh... This one. Then he bought like 4 boxes of it, and just ridiculous amounts of food. We haven't had to go shopping since. But it was weird, a lot of the time he was like ''Do you like these?'' ''I don't know. We have never had it.'' ''Well... you should try it.'' Then he would put like 4 boxes of it in there. It was crazy. But we discovered the best thing in the world. They make Cream Cheese mixed with Milka (Just in case the chocolate wasn't fatty enough for you) for breads and stuff. It is sooo good. He bought us almost 300€ in food though. Which is a lot because I use about 15€ a week. It was insane! I love the members here.
We saw a lot of other miracles this week, and things are going much better. Transfers are three days after Christmas, so transfer calls will be the 23rd. Which is crazy. I can hardly believe we have been together for two transfers (half of my mission!).
Love you guys a lot!
Sincerely,
Elder Connor J. Thompson
Sincerely,
Elder Connor J. Thompson
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