April 11, 2016
Hello!
I'll start with news
first and then let you know about the awesome week over here. News: I'm moving
to Heidelberg!!! I'll be serving in the Heidelberg Spanish branch with Elder
Clemente and I'll be praying that he has patience with me learning Spanish :)
As Zone leaders in
Frankfurt we help a lot with the new missionaries coming in and such [DN: new arrivals to the
Frankfurt Mission], but in our mission we
don't do special splits with new missionaries. Honestly my missionary work as a
zone leader isn't really different, we plan monthly Zone training meetings,
have Sunday night call ins with the district leaders in the zone, visit
district meetings and have a monthly mission leadership council. The day to day
is pretty normal, find, teach, [and] invite to be baptized. We also do not call
in every night when we get home, sounds taxing.
I had actually already
seen most of the zone, Mainz is part of the Frankfurt zone, so I'd been to the
Frankfurt chapel and area a lot earlier in my mission. My whole mission I've
gone to Offenbach for Zone conference since Wetzlar is only one stake and one
zone away. In Frankfurt I've had fewer exchanges and less travel for exchanges
than I did in Wetzlar. That was a big district.
Mom, that's so good that
you've been going to the temple so consistently and magnifying your calling.
Over here missionaries do their best to make it to every ward council . In
Frankfurt we take turns because there are 4 companionships in the ward here.
Having members at lessons is really helpful for all sorts of reasons, one of
which being that church is also social and it's important to have friends
there. Something really nice is to invite the missionaries to bring an
investigator over for dinner or to have a friend and the missionaries to dinner
together. We love that :)
Similarly to home, the
ward councils here try to help us have members at lessons. They also ask us to
visit less active members to help come back.
In answering some of
these questions and as a result of a chat with another missionary this week I
want to pass on this talk.
Elder
Kopischke 2007, October. He's talking about how awesome preach my gospel is
and how it strengthens members and missionaries and helps us to be more unified
in missionary work. It's really good, you should check that out for Family Home evening or
something.
As far as lessons and
friends this week: We met with Mr Z twice and he is doing great. He's a bit
stressed with working on his masters papers, but we have noticed and he has as
well that his faith has grown as we've been meeting. Mr Z believes that there
is some sort of higher power, not really sure what and has learned/ is learning
a lot about the nature of God and has received answers to lots of his
questions.
Mr M is from Nigeria, he
is so down to earth and treats everyone like family. We had a really powerful
lesson with Mr M and he accepted the invitation to be baptized on May 28th.
We had contact with Mr V
again! He had turned off his phone because he is hard at work on his Dissertation.
Overall this was a solid
week full of miracles, answers to prayer, happiness and fun! I know that God
answers prayers. He helps each of us, he draws nearer to us as we draw unto him
and his love is always there for us.
I love you!
Hayden
Awesome news!
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