Happy 4th: Heidelberg Week 12

Hello Family!

Happy 4th of July and Happy Birthday to Taylor! Thanks for sending the ties and other things! As far as Dad fixing the heater, that reminds me of an older German woman whom I met in a train the other day, she's lived in the Heidelberg area for many years and loves Americans, she told me stories about how handy one of her American friends is. That's pretty much one of the traits that she connects with the US, well done dad.

Elder Clemente was sick at the beginning of last week, but he got better and it was a solid week. I got to translate at church again in sacrament meeting and that was a lot of fun (I wouldn't want to have to translate every week, but it is something that I enjoy for sure). Elder Clemente and I are also staying together for another 6 weeks in Heidelberg- transfer 3- and Former Elder Daniel Von Wollwitz, whose mom Mom knows from missionary mom websites, visited church and posted a photo to facebook.

Exchanges with other elders here were a lot of fun and we had a really Christ centered district meeting together (4 Elders, 2 Sisters) where each person thought about and prepared their favorite story from the life of Jesus Christ and shared it. There was such a powerful spirit in that meeting. I picked the story of Lazarus in John 11.

We also started working with a man from Mexico who is studying medicine in Heidelberg. We ran into eachother a few weeks ago but he has been really busy with studies and hasn't been able to meet till this week. This man, Mr A, has such a strong relationship with God, understanding of his love, the atonement of Jesus Christ, and what faith really means. He understands how personal the atonement is and the hope that it can give us. Despite all of the crazy things going on in the world or in our lives, we can still have hope and peace because of the atonement of Jesus Christ. This life isn't the end, Jesus Christ can comfort us through our trials and he understands us. God loves each of us and answers our prayers individually. He also understands really well what we, people praying, need to do to receive answers to our prayers. That our questions need to be sincere, not just out of curiosity, and we need to be able to act on the answer that we receive. Typically we also need to patiently search and desire an answer. Mr A will be reading in and praying about the Book of Mormon in the next few weeks and we will meet in 3 weeks (like I said, he's busy) He is great. Pray that he can receive an answer about whether the Book of Mormon is true.

In this coming week we are really excited to find new people to teach and I'm focusing on praying for love and the gift of discernment in doing that.

Have a great week,

Love,

Hayden

Former Elder Daniel Von Wollwitz and I think his Sister and Hayden