Monday, January 11, 2010

"The Book of Mormon gives me this power"

After a rough first transfer here in Landshut, the blessings are finally coming. It’s been a great week of improvement, in many areas.
We're actually having lessons again, which is a really nice change, and some of our investigators are making great progress. Tomas, our investigator form Africa, met with us twice this week. To our surprise he had been reading regularly in the Book of Mormon. "It's great," he said. "It’s like the Bible, but it...it...it gives me this strength, ya know...this power." We told him we knew exactly what he was talking about. He had even on his own tried to get his girlfriend to read it. Unfortunately she wasn't too interested, but we'll worry more about that once we've got Tomas taken care of. Thursday night we had a great appointment with him at the Klemm's, an awesome young couple in our ward. He doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, but of all things seems to have a problem with prayer. We'll be working on that with him this week so he can recieve his own strong testimony of the restored gospel. Our goal is to set a baptismal date with him as soon as possible, so your prayers in his behalf would be much appreciated.
We'll also be trying to set a baptismal date with Monika Hein. Monika is an investigator who moved into our area from Passau. She lives with a less active member, Mario Friedrich. She had had a baptismal date beforehand but had to cancel it because she was living with Mario and was at the time unable to divorce her first husband. Last time we met with them she informed us that she is now legally divorced and that she and Mario are ready to marry. We committed them to set a date by our next appointment and will set a baptismal date with her once they have done that. I feel very blessed to have such an investigator fall into our hands and I look forward to the great progress we will make with Monika and Mario in the coming weeks.
Elder Hansen and I are working more in unity than ever before. We've come to understand each other through a few pretty big talks and have really made it over the hump as far as our companionship goes. I have tried to improve myself a little more to show him that he can trust me, and I think it's really paid off. The Lord is blessing us quite a bit for our efforts and will continue to do so if we keep doing our part.
Lastly I just want to thank you all for your prayers. They've been working and have been blessing the lives of the people of Landshut. I'll keep praying for you all here and am glad to hear that the Lord is answering my prayers in your behalf as well.

Alles Gute!

-Andy

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