With Elder McBride as his train is pulling inWow. This really came out of nowhere. I am training again! I expected Elder McBride to be transferred ever since the beginning of our time together when he told me he had already been in Essen for five transfers. But for whatever reason I did not think I would train again! I thought I was just going to be District Leader in different places for the rest of my mission! I thought I had my chance to train at the beginning of my mission and that was it!
It's crazy. What happened in our district was Elder Graf, Sister Swain and I were all transferred here six weeks ago. Now we are all training new missionaries. That was another reason why it came out of nowhere, because I and they had only been here for six weeks! I still don't quite feel at home here. I do feel much better than I did the first week though. This will be a very different 12 weeks with a new missionary than it was in Wuppertal. I felt like I had everything figured out there, and it was my first area. Now I have had more experience in different areas, but I still don't know this one very well. Last week I told about how we hadn't had contact with Laila since shortly after she started having heart problems. Well, it turns out she lost her phone! That was why she wasn't answering us. We went over to her house and got her sister's number, so at least we have that. On Tuesday when I was at Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof to pick up my new companion, and I talked to Elder Jennings, who has been serving in Regensburg. He told me that Tabata, one of my favorite investigators from Regensburg, has been to church every week since he got there. He said he and Elder Yorgason had a really intense lesson with her on Monday, where they asked her and the members in the lesson to pray with them about if she should get baptized. She called them Tuesday morning and said she did! I am so happy about that! Success! Elder Sanders has been doing awesome. He has a lot of desire to learn the language and is staying really positive. He is from Mapleton! He is a trumpet player, and we had an awesome time today talking about jazz and brass instruments. We taught a lesson to Stela and her husband Tillmann yesterday. Stela is from Colombia and Tillmann is a German. So the lesson was all in German. And Elder Sanders did a great job! It was a good first day. We had a few crazy random miracles too, like a man off the street asking us when General Conference is, an African man saying he has never seen Mormon missionaries in Germany before, and a German lady in a Straßenbahn asking us what Elder means and what church we represent. I love you all! Ciao ciao! --Elder Kimball Comments are closed.
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