Winston's Missionary Experience

Hey Guys!! On Tuesday we went on exchanges with Erfurt Elders over video call (cause of Rona). Elder Wilborny and I had comp study, worked through a module on edapp, and did some Facebook work together. We were planning to teach a friend but the lesson, unfortunately, fell through. Even though the exchange wasn't in-person we still had a great time and were able to learn from each other. Throughout the rest of the week, Elder Rowe and I met with friends and members. We also filmed a video for the Frieden in Christus- Südost Deutschland page about our experience giving thanks on Facebook. Posting on Facebook what I was grateful for each day was a great experience. It really helped me reflect and appreciate all the wonderful blessings Heavenly Father has given me.  I know that whenever I focus on those positives I always end up much happier in life and that same rule applies to everyone. We also are about to start our Christmas campaign tomorrow, so be on the lookout for that. It is ...

  Hey Guys!! This week has been pretty epic- Tuesday: We had Zone Conference and discussed how we can better connect with people over social media. Our mission president revealed that we would now have a Facebook page for each zone in our mission, and our's is Frieden in Christus Südost Deutschland. Wednesday: We met with a member of the church here from Chemnitz. The guy's a legend, he got baptized in February and we meet with him every week. He always has a ton of questions and it's always a good time teaching him. Thursday: We got invited over for dinner by a family in Hohenstein. They made us some burritos which were very tasty and we talked about life during these uncertain times, how it can be hard to feel connected to God with all the chaos going on with Corona and the U.S.  election but that through prayer and revelation we can receive guidance from him. We also talked about how thankful we are to have a Prophet on the earth to give us guidance in these times and ch...

Hey Guys!  How are you?  I hope you are all doing well.  This week has been rather slow.  We began our week off strong with the making of a video that week posted on Facebook.  The theme was that with God's help all things are possible. I pretended to play the violin then my companion hopped in and killed it.  He is an excellent violin player.  He has been playing since he was 5.  You may have seen the video on my Facebook page. That was a lot of fun; however, the week from there went kind of downhill.  Church was canceled on Sunday because some of the members have COVID, so they moved the meeting online.  We were able to go to the other ward that we preside over though as they did not have to cancel.  Then we were supposed to have dinner at a member's house, but their children could have been potentially exposed to COVID and so we ended up not going.  It's OK! I am glad they let us know in advance.  We spent a lot of time...

                                                      Missing Chick fil A, but this will have to do. Old city center at night!                                                                               Zone Meeting                                                        Sorry, the picture is kind of blurry, but cool steps!                                                           ...

  Hey Guys!! The city I'm currently serving in, Chemnitz, was voted the culture capital of Europe earlier this week! We also got the news that there will be some new measures put in place for all of Germany since the number of coronavirus cases has been increasing here. Some of these include no gatherings greater than 2 households, and restaurants must be taken out only. Thankfully the rules won't be affecting church service and our missionary work much. Other than that this week has been pretty usual. We've just been busy teaching friends and members. Meeting with members is always a great time. We usually chat with them for a while, get to know them better, and share a spiritual thought. For our past few appointments, we talked about President Russell M. Nelson's talk from this last general conference "Let God Prevail". In this talk, he shared how recently met with two Hebraic scholars and they shared with him that the word Israel translates to "Let G...