Winston's Missionary Experience

Hello!  Another week has come and gone here in Brandenburg.  Here are this week's highlights. This past Monday was a holiday-Pentecost.  The city center has been filled with people and the river has been filled with boats. I wish I had remembered to take a photo because there were some really cool boats.  This week we took some food to our friend Ibraham who we teach.  He is sadly in quarantine because his co-worker tested positive for Corona and Ibraham had run out of food.  Thankfully, he is negative.  We became cabinet builders when a friend requested our help.  In Germany, apartments are not equipped with cabinets and appliances, so you have to supply your own.  We had a wonderful dinner with the Richters this week.  They served us pumpkin soup and rhubarb cake.  We followed our dinner by studying this week's Come Follow Me lesson.  We also had lunch with them the following day in which we ate salmon with cream sauce, potat...

                                             Winston with Christopher Willer and Elder Gagnon Hello!  A picture says a thousand words right? This week's highlights include:  I mowed a member of the church's yard, I found a box of Reece's puff cereal in Berlin, we did exchanges with the elders in Spandau, we worked again in the creative garden, and had dinner at KFC.  Happy Birthday to me!  I turned 19 on the 16th!  I was able to talk to my family, and they sent me Star War Legos and a frisbee.  My Oma sent me a bunch of things too!  Have a great week.  Winston

  In 1846 President James K. Polk called for 500 to 1,000 Mormon volunteers to march to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and then to California on a one-year U.S. Army enlistment. The U.S. was involved in the Mexican-American War. The Mormon recruits were called together Saturday, 18 July 1846 and on Monday, 20 July 1846, the Mormon Battalion marched off. Their trek was 2,000 miles from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to San Diego, California. Brigham Young prophesied that not a single battalion member would be lost to hostile action. The battalion arrived in San Diego on 29 January 1847, making the journey the longest religious march in U.S. history. Their commanding officer, Lt. Col. Philip St. George Cooke, (who was not a member of the church) said in the end, "History may be searched in vain for an equal march of infantry. Half of it has been through a wilderness where nothing but savages and wild beasts are found, or deserts where, for lack of water, there is no living creature." Brigha...

This week we had a Zone Conference which was held in an area of Berlin called Dahlem.  It is located on the western side of the city. There are some really cool old buildings on this side of town.  A couple of themes we talked about were listening to the Holy Ghost and praying about how we can really meet the needs of those we serve.  Are you serving them the way we want to serve them or are we serving them for what they really need?  An example of how we applied this was in teaching our friend Ibraham.  We adapted our lesson to include time to talk to him and find out what was going on with him. One of the scriptures from the conference was Isaiah 11:12, which says that God "shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.". 1. When God gathers us, he doesn't just do so for no reason (in such a way as a child gathers rocks), he assembles us- he gathe...