Hey folks! I'm going to try to not make this
email long-winded!
This week was great! We continue to lack a
little in lessons. Actually, in most of our key indicators, we have been
continuing to lacking. But we have added to the foundation for them and I have
great hopes for this week. We worked really hard to get potentials this week
and got the most we have gotten so far, getting fifteen new ones! We will be
making lots of calls in the next few days trying to get things scheduled. We
have started already and have a good amount of lessons planned to occur for this
week. I really hope all works well!
We are going to adjust a few things this week to
hit a new goal we set. We are planning on getting TWENTY Potential
Investigators. That's more that we've gotten in any week so far but I think we
can do it if we seek guidance from the Lord and really push ourselves to talk to
everyone. I really think we can do it!
My simple request for you guys is to pray for us
this week, that we will be lead to those who will accept our message, and/or
that people will be lead to us. We're going to hit the streets, busses, trains,
ANYTHING, to get it done and I'd love for your help along the way!
Also, we told our District Leader, who is in a
U.S. military base area, about our goal and he said if we hit it he will give us
American food. Hooray for extrinsic rewards!
Today is officially the first good snow fall
I've had in Germany! Ich freue mich darauf!
Other than that, things are going smoothly. The
work will be picking up, and I am loving it. It's been a hard few weeks still
but I would say I feel that it has also generated the most growth for me so
far. The language is going well. Some days I feel like I can't do squat with
it but most of the time I am happy with the progress. I have been hitting all
the grammar principles hard these last three weeks and am almost finished with a
German textbook for it. Learning all sorts of interesting stuff like
SUBJUNCTIVE II (Speaking hypothetically with "would be" "would
have" "would do" etc etc etc), SUBJUNCTIVE I (A much less useful
section that is only used in the German Press as a way of unbiasedly of biasedly
reporting events and quotes), PASSIVE VOICE, AND SO FORTH. I am
willing to bet you are all so enthralled by this.
I finished Alma and started Helaman this week,
as well as began a new reading of the Doctrine and Covenants which I will be
using about all of my lunch and dinner time with for the next little while. I
read a particularly chilling verse, at the end of Alma 47. This speaks of the
dissenters, may I particularly single out the disturbingly diabolical Amalickiah
among them, of the righteous Nephites, who went and abandoned their faith and
people to defect to the wicked Lamanite civilization. It reads:
36 Now these dissenters, having the same
instruction and the same information of the Nephites, yea, having been
instructed in the same knowledge of the Lord, nevertheless, it is strange to
relate, not long after their dissensions they became more hardened and
impenitent, and more wild, wicked and ferocious than the Lamanites--drinking in
with the traditions of the Lamanites; giving way to indolence, and all manner of
lasciviousness; yea, entirely forgetting the Lord their God.
As partakers of the gospel in these last times,
we are so blessed! Never before have people been able to access so much gospel
knowledge through the combination of multiple scriptural volumes, living
prophets who receive modern revelation and guidance for us, holy Priesthood
ordinances, and a plethora of things to follow! We have been blessed with these
things to strengthen us in these times. Likewise, we must remember, with great
power and knowledge comes great responsibility. We are, though able to feast of
the gospel through our current blessings, bombarded by the deceptive lies and
evils of the world. If we are not careful, Satan will find a way to lead us out
of our shelter, where we will be bombarded by his influences. We must be ever
vigilant if we are to stay strong and near to God in a world increasingly
weakening and drifting away from him. DO NOT suffer yourselves to tiptoe on the
borders of sin and righteousness. Regardless of how small a sin may seem, the
moment we indulge is the moment the Holy Ghost leaves, and we become
increasingly more susceptible to spiritual dangers following.
That's all I have to say for this week! I gotta
blast now, though.
Thank you all for your prayers and support.
Stay safe in the winter season. Eat your vegetables and stay in school. I love
you all!
Love,
Elder Wallentine
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