March
25, 2013
Servus
Zusammen!
This week was a rather busy, but a very good week. First of all things are going well with our investigators. We met with Sebastian and we taught him what we had planned for that day and he absolutely loved how everything makes so much sense with the gospel. After we were done he asked if we could keep going and so we went over the next few points that we were going to talk about in our next appointment with him. The young single adults in the stake here are also doing reall loved how everything makes so much sense with the gospel. After we were done he asked if we could keep going and so we went over the next few points that we were going to talk about in our next appointment with him. The young single adults in the stake here are also doing really well to try to make him feel welcome and integrate him into institute and their family home evening. We got y well to try to make him feel welcome and integrate him into institute and their family home evening. We got the chance to meet with Frau Weichelt as well and it was a super spiritual appointment. I don't know if it is the typicaly Ukrainian thing or not, but it is sometimes hard to tell what she is thinking or how she feels about something because she does not show it in facial expressions very often. However, the one thing that is great is you can feel just how excited she is for her baptism. She has met with missionaries on and off for the last 6 years and in that time her mother, sister and daughters got baptized. She now feels that this is exactly what she needs and what she has been missing out on. We had a former missionary who served in Stuttgart, who lives in Germany, visit our ward yesterday and he was one of her original missionaries in Stuttgart. He was so excited to hear the news and see that the Lord had been helping her all this time. For Frau Weichelt's baptism she asked if one of the new converts in our ward, Stephan Bullinger, could baptize her since he had helped her a lot through all of this as a joint teacher and in the church and he was absolutely thrilled. This will be his first time he gets to baptize someone and he felt really honored for the opportunity. As for Luis, his medical test will be over this week and we will be able to meet with him on a regular basis. We talked to him and he explained how he was really looking forward to being done with the tests and meeting regularly.
In addition to the missionary work in our own ward, things are also going really well for our entire stake (zone). After my first transfer in Stuttgart we had had no baptisms and 2 people on the baptismal list. After this last transfer we had 2 baptisms in the zone, and 9 additional people with baptismal dates. Even though the transfer has just started we have already had a baptism in one of the areas as well as two more additional people have been added to the baptismal list. It's amazing to see the kinds of miracles that have been taking place in our zone, and its been so great to see how much the Lord has been preparing these people. Elder Davies and I came up with a zone vision one night after a really good day that we introduced to the district leaders this last Friday for the beginning of the transfer. Our goal is to have at least one baptism in every area in our zone, in addition to those who are already on the baptismal list, within the next two transfers. It will take a lot of work and prayer, but we all feel really good and excited about this goal. We have already had those two new baptismal dates since the beginning of the transfer, so we are off to a great start. It's been great to see all the excitement with missionary work going on and I have felt a huge love for the people. It's been so great to see the Lord's work go through and see how it has helped so many people. This is one of the happiest times I have had on my mission.
This week was transfer week though and pretty much the whole mission was transferred. Very few people stayed with their companions. Elder Davies and I were a few of the lucky ones. On Thursday when the transfers took place, Elder Davies and I had to be at the train station to make sure everyone got on the proper train and gets the right connection. We had about 60 different missionaries come to Stuttgart Bahnhof (train station), to either take a train elsewhere, to come in, or to switch trains. There was a lot of coordinating going on that involved a lot of running with luggage and printing off train tickets. Anyway, there were no complications and everyone made it on their trains all right.
We now have the sister missionaries in our ward and so Sisters Bice and Jencks will be working with us. Sister Bice was with the group above me in the MTC and will be great for the area, and Sister Jencks is a new missionary who was one of Leslie Bangeter's piano students as well. Apparently we have met before at a piano recital. Their apartment isn't finished yet, so they are living in a hotel for the next 10 days or so.
We also have a lot of new missionaries in our zone this transfer. We had the opportunity to do the trainer/trainee meeting this transfer that President Miles normally does and it was way exciting to get to work with them for a little while.
Well I just found out that we have to go right now, so I will talk to you all later. Hope all is well. I love you lots!
Elder Bodily
Gott sei mit euch bis aufs Wiedersehen
This week was a rather busy, but a very good week. First of all things are going well with our investigators. We met with Sebastian and we taught him what we had planned for that day and he absolutely loved how everything makes so much sense with the gospel. After we were done he asked if we could keep going and so we went over the next few points that we were going to talk about in our next appointment with him. The young single adults in the stake here are also doing reall loved how everything makes so much sense with the gospel. After we were done he asked if we could keep going and so we went over the next few points that we were going to talk about in our next appointment with him. The young single adults in the stake here are also doing really well to try to make him feel welcome and integrate him into institute and their family home evening. We got y well to try to make him feel welcome and integrate him into institute and their family home evening. We got the chance to meet with Frau Weichelt as well and it was a super spiritual appointment. I don't know if it is the typicaly Ukrainian thing or not, but it is sometimes hard to tell what she is thinking or how she feels about something because she does not show it in facial expressions very often. However, the one thing that is great is you can feel just how excited she is for her baptism. She has met with missionaries on and off for the last 6 years and in that time her mother, sister and daughters got baptized. She now feels that this is exactly what she needs and what she has been missing out on. We had a former missionary who served in Stuttgart, who lives in Germany, visit our ward yesterday and he was one of her original missionaries in Stuttgart. He was so excited to hear the news and see that the Lord had been helping her all this time. For Frau Weichelt's baptism she asked if one of the new converts in our ward, Stephan Bullinger, could baptize her since he had helped her a lot through all of this as a joint teacher and in the church and he was absolutely thrilled. This will be his first time he gets to baptize someone and he felt really honored for the opportunity. As for Luis, his medical test will be over this week and we will be able to meet with him on a regular basis. We talked to him and he explained how he was really looking forward to being done with the tests and meeting regularly.
In addition to the missionary work in our own ward, things are also going really well for our entire stake (zone). After my first transfer in Stuttgart we had had no baptisms and 2 people on the baptismal list. After this last transfer we had 2 baptisms in the zone, and 9 additional people with baptismal dates. Even though the transfer has just started we have already had a baptism in one of the areas as well as two more additional people have been added to the baptismal list. It's amazing to see the kinds of miracles that have been taking place in our zone, and its been so great to see how much the Lord has been preparing these people. Elder Davies and I came up with a zone vision one night after a really good day that we introduced to the district leaders this last Friday for the beginning of the transfer. Our goal is to have at least one baptism in every area in our zone, in addition to those who are already on the baptismal list, within the next two transfers. It will take a lot of work and prayer, but we all feel really good and excited about this goal. We have already had those two new baptismal dates since the beginning of the transfer, so we are off to a great start. It's been great to see all the excitement with missionary work going on and I have felt a huge love for the people. It's been so great to see the Lord's work go through and see how it has helped so many people. This is one of the happiest times I have had on my mission.
This week was transfer week though and pretty much the whole mission was transferred. Very few people stayed with their companions. Elder Davies and I were a few of the lucky ones. On Thursday when the transfers took place, Elder Davies and I had to be at the train station to make sure everyone got on the proper train and gets the right connection. We had about 60 different missionaries come to Stuttgart Bahnhof (train station), to either take a train elsewhere, to come in, or to switch trains. There was a lot of coordinating going on that involved a lot of running with luggage and printing off train tickets. Anyway, there were no complications and everyone made it on their trains all right.
We now have the sister missionaries in our ward and so Sisters Bice and Jencks will be working with us. Sister Bice was with the group above me in the MTC and will be great for the area, and Sister Jencks is a new missionary who was one of Leslie Bangeter's piano students as well. Apparently we have met before at a piano recital. Their apartment isn't finished yet, so they are living in a hotel for the next 10 days or so.
We also have a lot of new missionaries in our zone this transfer. We had the opportunity to do the trainer/trainee meeting this transfer that President Miles normally does and it was way exciting to get to work with them for a little while.
Well I just found out that we have to go right now, so I will talk to you all later. Hope all is well. I love you lots!
Elder Bodily
Gott sei mit euch bis aufs Wiedersehen
P.S. I received the Easter package this week, thank you so
much. The Fruit Roll Ups are already gone, and we are probably being too
creative with the remote control cars in our apartment right now.....
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