We started off last week by going to the Statue of Liberty...but in Colmar. Yeah, apparently the guy who made the original is from Colmar so they have a smaller one in the middle of a roundabout. It's pretty cool. Ill attach some photos.
Wednesday we went out to Strasbourg for District Meeting and lunch. It was a good time. We spent some time later in the day baking cookies for members. I impressed myself with how they tasted. The branch invites everyone to do a small task every week to prepare for the sacrament meeting subjects. This week's task was service, hence why we made the cookies, but it turned out to be a good occasion to meet with some less actives.
Thursday through Saturday was pretty much straight finding. Walking the streets and knocking doors is the life. Which brings me to one of the craziest miracles of my mission. So flash back to one of our first days in Colmar, we were just out contacting when all of a sudden a man, named Thierry, stopped us asking for a Book of Mormon. Forcibly we gave him one but he was in a hurry so when he rambled his number off to us we didn't get it down properly. That evening we tried all sorts of combinations of the same number in attempt to get a hold of him but none of them worked. This past week we fasted and prayed to have new investigators to get the work moving here. Saturday morning we get a text from the church headquarters giving us a referral of a man named Thierry. He wants a missionary visit and Book of Mormon in Portuguese for his friend. The number he gave was pretty close to the numbers we tried to call two weeks ago so we knew that this was the guy. We were excited to say the least. We met up with him in the afternoon giving him the Book of Mormon and a brief explanation of it and the restoration. That evening we texted him to confirm numbers and he proceeded to tell us that he has already read half the book, he can't stop, and the something is telling him it is the truth. Since then we have had a few more conversations over text and he is extremely excited to learn about us. Now I don't want to count my chickens before they hatch but this is looking pretty good.
God is good, that's all I can say. Well I hope everyone else had a good week. I know I shouldn't be counting down but 9 weeks left... crazy.
Can't wait to see y'all again. God Bless!
Elder Hein
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