I thought I would share a few excerpts from Colton's and Elder Hogan's letters describing some of their investigators...talk about GOLDEN!
The first one is Colton's letter, it is in blue, and then Elder Hogan's is in red:
"So last week we did meet with the Bührer's and they are awesome! Oh my gosh, just to give you an idea of how excited they are I'll tell you about the first few minutes of our appointment. We get inside and they tell us just how excited they are. They first said, "We want you to teach us how to do missionary work!" They then pulled out a Preach My Gospel and said, "We bought this and we have read through the first chapter, now can you teach us how to best use it." Our jaws dropped and all we could manage to say was "Uhu we can do that for you." Oh so awesome! They are already paying tithing and everything. I seriously think the only reason they are meeting with us is because they have to in order to be baptized."
"The Buhrers, the family getting baptized, are SO awesome! She was a member a few years ago, but asked to be removed. her life went downhill after that, and about a year ago, she met a guy on the internet and married him. Then about 6 months ago, he had a lot of deaths in the family and such, so she started preaching the gospel to him. They both started reading regularly in the BofM, and started coming to church!! They are pretty much members already. They were being taught by the Darmstadt Elders, but once we got here we took over! They pretty much fell into our laps. They have had all the lessons and are 100% ready for baptism. The ward loves them!!"
To give you some background on the next investigator, here is an excerpt from one of Colton's letters telling us HOW they plan on finding people:
"President Schwartz did give us some finding ideas that Elder Hogan and I will be trying out. He told us that prophecies have said there will be around 300 stakes in Germany. He then said that means that we are going to have to find 300 Stake Presidents, and 3,000 Bishops, 3,600 High Councilors and many other church leadership positions. He then said, we can't find them by simply knocking on doors. We have to have smarter ways to find the elect. He then gave this idea to go to bible studies that Protestant and Catholic churches. Haha infiltrate the enemy territory!!"
This is what they found--
"So you know how last week I told you about how we were going to infiltrate enemy territory by going to bible studies? Well it turns out that they really work! While I was on a split in Darmstadt, Elder Hogan and Elder Bame decidied to check out a bible study. There they met a guy who was really interested in who they were and everything. I guess he told them that he was an athiest for a long time and then decided to pray to see if God was actually there. He got a witness from the Holy Ghost telling him that God was there. He said ever since then he has been going to church, but still searching to where he feels most comfortable. Once Elder Hogan and Elder Bame were able to get their jaws off the floor they started to give him the first lesson. They introduced him to the BoM and everything. The guy, Harold, then said, "hmm this sounds really interesting. Is there anyway that we could meet next week?" They then set up a return appointment and he told them that he would read the whole BoM before next week and pray about it. Wow... I couldn't believe the story myself. I am so excited to meet him and everything. He sounds like the Lord has been preparing for him, and I guess we'll see what happens..."
This is Elder Hogan's own words about their find--
"On Wednesday we joined our first bible study. It was hosted at a Baptist church (not like, strict Baptists though), and about 200 people were there. I was on a split with Elder Bame at this point. The best part was right at the beginning, we walked in the door and everything got silent. Everyone just stared at our name tags wide-eyed O_O. Ha ha! Anywho, to break the ice I walked up to the nearest person and shook their hand and said: "Hello! My name is Elder Hogan. May we join your bible study?" xD Everyone broke after that, and came up and started talking to us. It was grand. We talked with the pastor guy and a few other head honchos, and lots of people asked whom we were. Then we all sat down in the chapel, and they read the Bible at us for 2 hours. X_X We didn't even get a chance to dazzle everyone with our wisdom. The best part happened afterwards, though. Everyone was gathered around us, asking us questions. I felt like an old BoM prophet surrounded by the masses. We answered all their questions, and everyone was astounded by our German. I just came out and said: "Well, if you read in 1 Cor chapter 12, it talks about the gifts of the Spirit. *I pull out my Bible and read a few verses* We believe that we are actual servants of Jesus Christ. Our message is so important, that God blesses us with the ability to speak German. Otherwise, we could not tell you that God has once again called a prophet to restore the true church of Christ!" and so forth. When all was said and done, only one guy was left from the crowd. We walked outside together and shared a first lesson with him, gave him a Book of Mormon, and committed him to read it and pray about Joseph Smith. Job well done mate! We are meeting with him again this Wednesday. :D :D:D His name is Harold. I think he's one of the elect! Awesome eh? eh? eh? :D"
Don't you wish it would ALL be that easy. I guess it is nice to find a GOLDEN NUGGET amongst all the rocks and gravel that is out there :)
I will keep you posted on their progress...
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