August 24. 2015
This week we had a mission
tour and it was awesome. The person who spoke was Elder Paul V. Johnson and he
had some really good remarks. I feel like I learned a lot from the conference
and it rekindled my drive to do the work more than any P-Day could have done.
The
teaching is going good--we have a few investigators and they are doing well. My favorite thing to teach is the Temple and
Family History lessons. The new mission
president wants us to focus on family history and the temple more in our
teaching and it is totally changing the work in the mission. I feel like the spirit of Elijah is truly
touching the hearts of the people (And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, ad the heart of the children to their fathers~Malachi 4: 6) It is really great to see and watch
happening and to be a part of it too!!!! I feel it is going to be the thing to change
missionary work and the retention efforts of the church once the members and all
the missionaries get onboard because it is really helping our mission change
the focus of saving one soul to saving thousands of souls.
The branch meets in a church
building that really isn't that big but it is big enough for the branch, I want
to change that so that soon the branch will be too big for the building. We
teach the youth Sunday school class every 3rd week of the month which is the
week everyone has Sunday School. In a branch, 3 hours is not required or
recommended so the meetings are like 3 weeks Priesthood/Relief Society and 1
week of Sunday School. It is really interesting to experience.
I haven't given a talk in German
yet but I have had to teach many classes to members and missionaries alike and
those are just as fun. But it sounds like I will have the opportunity to give a
talk very soon in the branch though.
I told the
sister from the Dominican Republic that my cousin was serving his mission there
but I didn’t remember the exact mission. This week I met another person from the
Dominican Republic and he plays baseball and just lives and works in Germany.
His name is Eddy and he is a friend of a less active member of our ward. He is
a pretty funny guy--he showed up to play soccer with us wearing sandals and
still played decently. We did play basketball again this past week but those
guys we met last week all had excuses not to come like sleeping or sickness so
we played with a couple of other of our friends.
Eastern Germany is very
traditional Europe and everything is a more conservative lifestyle. In western
Germany it is like America but everything is written in German.
Scripture for the week is 1Thessalonians 5:19 "Quench not the Spirit" and the quote for the week:
"there are three great '-tions' in
this church; revelation, inspiration, and relation. I wouldn't have amounted to
a dang thing in this church if my father hadn't of been Heber C.Kimball."
J. Golden Kimball
Love you mom and dad and hope
you have a great week!!! It is almost September aren't you excited?!?
Love,
Elder Fisher
(mom note: if you would like to know more about starting your family history or about temples, please visit Family History at Mormon.org or Temples at LDS.org
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