Oct. 12, 2014

Hallo Meine Familie!

DAD Veil Glück zum Gebertstag!  (Happy Birthday Dad!)

So we had the best week EVER this week! Elder Evans and I taught the more lessons this week than we did any other week. We also had my first Zone Conference this week and it was amazing! Präsident Kohler is sooo cool. I will just put it this way... THE MAN TRAINED MISSION PRESIDENTS BEFORE HE BECAME ONE! I love the Kohlers so much. The other night we were teaching Danny and his sister Angelina and it was so great! Danny showed some real interest for the first time. He is 14 and is really excited to read in the Book of Mormon. We talked with Angelina and she said that she wants to be Baptized!!!!!!!!! I can't wait to have another lesson with them again. Their whole Family is making so much progress. This last Thursday and freitag we had a tausch and I was in Rosenheim again. BUT the city decide to have a giant party it was weird but I saw a REAL tango go down. Like from real Spanish people.

After the tausch Elder Evans and I stayed in Munich because they had a Soccer night every Saturday that missionaries can bring investigators to. We brought Manuel Cruz with us. He is one of our less actives and then he came to church for the first time in 8 months the next day it was awesome. Anyway while we were playing two huge black guys who played for team Nigeria in FIFA showed up. They were so fast. My little white legs couldn't catch them but I did get close a couple of times haha. We also taught Gaby and Berndhardt and they are going to start reading in the Book of Mormon. We are making some huge progress in Rosenheim and I am excited to see this place explode! 

Have a great week!

-Elder Carr

sorry it was kind of short this week

The hardest contact of the week

Taking the gospel to every creature

I have no idea what I'm standing next to?

Oct 6, 2014

Hey family:

I watched conference in the Rosenheim Gemeindehaus

So- first things first.  My companion's uncle said the opening prayer in the Sunday afternoon session of General Conference. I also saw Tanner Hardy singing in the choir.

This Last week was an austausch week so I was barely with elder evans haha. Both exchanges were in Rosenheim soooo I was in charge of the whole area. My first tausch was with Elder Spencer (my zone leader). We went and taught a lesson to Engelburt. We read the Book of Mormon with him because he hasn't picked up his copy in about a month. He has been on holiday. After we read the chapter he gave some really cool incites about how the Book of Mormon could be true. He used logic to describe why it was true not really testimony but i will take any progress over no progress. After that Elder Spencer and I went on a finding hour. We found this cool guy named Yasar. He is a Muslim from Turkey and he was walking the same direction as us so we walked him home. He took a Book of Mormon from us and we are going to meet with him tomorrow. IT WAS GREAT!

On Thursday a had a Tausch with Elder Bakewell. That means it was two greenies, who barely know the language all day together BUT we saw some really cool things happen. We went on a finding hour of our own and I was way nervous. I will just put it this way, I was technically the more ''experienced'' missionary so that meant when we contacted and I got stuck I could always rely on my companion to have my back. We started talking to people and no one wanted to listen. Then we talked to this one lady in a park and she stopped and it caught me so off guard. I thought it was going to be like all the other people; Kein Interesse, Keine Zeit, Ich bin Katholisch ETC. but she stopped and talked and words and sentences just seemed to flow out of my mouth. IT WAS ACTUALLY GOOD GRAMMAR TOO! Long story short I was able to give her a Book of Mormon and have a real conversation with her auf Deutsch. THE LORD PROCLAIMS HIS GOSPEL THROUGH THE WEAK. That's why I think I am in Germany- because I can speak about the gospel beautifully in English with all kinds of extra fluff but in German my speech is weak and very to the point. The only thing I can really do is bear my testimony, a very simple, easy testimony BUT that is all that the spirit needs in order to touch someones heart. So I had a very cool week this week.

I love you all. Good luck with driving, school, running, have fun at Battle of the Bell. Tell Jake Barnes I will beat em up if he loses it! haha

love

-Elder Carr