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