Staying in Marzahn Area, District Leader Again

Elder Pinyon emailed me and it was great for the update. Reminder, it isn't my fault. This week, he mentioned "So the good old weekly update right haha.

So this week we went back in time an hour and had an extra hour of sleep, oh and I enjoyed it haha. The week was really good, we were busy and doing the things that the Lord has asked us to do, which is ofcourse a blessing in itself. This week it was super dooper cold. Its not even winter yet and we are getting temperatures of 10 degress Celcius for a high and 4 degrees for a low. The sun comes up at 7am and goes down at 6pm (pitch black outside). The weather is an unknown thing to me, but it is only going to get colder (yay :/ ) and only going to get darker earlier and from what I have heard from missionaries that have served here before, the sun comes up at about 9am and goes down at 4.30pm, so not to much sun baking for me in winter haha.

Well I pray and hope that you all have a blessed week and take care

Love Elder Pinyon

PS we had transfer calls and I am staying here in Marzahn and also I will be the district leader."

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Reached Goal Finally

So .. Elder Pinyon missed emailing me last week. I didn't even noticed until he mentioned it to me at the start of the email. Just a reminder the spelling mistakes isn't my fault and I understand it will be hard to explain everything and hard to go through the whole email again before sending. Once it's sent, it's sent.

"This week was a hard one but a good one at the end. This week we reached our goal finally, first time on my mission of finding new investigators. We found 5, 3 of them were found on Tuesday just through miracles, truly greatful for miracles and the last one was found last night at 8pm. The other one was found on thursday night when we thought all chance was lost about to go home and eat dinner and do some language study, we said, we dont need to eat, lets go the extra mile and she was there. It was amazing to see that when we really do the extra mile we can succeed in all things according to what the Lord wants.

We have 2 investigators on baptismal date at the moment and I am starting to see the change in their lives as we teach them and help them become as Christ. One of the investigators is starting to be happy and laugh and I have never seen him do that, he is getting really excited for his baptism and his testimony has grown so much. The other is changing so much, she has got a job at the museum now, she is willing to change, she is inviting her family along to her baptism because she knows how important baptism is and she wants her family to be a part of it. It truly is amazing the work that we have the opportunity to perform here in Germany for 2 years.

Everyone says that Germany is a hard mission, maybe it is, but they only send the elect here who can tackle it and do the Lords work the way He wants it done. It sure isnt easy, but definitely worth it :D

German translation:
Diese Woche war ein hartes aber ein gutes Ende. Diese Woche haben wir unser Ziel erreicht endlich, zum ersten Mal auf meiner Mission der Suche nach neuen Ermittler. Wir fanden 5, 3 von ihnen wurden am Dienstag nur durch Wunder gefunden, wirklich dankbar für Wunder und der letzte wurde bei 20.00 gestern Abend gefunden. Der andere wurde am Donnerstagabend gefunden, als wir dachten, alle Chance wurde etwa nach Hause zu gehen und zu Abend essen und einige Sprach verloren, sagten wir, wir brauchen nicht zu essen, lässt gehen die extra Meile, und sie da war. Es war erstaunlich zu sehen, dass, wenn wir wirklich die extra Meile, tun können wir nach dem, was der Herr will, erfolgreich zu sein in allen Dingen.

Wir haben 2 Ermittler auf Taufdatum im Moment, und ich fange an, die Veränderung in ihrem Leben sehen, wie wir sie zu lehren und ihnen helfen, wie Christus zu werden. Einer der Ermittler beginnt, glücklich zu sein und zu lachen, und ich habe noch nie gesehen, wie er das tun, er bekommt wirklich begeistert für seine Taufe und sein Zeugnis ist so viel gewachsen. Die andere ist im Wandel, so viel hat sie einen Job im Museum jetzt habe, ist sie bereit, zu ändern, sie lädt ihre Familie zusammen zu ihrer Taufe becuase sie weiß, wie wichtig die Taufe ist, und sie will ihre Familie, ein Teil davon zu sein . Es ist wirklich erstaunlich, die Arbeit, die wir haben die Möglichkeit, hier in Deutschland für 2 Jahre durchzuführen.

Jeder sagt, dass Deutschland ein harter Mission, vielleicht es ist, aber sie senden nur die wählen, die es anzugehen hier tun können und tun die Herren so funktionieren, wie er es will. Es ist sicher nicht ist einfach, aber auf jeden Fall gelohnt: D

Have a great week :D

Elder Pinyon"

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Fibre Optic Cables and Working through the Spirit

Elder Pinyon mentioned a lot through the email that I have received. He even asked me nicely to put what this email says on the blog. Here's it goes.

"Preach My Gospel missionaries/members obviously must learn to teach by the power of the Spirit. Of equal importance, however, is the responsibility to help investigators learn by faith and by the power of the Holy Ghost. In this regard, you and I are much like the long, thin strands of glass used to create fiber optic cables through which light signals are transmitted over very long distances. Just as the glass in these cables must be pure to conduct the light efficiently and effectively, so we should become and remain worthy conduits through whom the Spirit of the Lord can operate. But elders and sisters, we must be careful to remember in our service that we are conduits and channels; we are not the light. “For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you” - Elder Bednar

Do you know what Fibre optic cables are??

Well if you dont, look it up on google, I just know that they are cables that we use for internet and everything. They have little bits of glass that are pure and when they arent pure they cant function properly. I would like to annalyse three different fibre optic cables today.

So the first fibre optic cable we will look at will be the ones that become dark and the colour changes. So what happens to the light when the colour isn´t pure??

It is obsorbed and it wont work because it isnt pure. What can observe this pureness in our lives to stop the spirit from working through it??

Sins!!!

What types of sins are there in life??

There are 2 types of sins. (Things we do and things we dont do)

Things we do - breaking commandments, not doing as leaders tell us to do.

Things we dont do - not talking to someone on the street, or to apply it to normal members, not doing family home evening, not saying personal and family prayers and also not sharing the gospel with friends and family.

So we can see the less pure we are the less the spirit can work through us.

So the second fibre optic cable we will look at will be ones that we put more than one or connect more cables to the big one. So an example of how this works is when you have a straw and you blow through it there is lots of pressure right?? But if we have say 10 or 20 or 30 straws and all blow through them the pressure drops!!

Just like the pressure drops, the amount of purity drops out of the fibre optic cables and if we are once again these fibre optic cables than we must be pure. What can these branching cables be that stops our purity??

being distracted, having a bad day, not being happy. and the list can get bigger. As members they can be, being angry at members of our family, Priestcraft!!! "This work is never about me and it is never about you. We need to do all in our power to fulfill our missionary responsibility and simultaneously “get out of the way” so the Holy Ghost can perform His sacred function and work. In fact, anything you or I do as representatives of the Savior that knowingly and intentionally draws attention to self—in the messages we present, in the methods we use, or in our personal demeanor and appearance—is a form of priestcraft that inhibits the teaching effectiveness of the Holy Ghost." - Elder Bednar

Now the third fibre optic cable is the pure and perfect light. What happens when we are pure and clean and have none of these branches or distractions in life??

We will be perfect tools so the perfect teacher, the Holy Ghost, can teach the people that we are bringing the gospel too. As Elder Bednar said in his talk "GET OUT OF THE WAY" when we get out of the way the Lord and the spirit can work through us.

My Prayer and Testimony is that all members will be missionaries and be these perfect fibre optic cables so that the spirit can work through them. We NEED to CHANGE NOW. CHANGE is NEEDED!!! I love you all and hope all is well.

Love Elder Pinyon

Megan can you put this on my blog please. :D thank you

The talk that I used was "Becoming a Preach My Gospel Missionary - Elder Bednar"

I can tell that Elder Pinyon has been learning heaps during his Mission so far. I always love receiving long emails and getting to read the emails is one of the greatest opportunities to feel the Holy Ghost strongly.

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