A long post with updates.
Elder Pinyon said for this week's email, "This week was super hectic, we had pday on Monday and we taught a part member family and they are just so wonderful. The mum was baptised about 2 years ago. She is not as active as she could be, but she is slowly coming back and her children want to get baptised. It is really amazing, we are just really praying and hoping that the father will lighten off so they can be baptised and go to the temple.
His heart has softened though, he said changed his mind and said if the children show real intent, then they can be baptised. Before that it was an absolute no. Fasting and prayer really does work. So we are giving them encouragement to show their dad that they want it. Hopefully focusing on the blessings of the temple with them will help them prepare better.
Tuesday was also hectic, we had transfer day. Even though we are not getting transferred, being ZL's made our day just nothing. We picked up an Elder on Sunday night (his companion went home on Sunday), he stayed with us until his new companion got here. Another companionship overnighted from Monday to Tuesday. We had to say good bye to our friends on the train stations :( always really sad and hard. We had appointments we had to try and make (we did, did lots of splits with different Elders). And one Elder is white washing and training, so the office decided to send him to us for Tuesday night, so he could go back to where he came from to pick up his trainee.
Oh well, the joys of life. Gotta love stress, but stress is healthy just not to much. So I am ready to be released. Being ZL for 6 transfers is long enough. I just want to white wash and train, it'd be so much fun.
Wednesday was super sweet, we dropped off Elder Burri to the train station so he could pick up his new missionary from Freiberg (Temple Square!!!). Did some doors in a little dorf, everyone was so nice to us and we met with our new converts, Ramona and Alex Jakobs. We read Alma 17 with them and invited them to read 18 & 19 together to know what happens with King Lamoni!!! Love the story. Then we went to another little dorf, I forgot the name of it, but we met with a less active member who are just so amazing.
First of all, they picked us up from the train station and we got to meet the husband and daughter, they are not yet members and we thought they weren't going to be to chill with the whole church thing, but they love us. We had such an amazing time, I really felt like I was at home with my own family. We ate on the patio and we checked out their massive garden, it was huge.
The daughter has pet tortoises and they are about 1-2 years old and they are so small and so cute. I got to play with them and they are called Big Foot, Cera, Petrie, Duckie and Spike after all the main characters from Land Before Time. I love this movie. Well movies. They were all so cute and we feed them little tiny flowers. The tortoises are smaller than my hands and to imagine that they will one day be bigger than my face is super scary.
Thursday was good, we had our district meeting and it was really cool. We spoke about how we can better help those that are not so active in the church and how we can help them come back closer to the teachings of the Saviour. Also we discussed how we can make church attendance more helpful for those that have the gospel and need the gospel. Also to see why it is a priority and how to make it a priority. Was a really good discussion.
Friday was super sweet. We taught a brother that is slowly coming back to the gospel. It was so nice to be able to share my testimony of the restored gospel and to help him see the blessings. He knew the doctrine and he knew the blessings, he is definitely back on the way to activity.
Afterwards we decided to go by on a young sister who was once active and she was at home!!! She was a little bit weirded out to see us, but she is ready to hear the lessons again and come to church. She has a little 5 month old son and he is just so cute and has lots of baby fat. We shared "because He lives" with her and she and us totally felt the spirit, it was so nice. Afterwards we had pizza with the youth, it is so much fun working with the youth. They brought along their brothers and sisters that are no longer interested in the church. It was good to build a relationship with them. I am really hoping we can bring them also back to the Gospel with the help of their families!!!
Saturday was sweet, we met with our new members and played table tennis with them, it was super fun.
Sunday was great too. I love going to church and renewing my covenants with my Heavenly Father. Also we had lunch with a great member family, I love this family, we had a BBQ with them. Afterwards we taught a lady that is wanting to come back to church. I love working with the members here. Also we met with Renè and he expressed his feelings about wanting to change his life and be baptised. We will be working really hard with him to working towards this goal he has.
I hope you all have a wonderful week and if you'd love to write me,
email me at jacob.pinyon@myldsmail.net
Tschüß
Sent from Elder Pinyon."
Elder Pinyon said for this week's email, "This week was super hectic, we had pday on Monday and we taught a part member family and they are just so wonderful. The mum was baptised about 2 years ago. She is not as active as she could be, but she is slowly coming back and her children want to get baptised. It is really amazing, we are just really praying and hoping that the father will lighten off so they can be baptised and go to the temple.
His heart has softened though, he said changed his mind and said if the children show real intent, then they can be baptised. Before that it was an absolute no. Fasting and prayer really does work. So we are giving them encouragement to show their dad that they want it. Hopefully focusing on the blessings of the temple with them will help them prepare better.
Tuesday was also hectic, we had transfer day. Even though we are not getting transferred, being ZL's made our day just nothing. We picked up an Elder on Sunday night (his companion went home on Sunday), he stayed with us until his new companion got here. Another companionship overnighted from Monday to Tuesday. We had to say good bye to our friends on the train stations :( always really sad and hard. We had appointments we had to try and make (we did, did lots of splits with different Elders). And one Elder is white washing and training, so the office decided to send him to us for Tuesday night, so he could go back to where he came from to pick up his trainee.
Oh well, the joys of life. Gotta love stress, but stress is healthy just not to much. So I am ready to be released. Being ZL for 6 transfers is long enough. I just want to white wash and train, it'd be so much fun.
Wednesday was super sweet, we dropped off Elder Burri to the train station so he could pick up his new missionary from Freiberg (Temple Square!!!). Did some doors in a little dorf, everyone was so nice to us and we met with our new converts, Ramona and Alex Jakobs. We read Alma 17 with them and invited them to read 18 & 19 together to know what happens with King Lamoni!!! Love the story. Then we went to another little dorf, I forgot the name of it, but we met with a less active member who are just so amazing.
First of all, they picked us up from the train station and we got to meet the husband and daughter, they are not yet members and we thought they weren't going to be to chill with the whole church thing, but they love us. We had such an amazing time, I really felt like I was at home with my own family. We ate on the patio and we checked out their massive garden, it was huge.
The daughter has pet tortoises and they are about 1-2 years old and they are so small and so cute. I got to play with them and they are called Big Foot, Cera, Petrie, Duckie and Spike after all the main characters from Land Before Time. I love this movie. Well movies. They were all so cute and we feed them little tiny flowers. The tortoises are smaller than my hands and to imagine that they will one day be bigger than my face is super scary.
Thursday was good, we had our district meeting and it was really cool. We spoke about how we can better help those that are not so active in the church and how we can help them come back closer to the teachings of the Saviour. Also we discussed how we can make church attendance more helpful for those that have the gospel and need the gospel. Also to see why it is a priority and how to make it a priority. Was a really good discussion.
Friday was super sweet. We taught a brother that is slowly coming back to the gospel. It was so nice to be able to share my testimony of the restored gospel and to help him see the blessings. He knew the doctrine and he knew the blessings, he is definitely back on the way to activity.
Afterwards we decided to go by on a young sister who was once active and she was at home!!! She was a little bit weirded out to see us, but she is ready to hear the lessons again and come to church. She has a little 5 month old son and he is just so cute and has lots of baby fat. We shared "because He lives" with her and she and us totally felt the spirit, it was so nice. Afterwards we had pizza with the youth, it is so much fun working with the youth. They brought along their brothers and sisters that are no longer interested in the church. It was good to build a relationship with them. I am really hoping we can bring them also back to the Gospel with the help of their families!!!
Saturday was sweet, we met with our new members and played table tennis with them, it was super fun.
Sunday was great too. I love going to church and renewing my covenants with my Heavenly Father. Also we had lunch with a great member family, I love this family, we had a BBQ with them. Afterwards we taught a lady that is wanting to come back to church. I love working with the members here. Also we met with Renè and he expressed his feelings about wanting to change his life and be baptised. We will be working really hard with him to working towards this goal he has.
I hope you all have a wonderful week and if you'd love to write me,
email me at jacob.pinyon@myldsmail.net
Tschüß
Sent from Elder Pinyon."
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