Hey Family, May 18, 2015
Well, I guess I will just start all of my letters off with
the same sentence. This week has gone by way to fast. We just had
transfer calls and I am still staying here in Hamburg for one more
transfer. I am happy. I am not done with Hamburg yet. There can be a
chance that I will be gone next one, but we do not think about that. We
only think about what we have to do here now.
We are starting to come up on the end of June, and as a
mission, our Mission President set the goal that we have 250 baptisms by the
end of june. That is two baptisms per companionship. Needless to
say, in our zone, we have alot of catching up to do. So we have been
trying to work really hard and close with the companionships in our zone to
help them make this goal and see some of the great miracles that are in their
areas.
We also had a friend of ours, his name is Roberto, and he
was baptized yesterday! It was great to see him and to hear his testimony
afterwards. He is from Italy and so he only speaks Italian. We have
one member here who served his mission in Italy and so he helped us out tons
for this last few weeks. And so Roberto was able to bear his testimony
afterwards and it was great.
We also saw a great miracle this last week. We met
this lady about one week ago on the bus. It was really funny, we had an
appointment with one of our investigators at KFC (yes there is only 1 here in
Hamburg at the Main Train Station) and so in order to stay there, we had to buy
food. So we walk into this bus with KFC leftovers, and some random guy
thought we were tourists and so he spoke to us in English the whole time about
Germany. We were like, Heck Yea! But then two stops later, he
got off the bus and we were really bummed. But afterwards, this lady
Nicole, overheard us speaking in English and she saw our name badges and asked
us if we were Mormons. We said yes, and she went on to explain that a
week ago, she visited Utah and the Salt Lake City Temple and thought just
everything was gorgeous. She was so impressed with how everyone was
acting and how mormons guide and lead their lives. We then exchanged
information. Well, last week she called us. And she really wanted to come
to our church service. She was not able to come, but came afterwards and
we were able to show her around the church and she just loved it. We are
going to meet with her again tomorrow. I am grateful for awesome Mormons
who were such a great example to her that she wanted to talk to us on the bus
in Germany and ask us why.
Tell Jane that I said congratulations and to start brushing
up on her spanish and preach my gospel. And be ready to meet some great
people. We have some members in our ward from Equador and they are the
coolest people ever! They invite us over sometimes, and they cannot even
speak English or German, but they have such a strong testimony!
Well, miss you all and love you all as well! Talk to
you next week!
Love,
Elder Bretzing
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