This has been the craziest week of my entire life. I know no matter how hard I try to convey what happened this week I’m not going to do it justice so I’m just going to dive on in.
Buckle in folks.
Friday! Had an awesome lesson with on of our new investigators. She is from Indiana, but is here as an exchange worker thing. (Shout out to my boy Bettridge in the Louisville mission that covers some Indiana territory). We talked a ton about our heavenly father and prayer with her and yeah she’s just awesome. She actually went to the temple open house in Indiana for our temple! So she had a ton of temple questions. Thank goodness this lesson was in English hahaha no way we could’ve answered her questions auf deutsch. I now have a strong testimony of temple open houses though.
Saturday had a DOPE Street Display in Solingen. We tore that place to shreds contacting for 3 hours straight in the freezing cold and found some really really cool people that we are stoked for!
Sabbath day. We taught a really good priesthood session on President Eyring’s last general conference talk “fear not to do good” literally everyone needs to read that. Had a personal spiritual feast in sacrament and during the last hymn I was on fire singing “Israel, der Herr ruft alle” (israel israel God is calling). After sacrament we walked to our bus stop headin to a member appointment. We were chilling at the bus stop and the car across the street was trying to pull out into the road but I thought he couldn’t really see so I gave him a thumbs up when the path was clear. The guy turned off his car, got out and went BALISTIC on me. He’s just like “ do you have a problem with me!!!” Just cussing up a german storm and all this with random English F words and I’m like woah bro chill out I was just trying to help. At this point he is ticked. He opens his back door and proceeds to pull out a HUGE AX!!my first thought was “holy S*** that is like literally the biggest ax I have ever seen.” My companion and I were shocked. The thing had to be 4 feet long not kidding. Light tan wood handle with a huge chrome head. The thing was straight out of a zombie apocalypse movie. He proceeds to threaten me and I’m like what the heck is your problem we are waiting for a bus man calm down haha. He does some weird thing and puts it back in his car and we just stay there and he’s like what are you still doing here. And I just say “clearly still waiting for our bus” He then opens back up his door and pulls out the ax and starts coming for us. At this point I’m like alright I don’t mess with this crap I’m out. We kinda just ran off and then later walked back to the bus and went to the members house hahahaha. It was the craziest thing ever. The members were shook. And then we talked to the zone leaders that night for call ins and they were shook hahaha. They were so confused why we didn’t call anybody or the police and we were like well we had missionary work to do
Monday was a normal day and Tuesday I went on an exchange in Wuppertal with Elder Call and we had a blast. Taught some lessons and had a crazy experience with one of their now dropped investigators. He went off about Joseph Smith and was saying some extremely inappropriate things holy cow. Then after the lesson he tried to hypnotize me. The guy is a hypnotist professionally hahaha. WIZARDY 
Elder call is still a new missionary so he was in shock and idk if he had any idea what was going on but I told him to just pull out the iPad and film it. The guy couldn’t hypnotize me though so it’s all good.
Yesterday was crazy. Went by a less active that bishop requested we go by. We get there and then the less active that we visited a month ago shows up (the one that held the knife to my throat as a joke) and they were just going crazy. Elder Winsborrow was laughing so hard he was crying. It felt like it was a remake of the movie StepBrothers. I’m not kidding they were so hard to control together. We tried to hard to. One of them has blood cancer though and the other is like way sick too so they’re going out with a bang I think. They went off about a funeral for a cat that they made, one of them at one point took my cup of tea and put it between his legs saying that he’s warming it up, then he hissed at me and I saw a beer in his bag and I was like woah what ya got there buddy? He didn’t like that I said that haha. We ended with a prayer and as we walked out he did the hitler sign and saluted us. I guess Elder Winsborrow secretly filmed some of our visit. They’re some of the funniest videos I have ever seen!
If you’ve made it this far I’m super thankful for you. Honestly that wasn’t even half of the crazy things that happened this week but that’s all I can write without it getting too crazy. The best part about it all for me is that it’s all happening in German. All of these things on a daily basis are in a foreign language, in a foreign country and I’m 20 years old just still trying to figure life out and giving these people all I can. Find the lambs, feed the sheep! You literally can’t make this stuff up. THE MISSION TRIP BABY WOOOOOO LET’S GOOOOOO⚡️
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Never have I been on my knees in a week more though. We were super blessed this week to be able to find 5 new investigators. That for us out here in Germany is huge. The lord has been blessing us like crazy and we have relied on him a ton. Pray for our new investigators, they need it! We have really high hopes for them.
I love my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and my loving Heavenly Father. I know this Gospel is true and I’m loving in such a special time being able to be a full time servant of the Lord here in Germany.
Thanks for the emails and support! I love you guys. Have a dankkkkk week!!!
Elder Rothwell🦅⚔️
Germany Frankfurt Mission
Sedanstr. 2
Solingen, Germany
42719
Scripts offffffff the week y’all:
Alma 32:26-27
Alma 5:52 & Mormon 6:9 (⚔️
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Sacrament prayers guys!! Take some time to read these and listen in sacrament especially before taking the sacrament. Holy cow... don’t take these for granted!
“Fear not to do good” -President Eyring
Pictures, these things do no justice. I need a GoPro or a film crew
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| Street Display in Solingen |
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| On a split with my dude Elder Call |
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| Always good when you knock on a door and leave with a banana and 2018 calendar |
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| Schlossburg last week #windstorm |
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