Schönen Guten Morgen.
This week was 7 days long. We saw miracles, had a drunk dude take the Book out of my comps hands and try running away, got laughed at a ton, our district got cut in half and taught some lessons. In between all of that was countless hours on the streets finding :)
Nah it was a way fun one though. Training is a blast but it for sure is a challenge and tests your patience. We have been having a way fun time and trying to stay positive out here. Saturday we got a call that the Bamberg would be getting emergency transferred to Paderborn and Karlsruhe to fill in some spots of missionaries going home so that was really sad. We went over there and helped them clean up and get everything ready for them to leave. Super sad I loved those guys and I love Bamberg. It was where I was when I first got trained in 2016 and no other Elder has been trained there since and now there are simply no missionaries in Bamberg ;(
We are out in the badlands now. I think we are closer to Berlin missionaries now rather than our own mission haha
That threw a wrench in our week because we are now in a district with Schweinfurt and Würzburg. 6 Elder district and we are super spaced out, we cover like half of the zone hahaha. But my man Elder Bringhurst is back in my district 
We did a ton of finding this week and found a girl named Lara who we are meeting with on a Saturday to teach and she is way pumped about the Book of Mormon she even committed to reading a ton before we met. She is studying here in Coburg. I contacted her at first just asking her to read Ether 12:4 and tell me what she thought about it and then it just leads to an awesome conversation. The Book of Mormon and its spirit it brings works miracles. I’ve seen that so much just talking to people on the street this week about it and actually having it open for them to read. Pray for Lara. We also found a guy named Danny who we have hope for!
We taught a lesson to Gustaf, our awesome Swedish investigator last night but I feel like we are just running in circles with him. The guy is so awesome and smart and his family is amazing but he just won’t read the Book of Mormon. I showed him that Nephi and his family also had the Bible and were descendants of it but even then he was like the Bible is enough for me. Ahhh just so hard. He is mainly hung up on Joseph Smith being involved with Freemasons and what he has found about Brigham Young and Joseph Smith online but we were like dude, how can you judge the book without even reading it. It’s gonna be a slow one with him but someday it’s going to have to click for him. There’s just no way this guy can’t be a member of the restored gospel. He feels the spirit and we have pointed it out to him. He knows it’s true, he just needs to not dig so deep into Joseph Smith and the early prophets online.
If someone knows about Joseph Smith and his relation to Freemasons and what Freemasons are and do, let me know because I can’t look that stuff up out here. Way curious actually.
Other than that this week was awesome, it is getting warm and the sun is softening some peoples hearts for sure. God has a time and place for everything and I’m grateful to be apart of his “work and his glory”
Hopefully, the Yankees stay healthy and keep rolling and the Jazz can with keep the momentum.
Love you all, I appreciate the letters and support. Can’t wait to talk to my mom in a little over a week!
-Ya boy in Germany
Elder Rothwell🦅⚔️
Germany Frankfurt Mission
90645
Passages 4 the soul:
1 Nephi 1:20
Ether 12:6
John 13:14-15
Luke 12:29-31
Bilder:
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| Last picture of the district |
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| Coburg during the day |
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| Tons of houses we doored |
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| Random dudes we met and helped move. Played Hackeysack with them too |
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