Hey mom! Well, as you can probably guess from the title of this letter, I had an interesting week. We've been meeting with one investigator for the past couple weeks, his name is herr Arndt. He's a really nice, really, REALLY OLD German. When I say old, I mean like 90. His body isn't the best anymore, but his brain still works 100%. Whenever we go over he tells us all of his crazy stories about pre war and communist controlled Germany. They're really cool stories, but, the best part of our visits is always when we talk about Jesus Christ. This man is more sensitive to the spirit than anyone else I've met here on my mission. Every single time we teach he starts to cry (it's actually pretty cute). This week he shared with us his desire follow the work of wisdom, so, we took his cigarettes! It was actually really funny. As we walked out of the home, we just had to take some selfies
it was great to see him progress like that!! I also learned something ridiculously cool this week. We talked to a man on the street this week from Lebanon. I love people from Lebanon, I feel like I already have a connection to them :) we talked to him about Jesus Christ, and he got all excited and said "yea! I love Jesus! I think he was the most important prophet! Except for Muhammad." He's Muslim, no surprise. We told him about how the Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, and then asked if he had ever heard of it. His response shocked me. He said, "Mormon? Yes, that's an Arabic name. It means 'The Believer.' My brother is called Mormon." The church is so true! There is no way that Joseph smith could've known that Mormon is a middle-eastern name. I love the gospel! This week we went out with the Hubrichs to visit some less active members. We drove out to a tiny village called Niedersaida. The member we wanted to visit wasn't home, but she was coming back in about 30 minutes. So, we went to the Czech Republic! Well, to the border. It's a river, and it's cool :) of Course we didn't go over the border, but we saw it! Then we drove back to the village and had a great lesson with this member. She has been less active for a while, but she wants to come back to the church! And, she has a 9 year old son who wants to be baptized! We were pretty excited about that, but then, everything changed. And this leads to my last point, the white wash. We are having a big change here in Freiberg. Our awesome new mission president has a new mission focus. "Faithfully we baptize with the focus on the blessings of the temple." That is awesome, I love it! I love the temple, and I love how I've had the opportunity to serve here in Freiberg, and see the temple almost every day. But, sadly, my time here is now over. President Fingerle has decided to move our zone leaders from Dresden to Freiberg, and he's also bringing in sisters, kind of like what they have at temple square. So, elder Teuscher and I are switching programs with the Zone leaders. They're coming here, and we're going there. It's going to be a big change for us, we'll go from a city of 50,000 to a city of 500,000, we'll be living in a four man apartment (with elder drazin
) and we'll be in a ward with sisters. It's a big change, and honestly, I'm not to happy for it. I'm excited to be able to serve in one of the biggest, and most beautiful cities in the mission, but I would like to stay here. Freiberg is special, and I've made a lot of really good friends here that I will really miss. But, we go forward with faith. I believe that president fingerle receives revelation for us, and if that's what the lord wants, then that's what I'll do. Plus, I'll be staying with elder Teuscher, so I'll get to finish training him. But, yea. Big change. But, on the bright side, I'll never have a boring p day! Because there's so much to do!! I'm excited, a little scared, and kind of overwhelmed. Pray for me! Love you! Elder Oliphant
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