All in a Day's Work

We went to a world famous guitar maker and Elder Thorne's going to spent thousands of dollars on a guitar.

Next Sunday is my two month mark in the field, goes fast, well for me at least. As far as this past week goes nothing really extra-ordinary, we've been doing a lot of finding time. It's helped my German a lot! Now we've some pretty strong contacts, so I'm excited. Plus we have an appointment with a guy named jah…….., How rocking is that?

Here's a cool story from an awesome appointment we had this week:

We had a meeting place planned for this appointment, we'd been doing finding time most of the day and we had already had a fallen out appointment, so all in all I was pretty tired. So we're waiting for this appointment and I had no idea what to expect, though I was hoping it would be good. Well he shows up and we ask him a little about his religious background. He's sixteen, believes in God, is active in his church group, and loves learning about religions. So we were introducing the Book of Mormon with the pictures on the front and he's like "yea" "ok" "Klar", eventually he asked why it was important to him. So we taught him about the restoration and he was sooo attentive. At the end we bore our testimonies and started to come to commitments. He committed himself to read and pray. Then we were going to very gently give him a soft baptismal commitment, [but before we could] he said if he finds out that it's true then of course he'd get baptized without us even having to ask. It was awesome and I'm excited. It's been a good week.

Picture: A picture in the Book of Mormon that Elder RAM was sharing. This is of the Kirkland Temple, in Ohio.

RAM- Elder Updates

We will be using this blog to post information for our son, Elder Russell McDonald (RAM for short), who is serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Frankfurt, Germany. It will be a way to let everyone easily hear how he is doing, and to see pictures he shares from his mission. I will post new information on this every Tuesday.

Elder RAM (if I use his first/last initials it makes him an RM- which he is not yet!) recently sent pictures. Most of the pictures were taken in the MTC in Provo. Those are saved for another post. There were only two taken in Germany.

#1- Elder RM with his companion, Elder Thorne at the Frankfurt Temple, Frankfurt, Germany.




#2. A picture of the countryside in Germany. The countryside near Frankfurt is very picturesque. It is not mountains- more hills and grassland. This is something that a lot of people do not realize about Germany, that it has this type of terrain also.
He is serving in Darmstadt, a small town south of Frankfurt.

Gotta Love Holidays

It's just like I talked to you guys a few days ago...oh wait I did!Nothing much is new, but it was a little interesting this week. What with our district changing around and whatnot. Yay, new missionaries! I'm not part of the "baby" missionaries, though I'm still "golden". Holidays are long for us missionaries here in Germany. Not because it makes me homesick or anything, but it's just Germans don't like being talked to on holidays. So you don't knock doors. Which is normally no problem- we'll talk to people on the streets. Oh wait, by law stores can not be open on holidays, unless it's a restaurant. so there's no one except really drunk people out, and other random couples/families.I've decided it's somewhat like poking something furry with a stick. Always entertaining, plus the added thrill that you never know what's going to happen: find a cuddly puppy, or get mauled by a bear. Man, I love analogies. That's basically been my week, talking with lots of people.Though, on Tuesday we had a really good appointment with [a family], I love that family. We wanted to see why Herr .... wasn't active. so we taught and then just basically asked him. He had some things, and habits that need to be resolved but it's in his thoughts now. We challenged him to read the Book of Mormon every day. Hopefully that'll help.Well, I don't really have mcuh to say this week except that those little crytal light powder drink things are like love in a packet. Just add water, and you get liquid loooove. Anywho, we've got good things planned this week. So I'm excited.


Viele liebe und erfolg


Elder McDonald