A very busy eventful week! Elder Jenkins got Transferred to Derby pronounced Darby. It was sad to see him leave, very sad. Me and him were like to Peas in a Pod and yes in those pictures we are wearing the same tie. But before i get to that let me tell you a pretty awesome experience me and him had before he left! So gather your ears/eyes!
So there we were on a dark and dreary night. actually it was about mid-day and it was actually pretty sunny and warm! Me and Elder Jenkins were just walking into town when a man approached us. I recognized the man, i couldn't remember if we talked to him before but we walk around so much i figured we had seen him at least once before. Oh and he was a bum...... meaning he doesn't really have a home he just walks around town center and doesn't have a Job. His accent was super thick as well it was like something off of my fair lady! .....He started talking to us and basically just explained that he was a member of the church and that he hasn't gone for about 22 years. He was really nice and he walked with us and talked with us for a little while mostly cause he smokes and drinks and doesn't feel worthy. He kept telling us that he has gone to other churches and stuff but he just knows that our church is true and that we were men of God. He then said that he was in a church a couple nights ago and the priest was basically going around giving people blessings and the bum refused a blessing from the priest and so the priest just kept giving him an evil stare or something. HE then asked us if we could give him a blessing right there on the street Hahaha! so Me and Elder Jenkins took him around the corner to the Black Friar Monk Monastery ruins( that's the last two pictures of that giant cross with some old ruin monastery in the back ground). We sat down with him on a park bench across from the Monastery and taught him.....we taught him about Jesus Christ and his Atonement. Then me and Elder Jenkins gave him a blessing on a park bench. It was the first blessing i have ever given to someone on my mission. It was a pretty special experience, the spirit was powerful. I never felt the spirit work through me like it did in the middle of that blessing, I heard myself say stuff i didn't even think about.
My new companions name is Elder Schmidt! He is from Eastern Germany! He belongs to a communist country. So yes, I have a communist for a companion!! His accent is pretty strong but he speaks good English, he has taken English for 10 years. He has got a very German personality hahah! Its gonna be weird switching up companions like this cause elder Jenkins was a major dork and so am i so it worked out but Elder Schmidt is like the opposite! I'm a little nervous so if you want to write me a letter this week it may help. I got to go sorry! write me! hope everything is going good!
Elder Weihing
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