14 November 2011….Wiener Neustadt, Austria
Yesterday I gave a talk and I had to cut out a pretty long story about the Israelites crossing over the Jordan River and how they had to put their feet in the river first before the river split.... I gave a 17- minute talk in German and could have gone on a lot longer.
It is pretty weird.
Work has been tougher this week. We normally contact people on trains and on the street and I have to say that I am actually pretty good at getting numbers in the train.
This last week, a miracle happened. We were walking towards the train station and I kept thinking I didn’t have my ticket. Multiple times this came to my head. But we were a little late and I decided to continue and thought that it was probably in my backpack tucked into some small pocket somewhere.... When we got into the train, I decided to sit by a guy and to try to talk to him and share the light of the gospel. I said hello and we exchanged pleasantries. I then had the thought to check for my ticket. No ticket. I didn’t have it. I let the man know who was now joined by his girl friend. I asked them what the charge was for riding without a ticket. They said it was pretty hefty and that the checker probably wouldn’t come because the stop was only 10 minutes away or so... so the checker actually ended up coming. And as the checker was checking the ticket of the person right before me, his back was turned to us. The man gave me a ticket and I gave it to the checker. It was fine and the girlfriend pulled out two tickets for the both of them and the checker went on. I said I was very thankful. I ended up giving them a Book or Mormon and getting their number and cheering with them (with my water and them with their beer) ha ha. But the point is that the lord really looks after each and every one of us and knows how to best help each one of his children.
Elder Sonne
