Immer Schneller: Hastening the Work: This week was pretty crazy.

Hey family! This is Elder Fisher

This week was pretty crazy. We have this investigator from London. He has a drug problem and it makes working with him super hard. The biggest struggle is that he really has interest in the Gospel and was asking us if he could serve a mission but because he is constantly looking for another fix, to fight Heroin sickness, he is really unreliable for lessons or church. We have had the first two lessons and they have gone really well. After hearing the plan of salvation he said "wow, that gives me a lot of motivation to do better." Which I think is the BEST response to the plan of salvation. But here's where the problem is, and when my heart broke for him. We called a couple times Saturday and finally around 6 he answered. It went so

Hey man how are you doing?

Huh?

How are you?

Who is this?

Elder Fisher.

Who?

Elder Fisher man, haha you know who I am.

No...

Where are you man? (I'm getting worried about him now)

No no man... oh!! Now i remember! Yo man I am so sorry for missing our last appointment!

Don't worry about it

No really man! I spent the night in the hospital...

What?!

Yeah, I over dosed man.

What?!

I took more than I usually do. It was really stupid. I was craving way hard and got desperate... I'm not going to be able to get to church man.

Boom. Heart broken. My boy overdosed... gosh. It was too much. We know a couple guys struggling with this and every time we think about trying to help them our hearts ache. They are willing to take he gospel but they are enslaved to this drug. Or in some situations to multiple. I want to help these people but we don't really have the power to fight that. They've got to overcome that themselves before we can help them progress to baptism.

Other than that this week was not too eventful. Missionary work and finding. We set the goal to have 2 baptisms this transfer. And we're at the end of week 2. The fire is on.

Um. Yeah. I also taught two Syrians the word cool. Haha that was great.

But really this week I realized how much I love the ward here. They are probably my favorite German ward by far! A few days ago we were in need of a bike pump so we followed Bishop home to use his. We talked about his mission in South Africa and the mission here in Duisburg. What's going well and whats going not well. We are having a slow time here in Duisburg and we talked about what we could do to try to speed it up. We just had a little bro out moment while we were fixing the bikes. I love him so much. These people here have just completely stolen my heart from me and I am trying harder than ever to be the missionary they deserve. I had a renewed surge of energy and committed myself to becoming a more obedient missionary. As a sign of my dedication to the Lord I deleted all of my music. It had always been a small problem. The one worldly thing that I continued to hold on to. But like the Anti-Nephi-Lehites I buried all that I had as a sign to the Lord. With no intention of ever digging it back up or laying my hand on another. At least until the end of my mission.

Well, I have a few new pictures :)