Matthi's Mission

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

More pictures Keighley, july 4th, 2011

Pictures Keighley, july 4th, 2011

Keighley, july 4th, 2011

Hellooo :)

Yes, this will be one of my last e-mails to write from England. As everybody seems to be reminding me, I have 10 days left. I'm gonna make it the best 10 days ever. The weather is beautiful, this past week we were really blessed to see standards of excellence in our area. Elder Cumming is doing really well, he's been remarkably quick in developing his missionary skills and I'm very impressed with him. He'll continue to grow and learn and do well over the next few months in his mission.

This coming week is booked with tea-appointments, people are trying to give me dinner and tea-appointments and fatten me up in my last week before I go home, they are so kind :) But yeah, it will have to all go away through running when i get home :)

This sunday I had to do the Gospel Principles class on the Atonement, it was a wonderful lesson and we have wonderful converts that participate in it. Its such a wonderful feeling to see how much my converts have progressed here and how they have gained in knowledge.

This past week Richard, Joan and Christina and Diane were able to go to the Preston temple which was such an exciting feeling for me to have and they all loved it!

We went to the presidents fireside this past sunday and that was a blast, me and Elder Cumming wore our Tartan Ties and they were a great succes, everybody loved them ^^ Way to go for Scotland! :)

We've found a lot of potentials so hopefully we'll be able to contact them this week. I'm going on exchange tomorrow with Elder Laine so that Elder Cumming can practice again on taking over the area. I think Tom Mcnee was a bit worried about it happening so quickly but I believe Elder Cumming will be fine!

Today we had a fun zone p-day, we went to Mallam and that was a great succes! :) It was hot as ever and I believe i got a little sunburn but i'll survive, I need to get some more color on my face, arms and legs, its the eternal mission whiteness I need to get rid of lol :)

Well I gotta go! I look forward to hear from all of you and seeing you when I get home!

Love

Elder Matthias Heinrichs

Monday, June 27, 2011

Keighley, June 27th, 2011

My beloved

Keighley...

A pillowcase

I got from

the ward.

Me!

Hellooooooo everyone!

Man, it's hottttt today! It's like 25 degrees, and me and Elder Pearse have decided to go in Shorts today! We're going to Leeds today to do some shopping, for me it will be my final shopping day before I go home. Everybody I meet is trying to trunk me out by talking about going home and telling me how many weeks I have left, it's quite annoying sometimes.

Dilligence is the biggest challenge at the moment, I think this week we did well, Elder Cumming and I are daring eachother at the moment to chase people and talk to them so that we really talk to everyone!! We're working a lot with Danny at the moment and hopefully with Presidents Okay he'll be baptized before I go home..

This past week was pretty tough, we're struggling as a District still to find new investigators, but we're doing our best. We found a lot of potentials this past week so this coming week should be promising!

We have Leadership training tomorrow, and I look forward to that! That way I get to see most of my friends still before I go home, like Elder Leclerc!

My studies of the scriptures have become so valuable to me and I love them. Im sad that I see so many people that I talk to that don't understand what the Bible teaches and that they don't really see the example that Christ gave, or even when they do see it they don't value to follow his example with exactness, they often say that following His general creed of loving one another is important enough but all the ordinances and organisation that He established is often left on the side.

I know that Christ lives and that His living Church is on the earth again today! It's such a wonderful blessing and it blesses me with hope. I love being a missionary and dread the day that I will have to take the Saviors name off of my chest, but I'll make sure to never take it from my heart!

Love,

Elder Matthias Heinrichs

Monday, June 20, 2011

More pictures, Keighley, june 20th, 2011

skipping rocks...

Baptism of Diane.

Pictures Keighley, June 20th 2011

Bolton Abbey!

Package! :-)

Keighley, June 20th 2011

Hey everyone

Here I am again! :) Well this week was a good week. We had a p-day at bolton abbey which was fun, we went with the district and bradford.. We really enjoyed it, we went walking together and just chilling out, it was something different than just watching movies.

Today we're going to watch Kung Fu Panda 2, a friend got it for us!

This past friday we had Diane's baptism and that was a great succes, she was so well prepared and it was a good baptismal service, even though it was not well attended...

We've been ill this week and had to stay in for 3 days because we had a really bad throat infection..that was not good, rather painful but we're feeling better now.

Church was great, the ward is so good and I really enjoy fellowshipping with them. I'm trying really hard to get another baptism before I go home, we're working with a young man named Danny who is just a great guy, he's had a rough life but wants to change and he seems eager so I have a lot of faith and hope for him!

Well I look forward to hearing from all of you, sorry that today's e-mail is really short but I don't have much time, the liberary is a pain today!

I love you all!

Take care and write me!

Love,

Elder Matthias Heinrichs

Monday, June 13, 2011

Keighley, june 13th, 2011

Hellooo everyone!

Here's your favorite missionary again! :) This week has been a wonderful week full of excitement and fun, we've been so blessed here to see 6 people at church, we have 5 people that are moving towards baptism of which 1, Diane will be baptized this Friday by Elder Cumming, it's so exciting, Diane is a great lady, she's been golden since we found and taught her and she's been enjoying church a lot. She had a really strong spiritual experience last week sunday and that has helped her a lot. She has already started to do missionary work with her family. I love her a lot and look forward to see her get baptized!

It's amazing to see how recent converts just catch the vision of missionary work, the regular members should really take heed to their example. Richard and Joan just have been amazing in their efforts, half of the investigators at church were related or friends of the family, all this has happened thanks to the referral from the Zsirmans, amazing how the Lord works through people... I'm really hoping and praying that Emma will get baptized before I go home, she is a great girl and has so much going for her, so much potential, if she keeps her commitments these coming few weeks she'll get there, so I invite all of you to pray for her!!!

Today we're having a great p-day we're meeting up with a few teams and we're going to Bolton Abbey, it was fun because this morning we had the Skipton Elders have studies in our flat. Its great how I've come to love my missionaries, even though they all struggle in their individual ways I want to help them and I feel it a priviledge to serve them.

Thats something I've noticed I've come to love the people on my mission so much, that I think of how Alma must have felt (i believe it was Alma) that wept and wet his pillow by night and by day cried repentance unto the people!

Today should be great and I'm looking forward to it! Elder Cumming my stallward Scotsman is a lot of fun and he's getting used to missionary life real quick, he's a poshboy and he's definetely my son because he's crazy about ties aswell! I love that kid! :D

Well I'd better go! Write me! I still love post! :)

Love you all!

Elder Matthias Heinrichs

Monday, June 6, 2011

Mailing address:

This is still my address where you can send my mail to for another 5 weeks!

Elder Heinrichs
74 Mannville Road
BD22 6AT
Keighley
England

Pictures Keighley, June 6th, 2011

Pres. and

Sister Lindley,

Elder Cumming

and I.

Elder Cumming's

MTC-group.

Elder DeGraw

and I.

Me and

Elder Bant.

Elder Cumming

is a bit sad at

the display

of all the

english flags.

(he's Scottish!)

Keighley, June 6th, 2011

Hellooo everyone!!

Here's you're favorite missionary!!! Oui, c'est moi! Another week flew by full of excitement and fun things! Well it was a sad departure of Elder Bant on wednesday and many tears were shed during the wednesday morning testimony meeting we held in Richard and Joans house with our closing hymn 152 'God be with you till we meet again'. I love that little man a lot!

Well then it came to transfermeeting on wednesday afternoon, and there came all the greenies, everybody was already congratulating me and telling me how excited they were for me to train, for some reason I didnt quite feel the excitement yet, moreso a lot of nervs and anxiety.. :P Well I then saw the greenies and met with Elder Cumming because my mom had told me that Jonathan's Little brother would come into this mission, so we had a brief chat and then went into training with President Lindley and then we went into the transfermeeting.(Jonathan Cumming is the older brother of my new companion and is in my home ward in Holland).

As President sat down all the new missionaries he told a little bit about each and every one of them. For some reason I just knew that I was going to train Elder Cumming, which was so weird, it just was so clear to me. As soon as President Lindley started talking about Elder Cumming, my heart started racing and I got sooooo excited and I just knew I was going to train him. When he called out my name as his trainer I just jumped up in joy and ran to him and hugged him. We then afterwards took him to Keighley and got him working!

I'm so excited about Elder Cumming, he seems a wonderful kid, he's a lot of fun, very eager, and he seems very prepared. He has a strong testimony of the gospel and fits right in. He will learn many things but he has got the right stuff and the right attitude so he'll go far!

We were able to make standards this week and the members were so involved in the work which was wonderful. We had a lot of investigators and less-actives at church. So i know that when we invite others to come unto Christ and put in our efforts the Lord will make miracles happen! We also went to the investigators fireside at President Lindley's house and heard from Elder Donaldson again! That was great and I was so happy I could get my greeny there on his first week!

I'm very tired now that i'm training and being a DL, my nights seem to be very very short. I cant remember the last time i've been this tired but oh well, i'll live!

I love you all, please keep praying for me, my companion and Keighley! I look forward to hearing from you!

Find my adress on the blogg!

Love,

Elder Heinrichs