Elder Tage Rex: Germany Frankfurt Mission

  This week did not go as planned, Elder McCann got really sick on S unday and has been basically out of commission since then. He has finally been able to start eating a little yesterday so he is on the up trend but it was pretty brutal.  Luckily, we were still able to get some things done because we have 4 elders here in Wiesbaden. We would schedule lessons and I would just go on exchanges so we could teach our friends. We actually had some amazing spirit filled lessons so that was awesome!  Joel is doing awesome. We taught him the plan of salvation this week and it blew his mind. "Everything makes sense now. It all has its place" is what he kept saying. We've decided to simply teach him through the scriptures, because he has an amazing understanding of it.  We've also been meeting with our friend Wassim and helping him understand the Plan of Salvation as well and that's been super cool as well. He has some pretty difficult circumstances and to see him slowly pi...

  Another week in the city of Wiesbaden! Here are some highlights: Our friend Joel continues to progress towards his baptism! We told him about General Conference snd that he would be able to listen to apostles and prophets speak and he said "you mean I get to hear an apostle speak?" We answered "Yes" and he replied "I've been waiting for this my whole life!" The plan is for him to be baptized on the 26th of April. We had general conference on Saturday and Sunday, which is a worldwide broadcast in our church where we hear from the apostles and prophets and they share inspiring messages focused on Jesus Christ. It's always super uplifting and spiritual! On Sunday our mission president let us stay up till midnight so we could hear the prophet, Russel M. Nelson speak. It was awesome! We had an awesome miracle yesterday. We had a referral that hadn't gotten back to us through text or call yet, so we decided to visit them. This happens quite often, ...

  We had an decent week! Other than than the normal finding and teaching of everyday missionary work, we actually had the opportunity to do some service this week! We visited a Persian family that a member has been helping out, and we painted a room for them! I had never painted a wall before but we got to learn how to use paint rollers and everything, it was awesome! We completed a large room in a about an hour and a half. We had interviews with President Cropper this week! He told me I'm finishing my mission in Wiesbaden. I also might be getting a trainee next transfer (don't leak this information, I'm not supposed to know yet). Anyways it was good to talk with him! Our new friend Joel has been making a ton of progress. He is a man on a mission to get baptized. He came to church last week and said "i am right here. I have found my church. The lord has lead me to be baptized here". He then asked us what he needed to do in order to get baptized and so a few days l...

  This week has been crazy!  So we started working in our new area of Wiesbaden. The city is awesome, huge compared to almost anywhere else I've served, so we've been able to do a lot of exploring.  On Friday we reached out to all the leaders in our congregation and asked if we could meet them and share a spiritual thought, and some people responded and we got an appointment that same night with a family from Chile! They were awesome. We also were able to find a lot and explore a lot of the new city. We found a sick guy named Wassim! He's from Tunisia and is super interested. We were able to give him a church tour and he came to church on sunday. He came to a board game activity we held on tuesday as well. He said he's been in Germany for 9 months and never felt welcome anywhere until he came to church, and that there's something telling him he needs to learn more about what we know. He's also just a super fun guy! On Saturday we texted and called probably 200 p...

  We got transfer news on Saturday! Elder McCann (our trainee) and i got a call from president. Get this: we are staying together- but opening up a brand new area in Wiesbaden!! That was the last thing I expected. We are starting from ground 0- 0 people to teach, 0 connections with the Ward, 0 contacts in our phone. We are super hyped to just start building it up. Im also not a ZL anymore, so i can focus We are also in one apartment with 4 elders so it's going to be an adventure for sure. This is most likely my last area on the mission! Other than that there isn't much new.  We met a super cool guy in Gießen the other day who has spent his whole life researching and trying to find the truth of God in religion. He has learned Arabic and Hebrew just so he could read the Karan and the Torah. He moved to India just to look into Hinduism. Now he reffered himself to the missionaries in Gießen in order to find truth from it, because of all the Christian denominations the Church of Je...

  Here are the good things: - Elder McCann got his wisdom teeth out and is now recovered! We got some awesome videos of him. The German dentist is pretty brutal though. His face looked like a chipmunk for 4 days  - we found some cool people! I talked to a guy who said no at first, but as I was walking away he asked me where I was from. I told him America, and then he asked which state. I told him Oklahoma. He then starts speaking really good English to me and apparently went on a school exchange in Stillwater Oklahoma like 30 years ago?? What are the chances? That's was a really fun conversation. Figured he's probably an OSU fan though so I didn't get his phone number.  - we had an awesome day at church on Sunday, our newly baptized member Okwuudili showed up without getting a ride with someone (the person he usually goes with is gone) so he traveled upwards of two hours to church. He missed the sacrament portion, so we were able to do a mini sacrament with him afterwards...