Elder Tage Rex: Germany Frankfurt Mission

  Time's a scootin' This was an extra long week because our pday was moved from Thursday to Saturday, but we've gotten a lot done and it's been awesome! Last week we had a lot of time on our hands, and with some faith we were able to find 21 new people to teach which was crazy! It's definitely a filtering process to find out which of these 21 are willing to meet consistently and keep commitments, but it was way cool. This week we've had a lot more appointments which is super nice.  We also had a great Sunday with 6 friends at church. We held a little class on our own with all the new people. We said goodbye to our Dutch friend who moved back to the Netherlands this week   way sad. We met with our boy Wassim from Tunisia and he is one if the coolest guys I've ever met. He's just a true friend and has been feeling the spirit a lot recently, especially in our last lesson with him. He is praying about the Book of Mormon right now    A Syrian lady we met last...

  This week was great! Here is the rundown: On Friday and Saturday it was basically just finding days. We found quite a few really cool people! One of them is named Roulof, he's from the Netherlands. Another is named Roman, who ran into some missionaries in Colorado a while back but didn't have time to meet with them. Now he has more time and is super interested in meeting with us! He's also German, which is pretty rare.  On Sunday we had Stake Conference, and our new member Joel traveled 3 hours to get there with us. He was in tears by the end of the conference, it was really sweet. Monday was a lot more finding. Tuesday was a wild ride, we had a district council, except every companionship had things come up at different times for different reasons, so one companionship showed up 1 hour late, another got sick and attended through videocall. Then 3 random people showed up at the church and the other companionship had to go help them out. Needless to say it was a little all...

 This was a pretty good week! Elder Mattern and I are doing great and having fun. I actually started the week sick, so we stayed in on Friday, but we went back to work on Saturday. We taught a new friend from turkey who is super cool and had our new member Joel at the lesson too! He bore some awesome testimony. We also got to so some service for a member where we dismantled and transported a big swing set.  Unfortunately the mission nurse advised us to stay home on Sunday because of my sickness. Probably for the best but a little unfortunate. Monday was Zone Conference! My last one. It was pretty great, always a good spirit and great to see everyone. My previous companion Elder Stubbs was there too because now he is an Assistant to the President and it's awesome to hang out with him.  Other than that we've mostly been finding new people to teach. We spend a lot of time on the street and we've been visiting members as well, encouraging them in their missionary efforts. It...

  This week was quite bittersweet. Transfers happened, and unfortunately me and Elder McCann had to part ways. It was super sad, but nothing gold can stay. He's off in the distant land of Bayern (a German province) in the town of Ansbach.  I'm still in Wiesbaden though, my new companion is Elder Mattern, and he's way chill.  This transfer is only 5 weeks and one of them is practically completely filled with stuff preparing to go home so that is pretty crazy. This last week we've just been up to the same old, but on Saturday I got to visit a baptism from somebody who I taught almost a year ago in Trier! That was super cool. My friend Harry who had also been baptised as I was in Trier also showed up! It was a great reunion. We met a really cool Brazilian guy today on a bus who is super excited to come to church so we are looking forward to meeting with him more.  We also participated in a service project with our new member Joel where we went to a cool wilderness area ...

  We had quite an exciting week! On Saturday Joel was baptized!! He was super nervous but he was so happy. A lot of people from the Ward came to support him as well and it was so awesome. He is being integrated into the Ward very well and we are very excited for him to continue to progress in the Gospel. On Monday our mission president and his wife came down to have lunch and ice cream with us! We did something a couple months ago that made them happy and they rewarded us. We went to a place that's basically as close as you can get to taco bell in Germany called Chidoba. It was delicious. On Tuesday we had an exchange and I was with our zone leader Elder Kirk. He's super chill and we had a lot of hobbies in common so it was fun to talk about nerdy things. We found a cool Egyptian guy together too! We started a scripture study night on Wednesdays where we read in the Bible and the book of mormon with our friends and it's been super awesome. The Spirit is always strong in the...

  Happy Easter!  This week was good, Elder McCann is feeling a lot better so we've been able to get outside more.  We celebrate Easter on Sunday and heard some awesome church talks. After that we went to a members house and ate lunch. It was with 2 iconic 50 year old dude from the Ward who are best friends named Bruder Jetter and Bruder Balico.  Two member families also showed up and dropped us off a bunch of food and sweets for us! It was super thoughtful of them, and home cooked food tastes way nice. They also gave my companion some nice Crocs! Our friend Joel is doing great, he had his interview and is ready to be baptized this Saturday! We are super excited for him, and he is even more excited. He's been really great making relationships in our congregation and has so much enthusiasm for the gospel. In Germany they also celebrate the day after Easter, so on Monday we went on a ward hike/picnic. We took a mountain train to a cool recreational outdoors area and it ...