November 9, 2023: People talking without speaking

 Trying to take what they can get

I ask you, if you remember
Prospekt how could I forget

My entire world just got flipped upside down here it seems. 

We had transfer day on Friday! I dropped off my father in duisburg in the morning, and met up with the elders there. We spent the day there, and then they dropped me off back at the train station there to wait for Elder Gibert. It was the first time I've been alone for a while, it was really weird but also really peaceful. His train was delayed twice, so he was already 45 minutes late, and then I got a call from him, and apparently the train just blew straight by duisburg and never stopped! They were in the city Oberhausen already, and they had to turn around the train to pick us up. And, they changed platforms last minute. It was really crazy but eventually we made it! Schwester Ebbert, the Oma below us, picked us up and drove us home. 

Elder Gibert is awesome! He's got about 7 months left out, and I've seriously had so much fun with him so far. We are making Wesel great agin. We're getting the apartment to look nice, fixing up the bikes, FINALLY getting a new bike, because we've been using a middle schoolers mountain bike since as long as I can remember. Things are just going good. Hopefully it stays that way. Also he's got a crazy pushup circuit we're trying out. So far It just seems like we're on a really long exchange haha.

We were waiting for a lesson, doing a little bit of contacting, and met a lady named Rojin who was flabbergasted that we could speak German as Americans, and she was like woah I've been looking into Christianity, but I don't know which church to join with the Catholic, evangelical, and orthodox church all here. Basically she's golden, and we're excited to help her find what she's been looking for. Right after we had a lesson with our man Sunday, and he wants to be baptised! We're going to get him a date next week. He wants to teach us how to make fufu too.

We did another side quest for Schwester Ebbert, we helped her with some stuff outside. She gave us some bread men (not gingerbread men) but just bread people with a pipe and stuff from a bakery. There's a holiday here called St. Martins day that it comes from.

We had a super early zone conference, because we had a mission tour for a general 70 (a leader of the church). We went to Düsseldorf Tuesday night, and stayed with the Persian speaking elders there. Elder De Junge from the Netherlands was there, and he somehow knows everything about Oklahoma, because of Donald duck comic strips? 

We woke up the next day, and went to conference, and it was great as always! The general 70 guy, Elder Gerard, gave an incredible devotional for over an hour, and he was off script the entire time, just following the spirit. What a man.

We had boxes of Book of Mormons to take home, and a new bike from Düsseldorf, so that was a bit wild. But we have the new bike, and none of the books were ruined, so it was alright. 

Psalms 30:5
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

This scripture has really helped me when it going gets tough. Sometimes it's so hard to recognize that there really are better things in store for us ahead, both spiritually and temporally. If we choose to have faith and follow Christ, no matter how long the night seems, no matter how many tears were shed, joy will come in the morning. It always does.

Overall I'm doing really well :) leading the area of Wesel has been a bit stressful, but Elder Gibert has been helping me out a lot. I couldn't be more thankful to be here at this time :)

Elder Tage Rex

Included below is the following:
Luigi
Bread men and the pipes therewith
A very weird statue in Duisburg
Us on the bikes (I'm blurry)
Our new whatsapp profile pic 🔥 













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