Elder Tage Rex: Germany Frankfurt Mission

  Were half way there I hit my halfway/year mark on Wednesday! One year ago I entered the MTC, and started the process of living my life for something greater. The process is still going, and will for a long time but we've come a long way. I don't have much time (I say that every week) but I'll try to get something down. On Friday I saw my family! It was wonderful. I wasn't sure how I was going to come out of it and react emotionally, but to my surprise it was totally fine! It was weirdly normal, like I'd just said hi to them yesterday or something. Nonetheless amazing to see them again though :) We also had a great exchange with our ZLs, who helped me a lot with a bunch figuring out my current challenges and accomplishing my goals. I also met this member named troy from tennissee and he was such a funny dude. He made us tacos! We've been able to find some cool people recently! These two german speaking Arabic dudes came to the institute (young adults gospel cla...

 y ou're the pianoman Sorry super short one this week! The city of Frankfurt is still hustling and bustling. We are finding a good number of people to teach which is awesome, and we are trying our best to get as many people at church as we can! We had 2 exchanges this week, one with the AP's which really expanded my view of what it means to open your mouth and talk to everyone. I also went with one of the office elders and he is a great elder and we had fun together.  We went to Heidelberg for Pday this week, pics below! What an incredible city. We visited the castle there as well. For some reason there is a pharmacy museum inside of it. Don't ask me why, if I designed the castle it would just have cool swords and stuff in there.  I'll write more next week! Liebe Grüße  Elder Tage Rex

  It cannot always be night This week has just been an absolute roller coaster! It started out pretty rough, because we are both in a completely new area and know nothing about anything. There's tons of missionaries around though (cuz were at the HQ) so there's help when we need it.  Navigating the big city is so crazy, we have subway stations and street trains and crazy stuff like that, but honestly it's really nice compared to busses! I find it more comfortable to talk to strangers in the subways and street trains than in busses. We have tons of Ukrainian friends because the city is full of immigrants, and I have a Ukrainian companion. Its a very cool language, and I hope I can pick up some! Our mission president allows us to learn a 2nd language (if we want) when we become proficient in german, and I'm at the threshold so perhaps I'll pick Ukrainian.   I've been thinking a lot about joy recently, because its one of the promised blessings we have as missionari...