October 31, 2024: The universe was made just to be seen by my eyes

 Had a nice week!


Started off with an exchange. I was with "Elder Bishop". I wonder if he will one day be Bishop Bishop. We did another exchange later in the week with some of our media Elders, so that was fun too. 

The best thing this week would probably be that we organized what we call a "Hype week" where we have some kind of competition in the Zone in order to to help people be motivated to do missionary work. Often times these hype weeks kinda aren't that great (in all honesty) but ours was pretty successful! We based it off of different methods of finding people to teach. Those methods we identified were finding through families where not all family members have been baptized, referred people from members, referred people from people we teach, social media finding, and contacting in public. We made a zombie 🧟‍♂️  team and a vampire 🧛‍♂️ team (because of spooky season) , and through finding people they would earn points and the loser has to by lunch for the other team. Because of this we were able to find more than double the people this week as our average for the past few weeks, and it was awesome! I was on the Zombie team and we *barely* lost.

Church was fun this week! I was at the front door, greeting members, and then all of a sudden a tall dude with slicked back curly hair walks through the door and says "Elder Rex!!" And gives me a hug. It. Took me about 10 seconds to realize but it was a missionary I served with for a while (we were in the same district). His name is Elder Berndt and he's a native German and he just showed up completely randomly to visit his cousin who is apparently in our ward. It was awesome to see him!

We spent the day on Wednesday in Wetzlar because we had District council there, and decided to do some finding as well. We tried to cook up some lunch, and unfortunately the stove and oven did not work, and after about 45 minutes of trying to fix it, we decided to use the microwave. It turns out you can actually cook ground beef in the microwave like super fast! That sounds disgusting but desperate times call for desperate measures and so we microwaved up some chili con carne. Would i do it again? Well, Not if I have a stove. But if you don't it is not a terrible option. (+no food poisoning)

That's all that's new. We had a Halloween pday today and carved pumpkins with our Zone as well as the Frankfurt zone, so there were about 40 missionaries all together. It was a party!

Isaiah 49: 15-16 
"Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. 
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me."

We are never forgotten by the Savior. Through the nailing onto the cross we have literally been graven into his hands. He is just waiting for us to remember him.

Happy Halloween!
Elder Tage Rex

Pics:
The fit
A pringles advent calendar?
Me eating microwaved chili con carne while my comp does the dishes 💪 (he didn't trust the meat)
Bike
Elder Berndt on Sunday!







Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

November 28, 2024: I need something more than only me

Image
  First- Happy Thanksgiving!!  Second- I did not write last week. There may be some lost content but it's been a great couple weeks since my last email! We've been teaching a crazy amount of lessons and it is awesome. We have a very nice variety of languages, backgrounds, and people we're teaching. It's probably about 33% German, 33% English (often from Nigeria) and then 33% other where we have to involve translation, wether Turkish, French, or Arabic. It's super cool. We have a few people making a lot of progress: Alex: I was calling up old contacts a couple weeks ago and a Turkish lady named Alex picked up the phone and we made an appointment. We ended up meeting with her but she couldn't speak much German at all. We set up another appointment and got some translation there, and then God worked some insane miracle! We learned that she used to be Muslim but she had been reading the bible and known something was special about Jesus that she couldn't deny. Sh...
Read more

October 19, 2023: I hear there's a new hero in town

Image
  Challenge me, if you dare. This week was great! I saw a lot of little miracles, so it was nice to know God is looking out for me :)  We had interviews on Thursday! We had to head out pretty early to make our way to the city of Düsseldorf, where our stake center is located. We got to play with logos and eat candy while we waited, and it was nice to forget how old we are for a few minutes. My interview went really well actually, last time it was very short but this time my mission president, President Cropper actually helped me with a lot of what I've been struggling with. To be fair I didn't really know anything for my last interview. Our president calls the food döner (sounds closer to doo-ner) "doner"(doe-ner), but nobody's told him how to say it right for the past 3 transfers, and its pretty funny. We we did some street contacting for the Düsseldorf Elders, and did our studies there as well. As soon as we finished, we got a text from our Bishop, asking me to g...
Read more

July 26, 2023: IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII

Image
  IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII "Revenge is a dish best served cold" The Ping Pong Bandit Today I bring you rad tidings of great joy. It rained like 4 times this week! With lightning and everything, it was wonderful. Reminds me of my days long past in the state of Oklahoma, with howling wind, skies ablaze, and lightning in the air. Tis all yet but an old memory. In all seriousness, during one of our 10 minute breaks we got to run all the way downstairs and outside to play in the rain for just a few minutes. That seems like such a little thing, but you really learn to appreciate the little things when you are here. Every normal thing you get to do is just filled with wonder and amusement. Also, The sky was almost literally on fire yesterday. Sundays are incredible here! I used to not look forward to Sundays that much, but they're such a good breath of fresh air in the MTC. You get to hear your fellow missionaries bear testimony, knowing that they are going through ex...
Read more