Elder Tage Rex: Germany Frankfurt Mission

  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 ...

  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...