Elder Tage Rex: Germany Frankfurt Mission

  Little bit of a roller-coaster week! A lot if incredible things happened tho. Significant events: - we went to Luxembourg! Our branch president lives there with his wife and 10 kids. They're basically an American family, all of the kids sound American and only our Branch president has a little French accent. We had a little youth activity (which is the branch president's kids and some friends they invite) and we played some pool (I slayed) and had some bbq and a devotional. It was fun! -I got sick on Sunday, and had a very long early morning to say the least. We didn't make it to church, and I slept half of the day. It turns out, about 2/3 of our branch was sick as well! Luckily Elder Haws was feeling alright. - we had a bunch of people who were going to come to church, and we were so excited! We told them we were sick though and nobody showed up  . Always another week though! - we met with some amazing people.    - Angelika (the lady from last week who texted us w...

  I didn't write an email last week, sorry to all of my weekly subscribers. We had very important matters on our hands (playing paintball). Things have been amazing though! We've been working really hard- probably the hardest I have so far on the mission and it feels awesome! Elder Haws and I work really well together. It can be a lot to balance sometimes, because the more people we find the more we have to keep track of and it's easy for people to fall through the cracks. It's totally worth it though, and we're seeing the hand of The Lord in so many things we do. It's also amazing to see the Lord use imperfect people like Elder Haws and I, in our weakness, to accomplish his gathering, and it really feels like it is happening. I can feel my faith increasing day by day.  Here are some highlights from the recent 2 weeks: - we set a baptismal date for our friend Rohit! - we tried to go "thank you card" contacting, but everyone we talked to was so confused...

  What an awesome week! Here's some highlights: - we got to help a new senior couple move in, and translate for all the bureaucracy they had to do here. It was awesome to get to know them! - we went on a branch hike! Most of our branch got together on Saturday and did a short hike to a cutout open cave. (To my family- if you remember that massive carved our place with a hangover in Arkansas on the way to that one cave where you have to crawl, it was basically a mini version of that). Harry wore Lederhosen (very traditional German leather overalls), it was incredible. "Its my only hiking outfit"  - little miracle. An Arabic family we contacted showed up at church. The parents couldn't really understand German, so we decided to introduce the Book of Mormon to them in Sunday School. We had brought the exact copies we needed in order to best support their needs! We weren't even sure they were showing up but we were prepared with exactly what we needed for their spirit...

  Life has been crazy! My son Elder Haws us crushing it. I hope that I can raise him in the ways of truth and righteousness.  We've been suuper busy. There's a lot of meetings we have to attend as well as extra studies we do in order to support the new missionaries, so it definitely has been harder to find time to get out there and go. The time that we do have to go is great! From the git-go Elder Haws has been confident enough to talk to people and invite them to church, something I would dread every day at the start of the mission. He's also already grasping the language really well. It's so fun to see the world through his eyes because everything is so new and cool and every little thing is significant.  On Friday we were able to do a little mini mission with an American boy named Eli. He's a 300lb offensive linebacker and is super chill. We brought him to our district council, it was fun to have him there. We were also able to make a new friend named Amjad that ...

 (This is last weeks email. I didn't forget to write- I just forgot to Send ) Grüß euch! We got news this week! Last Saturday I got the call from President Cropper that I would be staying in Trier and that I'm training! From missionary conception to birth, its only 4 days so i I picked up my brand new baby missionary yesterday evening. They grow up so fast!  His name is Elder Haws and he's from North Augden, Utah. He's super cool, very tall, and already has pretty good German. He's gonna be an incredible missionary and I'm excited to watch him and guide him towards his potential. In other news, we were able to pick up our friend Adisa back! He didn't want to meet with us for a while and we were able to discuss his concerns and it was amazing. He should be coming to Harry's baptism on Saturday! Speaking of, isn't that awesome how my baby missionary gets to experience a baptism on his 3rd day in field? We're super excited! We got to meet some youth...

  Another week! We get transfer news this Saturday! It'll happen next Wednesday so I will let you all know what's going down next week.  First off, Friday! We went to District council which was wonderful, and followed it up with some district lunch at a big food truck festival! It was a bunch of burger joints from around Germany, and they were traveling around the country selling exclusively their signature burger. Everyone then has the chance to vote on what was the best, and each truck wins prizes based on each city's votes. It was super cool! I picked out the one voted as the #1 burger joint, because they had like 8 plaques in front of them claiming to have won in all the other cities. It wasn't actually a burger, it was a patty melt but it was absolutely delicious! And presented quite eloquently.  Later that day Harry had his baptismal interview! He traveled 2 hours to Heidelberg just for it. He is so committed.  Saturday we did a bunch of contacting in public an...

  Another week accomplished  Friday was a crazy day. It was the day for our District council, and we were going to drive over an hour there. Unfortunately, as we were heading our I realized I didn't have the car keys! (I think my weakness is keys). We couldn't find them in the apartment so we decided they could only be in the car. We said a prayer and went down to the car, which we had parked and not touched for 2 whole days. Well, we found the keys, while also finding another problem. They were still in the ignition. Before anybody face-palms, I just want to say that it was a miracle that the car and its keys and everything in it were still there! The Lord really does have our back when we need it. OK, now you can face-palm. The battery was completely dead after running over 2 nights, so we called the driving coordinator in the mission and they said to call a car service shop (your average joe doesn't usually have jumper cables around here),  Unfortunately), so we called...