Hallo World!!

Guten tag alles menchen!

I hope that this letter finds everyone well. I can't believe that two weeks has already gone by. I feel like this past week was a blurr.

Our lesson on Thursday was our last lesson with our "investigator," Jenni. We have definitely learned a lot from our experiences with her. Jenni is actually Sister Judd and since we are done teaching her, Sister Judd now teaches our afternoon classes. She is a strict teacher but she is very good. She went to the Alpine Mission.

On Friday we switched things up during gym time and decided to play basketball. It was my first time shooting the J in a while so I was a bit rusty. I don't know if I liked it as much as soccer. We're going back to soccer from now on. Today we're going to have an epic Berlin vs Frankfurt game. Berliners will be victorious. Friday we began learning conversational past and by now I've pretty much got the hang of it.

I have learned to not look forward to Saturdays. Saturdays are literally the longest days. The classroom periods are both in the afternoon, the second going from 1830 to 2130. We had a really good lesson from Sister Judd that evening though. We talked about how the Restoration is more than just Joseph Smith translating the Book of Mormon and restoring the church. It begins with the knowledge that our Heavenly Father loves us and then goes to Christ's earthly ministry followed by the apostacy. Then comes Joseph Smith and the restoration of the church. Thats why lesson one in Preach My Gospel chapter three includes all of those topics!

Sundays are always good days though. Lots of study time. I prepared a short talk in Deutsch that morning just in case they asked me to speak in sacrament meeting. I had the opportunity to bless the sacrament with Elder Morton. I think we nailed the pronounciation. Temple walks on Saturday are always nice. We took a district pic. I'll try to include it. I really like the Sunday night devotional. It came from a verse in Alma 6 (I think?) which talks about ministering to those who have no faith in God. He called up two random missionaries from the audience who said before they were converted two years ago, neither had faith in God. Their stories were amazing. It's funny how Heavenly Father prepares people for the missionaries.

The newest Mormon Message is on point! Check it out:
https://www.lds.org/pages/mormon-messages#the-will-of-god

Monday was a good day. Bro. Garlick came back from vacation so we were all excited about that. I think we all learn best from him. Elder Morton and I have two new "investigators" this week. Bro. Garlick role played as the one on Monday. It went so well. I understood everything he said. We responded well to his questions. The Spirit was there. Our lesson on Tuesday was a bit different. It was played by our other teacher Bro. Mower. He acted very distant and was hard to get responses from. We just have to be able to adapt to different personalities. It was a good learning experience and we will be ready for the next lesson on Friday.

Yesterday we had a devotional by a member of the Seventy who is the executive director of the missionary board. He gave a nice talk about repentance. He just had a day's worth of material. He went 20 minutes over. But hey, maybe some people needed to hear it. I really appreciated him quoting Enoch. The other day I had the impression to read Enoch and so the fact that he talked about it really made me happy.

German is coming slowly. At this point I really need to hit the vocab hard. I understand most things and I know what I want to say back, I just have a hard time doing it because I don't have the words. It will come.

Hope everyone is doing well!

Love,
Elder Tanner Germann