First week of 2016

Hey y'all! Hope everyone had a great New Years.

Mine here was pretty loud. The Germans really turn out for the new
year. Basically fireworks start about sunset and go to
about noon the next day. The night of the 31st people were
just walking around throwing/shooting fireworks at each other.  It 
sounded like a war zone and the city was all lit up.  Here are some sights
and sounds from the city over the holidays--check out the food!!!

New Year's Day we had a Zone activity in Kiel where we went jogging
together and then had a game of ultimate frisbee.

We had a great turn out for a lesson on Saturday. We decided that it
would be more time efficient to have a class for all of our Persian
speaking friends rather than try to meet with them individually.  That way,
their friend and new member Mehrdad would also not. We had five people
be run ragged!  Come on Saturday and then on Sunday we had five
in sacrament meeting.  We had the translation headsets out and I translated 
into English for Mehrdad who then translated into Persian for them. Kinda
chaotic but totally worked out.

Here is a picture of my friend and church member Marc; notice also the insert of Marc 
with Wisconsin Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner on a trip to Europe.  Coincidentally, 
Congressman Sensenbrenner just provided me a nomination to return to the 
Air Force Academy--wow!

I really enjoyed reading chapter 15 in First Corinthians this past
week. I'm really thankful for the restoration and that we have the
understanding of the scriptures that we do today. I'm thankful that
our families can be together forever. I'm thankful for the temple!
What would we do without a living prophet on the earth today?

Love,

Elder Tanner Germann