Exchange in Rostock

I'm sitting on the street car right now waiting for the police to
come. A bunch of teenagers pulled the emergency brake.

I watched it happen; I don't think it was on purpose. But it doesn't help that they
were all drinking.... I'm afraid we'll be late to our next appointment.

Otherwise my week was okay. Monday night we had a dinner appointment
with the zone leaders at woman's house who was super nice. She's a
good friend of the branch president in Rostock and she's had a good
relationship with the missionaries for the past couple of years.
Afterward I had an exchange of companions with Elder Allen to Rostock.
It was a really good time. It was really cool to see how much he has matured
since the beginning of his mission. I walked away with a
couple of pointers. He showed me a new, very active and effective way
of doing member work which I've always been weak on. We had a member
appointment and he really controlled the time and conversation with
a step by step plan.  Here's our chapel in Schwerin:

District meeting on Wednesday went well. I led a reading and
discussion on John 20. We also had a family home evening with our new
convert Tina and her friend Olaf. Tina is doing well and it was a
really good time teaching the restoration to Olaf. He's the one that
came to the choir concert last week.  Here are a couple of landmarks here
in Schwerin--the Schloss (palace) as well as the oldest home here:

Thursday we met with our old German friend again. Well it was actually
kinda funny. We were a bit early so we got off the train a stop early and
ended up seeing him nearby just taking a walk. We decided to follow
him assuming he was headed back home for our appointment. After
awhile he got so far away and it was time for the appointment that we
flagged him down. It was kinda awkward though because there was no
good way to act like we casually ran into him. It had
slipped his mind but we walked back together and taught the plan of
salvation together with a member that we had invited. He takes
everything in very well, I just don't feel like he takes it seriously
enough. This week we're really going to try to get him to do
something. That evening we had a member appointment and I was able to
implement what I learned on my exchange to lead the lesson. It went
really well. The member's wife is not a member so it was good
for her and good for us to get to know her.  Here's the home they've built
on a reservoir...no motor boating/wake boarding unfortunately!

We went down to Perleberg on Friday to visit an Iranian family. A mix
up of train times kinda ruined the whole thing but we ended up in
Ludwigslust for awhile and went by a member's house who hadn't been
to church in awhile. This lady was so happy to see us she said, "Meine
Elders!" We walked in and she had Jehovahs Witnesses over trying to
convert her....  They left and we had a sweet little talk with her about Easter.

We finally had a lesson with the guy that's supposed to be getting
ready to be baptized. It went alright. We taught the plan of
salvation. He doesn't say much. But Tina said that he had a lot of
good thoughts about it and wanted to ask a few questions next time. We
have two appointments set up for Thursday and Friday this next week.  We
also visited our members again who are restoring the manor--they have sheep!

The family that I was talking about last week had to move the
appointment back a week. The husband's uncle died in Hamburg and he
had to go there.

I wish everyone a happy Easter! #Hallelujah

Elder Tanner Germann

www.mormon.org/Easter