Hey y'all! How is everyone doing?!
We saw much improvement between last week and this week. We got in touch with a lot more people, we found a pair of German investigators to teach, and this coming week has the potential to be super! We had a little fun on our preparation day throwing the Frisbee around the park:
On Tuesday we had language study with Marcella, the new convert Elder Horrocks baptized last transfer. We are going to be doing that more often because we both feel like we get a lot out of practicing German with a German who is super willing to teach. She went to the city library and checked out a bunch of books and so she is teaching us using them in addition to our MTC study materials. We had an appointment with John, an American. He is really into conspiracy theories and reads a lot of bad things about Mormons but is really open to hearing from us. We taught a lesson on prophets. It went well and he said it made sense but he continues to say that it's not really for him. He keeps our commitments--he read the Liahona we gave him this week. Doris, the woman from Ghana we met on Sunday, cancelled but she wants to meet this coming week and she wants us to teach her two sons about the Bible--perfect. After Ward Missionary Council that night, I began my exchange with Elder Rosenvall.
District meeting on Wednesday went well. We did a lot of role plays--finding approaches and 5-minute lessons. I loved the example Elders Carpenter and Pinion gave in Leadership Training Meeting (take one of your hobbies and make a person finding approach out of it), so I used that. The exchange with Elder Rosenvall was good--we went and visited a less-active couple in Bremen Nord. He is a really good missionary. He works really hard and is trying to help his companion. Here is a picture of my district--hard to believe I'm the District Leader for these great missionaries!
We had a service project planned for Friday morning in a member's garden but she cancelled at the last minute. We ended up trying out a new finding activity that the sister missionaries came up with. We had chalkboards and we stopped people and asked them to write what brought them joy on the board. We had some really good discussions but weren't able to close on anyone. I think the idea could see a lot of success if we do it in to right place (center of downtown) with good weather. Here was our first attempt at it, in front of the chapel:
Saturday we met with Nanakofi, another friend from Ghana. He tried to tell us that he believed that our church was the true church but that he was just going to continue to go to the Catholic church with his mom. We bore testimony to him and he finally committed to coming to church. And he actually did come yesterday and stayed the whole time! He said the church was like paradise. We also found a 72 year-old German woman on the street that day--we talked to her for 50 minutes right there!
Yesterday we had a super good appointment with Grace, Fred's cousin. Fred flew back to Ghana this week, by the way, and is in a hospital in a coma. We took the sisters along as a joint teaching opportunity. We read 3 Nephi 11:1-17 with her. She loved it. She asked a lot of good questions about the godhead. She even said things like, "When I am baptized...." We need to commit her this week! We also were walking down the street and this guy stopped us asking if we were Americans. He knew a bit about Mormons and said he wanted to learn more. Here we are riding the train with the sisters:
Elder Horrocks is doing well. He is so much fun and really supportive. We are looking forward to a big week.
Love to all,
Elder Tanner Germann
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