We have spent this past week and will spend this coming week prep'ing Nanakofi for his baptism on Saturday. We will be meeting with him everyday up until then. We are so excited for him and he is excited, too.
On Tuesday we had a lesson with Joshua. Finally we got his mom Doris to sit in the lesson. We read in John 10 where Jesus says, "I have other sheep not of this fold," and then we gave them a Book of Mormon and read with them the beginning of 3 Nephi 11, when Christ visits the Americas. They were amazed and really interested. They both commited to reading the Book of Mormon and praying about it.
We had a good day of contacting on Wednesday. We found a family from our area book and we got in touch with two university students from the other elders' area.
Thursday morning we got up and jumped on a train with the other missionaries in the district to Berlin. DeutscheBahn was striking again but we were able to get there without too much hassle. We had an awesome day of sight-seeing in Berlin. We visited Brandenburger Tor, the Jewish Memorial, the Berliner Dom, the East Side Gallery, and more. That night we stayed in the Tiergarten apartment with 8 other missionaries. Here are some of my pictures from Berlin:
Friday morning we got up and went to the Tiergarten chapel for the mission conference. It was really nice to see a bunch of friends from my last area/the Missionary Training Center.
The conference was great. Two Seventies (general authorities of the Church) were there to present technology in missionary work. We are going to receive iPads in two weeks apparently. This whole idea is totally inspired. The idea behind iPads is not only to further missionary work, reach more people, ease of use, etc. but it is also to teach missionaries good habits online and safeguarding from the evils that can be accessed on the Internet. The Seventies talked about inoculating our generation from the evils of pornography, just like his generation was inoculated from smoking and drinking. Really cool!
Saturday we were in lessons all day. Our ward mission leader joined us with Sin-Gu. We are trying to help him pray to receive an answer about the Book of Mormon. We also sketched out a plan with a less-active member on how to get to the temple by Christmas.
Yesterday at church Grace asked me, "So when is my baptism?" It would be great to see her baptized by the end of the transfer (end of May). Peter came to church too. He loved sacrament meeting. He said he hadn't been to a sacrament service in a long time. He also referred his friend and godson to the Oldenburg missionaries. He is a super missionary!
This week should be exciting!
Love,
Elder Tanner Germann
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