I picked up my new companion, Elder Peatross, on Tuesday in Hamburg. He is from Provo, UT. We were busy busy running around from appointment to appointment this week but it was good fun. I'm not kidding, I think we were running several times to make buses and appointments. I'm sort of getting back in shape.
I want to update you on Br. Goltz. We had our regularly scheduled appointment with him on Thursday but the feeling was much different. You could tell he was a bit off. He said that his ex-fiance came by last week and spent several hours trying to cause doubt in his mind with reference to the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon. To which she did successfully. So on Thursday we listened to him rattle off a list of objections and doubts that he has now ever since he talked to her. I sat there thinking, No No No this is such a great guy, this can't be happening! He said he really wants the Book of Mormon to be true and he tried his best to defend it but he has all of these doubts now. We bore testimony of the Book of Mormon and encouraged him to continue to read in it and pray about it. We are taking the bishop there next week and are really hoping to help him develop his testimony and recognize answers to his questions through the Spirit.
We had a lesson with an less active 22 year-old who was recently contacted by the congregation/ward. We took the bishop along and bore testimony of how the Church has helped us in our lives. I felt like I could really connect to him since we're about the same age. I told him my conversion story and said that it helped me to decide to live the commandments from the beginning because that made making decisions later, easier. It was a good lesson.
We had the ward Christmas party Saturday night that went well and then we went to meet a media referral that night.
That's right, we had a Christmas mirace and got a media referral that was legit! Usually they're people playing pranks on their friends but this 23 year-old who wants to get away from drugs and find happiness googled "what is the meaning of life" and ended up on the church website. He referred himself and we met him on Saturday night. It really felt like a Missionary Training Center role play. He was saying things like, "How do I repent?" "I just want to be happy in life." etc. Crazy cool. He came to church and then last night we taught the first lesson and he ate it all up. Hopefully that goes somewhere!!!
Gotta run! Everything good and blessed this week.
Love,
Elder Tanner Germann
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