Surprise trip to Berlin

Hey y'all! Hope everyone's having a great week. Things are warming up
here in Schwerin after this past week.

Thursday we had an appointment with the old German man we met last
week at the tram stop. This week we taught the restoration and it went
pretty well. You know, everyone's a little different with their
knowledge and with him we really had to keep it basic. I mean he was
born and raised in the DDR but he was so surprised when we told him
that Christ was crucified. But he participated well and
seemed to understand everything. He liked the restoration video and
when we invited him the be baptized if he found out if these things
were true, he said he would think about it. That something to work with.

Friday we had zone training meeting in Berlin. I love Berlin! Here's my attempt
at an artsy B&W:

I was able to have a quick lunch with Elder Nearon and then at the meeting I
gave a lesson on the baptism of Christ. It went pretty well. So at this
point I'm an old missionary and I had never seen any of the
missionaries there before except for my companion and one other guy that
was in my first group. A younger missionary came up to me after the
meeting and thanked me for my lesson and told me that I was a good
teacher. That was very nice given that I have been teaching every day
for more than a year now!  I really enjoyed being in Berlin again.

Saturday we went to Wismar where we had made an appointment out last
week. We went to tell him that we needed to reschedule which was fine
because he was sick anyway. His wife answered the door and talked to
us for a few minutes. I don't know the exact story, hopefully I'll
figure it out this week, but this family is prepared for our message. So the
husband was found by missionaries about a year and a half ago. They had one
lesson and then lost contact. He and the wife, who has two sons, must
have gotten together recently because she said just a year ago she was
living in Cottbus and met several times with the sisters there. She
asked us how two specific sisters (sisters that we know) were doing
and we said, "Huuhh?" She said she read the Book of Mormon with
them and they brought the kids the picture version. So now we're
meeting with the whole crew on Saturday so fingers crossed that it
goes well. Saturday evening there was a chorus concert at the church.
The choir was made up of members mostly from the Hannover area. Our
new convert here brought a friend who we're now going to meet with
twice this coming week!  Here's an Easter display at the mall...with chics!

Sunday was branch conference which focused on keeping the Sabbath day
holy. There were some great talks by the stake president and his first
counselor.

I wish y'all a great week!

Love,
Elder Tanner Germann