Allan, Landon PT

Hallo alle! What a good week! On Sunday we had an incredible lesson with Julian who is the boyfriend of one of our members, Eliza. Eliza is planning on going on a mission, and Julian was pretty disappointed, so he wanted to better understand why people go on missions. So we both explained why we are out here and what led us to decide to come on a mission. It was very spiritual, and Julian said he understood a lot better why Eliza wanted to go and was not so disappointed anymore. We also had a lesson with our friend Ozan. Meditation is his specialty, and says he has had a couple out of body experiences. He is actually totally open, and said he would pray about the truth of the Book of Mormon, which was way cool. He already has been able to identify God in his life, and so he is looking forward to praying and receiving an answer from God. But he also taught us how to meditate, so I am going to be trying that out sometime. Maybe I can go haunt people when I have my out of body experience!...

Hallo Leute! It's been a good week! Last Thursday we had a lesson with Alex and Galina. They are dating, but Alex is a member and Galina is not. We talked about the steps before baptism, and we even asked them if they want to get sealed sometime in the temple, and they enthusiastically said yes! The Spirit was so strong and you could see how much they cared for each other and how much they looked forward to being able to be together for eternity. Galina is really excited to get baptized, and today we are going to be talking more about what it takes to get there. On Friday we had three lessons in a row, all of which were really powerful. The first one with Dominik who was recently baptized. He is such a great guy and he is trying so hard to live the Gospel! The Gospel has really changed his life and he talked to us about how grateful he is for it and for the blessings he has seen. We then had a lesson with Christian, who was someone who had ordered a Book of Mormon through our missi...

Hallo alle! A crazy week to say the least!    On Saturday we (the Essen and Dortmund District missionaries) hosted a stake youth activity in Dortmund. It was called "Great Gatsby Night: a Night in the 1920's" - who wouldn't want to go to that? It was a huge success and actually a good amount of youth showed up which was way cool. We played a bunch of card games, served drinks, and it was a ton of fun! Maybe I will be a waiter when I get home. I only managed to screw up a couple orders and forget 3 others, and only one person told me they would leave me a 2 star Yelp review. It was such a great opportunity to create better relationships with the youth and show them that missionaries are just normal people too!   We met this week with Dennis again, along with two other missionaries that we were on a split with, and Marco (the GOAT, he is got to be one of my best friends here in Germany now, plus he is like 6'11", so to have a connection like him has its perks! ...

Hey y'all! The weeks are going by faster and faster I swear!    Happppppyyyyy new year!!!!!! Germans have been lighting off fireworks for the past week and a half. On New Years Eve we got together with some of the members in our ward and had Raclette together. It was really nice! That night I woke up at 12 am to booms and flashes of light, and I honestly thought we were under attack. Turns out Germans just love their New Years fireworks. I looked out the window and you could see fireworks going off from everywhere in the city! It was pretty cool.   This week we had some exchanges in Frankfurt, and it was a lot of fun! I was with Elder Urban (my companion 2 transfers ago) so that was pretty cool to serve together again even though it was only for a day. On Friday night we decided to do some door knocking. So we looked at a map, said a prayer, and felt prompted to go to a certain area of the city. So we went there and went to this one apartment building, no one was interest...