Well Ma. I be broke. We're checking out this Christmas market place in Mannheim. I am buying some necessities for the future. Got a sweet wallet. My other one was in strings so no problem. Probly buy yall some Christmas stuff if you want. Actually already did and something way cool is on the way. Mom will love it. Kinda like a German Nativity, but cooler. Haha. Anyways. This week was just another beautiful week for miracles and people are ready.

Our pal Amie is actually called Ameer. Heard him wrong haha. But we meet him every two days or so, and he calls us to set up appointments. We have done the first three lessons with him so we are now teaching the commandments to him. Something really special about him is his testimony about Jesus Christ and the book of Mormon. Every time we go over he testifies, that he knows this is the right way. When he prays, he prays better than perhaps most members of the church I know. He really prays from the heart and the spirit is always powerful. He has already gotten an answer to his prayers that this church is true. 

Every time we ask him about the book of Mormon is amazing. He just tells us everything that happens in total detail. He literally retells the stories of the book of Mormon to us. And he is one hundred percent spot on. He loves Sam, the brother of Nephi, because he chose to stay true despite his older brothers. He has finished these two first books of Nephi. 

The last lesson we had was also powerful. We brought a member with us called Timo Schumann. His mind was blown as he went with and I am glad he came with. He still has the experience of being a missionary under his belt and knew how to keep things simple and when to bear testimony. So amazing. He bore testimony of why it is important to be baptized and Ameer loved it. He then asked

What should I do now then? What's the next step!? 

Timo just smiled really big at us and we talked about baptism, our first Covenant. We explained to him what it was and now he wants to be baptized. He is planned for January 6th.

Timo told us after the lesson, that this is the most remarkable Muslim he has ever seen. He told us well done and that he had no recommendations for us in teaching. The holy ghost just told us what to say and it went where it was supposed to. He is ready to be baptized. The only problem we face right now is the ward. Even Timo told us we need to have members from the bishopric with us as we teach these lessons to gain their trust. It will not be easy to convince the bishopric about his baptism but for now we have one man backing us up on this one. Germans normally don't accept Muslims Baptisms so well for some reason, so it will come in time. 

A couple of other people just found us as well. The other elders are teaching them, but this guy called Bohan from China just came to church one day and told us his story that he read the Bible when he was seven and he knows it perhaps better than I do. He is going to be baptized the 16th.

Monica is another lady who found us. She loves the book of Mormon and was previously a strong catholic. Not anymore. Literally, in the catholic church it showed a picture catholic version of Jesus christ, and she put the book of Mormon next to it and took a picture of it and sent it to us. So hilarious. And then her nine year old daughter had a dream that Jesus told her she needs to be baptized in this church, so yeah. There is another baptism on the way.

Just stuff started happening all of a sudden here. Saarbrücken was dead, but it just came out of nowhere from the ashes. We didn't even do anything honestly said. God just sent some awesome people our way. Look forward to teaching them. 

Much love 

Elder Monroe