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Hey my dudes,

This week was one for the books, it was quite great. There's not too much other than the Persian temple trip to report. We let ourselves the hair be cut (insert Allen quote), had a few lessons, and got ourselves ready for his legendary weekend. We had a great eating appointment with a member in our branch on Thursday right before interviews, which was quite amazing. The food there is about as German as it can get and that is dope. Then we went straight to interviews and had a wonderful time there. Had to miss out on the pizza because our wonderful zone leaders have no clue what they're doing waiting until right before we have to leave to order the Pizza.

After a meeting and getting ourselves prepared on Friday morning, we headed on over to Berlin to pick up Elder Morrell. He is a Turkish missionary whose visa was rejected by the government so he gets to be in Germany for about 5 or so more months. But he is learning Persian as well, so we picked him up and brought him to Freiberg with us. Very interesting guy to say the least. We got to good ole Sachsen, without even losing the phone. Legendary already. We then had the rest of the night to help everyone get settled in and have some good food. Elder Hickenlooper who came from the border of Poland basically, didn't have a phone and his ride fell out at the train station in Freiberg, so he had to walk 30 minutes to the temple by himself to us, pretty funny.

Saturday was a big day. Lots to do. But I'll condense it for your sake. We started out with 2 baptismal sessions split between half of us and we stayed behind so we could wait for our best friend who was still coming from Frankfurt. Ah man that was a great reunion with him. He left Frankfurt at 11pm Friday and got there on Saturday at 9:45am, that's a true disciple of Christ right there. Well, we had baptisms which were super awesome, me and Elder Oliver went and did some more temple work, and then we went to go eat some food. Luckily there was a little left for us, so we didn't have to starve haha. 

our boy

Persian mission squad

my bestest friend ever

schön ain't it

another view of me (and the temple)

cute chocolate thing in Dresden

We got the chance to watch 17 miracles together, while a courageous member translated the whole movie into Persian. The Persian members are literally pioneers. They have been through hardships and trials getting here to Germany, so that they can receive the Gospel here. The stories these humble members tell just hit you right in the heart. How easy we have it sometimes. I have never met a more humble people in my life. To end the night we had a awesome fireside in German and Persian. It was great to hear from President Fingerle, the Temple President, and from Elder Leima of the 70 who hung out with us the whole weekend. What an awesome experience.

I could just go on forever talking about different experiences and awesome things we saw there, but nobody got time for that. On Sunday we got to have a Persian Sacrament meeting, with everything in Farsi, Sacrament prayers, hymns, testimonies, everything. How wonderful. Luckily it was also translated into German so that helped as well haha. The testimonies of these members were just so strong and incredible. One of the women said, tearing up, "I am so excited that I can be here, because I finally get to share my testimony in my language." These people are just outstanding. I wish you could all get the chance to you know how great they are.

We experienced one last miracle on the way home. We were bought different tickets than we thought we were getting, and it turned out to be a blessing. We took a bus from Freiberg to Dresden, and as we got our seats, we realized the people we sat next to were all speaking Farsi to one another! That was really cool. We jumped right on that and they thought it was so lit that 3 white dudes from America could speak to them in their native tongue. We got their phone numbers and facebooks, awesome stuff!!

Sorry for the length of this week’s letter, enjoy.

Liebe Grüße,  ارشد جانساون

P.S. We're going to the temple again this week for Berlin zone conference 😎

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​Elder Glenn Johnson

Kirche Jesu Christi

Plauer Straße 11d

Brandenburg an der Havel 14770
Deutschland