As always constantly at a loss of words right before I begin
writing these things which is never good because the time only continues to tick
by while the screen continues to stay blank and white. Well, I guess I can
start as usual with a little update of what may be coming in the possible
future for me and for the City of Weimar so as far as I am concerned and also
according to a few sources. I will not be in Weimar after these next two weeks.
And will most likely be sent to Erfurt with and be with either the Elder that
is already in Erfurt or serve there with an Elder that will be coming up from
Gotha, who of which I have already served with before. Of course the now newly
created Erfurt ward would love to keep all the current missionaries and even
give me a car so that not only can I stay in Erfurt but I can also visit the
Weimar area. However nothing is 100 percent sure as always, although it seems
so far that my assumptions on the Mission have been correct so far. What I
think will happen is that I will be sent to Erfurt without a car and just
become an Erfurt missionary; my wishful thinking would be that I also got a car
but I don't know. Even more wishful thinking is that they actually closed down
a missionary program in Marzahn, which is an area in Berlin, in order to send
missionaries down here but because we are closing about three areas down here
that leaves a little bit more room. So what I am saying is that I would gladly
go open up that program given the chance. But that is just my wishful thinking,
although Erfurt is also highly favourable.
It is really quite interesting to be in a big ward again.
And actually the members there that came out of my branch in Weimar are trying
to get used to it even more so than I. I mean the moment I came into
Bremerhaven and Weimar, you immediately begin the process of absorbing yourself
into a family. But now sitting in the chairs in Erfurt with all the members, albeit
being the first time, you get the sense of whoa I don't even recognize half of
these faces. It reminds me of back when I was in the singles ward in
Murray. And even after almost being a year in the ward, somebody came up to me
and asked if I was new in the ward and then after telling them that I had been
there almost a year and even establishing the fact that I had been there longer
than them. They continued to say "oh wow well I can't say I have ever
seen you around before." And I find that sad to be honest. There is
certainly something special about being a missionary and being invited into people’s
homes whether it be simply for a meal or for a lesson. It is always a pleasure
to be able to feel the Spirit in someone else's home or to invite the spirit
into a home that has been missing it. I am also getting the Impression that it
is hard to truly say you know someone until you have been in there own home and
interacted with them in some manner. I truly hope that I will still have chances
in the future after my Mission to interact with people on such levels to truly
get to know and love the people within my ward.
Something that has really been coming up recently during my
time here in Weimar is truly the wealth of potential that I see in the people
that I talk to out here. However, it always ends abruptly with a casual no
thanks. How do I reach the hearts of these people?! This whole entire last week
I talked to people who were so sweet and kind and even agreed with what I had
to say and where even flattered when I expressed the reason why we wanted to
share this with them but then ends in no although it is probably some of the
most polite no's. I guess it is better than what happened to me earlier this
week when we were doing a little bit of doors before a lesson and while we were
having a very nice conversation with a lady and even setting up an appointment
for sometime later. When her neighbor coming up the stairs of the apartment
building after recognizing who were began to tell us to leave immediately right
in the middle of our conversation with this lady. And then continued to get
louder and ruder, and beginning to call us trash and a cult while continuing to
point down the stairs and yell at us to leave in a not so nice way. The lady
tried to stand up for us but to no avail because the guy eventually lost his
Patience because we had not moved up to that point and began to try and grab
onto me and physically remove me from the apartment. No worries though I kept
cool and told him that we would leave and even politely told the lady it was
nice meeting here and to have a nice day. As we walked down the stairs we could
still hear the lady backing us up and honestly herself too as well. Truly it is
unfortunate to have people call us such things and treat us in such ways and
believe that we are such bad people and then turn around behave like that, only
proving that they themselves are contradictory. Other than him this week
was mostly meeting lots of nice people who just didn't have interest to listen.
I wish I had the time to go into more detail about all the different people I
have met these past couple weeks.
Anyways I am out of time again. And unfortunately I don't
have any method to upload pictures on this library computer so it is yet
another week without any pictures to send to you guys. But I love y'all and I
hope you have a nice week.
Tschüss,
Elder Foster
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