Hallo Hallo!
Well the heat has finally made its way to Northern Germany.
Which is of course a joy because we live on the 10th floor with no AC. Woo!
Which feels completely out of place living in a first world country feeling
like your dying in a third world country from heat. I don't remember it being
this bad when I first got to Germany last summer. But when I remember correctly
it was only hot for about a week and then it cooled down a little and really
wasn't that bad at all. But now I must face the brunt of the German summer.
Unfortunately I have to do it while wearing a white shirt and tie. Mmm! There
is nothing like the feel of a sweaty collar all day long.
Okay so this week, let us start off with the weird first. So
just the other day my companion and I were doing doors in a seemingly nice
neighbor in the blazing heat. And then it happened....We ran into so many naked
slash just about naked people that it was ridiculous. Like every other door it
was a man in his speedo and some lady wrapped up in her towel or some naked
child and it just never ended. Some of them exclaiming that they were
essentially naked, which the response in my mind was yes yes I noticed that as
well, why did you answer the door like that then? I can imagine that it would
be really hard to listen to a message about Jesus Christ when you realize that
you are standing almost completely naked in front of two young men where white
shirts and ties, the contrast between the two is rather stark. All was not in
vain though because we still managed to find a contact and also two people
actually let us in and gave us something to drink so that was pretty nice of
them. And we then managed to talk to the a little bit, mostly just friendly
conversation with a Danish man and his family and a single German man but I
still think it will help open up the doors to future missionaries down the
road.
Another experience I can talk about is when we did some
service for this lady that lives about 54 km away, however many miles that is.
And we went there and we painted her shed that looked like a little log cabin
but honestly it just reminded me of the times I helped my own grandma stain her
porch. Anyways this lady also had about 11 cats and a little kitten. So we were
basically swarmed by really old cats because she uses her home as a kind of
little oasis for old cats where they can come to essentially die in peace. They
call have funny names too, like for instance Dirty Harry. It was just really
interesting to be sitting at this table underneath a big tree and then we would
be surrounded by at least 6 or 7 cats.
Once again this area has shown that it is different from
just about every other area. First of all we share a car with the sisters which
means we are constantly together in the car, which anywhere else in the mission
that would be called ''double-dating.'' Which basically just means sisters and
elders doing something alone together. I don't know if I like being around the
sisters that much to be honest. Haha I don't mean that in that I don't like
them or that there is any problems. Let's just say I am little bit more used to
being around people who are not quite so dramatic. Coming from somebody who
spent the last two transfers in districts comprised only of Elders and a
transfer in an apartment with some very bro-type Elders. Another interesting
thing about this area I don't remember if I have mentioned it yet is that we
have two different areas. And I don't mean it in the same way as Erfurt/Weimar
we have two places to go proselyte in. I mean we have two different churches
and kinds members to take care of. Every other Sunday we are either in Prenzlau
or we are in Neubrandenburg. So you can probably imagine how it is a little bit
harder to get to know members that way. Especially when members are not there every
single week and there are not so many people to begin with.
Okay well now to my last piece of news. So this week we
managed to accomplish some pretty cool things, namely, that we made out 3
different baptismal dates this week. Woo! However that is still not enough,
because literally half if not more of the churches in Neubrandenburg and
Prenzlau are made of converts and not people who were just born in the church.
So there has to be more people out there who are ready to listen. It really is
just so hard to even get people to have a conversation with you, it is
ridiculous. I don't know sometimes there are just on and off days. Because this
week when I went on exchange with one of the zone leaders in Rostock, we found
like 4 people! I don't know just got to keep pushing through and know that all
things work towards your good when you do it in righteousness. Rostock is quite
pretty though, it totally has a beach town feeling to it. It made me want to go
swimming. Which reminds me that we also have a lake here in Neubrandenburg, and
every time we walk by it and see the water and all the people playing on the
beach. I just think why, why can't we go beach volleyball finding. I keep
asking my companion but he keeps saying no...I can't imagine why...no I am just
kidding but as my last comment and I can say that the 4th of July celebration
was sorely missed.
Anyways I hope you all have a great weekend and that the
heat doesn't get to you as much as it gets to me and I love ya and I pray for
ya!
Tschüss,
Elder Foster
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