Monday, September 14, 2015

Das ist mal eine angenehme Abwechslung!


Elder Foster with Bruder Schade from the Neubrandenburg Branch.


      This week was essentially a reflection of the last two before it. It was a lot more intense but with the same end results. Everybody that we teach is disappearing haha. Unfortunately we haven't been able to stay in contact with Zaid. I don't remember if I have said too much about him. He is the one I asked you to pray for a while back. He is 26 and from Chechnya which probably already gives ideas of the kind of life he has had but he has been in Germany for the past couple of years now. I would tell you more about his life but that would probably be too much personal information. He truly is a good person though despite his rather tragic past. Hopefully we will see him on the street or that he will pick up his phone someday. He is super good at volleyball and we miss seeing him at English class and our activity night.  
     Because I am the district leader, I once again had the opportunity to go on exchange. This time I got to go to Greifswald and even a little visit in Stralsund. It went pretty well except for maybe the fact that the other missionary going back to Neubrandenburg forget to give me the key to his bike lock so unfortunately both the bikes were locked up and we just had to walk to get everywhere. Which took up a lot of time and didn't give us time to do anything else other than what was planned. Probably the best part about the exchange was the fact that I was with Elder Geren who is actually from my MTC group. So it was pretty cool to sit down together and kind of compare our missionary experiences up to this point with one another.  
     We also sent a missionary home this morning. She was one of the sister missionaries in my area. And it truly is always weird to be around people that are going home. They honestly kind of lose their minds the last couple of weeks of their mission. Not to mention that the other 3 missionaries in this area have been together for 4 transfers together. Also adding to the fact that the Elder and the Sisters spend far far too much time with each other in this area because we share a car and have two areas. So it is definitely a good change that we are getting some new missionaries here. 
     Another chapter closes and a new one begins. Only six more transfers left so I better make them good. No looking back! I hope that my new companion is just as excited as I am to rekindle the fire in this area. There is always at least one person in an area that is ready and willing to follow the Lord and to enter a covenant with the Lord through baptism. We just have to find them or give all our hearts in the process so that the Lord can trust us somewhere else later down the road. I hope you all have a great week and I will keep you all in my prayers. 
Tschüss,
Elder Foster