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| Thanksgiving in Germany! |
I'm dreaming of a German Christmas and many Christmas
markets for one and all. But not in Neubrandenburg because I am unsure whether
I even serve here anymore. Haha Because we weren't in Neubrandenburg at all
this week. On Monday we were just running around all day just trying to get
things done and to prepare for our crazy traveling week that we were going to
have. On Tuesday we took the train down to Berlin were we had Family-Search
training or genealogy training or something of that sort. Because we got there
and all we did was get on a computer and then they said okay get on Family
Search and start looking for holes in your family line wherever you can find them
and basically you tried to figure it out be yourself except for when you had
some question, which was about every second. I mean maybe others were more lax
about it. But I was just wigging out because of all the information and the
reliability of the sources and just trying to get everything nice and orderly
because you don't just want to throw a bunch of random information in there and
just add more confusion to everyone else trying to find their ancestors.
On Wednesday we had our Hoho ZoCo which is basically our
Christmas zone conference with one half of the mission. So of course that was a
lot of fun and got to say hi to a lot of people that I haven't seen in a while
and also say goodbye to some of the sisters in my group because they are going
home in a week!! Now that is pretty trippy, I am now a part of a dying breed of
missionaries in this mission. Although I found out that I have one more
transfer than I originally thought about a week ago so that gives me a little
ease of mind because I don't feel like the mission is rushing to a close
already.
Thursday was Thanksgiving! Woo! American Pride! I don't
think I have been more patriotic in my life ever since I have lived in another
country. Especially a country where most of the people think their country is
so much better than America because of this and that although they have never
lived there and a lot of the stuff they say isn't even true. Not that America
is perfect or anything but so far I am definitely more inclined to live in the
U.S. than in Europe. Haha anyways Thanksgiving! It is certainly great. They
don't celebrate here in Germany but because we have a senior couple here in
Neubrandenburg we were able to celebrate it. We had mashed potatoes, gravy,
stuffing, turkey, and we even had hand-made rolls just like the ones in
America. You don't get those around here, although there are a lot of bakery
goods here in Germany that I will miss someday. But it was certainly a nice
little thanksgiving with the Porters and a bunch of single members in the
branch that were also invited.
On Friday we drove to Greifswald so we could relieve them
of their apartment prison that they have been confined to since Elder Geren got
his surgery. Elder Anderson (the companion of Elder Geren) and I were able to
get some good work done in their area and also manage to have a little bit of
fun within means of course. We also got to play Fußball with the branch
president in Greifswald and basically the group of people that always come to
that, haha I think he was very grateful that Elder Braun and I could come and
play. Because we are a little bit better than the other Elders and we managed
to win all of our games against the other two teams that were made. Although
wow I can not run around as much as I used to without dying. Not because I am
fat or something ;-P but because I haven't been able to play sports like that
for a while. Because you don't need that much energy to play ping-pong which is
what we do for activity nights at the church.
Okay going on with the weekly events and experiences. On
Saturday we headed back to Neubrandenburg with the Greifswald Elders and we
basically had lunch and then went off to the rehearsal for the
Adventsgottesdienst that we would be having the next day with the entire
Neubrandenburg district. And I don't know if it is the same in America but I
think the Germans are crazy at least for wanting to learn so many songs the day
before you are actually supposed to sing them. They also had lots of arguments
about how the song should be sung. Which is once again ridiculous seeing as we
had to sing them the NEXT DAY! Haha it was still a lot of fun to sing with them
though and the next day it was fun to get up and sing a bunch of times. Which
was also good for me because I would have slept through the entire event if I
didn't have to because the we had about four other elders that spent the night
at our place and they of course kept everyone up the whole night whether you
wanted to stay up or not.
All in all it was a good week, just it wasn't so good for
us on the other side of things because we weren't able to do any kind of work
the whole week because we where running around the whole week. But I really did
enjoy being able to talk to all the members and the investigators at the church
yesterday. I will certainly miss these people when it is time to go. Especially
because next week we have transfer calls so we will find out what it is
happening rather quickly.
Whew I felt like I just rattled on forever. But I hope it
suffices. I love you all and I wish you a wonderful week filled with the
spirit of giving and loving during this time of the season.
Tschüss,
Elder Foster
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