Hallo mein gütiger Leserkreis!
Hello hello here is Elder Foster out of the city of
dreams Cottbus!
Well during this time of the year and if I really want to
be specific the beginning of it. Germany tends to turn into.....a war zone. And
I mean that almost in a literal sense because of the amount of fireworks that
were being launched into the air. Another funny thought to that is to think of
the fact that Germans are complaining about so many refugees coming in and not
having enough money to support them but then they are quite literally throwing
hundreds of millions of euro into the air on new years day. Haha at least I
found that funny.
What can i say about this week i guess. It has been
pretty eventful since I have arrived here in Cottbus. However the beginning of
my week started with an exchange with the zone leaders and because the zone
leaders area is so far away they just decided to stay the night at our place
for a couple of nights. So on the next day we had four great elders walking the
streets of Cottbus. And it was really quite great.
Sometimes zone leaders can be overly strict about things
in a pharisee sort of way but these Elders were good and it was just a good
time to be able to serve with them for a day. Although I did have to switch the
day of district meeting to Tuesday because of it so that they could visit and
that did cause a few problems, however everything managed to get worked out and
once again it is always great to see how the Lord influences with his spirit
and you don't even realize it. By that I mean the district meeting was
perfectly planned not because of me but because the Lord wanted us to learn
something in specific.
Of course New Year's Eve was crazy especially here in
Germany. You were just hoping that somebody wasn't going to drop a crazy
firework on top of your head as you were walking underneath an apartment
balcony. And actually a few days later as we were walking with some
investigators on the street, one of them decided to light one without us
knowing about it and the next thing you know there is a mega-size firecracker
exploding about two feet away from me. It was loud enough that you thought a
bomb went off or something. Even up until day you can still hear random
explosions off in the distance. Doesn't help that my companion would always
pretend to get shot every time he hears it. That doesn't get old after a while
but obviously nothing I can really get mad about haha.
We also had a new years run! All over the mission,
missionaries participated in a new years run. So my district and the Görlitz
district met up in Forst at about 10:30 in the morning and ran 5 kilometers
together. Except this is how it really turned out. One apparently there was
supposed to be some kind of event but nobody was there expect us and so we had
no idea how to figure out that we ran 5km. Luckily we have iPads and Elder
Schulte and I were able to map out a stretch of 2.5 kilometers and we would
just run there and then back, which happened to be right on the polish border.
Yay! However the only people that knew the route was Elder Schulte and I. And
Elder Schulte couldn't run because he had to stay with his companion who just
had surgery a couple of weeks ago so they just walked a little bit of it and
then walked back. I mean the directions weren't hard at all you basically took
one left and then just followed a road all the way up to the end point which
was essentially the border of Poland and then you run back, simple right?
However at first everyone was following but then after a time everyone lagged
behind although they made the first left turn which was the hardest part,
basically only Elder Oldroyd and I ran the whole thing while everyone else
either took a lot of break or got lost haha however all in all it was fun.
Okay a couple more things and then I have to end this
letter. One cool experience that happened was when Elder Barboza and I were
dooring this apartment building in the evening and of course we were weren't
expecting much and it was freezing cold! It has been so cold this last week we
were just hoping someone would let us in the main stairwell so we could get out
of the cold for a little bit. However we got a lot more than expected when a
couple from Atrea (some country in between Sudan and Ethiopia) let us in and in
their apartment were about 6 other people there and wow yeah it was great. I
was honestly just glad that they were Christian haha. But yeah after we had a
small visit with them because we had to run and catch a bahn (tram) shortly
thereafter. A couple guys actually had interest in coming to our church and
hopefully we have a book of mormon in their mother language. It was just great
and I am just glad the Lord has been leading us to all these great people as of
recent.
Sorry about the lack of detail in this letter. I am
actually currently at the Kosak's house so I have been distracted the whole
time by my former mission president and his wife they even ordered us Pizza! So
I was a little rushed to write something this week haha. But all in all everything
is going good here and I only expect many more great things to happen.
I love you and pray for you all! And I wish you a
wonderful week.
Gesundes Neues Jahr!
Tschüss,
Elder Foster
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