Hallo wunderschöne Damen und Herren!
Too much surrealism folks! There are not many weeks left
and I can't even tell myself that I still have time left. Because then
everybody reminds me anyway that I don't have much time or if anybody says
anything about home then I am immediately involved in it as well. Haha I guess
that is what happens when you are serving in a district full of missionaries
that haven't even reached there six month mark yet. So I guess it is to be
expected. Naja!
Well, this week was a whole lot of something and a whole
lot of nothing to say the least. I shall begin by saying that we did a lot of
finding this week. I haven't done this much finding for quite a few months
because for the last little while we have had plenty of people to teach. But as
I have come to find out the university is my favorite and least favorite place.
Because every time we go there we find some cool people to meet with but then
they never have any time to actually meet with us. That is how it is. We
managed to get a whole grip of phone numbers this week, which means I will be
doing a lot of calling in the next week to see if we will actually meet with
any of these people in the near future. It is alright though because we still
had some great experiences.
So there are two guys that the sister have been teaching
every once and a while for the past couple months but they never really made
much progress. But recently they went to General-Conference and then to another
regular Sunday day of Church. And the sisters once again couldn't find any one
to go with them so they could actually teach them. So they asked us because
they thought maybe they should give them to us because they can never find
anyone to go over and teach them. And we go into this lesson completely unsure
of where these guys actually stand or whether they are very serious or if they
just came to church out of curiosity. But not trying to talk myself up or
anything or to put others down but...they are young missionaries so that is
just how it is. I am pretty sure I was the only one in the lesson that
understood everything that was going on but it turned out to be a great lesson,
I had to lead and push it along. But I didn't try to take it over so the other
missionaries had the chance to say something. Anyway, they said they would get
baptized if they got an answer which is a lot more than you might think,
considering most will say no even if it is just hypothetical. Haha it is safe
to say the sisters don't really want to hand them over now. But they can't
really teach them without us so yeah...Naja. They came to church again this
week too.
The other exciting news or at least event that we had
this week was when we found a guy named Emmanuel. Who we literally found on the
street and had time right then and there to meet with us. So we just followed
him back to his apartment and taught him the first lesson which also went great
and he said he would get baptized as well if he got an answer that the Book of
Mormon was true.
So exciting things are happening everywhere, there is
just a lot of downtime in between. And to be honest I still need to work on the
whole charity thing. I can still get rather annoyed by people who just treat us
so rudely on the street sometimes. Then I think up lots of sassy things that I
should have said to them but never say them because then I remember that I have
to leave them with good experiences and not bad ones. Honestly you would think
a lot more people would be curious about why two random American guys in white
shirts and ties are doing this stuff. Although almost the entire city of
100,000 people sometimes act like they already know us and know everything that
we are going to say. But we are still having great experiences everyday. Simply
when you go out with faith and with good cheer, which I recently found out is a
commandment. Or at least I remembered that it was one. So remember that
everyone! It is a commandment to be happy! So try to smile every now and then.
:) Anyways back to a couple more examples of experiences that we had on the
streets of Cottbus and simply just going out with faith and a little bit of
joy. Okay so the other day we were in our apartment and we were getting ready
to go out side and we only had about 45 minutes to go and do finding before we
had to go to an appointment. And although there wasn't a whole lot of time to
do finding, we just asked simply and sincerely in our prayer that the Lord
would lead us to some people that would receive us and that were ready. And
then we actually stopped a lot of people that were actually friendly and
willing to talk with us for a little bit. And then as we were on the last little
stretch we talked to a lady and she was really cool and really interested and
she even told us that at one point she wanted to get baptized, not in our
church, but then she saw what other churches were doing and that it was all
about money that she wanted no part of it. However that didn't bother me at all
because I know we are not like that and she could find that out for herself. So
it was awesome and we got her number and set an appointment up not next week
but the week after. And then we ran into a small family from Syria that could
speak English, German, and naturally Arabic and they were Christian already and
they even knew Mormons before back in Syrai with whom they worked with and even
met with and talked about gospel stuff. That was a really crazy but also cool
experience. We left them with our number because the father wasn't too crazy
about meeting with us. It was still a great little meeting there on the street.
And Folks, this is a great example of how the Lord listens to our prayers!
Well that is all for this week folks. I hope you all have
had a nice pleasant week and that all is well. I love you and I pray for you as
always.
Tschüss,
Elder Foster
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