June 8, 2015
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| View from a mountain near Annaberg-Bucholz |
Annaberg-Bucholz is about a
1/10 of the size of Halle but the ward is about the same size. We have choir on
Thursdays and we have ward mission coordination meeting with our ward mission
leader on Wednesdays. Other than that, we do not have any extra ward meetings
during the week but we are going to try to get stuff going where investigators
can come to the activities and other things, so we will see. My
district just has 4 elders in it so it isn't that big--as a matter of fact, it
is the smallest possible district that we can have. It is our ward and the
branch that the other elders are serving in, but it really isn`t that big of an
area.
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| Elder Fisher saw the The Berlin Dome while he was in Berlin |
We do not actually have any set
community service here in Annaberg-Bucholz like we did in Halle (they helped
with the soup kitchen once a week) but we are looking for places that we can go
and do some service—it will give us closer ties with the community and give us an
opportunity to do something besides finding and dooring.
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| The Berlin Needle is near the Berlin Dome (and you can see it in the other picture) |
In my new area/apartment, my
companion does more of the cooking but the things we eat aren't as detail
oriented as they were with my last companion. We usually eat at a member’s house 1-2 times a
week here which is fine and sometimes the members will give us food as well
during the week or a chocolate bar or something. My new apartment does have a washer and dryer
in it and I think that most of them do here in Germany because I haven’t
actually seen a laundry mat anywhere here.
Last
week it was a zone conference and it was pretty great, we had a lot of
inspiring talks and I got to hear what I needed to do to help out my new area.
I think it was also kind of sad because it was the last zone conference that
President Kosak will have with us because he goes home on June 30th. They
normally serve us lunch for these big conferences but this time they didn't. However, we spent the night in Berlin the
night before so we went by a bakery and bought sandwiches before the conference
for our lunch.
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| The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin is next to the Brandenburg gate. |
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| The United States Embassy in Berlin |
I met someone extremely
interesting this week and I have a story for you! This week we went finding and
we were in a smaller town so we decided to do some dooring. At the end of the
day we were both kind of tired but we decided to do one last building. In this building,
a lady stopped us and said “I have a friend that is Mormon and I have met with
you guys before in Leipzig (a city in Germany)”. However, when we asked what
her religious background is and she said "Extra terrestrial worship". She then told us that aliens out there and
about are 51 in the U.S. My companion asked "How do you know that there
are aliens?" and she then said "they appeared to me in my apartment
because I am a believer." We didn't
really know what to say after so we ended the conversation and parted ways.
Scripture
for the week is a chapter 3 Nephi 30: 1-2
“Hearken, O ye Gentiles, and
hear the words of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, which he hath
commanded me that I should speak concerning you, for, behold he commandeth me
that I should write, saying: Turn, all
ye Gentiles, from your wicked ways; and repent of your evil doings, of your
lyings and deceivings, and of your whoredoms, and of your secret abominations,
and your idolatries, and of your murders, and your priestcrafts, and your
envyings, and your strifes, and from all your wickedness and abominations, and
come unto me, and be baptized in my name, that ye may receive a remission of
your sins, and be filled with the Holy Ghost, that ye may be numbered with my
people who are of the house of Israel.”
Love you and I pray for you and the whole family every
night, too.
Love,
Elder Fisher
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| June 2015 Zone Conference for eastern zones of Germany Berlin mission |
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