July 13, 2015
Zone conference was
good. I learned a lot but it is too much
to type in an email to be completely honest. My new mission president is super nice and he
has two of his daughters living with him too. He also has really cool ideas for
doing member missionary work which is really cool. We weren't able to find any new investigators
this week. In Annaberg-Buchholz, almost everyone knows the missionaries so
finding new investigators here is a little more difficult but we still try. We
go to other cities, too, and not all of the people there know who the
missionaries are.
No one has signed up
for service because of the service poster yet but I was figuring it would take
some time to get some people to sign up--also half the ward is on vacation
right now so that is another reason they aren’t signing up but people in our
ward will for sure sign up though; they love it when missionaries are around
them. However, we did get to do some
service. Last Saturday, there was an Open
House at our church building (like every Saturday) and this car pulls up and
out comes the married couple that serves in Freiburg. They said there was going to be a Young
Single Adult (18-30 year olds) activity in our building and that they needed a
little bit of help with it. So we set up tables and chairs and cut fruit for
the people. They gave us free food for helping, too. It is actually really cool
because this married couple’s actual calling is the remodeling and documenting the
remodeling of the Freiburg temple. So they talked to us about the construction
of the temple, what they had to do, and how they received the actual calling as
well. It was really cool talking to them about all that.
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| At the entrance to Martin's Cove. Elder Fisher's 4th great-grandfather was in the Martin Handcart Company |
(Mom note: The next
part is in response questions about Pioneers, Pioneer Day, and a family trip we
took. Last summer Elder Fisher went with
his parents and one of his brothers on a Pioneer/family history trip—we traveled
to Salt Lake to visit Temple Square and “This is the Place” park, Fort Bridger,
Martin’s Cove, and Fort Casper/Upper Crossing of the Platte river)
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| At the beginning of the hike to Martin's Cove Lots of sagebrush!! |
I remember the trip
all right, we saw lots of sage brush between all that traveling that we did. I
am not sure if the Germans celebrate pioneer day--I do not think that they do
though, at least in East Germany. I am not sure if there were any German
pioneers at that time. I am sure there were but I just don’t really know. A lot
of the German members here move to the USA for one reason or another. A member
in my ward here has 7 siblings in his family and all live in America and his
parents live there, too.
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| Martin's Cove--the Pioneers sought shelter from the winter storms in this location. |
For my personal
study time, for the next while, I will be studying Book of Mormon while
thinking of missionary work and I read Ensign
articles about how to become a better teacher, too. Sometimes I study
scriptures listed under a hymn or something like that but it isn't as common
for me to study that way. For my German vocabulary study, I do not take a vocab
card with me every day but when we have a 30 minute bus ride or something I
read a page in my dictionary and try to work on the words that are a little
more useful than the other ones.
Scripture for the
week is Alma 21:16 "And they went
forth whithersoever they were led by the Spirit of the Lord, preaching the word
of God in every synagogue of the Amalekites, or in every assembly of the Lamanites
where they could be admitted." the first part I related to the transfer
call at the end of each transfer only theirs was a little more direct from
their source.
…Quote for the week "there will be hundreds of stakes in
Germany, Austria, and Switzerland."-Spencer W. Kimball. This quote
inspired me to help change Germany as much as I am able/allowed to.
I am taking pictures but not as much as I was. I will send
pictures next week.
Love you and have a great week.
Elder Fisher
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| Leipzig Nord, Leipzig Süd, and Dresden Zone Conference We were able to spot Elder Fisher (hint: you might need to enlarge the picture) |
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