November 28, 2016
Well, glad to hear that you had a good turkey day, and that you did not
over eat too much on that day as well. I really hope that the missionaries were
able to have a good time at the house too--I know that spending the holidays
with the members is always a fun time for the missionaries and I hope that it
is for the members as well.
The weather has been pretty cold here and I cannot wait to have a short
hit of warmth when I am home for a few weeks, I like the cold but working and
doing stuff in it all day, every day is not my idea of fun.
For Thanksgiving, we had a combined Zone Conference that they called “Ho
Ho Zo Co” because it combines Zone Conference and the mission Christmas
celebrations. I really enjoyed it. For
the zone conference part, they talked about a lot of stuff that will be
happening with the mission next transfer so I listened to it but the whole time
I was just kind of thinking, this stuff will have absolutely no part of my
mission, so that was kind of weird to realize.
For dinner, they fed us potatoes, red cabbage, and pork. Very german,
very good. 1) For our German Thanksgiving meal, we had potatoes, red cabbage,
and pork. Classic German meal. Yes ma'am I got the packages that you sent for
my birthday as part of the celebration and all of the food is gone already,
between sharing it with other missionaries and all that fun stuff too.
The work is going good over here and I am enjoying it for the most part. This past week, my two favorite lessons to
teach: we taught the 5th lesson in Preach my Gospel and we went through the
first lesson with our baptismal candidate this past week. That is always good. We
had companionship exchanges this past week with the elders in Bergedorf and I
was with Elder Drazin who is an Elder from the same group as me and that was
fun, we have served together a few times on the mission and we are pretty good
friends.
My German is good—however, it depends, because everywhere in Germany,
there are different dialects and different words they use for different things,
so I understand most German in a certain area of Germany, however if I were to
go two hours southeast of here, I would understand very little of what they are
saying. My companion’s German is pretty good, so that makes life easy, he has
trouble at times understanding the members here because he has heard a
different kind of German his whole mission so he is used to something
completely different than what they speak here.
My favorite thing to study this past week was writing a lot of stuff
for finishers (mom note: missionaries who are close to leaving) about what I
learned on my mission and the lessons I have learned on the mission and all
that stuff that I give to President in Freiberg when I finish, it has given me
time to really reflect and think about my mission a lot. It was nice.
For Pday, we are going to practice instruments and play foosball and
that kind of stuff at the church.
They did not really announce tithing settlements but the active German
members are pretty
active about going to the Bishop about that kind of stuff I
think.
I hope that you have a good week too, and just so you know my plan for
my last Pday, I am just going to send a mass email to everyone about what I
have learned on the mission and feeling about the last two years and calling it
good. If you have any questions you want to ask me you can, but I do not think
I will feel too much like writing my last Pday on the mission between packing
and taking care of stuff for coming home. Just so you know my plan.
Scripture of the week: Luke 2:10 “And the angel said unto them, Fear
not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all
people.”
Quote of the week: "We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a
bad week, or even a bad year!" Russell M. Nelson
Love,
Elder Fisher
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| Elder Fisher and Elder Bullion next to the Christmarket in Lauenburg. A tourist took this picture and sent it by e-mail to Elder Fisher's parents. |
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| This is the picture from "Ho Ho Zo Co" in Hamburg---can you find Elder Fisher? |
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| This is the picture from the "Ho Ho Zo Co" in Berlin |
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