September 7, 2015
The season is definitely changing here but the weather just
kinda dropped 10 degrees so the leaves are just going to falling off and not
change colors. I will take pictures of the tress in fall and send them to you.
I now have a lighter rain jacket to wear right now because it rains a lot but
isn't cold enough for my winter jacket.
I haven't really gone sightseeing since I have been here but we
might see a castle next P-day that is down the street from the church. I am taking more pictures than I am sending
because it takes time to upload pictures to the computer and I have a lot of
pictures. I also write down names of other missionaries in my journal. There is this thing called a tschüss book
(this literally translates to “bye book”) in the German missions—each missionary
has one and as they leave an area, other missionaries in missionary’s distrikt
or companionship write a note and put pictures in the book. It is hard to
explain but I will have a good example to show in 2 years.
My companion is really into fishing so we talk about different
places to go fishing in Idaho, Utah, and California (that I know of)--he is
really loves catching catfish and bass. Transfers
are next week and we both think that Elder Rosenvall might leave because he has
been here for 4 transfers already and that is a pretty long time in a small
area to stay in the same spot but we will see what happens.
In Germany, we teach both immigrants and Germans but I would say
mostly immigrants though. We have heard a lot about the Syrian immigration
happening and I have met a lot of people that are actually immigrating into the
country from other places too. They are really nice people but a lot are Muslims
so they are pretty religious and don’t really want to hear about the gospel.
We have a really multi-cultural branch so when we eat at member’s
homes, we will have Dominican Republic food one day, German food the next day,
Russian food another, and Dutch food another day. It is completely different
from the eastern German way of cooking of only German food. This week we found a store that has Reese’s
peanut butter cups and has a small American section of the store where you can
buy Pop Tarts, A-1 sauce, Jack Link's beef jerky, and other stuff but it is
like 3-4 dollars more than it would be in America. I’m glad you got European
chocolate at the candy store but I get real European chocolate every week so
that doesn't sound like such a crazy thing for me anymore--but American
chocolate sounds cool.
Today I met a kontakt guy that I hadn't met before and my
companion said hi to him. My companion started
asking about how the guy was doing and all that. He then told us about another
kontakt we have been trying to get a hold of who had gotten married and moved
somewhere else so that was good to know and find out.
Scripture for the week is 3 Nephi 11 when Christ comes--I love
this chapter so I just chose the whole thing.
I do not have any crazy stories from the week but it has been a
good week. I hope that you are having
fun and that you are keeping busy. Love you lots.
Love,
Elder Fisher
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