Hallo Familie!
Springtime in Germany has meant rain every day for the past like 3 weeks. It is nice though. And green :)
I am really enjoying my time here, despite our lack of overt success. I think it helps to have a good energetic faithful companion. Elder Downing and I have been trying a lot of new things to find new people and keep us from going braindead by doing 5 hours of doors or walking around Werdau four times. We have been doing church tours in the past while, around 8 at night, cuz it is still bright out, we have a big poster and a tour all planned, but we have only given one so far. Cars driving by don't like to stop...
Those look like good classes, Em! I loved my BOM classes. And good on you for emailing the professor about that issue. When the university red tape holds you back, just talk to the professors and they can get things worked out. Poor Ian, yeah missing registration day is...terrible, lol! You are taking the Mazda? Ooooohhhh, I see how it is, family...
As for doodads I wish I had had, some plates/cups/utensils and so on. Tho you might have all that already. I could have used more of my books :D Hahaha jk, ummm...a set of school supplies is really useful. Ruler, scissors, good pencils/pens, highlighter is a must, whiteout if you need it, like in a box or pouch or something. That could be really useful when you need those little office supply bits...and tho du bist eine Dame, a little tool kit with at least screwdrivers of the two kinds and a pair of pliers or so is often needed. Tho I am a guy and our adventures often needed mechanical support :D I will try and think if there is anything else I needed...
Vater's Tag, or the German equivalent, was earlier, on Pentacost. The whole of Werdau was drunk senseless..........it was bad.......
Hahahaha, Pops, the ol' YM presidency had a bit of a bad rap? Well you all will pull it out of the mire :) You passed on your retentive-ness in planning to me, fyi... :D It is impossible for the YM to be prepared like the YW. It is a principle of the Gospel, doncha know?
I have 0 large purchases planned. I wasn't planning on glasses either, but it was good to get done. How do I have so much money still? You guys aren't still loading me, are you? Stop that! You need your money to do...other important things...haha. The only thing about my bike is the inner tube on the back tire. We replaced it but the new tube had puncture-preventing goo that somehow spurted out the valve and now the valve is broken so we just need to by a new and less gay tube. My layman's conclusion, at least. Br. Kosak in the ward said he would take care of it and came and looked it over yesterday and so things should be shaking up here shortly :)
An Aussie sister! Cool. There is one other Aussie in the mission, Elder Meixner, and he is a hoot. He is right next door in Zwickau so we get to have contact now and then and at Zokos. Maybe I'll get to serve with him and pull off the Aussie tour...
I love you family! I am a bit short on time this week but I wanted to share two more things. The big Evangelisch tent, you know from last week I talked about it I think? Well on Monday evening we decided to stop by (our though process was long and convoluted...anyway). We go in and this guy comes up and interrogates us for about 10 minutes about why we are there (whether it was just to watch or to check out who came so we could talk to them all later or some such nonsense). He was of the opinion that we had the ability to memorize everyone's faces and hunt them down later, or something. Well poor E. Downing had no idea what was going on, so I handled it and he eventually just gave up and let us sit down. After the program (it was so ''unsettlingly snotty Christian I am saved by just believing and you are damned for believing that you have to actually do something in life'' that I had a bad feeling the whole time) we found a few members of the ward who had come to check it out too, and we were chatting when this interrogator guy came up and then it really fired up. The conversation started off alright but he got more and more self-righteous and started really spitting game at the members and us, like how we were a sect and how the Bible and the BOM contradicted and how we didn't speak the language of love like he did. Hahahahahahaha it was so silly. And he kept talking about us, the missionaries, to the members in the circle as if we weren't there and couldn't understand. I was like, We are right here and can understand you AND you are telling lies about what we said to you (at the beginning when he interrogated us). In the end I was pretty pissed and so we just left so as to not leave a bad impression. I was pretty upset so I had E. Dowing give me a blessing, good chap. We talked with the members about it later that week and just chuckled about it. All in all it was a very interesting experience.
And now I have no idea what the other thing was and will prolly not remember til later today. Na ja. I love you and thank you for all your help and prayers and support. Fight the good fight back home and I'll talk to you soon! Tschüß!
---Elder Sterling Mason
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