Hi, I have been a mason for six years now. Recently I made a trip around the world. I met some very fraternal brothers, but I also made expierence which I actually didnt want to have made in a bond where fraternity is one of the maon colums. I just briefly write some notes, and hope that you all share your thoughts about that.
A couple a years a go a brother from vienna visit our lodge in berlin, i exchanged cards, because i wad heading for vienna just two weeks after his visit, when I called him and told him that I am in his town, he hang up the phone never to be reached or heard of again. Recently I was in Johannesburg, I tried to made contact with a mason that is actually the uncle of one of my brother from my homelodge. I wrote several emails, even his nephew wrote him about me coming over, and that we should visit, I called him, we even made friendship on facebook, while I was in Johannesburg, he didnt answered my calls nor wrote me an email.
Next thing I learned, if you want to visit a lodge, or for instance the shriner hospital, dont bother to write an email, it will not be answered. Always make a phonecall. Ok now a thing which works really good, if you want to visit a lodge, for exampel in another country, inform your grandlodge about your plans, they will establish the contact and you will be called by a local brother.
A couple a years a go a brother from vienna visit our lodge in berlin, i exchanged cards, because i wad heading for vienna just two weeks after his visit, when I called him and told him that I am in his town, he hang up the phone never to be reached or heard of again. Recently I was in Johannesburg, I tried to made contact with a mason that is actually the uncle of one of my brother from my homelodge. I wrote several emails, even his nephew wrote him about me coming over, and that we should visit, I called him, we even made friendship on facebook, while I was in Johannesburg, he didnt answered my calls nor wrote me an email.
Next thing I learned, if you want to visit a lodge, or for instance the shriner hospital, dont bother to write an email, it will not be answered. Always make a phonecall. Ok now a thing which works really good, if you want to visit a lodge, for exampel in another country, inform your grandlodge about your plans, they will establish the contact and you will be called by a local brother.