hello everyone,
like many people on this planet i got drawn to freemasonry, it happened as soon as i moved to DC. none of my family members (i think) where or are freemasons, but i know that a lot of family friends, especially my father's friends are. i am 23 years old, and a graduate student, i moved here to get my degree in masters in Finance. DC is full of masonic culture like a lot of you already know, and i feel like masonry is something that i want to learn and practice. I don't know how to approach it, i didn't know anyone that was in it (or at least i thought i didn't) until i found out recently that the people or family friends that are the closest to me were freemasons. i come from a third world country, which struggled a lot in recent years, and i tried helping in every possible way. I was an active blood donor( 5 times a year), a volunteer in the fire department and an active charity promoter and activist back home. Here in DC i applied to all of these activities and i got rejected because i was not a citizen of the USA, which i understand completely.
I needed a social security number to get things going, and the person who helped me get a job and who hired me ( a close family friend) turned out to be a mason, so did 2 of the people that are "taking care" of me. It is in my nature to get involved in in "Associations" and fraternities that contribute positively to my environment for some reason, maybe because of the rough background that my native country had. and which affected me.
7 months passed by, and i feel like it's about time that i try and petition to get in my local lodge ( third lodge) but like most of the non-masons i do not know how to approach it. i contacted the lodge and asked if i could attend the next "open" event last night, and by today i got 3 responses saying that i can attend the dinner before the masonic lodge meeting.
I would like to know what i should do or who should i ask to try and get my petition to apply. I haven't talked to any of the close people that i know about it yet and i am kind of hesitant about doing so (talking to them about the petition that is), all 3 of them were PMs. I would greatly appreciate some guidance about this, since i feel like i am really interested in it.
I apologize for wiriting my life story in this thread
but there no other way to describe my nature virtually.
like many people on this planet i got drawn to freemasonry, it happened as soon as i moved to DC. none of my family members (i think) where or are freemasons, but i know that a lot of family friends, especially my father's friends are. i am 23 years old, and a graduate student, i moved here to get my degree in masters in Finance. DC is full of masonic culture like a lot of you already know, and i feel like masonry is something that i want to learn and practice. I don't know how to approach it, i didn't know anyone that was in it (or at least i thought i didn't) until i found out recently that the people or family friends that are the closest to me were freemasons. i come from a third world country, which struggled a lot in recent years, and i tried helping in every possible way. I was an active blood donor( 5 times a year), a volunteer in the fire department and an active charity promoter and activist back home. Here in DC i applied to all of these activities and i got rejected because i was not a citizen of the USA, which i understand completely.
I needed a social security number to get things going, and the person who helped me get a job and who hired me ( a close family friend) turned out to be a mason, so did 2 of the people that are "taking care" of me. It is in my nature to get involved in in "Associations" and fraternities that contribute positively to my environment for some reason, maybe because of the rough background that my native country had. and which affected me.
7 months passed by, and i feel like it's about time that i try and petition to get in my local lodge ( third lodge) but like most of the non-masons i do not know how to approach it. i contacted the lodge and asked if i could attend the next "open" event last night, and by today i got 3 responses saying that i can attend the dinner before the masonic lodge meeting.
I would like to know what i should do or who should i ask to try and get my petition to apply. I haven't talked to any of the close people that i know about it yet and i am kind of hesitant about doing so (talking to them about the petition that is), all 3 of them were PMs. I would greatly appreciate some guidance about this, since i feel like i am really interested in it.
I apologize for wiriting my life story in this thread
but there no other way to describe my nature virtually.
