Lieber Familie!
Today
is the first day of Transfer 2! I cant believe that all has passed so
quickly... it seems like I just blinked and suddenly its here! So much
has happened... but luckily, I still have 15 transfers left! Plenty of
time to accomplish all the lord has for me to do!
This past week has just flown by- faster than usual it felt like!
Our most standard Investigators, Amanda, Wayne, were both unable to meet
this week, so it actually opened up a lot of time to go and find new
people to teach, who are ready to find the gospel!
Last monday I actually got my first haircut, in German. What an
adventure that turned out to be! My trainer just sat and laughed as I
struggled to figure out what the Lady was asking me in her fast Austrian
German. Once I realized she was asking how many millimeters I wanted, I
realized I had NO IDEA how millimeters compared to anything... so I
went with 9. It sounded like a solid number. Turns our it looks pretty
good!
Tuesday was an Austausch, and once again I got to work in Wien,
this time with Elder Niedens. We taught advanced English class, which is
seriously difficult when the people we are teaching's native languages
include german, chinese, arabic, turkish. But we made it fun!
I love my time in Wien... my favorite part of missionary work is
probably street contacting now. And in Wien there are 4 million people
roaming the streets at all times! Its great! I had some SWEET
discussions with people, and even got a few numbers for them elders and
gave out some Books of Mormon!
I promised myself and the Lord I would start pulling my weight around here. And we saw some serious miracles!
Of the course of this week, we found 13 potential investigators,
and had 4 new investigators!!!! That just BLOWS the mission standards
out of the water! Because we had a little extra time to meet with new
people, and go check up on old potentials (because we couldnt meet with
Amanda or Wayne all week) people were just FALLING into our paths.
Wednesday and Thursday it just felt like everyone we talked with we had
an amazing discussion. I have such a testimony of just going outside and
doing the work- finding someone to go by on, someone to talk to, TRYING
to find people to teach. The Lord really led so many people into our
path this past week, it was incredible. Sure, not everyone became a new
investigator, but we still taught some great lessons, gave some Books of
Mormon, and layed some great ground work for these people.
One Miracle story during the week though. One guy we found is name
Janiker. He is from Syria, and he is studying in St. Polten. His
english is better than his german, so we teach in English, but he reads
in arabic. He basically knows NOTHING about Christ other than he had
heard the name before and wanted to learn more. We gave him an
INCREDIBLY simple first lesson overview and read from the Book of Mormon
with him. He is really sincere and wants to learn. We gave him 3 Nephi
11 to read to learn about Christ. the next day, we saw him walking on
the street talking with his friends. We went to talk to him, and he told
us he had already FINISHED 3rd nephi, and had questions about who the
people of "Ether" were. AMAZING. We are still trying to get a second
lesson with him because he is pretty busy, but he just loves the Book of
Mormon and he already showed his friends and wants to get copies for
them.
(embarrassing side note. While this conversation with Janiker was
going down, we walked past Haupt Bahnhof, where all the kids walk
through coming home from school. We were standing next to a couple of
teenagers who just started kissing like they wanted to eat each others
faces off. after they were finished the girl turned around... and it was
Annika Brunnsteiner! She is the only young woman in our Branch! It was
kind of hilarious to see her turn bright red as she realized the
missionaries were standing right behind her teaching someone. How sad
for her haha)
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