Lieber Familie,
Grüß euch!!!
What a wundershöne week for me, and hopefully for all of you as well!
This
week definitely had its ups and its downs, but as always, the
missionaries come out on top, because we are on the Lords errand, and he
wins everytime.
Time for a debrief of the last weeks exciting events? I think yes!
Monday
evening, we set a new baptismal date with Erich!! He came to church 2
weeks in a row and told us he wants to keep coming everyweek... forever!
He is such an intersting guy with LOTS of questions, but I think he has
very serious intentions of joining the church. Im not sure what I told
you about him before, but he used to be baptist, but he stepped out of
both the catholic and baptist church and was just looking for a church
to join and he decided himself to investigate. he has real intentions!
Tuesday
we went to Wien in the evening to finally watch the missionary
broadcast from a couple weeks ago! It takes a while for all the
translations to go through, but I loved it! Ive heard it now in German
and English- it really got the members pumped up!
Wednesday we had Zone Training, so we spent the night in Wien actually
tuesday-
7 elders in one apartment! It was a little cramped, and INCREDIBLY hot
and humid. Its been steadily getting warmer and warmer since it cooled
off, so it was very uncomfortable. Zone Training was amazing. We had a
exchange right after and we ran back to catch our train to St. Pölten
because we had a day PACKED with appointments. One was with a less
active sister named sister Dressler. We read from the scriptures and she
was moved to tears- unfortunatley she works sundays so we couldnt bring
her to church with us this week! Then we met with a new investigator, a
guy we found last week named Norbert. He was AWESOME! He doesnt have a
lot of time, but we have high hopes for him and his wife Ruth.
Thursday
was a little rough. Probably one of the harder days of my mission. Many
of our appointments fell through, and it seemed like EVERYONE on the
street just hated us. For the first time in a long time I fell even less
than 2 class, even less than human. It was a little discouraging to be
treated this way the whole day. But Elder Horlacher and I talked for a
long time
thursday after we came home to plan and he really helped me get back into the zone.
Friday
we help Bruder Seitz in his garden. He is 92 years old, and the
spunkiest man ever! He has the THICKEST austrian dialect that is STILL
really hard for me to understand, but everything he says is hilarious!
That evening we met with Amanda and the Schildböcks- once again she
threatened to be done with the church and said she didnt want to meet
anymore. We found out the problem was jsut that she wanted to attend
normal
sunday school with the members instead of the special class for investigators! The Schildböcks were amazing for helping her.
Saturday
we did a big split. Elder Horlacher went with the Hirschmanns and did
an all day tour of St. Pölten branch boundaries (several hundred
kilometers) and visited every less active family on the way. In the mean
time, Elder Mongia and I went dooring! I was very excited for it at
first, but it must have been birthday magic or something (it was Elder
Mongias birthday) but we had amazing success!! We found 4 people in an
hour just knocking on doors!
That evening, we had a lesson with Bruder Kerschbaum, a less active who
is trying to give up smoking. He gave us his cigarettes, and the
hirschmanns gave him a blessing. It was one of the most powerful
blessings Ive ever had the privledge to be a part of. It was so powerful
to see how happy he was with his determination to give up smoking.
we watched the broadcast again as a ward, and it was so cool to see
the ward members get all excited. A few even came up to us after and
started brainstorming ways they could start doing little things.
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