Liebe Familie,
What an amazing weekend it has been! I hope you all received as
much inspiration from conference as i did! It was truly an amazing to
hear the words of the prophets DIRECTLY to us. I know that those men are
inspired and that the words, when we let them, can burn our souls and
inspire change. I love it!
A quick recap on my week, for lack of real time...
Tuesday,
we had distrikt meeting, then, according to tradition, we went to get
Schnitzel at Herbs! That was my 5th time eating that BEAST of a
schnitzel... i cant believe it! that afternoon,we had Deutsch class with
Korherr and afterwards we had ward council- it was a really great
evening!
Wednesday
morning, we rode the bikes to Unterradlberg again! those massive hills
didnt seem quite so hard this time... :) Unfortunately the family wasnt
home. BUT while we were standing under the porch roof, some creature
landed on the roof and scared the jitters out of us- we were too afraid
to see what it was, cause it sounded HUGE- then it jumped off and ran
into the forest. Bigfoot?
That afternoon we started something that was our ward mission
leaders idea- praying, and then going through the phone book, finding
addresses, and going to visit them. aparently a lot of places around the
mission are having great success with that kind of thing. So we prayed
and found some names, but we didnt have time to go by on the them yet
because we had some lessons in the evening with Wolfgang and Erich
Scharner. Wolfgang got in a mini argument with Bruder Hirschmann during
our lesson- i did my best to calm it down and bring the spirit back.
After the lesson, i was afraid Wolfgang would be upset- but he said it
didnt bother him at all. dodged a bullet there!
Thursday,
Elder Mongia and i had an exchange! I just love that little italian
guy. Its been way fun having him here the last 4 transfers... even if he
does get really uptight sometimes, he is such a boss. We got asked to
come help with a service project to a non-member family in desperate
need. The frost and snow is coming really soon, and this family owns a
grape vinyard, and they needed help harvesting! so we spent 5 hours or
so harvesting these grapes. it was FREEEZING cold, but the people we
worked with were so nice and very faithful people. I love spending time
with them! Friday
we had a mini miracle- we went into the city and found a guy named
Jabagji- from Syria. He couldnt speak very good german at all, but he
really wanted a book of mormon! that evening, we went to take Bruder
Bauer a spiritual lesson- he put us in his car to drive us to his house-
and took some detors to show us some beautiful castles that he grew up
around. Way cool! Then we committed him to pray during conference that
he could have a missionary experience. Im super excited to hear the
outcome!
Saturday
morning, we brought the arabic book of mormon to Jabagji, and he
introduced us to his family, and was so excited that we set up a return
appointment for next week right after we stepped in the door! Im so
excited to go back with our arabic material and see how it can help him!
We taught Wolfgang and Erich Scharner one more time, and then we left
for Wien for the weekend, for GENERAL KONFERENZ!
General Konferenz was just amazing. I loved every second and it was over too fast!
My testimony was renewed 10 fold, and i know that this church is led by prophets!
Oh... im probably getting transfered this week. So DO NOT SEND ANY
MAIL! if you were planning on sending paper letters... send them to the
mission home! Ill tell you next week where i am going!
I love you!
Adventure is out there!
Elder Bartholomew
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