August 27, 2012
Well transfer calls came last
Friday. Let's just say when President Miles calls it means something
interesting.
First of all, Elder Young will be
staying in Rosenheim. He will no longer be District Leader, but he is going to
be a trainer now instead. He will find out who his companion is on Wednesday at
the Trainer/Trainee dinner.
As for me I will be going to Sankt
Pölten, Österreich (St. Poelten, Austria) to be a District Leader and to finish
training Elder Root. Elder Root has been trained already for one transfer by an
Elder Volz, but for some reason or another President Miles is having him
transferred and I'll continue his second transfer of training. I haven't met
Elder Root yet, but I've heard about him a lot because he is best friends
with Elder Gubler from my MTC group and he got his call while we were in the
MTC. The rest that I know of him is that he is from Santa Clara, Utah, is 6'6''
(my companions are all taller than me and keep getting bigger and bigger), and
played Football. As for St. Pölten it is about 45 minutes west of Vienna, along
with Rosenheim one of the 6 bike areas in the mission (out of 69 areas
so that you get an idea of how rare they are), and the best part is it is in
Austria. It is part of the Vienna Zone, so had I been there one transfer
earlier Elder Stapleton would have been my Zone Leader, but Elder Stapleton is
going to a place called Bruck an der Mar in Vienna Zone to train as well, so we
will be able to see each other at Zone Conference finally. My district is St.
Pölten, the Vienna Senior Couple, and a few missionaries from Vienna. It should
be a lot of fun.
I will really miss Rosenheim and
Elder Young though. Elder Root sounds like a great guy so I got
lucky, but I was expecting that I might have a weird companion this transfer
because up till now I have been blessed with amazing companions. Elder Young
has been a prime example of that. We have had so much fun these last two
transfers. Up to now he has been my longest companion because my first transfer
with Elder Field was a week shorter than normal transfers. Elder Young and I
had the goal to have an adventure a day in our work and we accomplished that.
We are going to miss each other, but the good news is, is that we will still
have our whole mission to be in the same district again and we will go home
together, and then because he is going to BYU we will be able to hang out a lot
after the Mission. He is going to be a really good trainer and see great
success.
I am also going to really miss
Rosenheim. Four transfers is not an abnormally long time in an area, but
apparently I've been in Rosenheim longer than any other Missionary for the last
5 years or so. I got to give a short talk yesterday and then say farewell to
the ward. We ended up getting invited by members to a lunch and dinner
appointment that day and for every day the rest of the week until Wednesday.
The ward here has been absolutely amazing to me. They have been so nice in
being patient with me until I got the language down and then to support all of
the work we've done. Elder Young loves his Ludwigsburg ward a lot too, but he
says that Rosenheim just has something special and the members just absolutely
love their missionaries. It's true and I really hope things continue to go well
for them.
Family Bobi also got back this week
from Serbia. Before they left we gave them a blessing of comfort because
apparently Serbia is quite a rough place. They said that they had no problems
at all this time they visited (which has never happened for them) and there
were quite a few miracles that took place when a huge storm came through. They
started introducing their family in Serbia to the Book of Mormon and his
brother and his family now have their own copy. They really gained a strong
testimony of the Priesthood through this experience and they asked that before
the transfer that we give them a blessing to help them with this last stretch
of quitting the smoking. I will not be here for their baptism, but I am so glad
I had the opportunity to find them, to watch them grow spiritually, and just
learn how much faith they have and how loved they are by God.
Amber I am so happy for you. No, I
didn't forget about your wedding in the midst of Transfer calls. I am so
excited for you and Rolf and I hope you know I love you and that I'll be
supporting you guys in spirit. I hope I get to see pictures sometime in the
future.Tell Grandma and Grandpa Crow that their friend's grandson, Trevor Hemsley was trained by Elder Field (the one who trained me), so I've heard a lot about him.
Here is my new address for Austria:
Kirche Jesu Christ, HLT
Elder Bodily
Trauson Str. 16/4
3100 St. Pölten
Österreich
I love you all and I hope all is
going well. I really appreciate all you do for me. Thank you so much.
Elder Bodily
Gott sei mit euch bis aufs
wiedersehen
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