November 19, 2012
Servus Zusammen!
Congratulations to Madi, Anneliese,
Erica, Amanda, and Bryson who all got their mission calls this week. I am way
excited for you and I think you are all going to be absolutely amazing
missionaries. Argentina, Costa Rica, Chile, Argentina again, and Italy. Sounds
great!
Please let Bishop Rife know that he
is in my prayers and that I am hoping for the best and the spirit of comfort to
be with him and his family.
I am glad Kaitlyn had a good
homecoming talk/birthday.
I got the SD card this week as well
as the envelope with Dad's mission bible notes. Thank you so much.
I don't have a whole lot of time
because we are having a zone p-day today and we have to get going here soon,
but the important news is that we got transfer calls this Friday and Elder
Chapman and I will be here in St. Pölten another transfer as I finish up his
training. The transfer goes until New Years time so I will be here for
Christmas. It will be nice to have a ward I know for the holidays and I've heard
Vienna looks amazing during December so we will have to spend a couple P-days
there (not that we don't do that already).
I am excited that I am still in St.
Pölten another transfer. It might be hard, but I like the ward members we have
here a lot, I like my district, and I think some great things will come this
way. Since transfer calls I've been blessed by the Lord with more hope, and I
want to make this my most personal successful transfer so far, regardless of
what happens with the work. What was also quite a blessing is this weekend we
ended up getting invited to eat with a lot of different members (when I say a
lot, I mean a lot for St. Pölten ward, but still really nice). They didn't know
about transfer calls and when I told them I was staying they all got excited. Then
they asked me if I was glad I was
staying. I told them yes and they told me they were glad I was too and that I
wasn't scared off yet. They then began to tell me that for the last 6 or 7
years St. Pölten has been a fight for the missionaries. They don't know why,
but the work here has been extremely hard. They said that only about 4-5
missionaries in this time have been here for 3 transfers or more because it had
been too hard for them otherwise. They mentioned they have had a lot of
missionaries being trained here . I was just really grateful that I had been
one of those who had shown my appreciation to the ward for being here. One of
the members, Bruder Schildböck, told me that Elder Harmer (Jake's dad) was one
of the best missionaries he had seen here and that I reminded him being like E. Harmer, which was
really nice.
I had a great austausch with Elder
Moon this week in Wien. It was awesome to actually teach lessons. We committed
one of the investigators to baptism and it was possibly one of the best lessons
I've had on my mission so far. It's great to know that the spirit can always
make a lesson good and that even if you haven't taught for a while one's
teaching abilities don't get too rusty. During the austausch we went to the
airport and picked up Elder Moon and Elder Bassets new companion Elder Kombar
who is from Switzerland, and is serving here for a couple of weeks until he
gets his visa for America to go to the MTC and then serve in Wisconsin. Elder
Moon and I felt like AP's as we sat there waiting to pick him up and introduce
him to everything. There were a lot of people at the Wien airport and we didn't
know what the new missionary looked like (and he didn't have a name tag yet, so
we couldn't pick him out). However, there were a lot of people at the gate
holding papers with the names of the people that they were waiting on, so we
took that idea and did the next best thing and held up our Books of Mormon
hoping that he would see them and recognize us. It worked!
As far as Liz, she lives pretty far
away from St. Pölten itself so it has been hard to schedule a time that we
could meet with her since her and the family she is living with are still going
through the moving process, but she comes to church each week which is
splendid. We have big hopes for her.
I hope all is well this week. Thank
you for all the support. I love you all and hopefully I'll have more time next
week to explain what I have been up to. Once again I am way excited for all of
the new missionaries!
I am happy that I am here on a
mission. I love you guys so much.
Elder Bodily
Gott Sei Mit Euch Bis Aufs
Wiedersehen
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