August 26, 2013
Servus!
Well this was an eventful week. I
was able to get a companion to work with in my area. On Friday we had Zone
Conference where Elder Mielacher's family dropped him off and President Miles
interviewed him before handing him over to work with me. He is a nice humble
guy from a city called Linz which is about halfway between Wien and Salzburg.
The story behind him is that his family had planned that he would take over his
grandfathers shop when he returned from his mission and they decided to start
it early, but the MTC wouldn't let him in until his assigned date, but he was
free to begin his mission here in Austria. He will be here until October 3rd when
he will head to the MTC in England. He is good and ready to work. It is
interesting though working with him from the perspective that he is the first
missionary in his family and has had no MTC experience so it is interesting
trying figure out what needs to be explained and taught, but things are going
well though.
I was glad though that I got to
serve with Elder Martin and Reading for five weeks and that they are still my
roommates. We were all very different from each other but that is what made it
fun and we learned a lot and did some good work together.
So Rebecca was supposed to get
confirmed yesterday in church, but she had a really bad fever that morning and
so we talked with the bishop and she will get confirmed next Sunday instead and
it will be ok. We took some Swiss bread to her yesterday and she was sad that
she couldn't be there for the confirmation, but she is really excited for next
Sunday.
We were also able to get in contact
with Ambrol again. He had been lost for awhile, but we were finally able to
reach him again. He had been super busy with work and had always forgotten to
call us back or wasn't home when we came by, but we have an appointment for
tomorrow and he seems really excited still.
This last Friday we had Zone
conference and it was great. A lot of it was based off the New Missions
Presidents broadcast and working on applying that into our work. Since
President Miles was in Wien that weekend he decided to visit one of our wards
that Sunday, and our ward was the
fortunate one. He gave a really good talk about the mission work and it seemed
to really excite the members because afterwards they seemed to want to talk to
us about our work a lot more.
Well I will have to wrap it up here,
but I hope you all have a great week. I love you all a lot. Take care!
Elder Bodily
Gott sei mit euch bis aufs
Wiedersehen
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