December 9, 2013
Servus! I hope you
all had a fantastic week!
So a couple of things that went on this week is we have a
new investigator that we are working with named Bxxx right now. Apparently
Elder Fletcher had taught him while he was in his first area, but he has now
moved here to Wien for the time. He has already taken all the lessons, but we
are meeting with him now once a week to help give him spiritual strength He is
coming to church and already keeps his commitments and is doing overall really
well. He has a sincere desire to be baptized and that will probably take place
after a couple months. He is very nice though and is really genuine in his love
for the Saviour and his desire to keep the commandments.
Cxxxxxx is doing really well still from what I get from
talking to her on Sundays. She has been really busy as of late, but she has
time to meet this week and so it will hopefully be a very good appointment.
As of late it has become harder to hold appointments with
any investigators or potentials because of the holiday season and so the focus
has become more and more on members and less actives. This last week we had
another huge split with the four of us missionaries and our ward mission team
to go out and visit as many less actives in that night. I went with our ward
mission leader again and we ran into two at first that weren't really welcoming
to us, but the third was very excited and thrilled by the visit. She wants to
come to the ward Christmas party and is working to start coming regularly to
church if she can.
We have another less active member that we are working with
pretty regularly now named Zxxxx from Sxxxxx. He was offended by a couple of
members a year ago or so, but is working to overcome that. He is doing well and
he is hoping that soon his wife and father-in-law will start meeting with us.
This last week I had the chance liked I mentioned last week
to play guitar with the grandson of one of the members who he himself isn't a
member. His name is Bxxxx and his mother used to be a member, but pulled her
records out of the church before he was born. It was a really cool experience
because he seemed really intrigued by the idea of us doing a musical number together
at the Christmas party. He is about twenty years old and has had a harder time
in his life and hasn't had too many good influences for friends and it has been
hard on him. For some reason though this guitar idea sparked a lot of interest
in him and he has taken it to heart to really prepare well for it and you can
tell he is very excited. I believe it will be really good for him to have that
chance to play for others and get a lot of praise. Tonight we are going to
practice together again to finish up the final touches of the song we are
putting together. The cool part of it too is that a few months ago the ward
council gave us the name of a man that had had a baby blessing in the ward, but
was never baptized and that he could potentially have interest and so we should
go by on him and visit him. When we went to the address we found out he had
moved, but we weren't sure where to and we didn't know how to get in contact
with him. Well I found out this last week when I figured out his last name that
Bxxxxx was this referral, so it was meant that we were to get in contact with
him eventually. Apparently he had just moved out to live with his grandparents.
It was a really cool connection.
I hope you all have a fantastic week. I love you lots.
Elder Bodily
Gott sei mit euch bis aufs
Wiedersehen
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