August 3, 2009

hey mom im on if you can chat. love ya
well to answer your questions it is different every week where we go. we usually have to go to internet cafes and pay for the email. but last week we went to this library and emailed. yes i traveled with someone to austria im a missionary i have to have someone with me at all times. ha ha ya his name was elder glassman. he is funny he says dude and man a lot. The other missionaries at the airport used a card to call. thank you for the information. i went this morning and got registered in austria so that i can work here in salzburg. i also applied for my visa. yay so 80 euro later.... ya i get reimbursed so all is good. i bought a tie today. it looks really schick. Ya oma, the lady that lives underneath us is so nice. she has given us so much food. it is ridiculous. book of mormon and he has come to church the past two weeks he even went out and bought a tie and a shirt so that this week he could look good too. Aw man he is so awesome. That is some of the successes. There has been lots of cool stories where we have met people that have had dreams that very morning that we were going to come visit them. and so now we are teaching them. But we have also had our fair share of trials. Several of our 14 appointments that we had set up this week fell out. when contacting we we made fun of by this group of people that were drunk. They've mocked us. laughed at us, turned us down before we can even say anything. when riding our bikes i've been spit on and even had alcohol poured on us from out their windows. one of our other investigators who seemed golden wrote us a letter saying that he didnt want to visit us anymore he pretty much ragged on everything we taught him. It seems like it has been raining a lot this past week but i have faith that all will work out well. Im happy with the success we have been having and i know the lord will bless this work to go forth if we keep giving our best everyday. Yesterday in church i got to help teach the aronic priesthood class. I bore my testimony about mission work and how important it is to bring others to Christ so they can partake of the same joy that we have. It was the first time in a while now that i've started crying during my testimony as i looked at those young kids who are going to be misisonaries someday too. I hope im a good example. One that my Father in Heaven would be proud of. I love you all and I wish you all a wonderful week.