The cake that i took a picture of is called (in a direct translation) bee sting. It is so good. it has creme filling in the middle and the softest dough on the outsides with sliced almonds covering the sides and a thin glaze covering everything. A new member made it for us. We visit him every week because he still has a problem with drinking so we are helping him. But he is a professional konditorei, or pastry maker. He makes us a different cake everytime and gives us peppermint tea to drink with it.
I love the work!!!! It is soo cool to see the correlation between us two. I love how you always compare this amazing glorious work to battle. Because it is true. we are fighting a fight. there is actually a scripture that i read this morning in second timothy. I think it is 2 timothy 4:7-8? check it out it starts with 'i have fought a good fight..." That is what i want to say when my time is up. Also read enos 1 the last verse. That is the reward when we have given it all that we've got. Viel glück in der arbeit. Gib deine bestes jeden tag in der kampf gegen der Satan! Du wirdst die segnungen und die erfolg sehen. Wir werden siegreich sein! (translation: Good luck in the work. Give your best everyday in the battle against Satan! You will see the blessings and the success. We will be victorious!!) this is so tight i can speak a totally different language. it hit me the otherday. I cant tell the differnence when i am speaking english or german and i cant tell the difference when i hear it as well. its creepy wierd. Tschüss!!!!
Ja Voll! ich habe die packet bekommen! indeed i have recieved your package! Thank you mom that was much needed. The socks are nice for in the morning our apartment is pretty cold in the morning. So i wear them around during study time till about 10 when the sun hits our apartment. As for the charge on my card, as a matter of fact it was lederhosen that i bought. Es tut mir leid. Im sorry. I will tell you the story behind it. So this week is like the party week of the year for salzburg. They are celebrating about a saint or something like that. I havent had too much time to find out what it was. It could be that oktoberfest is starting soon. all i know is that we have to stay away from the innercity for a week or so. But everybody goes around the city in their tratitional dress, lederhosen, dirndels, trachten jackets, all looking super slick in their hats with feathers and stockings on their feet. So last p-day it was starting and this one store had a sale on lederhosen. they were 119 euro. when normally they cost like 200 so it was a deal for this week and i wasn't going to buy them. but then i tried them on and you have no idea how good lederhosen fell. Wow! A peice of austrian alp cowhide wrapped tightly around your buttocks is fantastic! so i ended up buying them. i will send pics.
What an amazing story. Wow! when you just talk to people you can find out so many things. Thank you for sharing that story with me mom.
As for general conference. it is a bit different here. It doesn't get broadcasted to houses like in america So the cool thing is that the whole ward comes together to watch it in the churchbuilding. They are supposedly going to be bringing food and i am way excited for that. But the coolest thing is that we have just been using that to contact people. we simply walk up to people on the streets and say would you like to hear the voice of a prophet'? We have invited all of our investigators and we have also invited countless numbers of people off the streets who said they are going to come. Im excited to hear the prophets voice! Are You! Think of how amazing that is. People here have no idea that there is a living prophet here on the earth just like Adam or Moses or Noah and we have the opportunity to listen to him! We are planning to do a strassenaustellung (street display) where we will invite people to come to general conference in the church. We are planning to actuall sing the song (in german) come listen to a prophets voice, because not gonna lie, our districkt is really talented with singing. we sound good. so that ought to be a lot of fun.
Oh i forgot to tell you not yesterday sunday but the sunday before, i gave a talk in our ward. the Bishop called me up and said how would you like to give a talk in church. I, being a missionary, took the mission given me and was scared outta my mind. Talk topic: baptism for the dead, and temple work, and how we can become saviours on Mount Zion. Yup, i think i did ok. A lot of members congratulated me afterwards. I dont think the bischop knew however that this is only my second transfer. But Elder wright said i did really good. I cant remember. Its one of those many moments where you realize the hand of the Lord in all that you do. Gifts of tongues. it was like christmas with the gift of tongues that was with me right then.
Thank you so so so much mom. I am ever so grateful that you support me here even though I am 8,000 some odd miles away. I love you with all my heart!!
Monday, September 28, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
September 21, 2009
Hey little buddy! Thanks for the testimony again. that is so wonderful that you bear your testimony. Cool you are getting your permit! I am glad I am in europe. cars cant go over water. so i am safe. Hey just kidding i think you will be good just use your head and be safe. no dofer things. Dont worry about what other people say. You are on a soccer TEAM. that is the important word. a team has to work together and no one can take the blame or the fame. work hard toghether and a good saying that I use every day here in the mission field is "Geben sie ihre bestes jeden tag" give your best every day. if you do that then you can be satisfyed with yourself and when everybody on the team does the same then you will see the success. It is the same out here in the field. Work hard and you will see the success. I love you spencer and i am thankful for your testimony. It is good to know that there are other people just like you and me across the entire world that have the same knowledge. That Jesus Christ restored his church to benefit and bless us in this trying and challenging world. Always be aware of the infinite love that our heavenly father has for his children and strive always to be able to one day return to him. that is what He wants. In the name of Jesus Christ Amen.
So this week has been awesome! but i will try to answer your questions before i go on. Teach to find is so cool. It is the "proven" method by missionaries here to get an instant appointment. I testify of its effectiveness and i am so glad that we have this knowledge to help us bring this gospel to everone!!!! so teach to find is a pattern where one approaches someone with a question (prefferably related to the gospel but you can ask the name of their dog as well) thus attaining the soon to be investigators interest. When you have their interest then you teach a short gospel truth related to the question you stated, then testify of this gospel truth with all your soul. After you have testified your companion then gives a second witness of what you have taught, then he asks the person a question, teaches about another gospel truth and then bears testimony. The idea is to come to the restoration of the gospel as quickly as possible, and then when the spirit is strongest you give them a choice between two times you have free when you can explain mor about our message. now I know that this sounds incredibly simple but it really is awesome and we have made out so many appointments doing this in the past week.
I have not yet recieved your package. but im sure it will be coming soon. About the coat. I will look but im not going to make to much worry about it. Br. Grünauer said I will be fine. It doesnt really start to get cold here till november or so and so i am pretty sure i will be fine. But i will look around in second hand shops or something. or ask members. By the way Br. Grünauer (our ward mission leader) is so awesome he wants to make t-shirts for us because we are team salzburg. we are really seeing a lot of success here in this work and i am diggin on it!
So last week we bought a new washing machine on p-day after i emailed you. It was such a cool scene. we had a red four wheeled dolly like the ones dad has at his work for the stacks of paper. It had plastic wheels and we had to roll our washing machine home through the cobble stoned streets. you have no idea how loud that was as it echoed up through the apartment buildings. it was a scene that i wish we could have taken a picture of. Two mormons rolling a washing machine down the road and everybody within a two block radius looking at us. oh i laughed so hard. and then as we hefted the thing into our building i smashed my thumb on the side of our door and then as we set it down i smashed my thumb again. so now i will lose my thumbnail it looks pretty narly. my comp and i are getting along very well.
i will get back on in a second i gotta email pres. condie. Love you!
love you so so so so much hope you all have a wonder full week and know you are in my prayers!!
So this week has been awesome! but i will try to answer your questions before i go on. Teach to find is so cool. It is the "proven" method by missionaries here to get an instant appointment. I testify of its effectiveness and i am so glad that we have this knowledge to help us bring this gospel to everone!!!! so teach to find is a pattern where one approaches someone with a question (prefferably related to the gospel but you can ask the name of their dog as well) thus attaining the soon to be investigators interest. When you have their interest then you teach a short gospel truth related to the question you stated, then testify of this gospel truth with all your soul. After you have testified your companion then gives a second witness of what you have taught, then he asks the person a question, teaches about another gospel truth and then bears testimony. The idea is to come to the restoration of the gospel as quickly as possible, and then when the spirit is strongest you give them a choice between two times you have free when you can explain mor about our message. now I know that this sounds incredibly simple but it really is awesome and we have made out so many appointments doing this in the past week.
I have not yet recieved your package. but im sure it will be coming soon. About the coat. I will look but im not going to make to much worry about it. Br. Grünauer said I will be fine. It doesnt really start to get cold here till november or so and so i am pretty sure i will be fine. But i will look around in second hand shops or something. or ask members. By the way Br. Grünauer (our ward mission leader) is so awesome he wants to make t-shirts for us because we are team salzburg. we are really seeing a lot of success here in this work and i am diggin on it!
So last week we bought a new washing machine on p-day after i emailed you. It was such a cool scene. we had a red four wheeled dolly like the ones dad has at his work for the stacks of paper. It had plastic wheels and we had to roll our washing machine home through the cobble stoned streets. you have no idea how loud that was as it echoed up through the apartment buildings. it was a scene that i wish we could have taken a picture of. Two mormons rolling a washing machine down the road and everybody within a two block radius looking at us. oh i laughed so hard. and then as we hefted the thing into our building i smashed my thumb on the side of our door and then as we set it down i smashed my thumb again. so now i will lose my thumbnail it looks pretty narly. my comp and i are getting along very well.
i will get back on in a second i gotta email pres. condie. Love you!
love you so so so so much hope you all have a wonder full week and know you are in my prayers!!
Monday, September 14, 2009
September 14, 2009
My back pack is called the Gallery Air 30+5 it is made by the company VAUDE.
Dog?!!?!??? I amn't no dog. just kidding little pency poo. THat is good to hear that you are doing well with soccer. I am proud of you. are you putting the hurt on 'em? Keep on going with school. It does get harder but that is how we grow. and you are a smart kid. Ich wiess das du es schaffen kannst. I know that you can do it :) Thank you for your testimony. THat is good to see that you share your testimony. Nothing is stronger than a pure testimony. always work on making your faith and your testimony stronger by studying in the scriptures and being the example that your Father in heaven would want you to be. S
Alles Gute zum geburtstag!!!! Happy bday Mutti!!! I love you so so oh so very much!!!! I will definately keep an eye out for the package. The mail system here is not very good. I think they have lost a couple of my letters but all is well. Cool my car is sold. thanks for all the work you do mom and dad to get that done. Dad be safe on my motorcycle.
I haven't yet sent you a pic of my new bike. I havent even taken one yet. but the pic that i sent of the destroyed bikes both of them were mine. the one closest to the bunks was a bike that we got from the sisters in our area and the upside down one was mine. the axle broke in half on the upside down one and the rims were total kaputt (broken) from the one from the sisters because they filled it with too much air two times in a row and blew the tubes out. Sisters. psssh. typical. just kidding. but any how ya. Mensch!
the time is going by so fast. I am blinking and i am so scared! its almost been four months and it only seems like two days. wow. Elder wright says its because we have been working hard. I think so too. I come home so so so ever so tired every night. It takes it out of you bearing testimony all day and teaching. riding bikes in the freezing cold pouring rain. I could start looking for a new coat but they are really expensive. Elder Adams ( the zone leader) said that after christmas they become super cheap so i think i can make it till then with my Gore tex and ninja suit and sherpa shell and sweater. hey im gonna write my email to prasident condie. we should be on every week now at about 11:30 or so. so email me back if you can and i will get back on after im done emailing president. LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh i forgot to tell you i digested fish bones. We had an eating appointment where we ate fish i ate my two fish too fast cuz we had to leave and get back to work so i ate quite a bit of bones. that was a painful experience.
We had zone conference this week that was so awesome. we had to demonstrat to the whole zone how somone uses teach to find it is a really cool method to always set up appointments. and at the end president condie gave us all a priesthood blessing over the pulpit. that was powerful.
question? did you ever develop the film from on those rolls that i took before my mission i totally forgot till now.
we get a new washing machine today!!!!!
Dog?!!?!??? I amn't no dog. just kidding little pency poo. THat is good to hear that you are doing well with soccer. I am proud of you. are you putting the hurt on 'em? Keep on going with school. It does get harder but that is how we grow. and you are a smart kid. Ich wiess das du es schaffen kannst. I know that you can do it :) Thank you for your testimony. THat is good to see that you share your testimony. Nothing is stronger than a pure testimony. always work on making your faith and your testimony stronger by studying in the scriptures and being the example that your Father in heaven would want you to be. S
Alles Gute zum geburtstag!!!! Happy bday Mutti!!! I love you so so oh so very much!!!! I will definately keep an eye out for the package. The mail system here is not very good. I think they have lost a couple of my letters but all is well. Cool my car is sold. thanks for all the work you do mom and dad to get that done. Dad be safe on my motorcycle.
I haven't yet sent you a pic of my new bike. I havent even taken one yet. but the pic that i sent of the destroyed bikes both of them were mine. the one closest to the bunks was a bike that we got from the sisters in our area and the upside down one was mine. the axle broke in half on the upside down one and the rims were total kaputt (broken) from the one from the sisters because they filled it with too much air two times in a row and blew the tubes out. Sisters. psssh. typical. just kidding. but any how ya. Mensch!
the time is going by so fast. I am blinking and i am so scared! its almost been four months and it only seems like two days. wow. Elder wright says its because we have been working hard. I think so too. I come home so so so ever so tired every night. It takes it out of you bearing testimony all day and teaching. riding bikes in the freezing cold pouring rain. I could start looking for a new coat but they are really expensive. Elder Adams ( the zone leader) said that after christmas they become super cheap so i think i can make it till then with my Gore tex and ninja suit and sherpa shell and sweater. hey im gonna write my email to prasident condie. we should be on every week now at about 11:30 or so. so email me back if you can and i will get back on after im done emailing president. LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh i forgot to tell you i digested fish bones. We had an eating appointment where we ate fish i ate my two fish too fast cuz we had to leave and get back to work so i ate quite a bit of bones. that was a painful experience.
We had zone conference this week that was so awesome. we had to demonstrat to the whole zone how somone uses teach to find it is a really cool method to always set up appointments. and at the end president condie gave us all a priesthood blessing over the pulpit. that was powerful.
question? did you ever develop the film from on those rolls that i took before my mission i totally forgot till now.
we get a new washing machine today!!!!!
Monday, September 7, 2009
September 7, 2009
email me back if you are on. im going to send my weekly report to president.
Ha ha whoa! I totally forgot that it was labor day. I am so dofer. Thats is a cool thing here dof is a real word. It actually means stupid or unintelligent. Sometimes when we just talk to people on the streets, since europeans are not used to people just coming up and talking to them, they call us dofer americaners. i think it is funny. anyhow the week has been awesome!!!!! I am now working with Elder Wright. He is really awesome. He is really obedient. Like really really obedient. He actually has ocd and so he kinda reminds me of devin. But we are seriously kicking butt here in salzburg. it is so awesome. We have worked our tails off this week. We already have at least one appointment set up for each day of the week. We also got a new ward mission leader his name is Br. Grünauer. He is so excited about the work and he has so many ideas that are going to progress this great and marvelous work forward. The other one we had never really helped us out with the ward or anything. But now that we have br. Grünauer we are going to see so much success. We have called ourselves now team salzburg. I beleieve it is fitting.
As for the new bike. i am glad that you saw that. I hope it didn't cause any problems with the bank or i hope i didnt overdraw or anything. But ya it was the best bike for the price it was around three hundred euro but the nice guy at the store (after we got done telling him what we were all about i.e Joseph Smith being a true Prophet of God, and that we now have the Proper authority on this earth to baptize people) he gave me a discount of like 30 euro. Cool huh!!!!! So yes i do get to keep the bike throughout my entire mission. And then after my mission, if i have kept it in pretty good shape i can sell it to another missionary. Its pretty nice though. Like riding on Himmel (heaven). Its getting hard for me to think of english words. Im scared. ha ha not really i just think i am going to be really hard to communicate with when i get back home. Well I have not seen any of those waffle things being made. I dont know if they make them here in austria.
Mom dont worry packages are not important. Just as long as you know that i love you and that you love me. That is all that matters. You are the bestest mom in the whole wide universe.
You saved my message from the airport. That is cool. I hope you like it. Dont get missing me too much. That is what we call in the mission field trunkie. Meaning that missionaries are missing home or cant wait to get home so they have all their trunks or luggage packed. ha ha. well Im going to write my weekly report to president condie email me back if you are on.
have fun at the condo and the concert. Not gonna lie im not really jealous. the air here is always like in park city. Right up in the mountians. the hills are alive. heres some pics hope you like them :)
Ha ha whoa! I totally forgot that it was labor day. I am so dofer. Thats is a cool thing here dof is a real word. It actually means stupid or unintelligent. Sometimes when we just talk to people on the streets, since europeans are not used to people just coming up and talking to them, they call us dofer americaners. i think it is funny. anyhow the week has been awesome!!!!! I am now working with Elder Wright. He is really awesome. He is really obedient. Like really really obedient. He actually has ocd and so he kinda reminds me of devin. But we are seriously kicking butt here in salzburg. it is so awesome. We have worked our tails off this week. We already have at least one appointment set up for each day of the week. We also got a new ward mission leader his name is Br. Grünauer. He is so excited about the work and he has so many ideas that are going to progress this great and marvelous work forward. The other one we had never really helped us out with the ward or anything. But now that we have br. Grünauer we are going to see so much success. We have called ourselves now team salzburg. I beleieve it is fitting.
As for the new bike. i am glad that you saw that. I hope it didn't cause any problems with the bank or i hope i didnt overdraw or anything. But ya it was the best bike for the price it was around three hundred euro but the nice guy at the store (after we got done telling him what we were all about i.e Joseph Smith being a true Prophet of God, and that we now have the Proper authority on this earth to baptize people) he gave me a discount of like 30 euro. Cool huh!!!!! So yes i do get to keep the bike throughout my entire mission. And then after my mission, if i have kept it in pretty good shape i can sell it to another missionary. Its pretty nice though. Like riding on Himmel (heaven). Its getting hard for me to think of english words. Im scared. ha ha not really i just think i am going to be really hard to communicate with when i get back home. Well I have not seen any of those waffle things being made. I dont know if they make them here in austria.
Mom dont worry packages are not important. Just as long as you know that i love you and that you love me. That is all that matters. You are the bestest mom in the whole wide universe.
You saved my message from the airport. That is cool. I hope you like it. Dont get missing me too much. That is what we call in the mission field trunkie. Meaning that missionaries are missing home or cant wait to get home so they have all their trunks or luggage packed. ha ha. well Im going to write my weekly report to president condie email me back if you are on.
have fun at the condo and the concert. Not gonna lie im not really jealous. the air here is always like in park city. Right up in the mountians. the hills are alive. heres some pics hope you like them :)
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