September 28, 2009

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!!