Dear Familie und Freudliche Freunde,
Soo the transfer call came... and I am going to Wiener Neustadt in Austria. I am super excited!! I have heard that is the only area that you can see mountains from and that it is very beautiful... I’m not going to say that I miss mountains because that implies that I miss Utah... but yes I do miss mountains and I am very pumped to work there... Oh and apparently, they speak a more difficult dialect there than they do here... I thought I was called to the alpine GERMAN speaking mission... apparently it should be called the alpine schwaibish, byrisch, switzer deutsch, wienerisch speaking mission haha
P-day and the past couple of days have been super relaxing and I’m ready to get back to work. Was that not an amazing conference?! It is such a blessing to have the opportunity to have the prophet, a person like Moses who parted the red sea, speak to us. It is pure scripture coming out of their mouths! It’s like another Book of Mormon being written as they speak....
Anyway the talk about the need for the Book of Mormon was so perfect. It was good to see that I explain the importance of the Book of Mormon in a very similar way and use the same examples as the speaker did... It was cool to see that the gospel is true everywhere and people can be inspired across the world with the same inspiration because there is only one God and one faith and one baptism and one true church. The true gospel cannot provide two correct churches that teach different things. That type of thinking causes confusion and it doesn’t come from heaven.
I have been really thinking about the talks I have heard and about the missionary work and going through tough times and how I will be able to continue on... I continue to think about the scripture... Schriftstelle in Deutsch... where es steht well I think its a scripture... if the lord is with us, who can stand against us?? wow that gives me so much comfort and I love that scripture; if it is even a scripture, I don’t know. It sounds good though I’m pretty sure it’s a scripture.
The German comes and goes, depending upon how much I have spoken throughout the day... . My German is definitely improving and the Lord has really helped me to understand it as I give my best to try to focus on the people with whom I am speaking and as I truly study and memorize the rules of the language!
This week has been really great... I found a woman as we were getting off a train. Her name is Regita Schif. She agreed to meet with us and we committed her to baptism on the first appointment. It went picture perfect, but not quite as well as when Joe Schwarz asked us if we would baptize him, however it went really well! She agreed to be baptized on the 30th of Oktober! But, unfortunately I will be in Austria at that time.
Also, we met with the people we found at the street exhibition. Mathias and Anja Schoenfeld. We helped to do a little renovating on their house and talked about the Book of Mormon and faith and prophets while we were working on peeling paint off of a wall haha. It was really great and they fed us some amazing food.
Also during the week, Elder Hamilton and I spoke to a crowd of 15 or so 10 year olds who were pretty interested in us and our message...
I felt like an apostle in Jesus' time who had followings and crowds that waited on them! It was so cool! haha I love being a missionary!
The church is true. I know that it is true and it is our responsibility to tell the world about the greatest thing which has ever been established. The church of Christ! Bis Naechste Woche!
Elder Sonne
