February 9
Hey!!!! How are things there? By the look of the email, pretty
boring. :) Just kidding.
I am super sad that I missed the Burn Party. Was the fire so big
that Jesus could see it? Cuz it wan't big enough for me to see it from
here. :) Just kidding
That is crazy that the prices for beef have gone way up. I really
hope you can get her breed back when she is big enough so that you don't
have to keep buying them. It is expensive I am sure. And I really hope
you can since I really would like some real meat again one day. Here
is just not the same. Some of it is really great, but most of the meat
just tastes like nothing. All the ground beef is just... I can't even
describe it. So I am excited to eat real meat again.
Glad that it is so warm there. Cuz here it is super cold. And
really windy. All the people keep telling me that this is not normal
weather. But it has been good for me cuz it makes it easier to talk
with people. You can talk about how cold it is and then they have
plenty to say to you. So it has been a blessing actually. And I know
how to talk about weather in German now. Two birds with one stone I
guess. :) I really hope it starts to warm up around the end of
February. I can't believe that you have weather in the 60's in Feb.
That is unbelieveable.
This week has been really good. We had a really good lesson with
Midori. She is from Japan. So dad, where exactly did you serve and
exactly when? She asked me and I couldn't remember. Sorry about that.
So she speaks japanese and really good german, and then also some
english. I really feel inadaquate with the small amount of languages
that I can speak when I am in this country. It is insane. We have a
lot of bilingual kids and most of the time trilingual. Sad when the
kids speak better german than me, and better english. But it makes for a
good time. But back on track. Midori is great. She wants to read
through the BOM before getting baptized so we are waiting on that, and
she still wants to feel like she gets an answer before she commits to a
date. So we are really praying that as she reads she sees the
importance of baptism. Which with how she reads she will. She always
has great questions. This week she asked us something about an Isaiah
so that was interesting. Basically we told her we had no idea in
English so we had absolutly no idea in german. But we told her we would
find out for her. Luckily we have some great members and other
missionaries here. So we got it covered. But man we had no idea. Makes
me want to study it more. Especially since I don't even know how to
spell it. But Dad if you could let me know some japenese that would be
awesome. :)
Other than that we met with some new people this week and tried to
find some new people to teach. We are working hard and going out in the
snow every day. But it is funny cuz the snow doesn't stay. You would
think with how much it has snowed the past few days that we would have a
lot, but it just comes and then goes the same day almost. Wierd.
This week will be really exciting. We have mission tour this week.
We get to hear from Elder Patrick Kearon. He is one of the 70 and over
the Europe area so we are really excited. That is on Thursday
in Munich. Because we are so far away we get to spend the night in
Linz this week. So that will be exciting. I am super glad that we have
the opportunity to see some different places. We are really excited for
the meeting and what it will bring. We will be back really late on Thursday
cuz we come all the way back to Graz so that will be fun. Other than
that we don't have too many exciting things going on this week. We are
going to contact a referel hopfully this week. We only have an address
and it takes about 2 hours to get there. So we are hoping and praying
she is home. I forgot but we actually contacted another referell this
past week. She was really cool. She is american and married to an
austrian. She wanted to learn more about families and how she can
strengthen hers. She has a mormon friend and has seen her family
and wants to know how we do it. So we went to a members house and
talked about family home evening. It was really cool. And we hope we
get to meet with her again soon. She is going to France for a few
weeks. So that makes it hard. But we are excited about her. So
hopefully our other one is just as good. :) But that is all for this
week. Things are going well here. The work is moving forward. We have
this new goal of one baptism in every district in the mission for every
quater. So we are really excited for that. One of the elders in our
district has a baptism this week, and one has one set for a couple weeks
from now, and we hope to set one with Midori soon. So hopefully we
will exceed our goal for the first quater. And then be able to keep it
going for the next three. It is totally possible and we are super
excited about it. We keep saying we are going to baptize all of Graz.
It is going to happen. :)
The German is coming. Slowly, but it does come. And I got told
this week that my accent wasn't that bad so that is also a bonus. The
work is moving forward. Thanks for all your prayers and love. I really
can't thank you enough. It really helps more than you know. You are
all alwas in my prayers.
I have an assignment for all of you this week. We need some help
coming up with lessons that are children friendly. Those of you who had
little children or currently have some, how do you do family home
evening so that the children learn and also stay focused. Any good
ideas? Also if any of you have any good object lessons that only last
about 5 minutes that would also be amazing. We want to make our
spiritual thoughts more than just sharing a scripture, although that is
good we want it to be better. So anything would be appreciated. Love
you all loads! Keep working hard and staying safe. Love you!
Sister Poll
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