Still in Vienna...still raining

Schöne Grüße aus Wien -

Sister Alder showed up this week. President called to say that she would be with us for a whole week. Boy, was I excited. It has been nice to have someone else here so I don't have to shoulder this whole area...and a brand new member\missionary\non-german speaker\companion all by myself. It has been so nice to have SIs Alder here to help. I am SO grateful she is here. She has been traveling around the mission as an assistant to all the Sisters. She stays somewhere and works then moves on. She will be going down to Bruck an der Mur on Thurs for her last week as a missionary. Yes, that's right, she goes home next week. That is so weird that we served together this time last year and weren't even thinking about home stuff, now it's here and things are crazy.

President called to ask about how Vienna (and I) are doing. I asked him about release date being Dec 29th. He asked if I was planning on going back to school in the winter and whe nI said yes he told me he'd work on getting me home in the November transfer. Meaning...I may be home by THanksgiving. I will keep you posted on that as soon as I hear more.

Parviz is getting baptized on Saturday and he is soooooooooo excited. We watched the Restoration DVD with him and he cried. It is his favorite movie now, he says. He even picked the songs for his baptism from it and wants everyone we meet with, or he sees, to watch it. (Yes, I AM playing the piano...again. Seems that everyone in the stake knows I play piano and so I play for everything now. I'm not even that good, but apparently no one plays.)

I am also teaching the Institute center bi-weekly German class. It is a joy to teach, but so stressful to find the time to prepare the lessons as we have absolutely NO free time. (We taught 35 lessons this week). The class has grown since I started teaching. It went from 2 students (Sister Brosnahan from the institute couple, and Sis Chapple) to a total of 12 students. We had to move into the bigger classroom. Hopefully, there will be a way to split the class if it keeps growing because there are always new people coming and we don't have enough time to get to everybody.

We have 3 new investigators from Romania - two of them speak English, one does not (but he is more ready than the others). The first, Adryan (ENglish and some german), is 20 and was found by the Elders. We taught him, and then the next time, he brought his brother in law, Ciprian (no English or German). The next time, Ciprian brought his wife Carmen (speaks English). They came to church yesterday and will be baptized on Sept 3.
Saw a jar of Nutella wearing Lederhosen, thought of Keri!

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Alles Liebe SISTER CHOCOLATE