Double Whammy

 

 

Hallo Meine Lieben

Melissa Alder.....my birthday was in May. Thanks for thinking of me though. I laughed quite a lot when I read your emails. Sis Nelson did too.

Tsolmon and Queen are officially the newest members of the ward!!! (Pic 1) Their baptism went smoothly, the only problem being that there was a slight disputation as to who went first. Since we'd found and taught Tsolmon for awhile and she had asked us weeks ago if she could be first...long before we met Queen. Then, Queen shows up to her baptism at 4pm (it didn't start till 6;30) and asks the Ward MIssion Leader if since she came first, she could be first. We weren'T there yet and he didn't know about us promising Tsolmon and so he said yes. We arrive and he lays the bomb on us and wants us to clean the mess up when I tell him what has already been planned. It all got straightened out and I had to do the dirty-work. Queen was very sad, but I compromised and told her she could receive the Holy Ghost first. Silly little frustrating problem! It was a beautiful baptism.

We had Special Training with Pres Miles this week and they introduced a new training program for missionaries. (And we got to see our whole zone...aka the other Sisters. Pic 6 is me with Sis Fokken from Nebraska...we are like two peas in a pod. She's been out for a month). It includes every companionship receiving person DVD players to use for study to watch the Preach My Gospel DVDs, and Proselyting DVDs. There's an extensive new study plan for new greenies (including now 2hr companion study). It' intense. President wanted to talk with me a little bit about how things are going and after that discussion, I feel a load taken off my heart. He reassured my that I have been a great missionary my whole mission and have seen much success because of it. He is grateful for how I have been with Sis Chapple and all of my other extremely difficult companions. He told me that I am the only one in the mission who could've handled them the way I did and he is grateful for that. WOW!! I feel like a million bucks

In order to understand the following, you will need to watch\have watched 'Errand of Angels'. In the movie, the Sister serves in Salzburg and is teaching many awesome people. The 'actors' in those scenes are actually members from VIENNA! There's a scene where they are teaching an old couple....Br and Sr Hirschmann. And then a scene where they are teaching a man and his Chinese wife.....Br Michael Hirschmann and Sr Yungling Hirschmann. (pic 2 is of Br and Sr Hirschmann). We go to their home every Thursday for missionary lunch. They are the sweetest!
I love the Sisters in Vienna 2nd Ward!!!!!!!!!!!! They keep me alive and sane.(Pic 3 and 4)

Vienna 4th ward is the best!!!!!! (Pic 5 is me with Sophia Appiateng and her 18yr old daughter, Joycelynn...my little buddy)

Gotta go!! The Joveros invited us over for dinner and we have a bunch of stuff still to do today Love you all!

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Alles Liebe SISTER CHOCOLATE