This is our lovely living room. We love the light coming in from the balcony we have.
We are enjoying studying together. We will be teaching Institute the next two weeks. One week it will be done in English and another will be in German.
Our days are also busy taking care of the missionaries. There are 281 in our mission currently, with nine of them in our district. We have a multicultural group. We have one sister from Taiwan with the challenge of learning English and German, another sister is from Hungary, one elder from Germany and another from Switzerland.
We visit their apartments every six weeks to inspect their housekeeping skills and replace and or repair any item that needs it. The sisters in Linz (one building away from us) called to say their smoke alarm is going off in the middle of the night and could we help. We are on our way!
We keep getting lost even with the GPS. But we have discovered that almost all roads lead to the Hauptbahnhof (main train station) and that is where we usually have to go to help missionaries going and coming.
We finally figured out what the "Ding Ding" sound is in our car. The GPS is telling us that we are going above the speed limit, even if it's just one kilometer over the limit.
We have had so many wonderful learning moments and good people show us the how to do things that are new to us. We feel especially blessed to work with the area CES director who is in our ward. He came to our apartment for a two hour training session. He is a young man with quite an amazing commitment being in the stake presidency as well as overseeing seminary and institute in 3 stakes.
We recently received a very fun story and wonderful personal testimony of the Book of Mormon from another couple in Austria just about to go home:
"Dear Friends and Family,
How do I love him? Let me count the ways...[My husband Tracy] posted this publicly on Facebook yesterday, so I will share it with you, too:
Question from the Facebook page: How did you gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon?
[Tracy wrote] was about 14, reading the Book of Mormon for the first time as an assignment in Seminary. I was fascinated with the great hero Nephi: gangster-slayer, peacemaker, spirit traveler, visionary, seer, bow and sling hunter, escape artist, metallurgist, subduer of rebellious brothers, ship builder, temple builder, prophet-kin, and civilization-founder. He tested my patience in 2 Nephi with his lengthy quotation from Isaiah, but I persisted and was rewarded with his last words, which reveal the greatness of his soul. As I read how his tears for his people watered his pillow at night, I suddenly felt the overwhelming love of God and began to cry. Nephi had spoken to my soul from the dust by the power of the Holy Ghost, and I knew that I could trust in that same God who had delivered his soul from Hell. I look forward someday to thanking Nephi in person for leading me to the Lord Jesus Christ, my Savior and Redeemer.
Love to all, Sister Helen Hall"
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Our days are also busy taking care of the missionaries. There are 281 in our mission currently, with nine of them in our district. We have a multicultural group. We have one sister from Taiwan with the challenge of learning English and German, another sister is from Hungary, one elder from Germany and another from Switzerland.
We visit their apartments every six weeks to inspect their housekeeping skills and replace and or repair any item that needs it. The sisters in Linz (one building away from us) called to say their smoke alarm is going off in the middle of the night and could we help. We are on our way!
We keep getting lost even with the GPS. But we have discovered that almost all roads lead to the Hauptbahnhof (main train station) and that is where we usually have to go to help missionaries going and coming.
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| Almost all roads lead to the Hauptbahnhof. |
We finally figured out what the "Ding Ding" sound is in our car. The GPS is telling us that we are going above the speed limit, even if it's just one kilometer over the limit.
We have had so many wonderful learning moments and good people show us the how to do things that are new to us. We feel especially blessed to work with the area CES director who is in our ward. He came to our apartment for a two hour training session. He is a young man with quite an amazing commitment being in the stake presidency as well as overseeing seminary and institute in 3 stakes.
We recently received a very fun story and wonderful personal testimony of the Book of Mormon from another couple in Austria just about to go home:
"Dear Friends and Family,
How do I love him? Let me count the ways...[My husband Tracy] posted this publicly on Facebook yesterday, so I will share it with you, too:
Every day the Book of Mormon brings people closer to their Redeemer! Today while I was waiting at the tire store in Klagenfurt for my winter tires to be exchanged for my summer tires (required by law in Austria), an 89-year old veteran of World War II who was there for the same reason struck up a conversation with me. He lost his left elbow to a bullet at Normandy, where he also lost many, many of his friends. I told him that my uncle came ashore at Normandy, and I hoped that it wasn't my uncle who shot him. He was fascinated, actually tickled with the possibility--a delightful, forgiving person. I asked him if he liked to read: he said he reads everything. So I gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon, explaining how it was another witness for Jesus Christ. He opened it and dove right into the middle, fascinated with Abinadi's denunciation of the wicked priests of King Noah. He gave me his name and address and gladly accepted my invitation to have the young elders visit him.
Question from the Facebook page: How did you gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon?
[Tracy wrote] was about 14, reading the Book of Mormon for the first time as an assignment in Seminary. I was fascinated with the great hero Nephi: gangster-slayer, peacemaker, spirit traveler, visionary, seer, bow and sling hunter, escape artist, metallurgist, subduer of rebellious brothers, ship builder, temple builder, prophet-kin, and civilization-founder. He tested my patience in 2 Nephi with his lengthy quotation from Isaiah, but I persisted and was rewarded with his last words, which reveal the greatness of his soul. As I read how his tears for his people watered his pillow at night, I suddenly felt the overwhelming love of God and began to cry. Nephi had spoken to my soul from the dust by the power of the Holy Ghost, and I knew that I could trust in that same God who had delivered his soul from Hell. I look forward someday to thanking Nephi in person for leading me to the Lord Jesus Christ, my Savior and Redeemer.
Love to all, Sister Helen Hall"
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