Happy Fasching

Schöne Liebe Grüsse!

Diese Woche war einfach der Hammer.

 

I still love Graz so much! It is just incredible.

 

Well to start it off, Tuesday was Fasching here. It was crazy! Fasching is like Halloween. Everyone dresses up in costumes and there are parades. It was so much fun. We had district meeting at the beginning of the day then headed off to Hauptplatz to get on a strassebahn to get to Familie Knapp's house for lunch. Hauptplatz was full of people dressed up like the craziest things. Sister Regnier and I were loving it. Music was blasting and everyone was enjoying themselves before this huge parade started. It was really cool to be able to experience a bit of Fasching in the center of the city before we headed to the Knapp's. It was soo much fun at the Knapp's. They are a family of 12, and just a hoot. It reminds me so much of our family. Their conversion story is crazy. Bruder und Schwester Knapp met the missionaries and 11 days later they were baptized!! And then they brought 10 wonderful children to the world, which now makes up a huge part of our ward. haha They are just the best. After our lunch appointment we all headed to the ward Fasching Party. It was such a blast and I grew to love the ward members there even more! At the party I was really able to get to know the youth-which I love! Music was playing at the party, and One Direction came on..Of course I went a little crazy, and I couldn't help but dance to it, and a member in our ward, Brother Sander, came up to me and said, "You are the coolest Sister Missionary ever!" He definitely has a great taste in music. haha It was such a great day though. I know I am like a broken record, but I love this ward already so much. I am so grateful to be here!

 

We have been working a lot with less active members here. A lot of the people we teach are right on the egde of being active again which makes it so fun to see their testimonies grow. It is so interesting to see how most of these people became inactive. It all seems to come by little things that made them inactive. They got lazy with reading their scriptures, or they missed a few Sundays, and then it just got a lot harder for them to come back. That just goes to show how important the little things are. We can never forget to pray, read in the scriptures, or go to church. These three things are what keep our testimony strong. Also, one time I was talking with President and he said that "A testimony isn't like a light switch. You can't just turn it on and off. Once you have a testimony, you always have one. It just depends how how much you do to strengthen it or not." I think that is so true. Once we have recieved a testimony, we do always have one, but it is up to us on how strong it is or not. We can never forget those little things!

 

Thursday and Friday we were in München for Mission Leadership Council which was way good. One of the fun things about it was that I was able to see most of my mtc district, and sister smith and freimann! It was such a happy reunion. But the best thing about MLC was to be able to learn from the APs and President and Sister Miles. We talked a lot about Virtue and I learned soo much!! I have always thought of Virtue of dealing with clean thoughts, but it goes way deeper than that. It also has to deal with our ideal thoughts or our negative thoughts. That hit me soo much! So I am going to work on having more productive thoughts.

 

We were able to meet with Phillip and David again! They are soo ready and open to learning. When we got there David (10) was soo excited and pulled out his Book of Mormon. He and his dad had read the first 4 chapters in the Book of Mormon! David also had this little planner and said "I want to make sure I know when you guys will be coming back!" It was so cute. The lesson got cut church so we focused on Prayer. Neither of them had a ever really just prayed from their hearts, so they committed to do it every night before they went to bed this next week. At the end of the lessons they both said a prayer, and it was so good. The spirit was so strong! We are meeting with them 2 this week and I am really excited for that.

 

Our investigator Paul is doing great. He will be baptized this Sunday! We are all excited. He understands the Book of Mormon so well. Everytime we ask him if he has read in the Book of Mormon, he gives us a recap of the whole chapter. He just gets the gospel and has been really prepared. Sunday will be great.

 

I don't really know what else to say besides that I love being a missionary. I am so happy right now. It is such a wonderful blessing and opportunity to bring Heavenly Father's children closer to him. I just love it. I love it here and I am just so incredibly grateful for this opportunity.

 

O! Tomorrow I am headed to Vienna for an austausch! So I will be there until Thursday. It will be fun to be able to work as a missionary in Vienna. It is going to be interesting being back. I am so excited!

 

Well I love you guys so much! Have a great week!!!

and Happy Birthday Grandpa Allman! I love you!

 

Ich habe euch ganz doll Lieb!!

 

Sister Allman

 

Here is a picture  at MLC with Elder Curtis and Elder Halverson! They were in my mtc district!