Pie in the Face

This week was so great. The best part was Tuesday night. We had a Book of Mormon read a thon kick off with the Young men and Young women. We each presented them with a new book of mormon with a Picture with us and them, then all of the missionaries wrote their testiomonies in the book of mormon. Then at the back of the book of Mormon there is a Picture of all of us missionaries and it says "Your missionaires love you!" The youth loved it!!!! We then had an activity with them showing them how they could have good scripture studies and how to get really into the scriptures. So with the challenge if they read for 30 days a chapter a day, they get to pie the Person of their choice in the face:) So naturally we brought a pie for an example and we suprised one of the elders and pied him in the face. O man, the youth went crazy. They loved it and were all so pumped to read in the book of mormon. It was such an incredible activity and yesterday we had talked to the youth and they had been reading everyday!! The parents are also helping them really get into the scriptures. I just hope and pray this will help them gain a love for the Book of Mormon. We have seen a lot of great Feedback from the youth, and in the prayer at the end of the activity, one of them thanked Heavenly Father for such great missionaries in the ward. We were seriously on cloud nine after the activity. We love the youth in this ward so much.

We had a lesson with Lisa afterwards and it was awesome!!! The Spirit was so strong. She is really making Progress. She even fasted yesterday for fast sunday and we havent even taught her about that yet!! She did it completely on her own. She is incredible really. The members are doing such a great job welcoming her. Tonight we are going to Family home evening at Familie Lex and Lisa is coming with. She is so awesome!

We had another great appointment with Roberto!! He seemed to really like the Restoration. We also were able to find 2 new investigators this week, so that has been awesome. This week is already super busy and I am just doing my best to enjoy every Minute, every second, that I have.

O! Next week we will have pday on tuesday. Monday is a Holiday and everything will be closed, so we are switching pday, so dont be alarmed if I dont write Monday.

Well Graz is so great. I love the ward and the investigators here with every ounce of my Soul. It is really such a Blessing to be here.

Ich habe euch ganz doll Lieb!

Sister Allman

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here are Pictures of the book of mormons, and me with the youth doing atl shawty:)

Good Week

What a great Pday!  Baldur took our district to a beautiful mountain and we hiked up, then rode on a alpine slide looking thing in the Alps. It was einfach wonderful! It is super fun because the next pdays that we have are already planned out because members are taking us places. Next Pday we are going on a hike with Heather, then the next Pday our GML Bernhard is taking us to the chocolate factory:) We are very lucky to be serving here in Graz, the members are the best:)

This week was also really good. We were able to have a lot of sucess. Tuesday was spent going by a former investigators home and on our way, we met a cute lady who let us into her apartment! We ended up teaching her, and she seemed really open and receptive. The whole time she just kept telling us how we were radiating and beaming. She also couldn't believe that she let us in her house. She told us she had never done that before, but for some reason she wanted to let us in. Way Cool!! After that appointment we were walking on the street and stopped a man. We started talking to him about the purpose of life and the book of Mormon. He loved it. He told us that all day he had been thinking about it while he had been in bed, but then he had the strongest feeling that he needed to get out and go on a walk. He then met us and he kept telling us that it was no coincidence. It was such a miracle we found him! We were able to teach him a few days later. His name is Roberto and he is from Poland and just so spiritual. He has been really searching for the truth and is just so prepared. We are meeting with him again on Wednesday.

We had an awesome lesson with Lisa on Thursday. We brought Raphy Knapp along with us and he was simply der hammer. Such a good joint teach. We taught her the 3rd lesson about the gospel of Jesus Christ. Raphy totally bore the strongest testimony of scripture study and how that helps him have the spirit with him! It was sooo good and totally helped Lisa. She seemed to really understand and liked what Raphy had to say. It was great.

This week we start the Book of Mormon 30 day challenge with the youth! WE have prepared for the all the own special edition Book of Mormon and with a marker. It looks so good. I talked to a lot of the youth and they are very excited and looking forward to pieing people in the face;)

Well time is short today. I think my next few emails will be shorter.. but just know I love yall!!!

Sister Allman

Dank Ihm

Hello Family!

I am running out of ways to start my emails. hahah But this week was good. We saw tender mercies everywhere and when life gave us puddles - we jumped in them! Literally!  haha  It rained a ton this week. Tuesday after district meeting we were headed by a few people homes and it just poured. Our feet were already wet so we decided just to enjoy each moment and jump in the puddles on the way. Sister Smith and I were just laughing and enjoying every second. We had Gemeinde Rat (Ward Council) that night and by the time we got back to the church, we were completly drenched! It was definitely a lesson to me about how we can enjoy EVERY moment, it is just up to us and our attitude!

We had a great lesson with Lisa about the Plan of Salvation. She loved it and said she doesn't understand why everyone doesn't have the goal to make it to the Celestial kingdom. It was awesome. The members also LOVE Lisa. Everyone keeps asking us if they can come to an appointment with us. Everyone just thinks she is already a member because she looks and acts completly like a member. It is so great. I am excited to meet with her again this week.

O! Cool little thing. Friday night there was a waffle night for the JAEs. We ended up having 11 non members there!! There were 5 members, 4 missionaries, and 11 non members. We were all so excited and just couldn't believe the turn out. It was einfach der Hammer.

So ya'll have probably already seen this video called "Because of Him." Well, Sister Smith and I have really been using it with members and investigators and we have gotten an incredible response. I just have realized that I have so man blessings in my life, and I wouldn't have any of them if it weren't for Him.

 http://easter.mormon.org/

So yesterday we had ward conference with the stake president and it was awesome. They introduced the stake mission plan and this is it...  Love the Gospel enough to share it. 1. Pray for charity and opportunities to share the Gospel. 2. Pray for the missionaries and investigators by name. 3. Have the missionaries in our homes.  There is the plan and that is what they talked about in every meeting. Lets just say that all of us missionaries felt very popular. They focused on the goal setting - and having the missionaries in the members homes.  Afterwards people were rushing to the  calendar to sign up for appointments and even Sister Geschwander, an elderly woman walked around writing down the names of all the missionaries. We have so many appointments with members this week. I felt a reality of the importance of missionary work and the responsibitily that I and all members have to reach out to others. I love that the whole plan starts with Love. Sharing the Gospel out of love. Powerful.

O! Pday was awesome today. Baldur took us to the Green Lake and it was breathtaking. Great Pday.

Well I love yall a lot! Have a great week!

Sister Allman

New Transfer

Heilige Kuh,

What a week, what a week. We probably spent around 18 hours in a train, but we sure had fun. Thursday and Friday we headed to München for MLC and when we got there it was this huge mission reunion. So many missionaries together and it was crazy. All of us together had a huge finding day around the place they host Oktoberfest at because Frühlingsfest is going on right now. (It is right down the street from the church). I think there were about 110 missionaries and we went around Theresienwiese(The place where Oktoberfest and Frühlingsfest are hosted) and invited people to come get a church tour. I think it was definitely a sucess, and we had fun as well. This mission seriously has the BEST missionaries in the world in it. Man, I just love the missionaries in my mission, and I hope I will be friends with these people forever!!!

After the Finding day we started MLC. We focused a lot on the Book of Mormon and how important it is to get our investigators to start reading it from the beginning. We all read the first chapter together, and it was soo incredible to see how much of the first lesson is brought up in just the first chapter! It talks about families, prayer, prophets, revelation, God, Jesus Christ, just everything!! It is incredible and I urge everyone to try and study just the first chapter of the Book of Mormon, and see how many different things it testifies of. I also heard a quote from President Eyring. Someone asked him how long they should read the Book of Mormon each day and he said "Read the Book of Mormon until you feel the spirit, then read a little bit longer." I love that soo much!! That should be the guideline of our daily scripture study each day! It was soo good. That night Sister Smith, Sister Henry, Sister Clark, and I got to stay at a hotel because this mission home was full, so that was a little adventure. We then woke up early and had another great MLC with Elder and Sister Dyches. We talked about Agency and how we should take control of our own lives. He talked all about how it is OUR CHOICE if we are happy, or if things are good. Dad, of course I thought of you. I just kept replaying over and over in my head when Mckay and I would fight, "He's not annoying you, you are LETTING him annoy you!" I couldn't help but laugh, but of course I loved learning about it again, because I think I could always be better at that. But agency is so huge within our happiness. It is really our choice if we are happy or not. One of my favorite quotes is "If you want to be happy, BE!" Who is to decide for us if we are happy or not?? It is our choice! We learned about transfer calls at MLC and guess what?? Sister Smith and I are staying together:) Of course we already figured, but I am just so happy that I will be ending my mission with her, and Sister Freimann!! She is coming to the Wien Zone and I am so stinking happy because I will get to see her and do a tausch with her too. It will be great!! But MLC and München was great. I love that city with my whole heart, and I love being able to go back once a month.

Saturday we had the JAE Sporttagung all day, and it was just a blast!!!! O man, we were soo happy to be there with the JAEs. The best part about it was that it was a huge reunion. I saw Naemi, Oliver, Dago, Marcella, Vera, Lukas, David, Magdelena, Rebekah, Chris, and so much more. I was just besides myself because I was just soo happy and so grateful that we were allowed to go and able to be there. Lisa was there as well and just loved it. It is great to see her make friends with everyone and just have a good time. It is awesome because it is like she is already a member!!

Speaking of Lisa, she is doing great. Saturday at the JAE Tagung she was talking to these two converts from Slovenia and they were telling her their conversion story, and Elder and Sister Tew told us that she teared up during the converstaion, and then she said "Can I be baptized tomorrow?" She is just incredible. She came to Albert's (The Elders Investigator) baptism yesterday and just fits in so well. She is just the best and we will be meeting with her again this week. Sister Smith and I are both freuing ourselfs and are just so happy to be able to teach her. She is just the greatest.

GUESS WHO CAME TO ALBERT'S BAPTISM??? David and Phillip!! O man, we haven't been able to meet with them for a while, but they came to Albert's baptism and just loved it so much!! It was seriously a miracle. David (the 10 year old) was soo excited to see me and ran up and gave me the biggest hug. He had told me that he had been reading in the Book of Mormon and that his dad was going to fix the dvd player so he could was The Restoration after the baptism. How cute is that??? He also said that him and his dad were going to come next week again to church with this big smile on his face. I was sooo happy. Phillip came up to me and just told me how David loved every second of being with the ward members, and he knows they have to come back again next week. Phillip enjoyed it as well, and we are able to set another appointment with them again on Wednesday. We are so excited!!!! Goodness, the Lord is blessing us so much.

This morning during studies I was just overwhelmed.. This next transfer is going to be incredible. I feel it in my bones and I just know we are about to start witnessing miracles and we are going to feel some of the purest joy this transfer. This week we have been able to make out a lot of appointments with members, investigators, and potentials. It is going to be great, and I am ready to work as hard as I can and use EVERY moment that Heavenly Father is granting me. This time on a mission goes by so stinking fast, so now I am just trying to cherish every second and do EVERYTHING I can to accomplish the work the Lord has for me.

We get weekly emails from the mission and this was in the last email that I thought I would share:

 Ein Missionar zu sein ist einfach das Beste.  Ich habe diese Woche eine kleine Zitat gefunden von Präsident Ezra Taft Benson die ich gerne mit euch teilen möchte.  Er sagte, „I challenge you to enjoy your call and to magnify it completely.  Be happy and joyful in the service of the Lord.  Love missionary work with all your heart.  I promise you that as you magnify your call this will be the sweetest and most glorious experience you have had.”

All I can say is, AMEN to that quote.

WelI Ich hab euch ganz doll lieb!! Ihr seid der Hammer!!!

Sister Allman

Here is a picture from Sister Smith and I in Salzburg, we had a hour layover in Salzburg on the way to Munich, so we were able to take a few pictures.

Almdudler

Last week we had another great lesson with Lisa. We taught showed the Restoration Video and she loved it. She just soaks everything up like a sponge! We were able to give her 5 chapters to read before our next lesson, and she was excited to read. I know she is going to get baptized, she is so prepared! Also, This weekend is the JAE Sport Tagung and she is coming to that, she is excited to meet some cute boys...hahah I am excited for her to be able to meet a lots of new members. 

One of our less actives, Schwester Sorko, came to church this week!! It was such a miracle. The greatest thing about it is that she said she felt the spirit so strongly, and she felt like she had this huge pounding in her chest. It was so good, and she loved it. She has made so much progress, and I would not be surprised if she starts coming regularly. She is just the best!!

Other than those two things, this week has just been crazy, but things aren't slowing down. Sunday night we headed to Vienna and got there around 7. Monday we had studies then were able to have a district P-day before are huge 2 Zone finding day. We were able to go to Stefansplatz, Praterstern, Belvedere, Karlskirche, we crammed a ton in. It was a lot of fun, Vienna is a magical city. We headed to the institutes zentrum at 4 for our massive finding day. Sister Henry and I were companions for this finding day and had a blast. In a little over 2 hours we were able to give our 3 book of mormons and find five potentials. It was great, we were so energized, and just ready to flood the earth with Books of Mormon. With 40 companionships we were able to find about 60 potentials. Not too shabby, but it definitely pumped me up again for finding. Tuesday we had a great mission tour with Elder Dyches. I learned a ton, and heard a ton what I needed to hear. It was a great versammnlung!

I got to see Oliver and Raphael!! I was sooo happy!! Two of my good friends from my time in Vienna, it was so weird, yet wonderful to see them again!! I was just so happy. The JAEs in Vienna are just the best. This weeked in the Sport Tagung which we get to attend, so I am going to see even more JAEs so I am stinking excited.

Well tomorrmow, early morning we are headed to Munich with the Zone Leaders. We will get there then have another huge finding day in Munich with all the Zone leaders and Sister Training Leaders in the mission, and the Munich, and Stuttgart zones. It will be good, and I am so excited. I am also excited because Mission Leadership council will be with Timothy J Dyches from the seventy, so of course I will learn a ton. Then we will get back late Friday night, then give a lesson at the Sport Tagung, and be there all day! Also, this weekend is transfer calls, but I am pretty sure Sister Smith and I will be staying for my last transfer:) It is crazy how fast time is flying, so I am just trying to enjoy each moment, and forgetting about time. I am looking forward to a transfer of miracles and fun. It will be great.

Well ich hab euch ganz doll Lieb!! Schöne Woche!!!!

Sister Allman

O es ist Wunderba

This week was so good. Tuesday we had our first lesson with Lisa which went very well.  She is so prepared. She knew all about Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, the Word of Wisdom, and even things like Modesty. She said she has been listening to podcasts online about different topics of the church, and she loves it all. She loves how our church is run and how everyone has a part. She said she loves how she feels when shes at church and when she learns about the church, she thinks the church is true and accepted a soft baptismal date. Seriously, our jaws were dropping just the whole lesson, we were amazed at how ready she is. It is amazing to see how the Lord prepares people. The best part about it was that we asked her how she got her Book of Mormon. She told us how about 6 months ago that she ordered a Book of Mormon on lds.org and asked if missionaries could come to her home and visit. She told us that she was so sad, because missionaries never came, and the Book of mormon ended up coming in a mail. Sister Smith and I were both just shocked when we heard that. If anyone EVER wants a book of mormon, the missionaries bring it! It is really hard to to avoid the missionaries, because we are the ones who deliver the Book of Mormon-even if you don't want the missionaries to come. So I just think that is a huge miracle. When I first came to Graz I had been searching for the person I promised in the Pre-earth life that I would find them. I just KNEW that there was someone here that  I would help. When I thought of who that person would b, I pictured a brown haired, ysa-aged girl always came to my mind. So for the time I have been here I have been doing everything I can to find that person. I don't know, when Lisa told us that, I just KNEW it was her that I promised. It is no coincidence that Sister Smith and I are here at this time, to be able to teach her. We may have not found her, she found us! but She is suppose to be in Sister Smith and I's life. I just know it. She has already been such a blessing and helped me more than she or anyone will ever know. Or even maybe, I didn't promise to help her, but she promised to help me? I don't know, but one thing I do know is that My God is a God of Mircales, and Heavenly Father never ceases to amaze me with the miracles I have been able to witness on my mission.

Another little Miracle, I didn't tell you guys, but I had to go to the doctor a few weeks ago because I had an infection in my body (Don't worry about it, it was just something little). During my check up the doctor saw something and had to take a biopsy. I am not going to lie, but I was really nervous. I was able to get a blessing from Elder Tew and Elder Byers, but I still was really worried afterwards. Something that was said in the blessings made me think that something was wrong. Later that week we had a eating appointment with a YSA from America. Just so happens is that she is Gluten Intolerant. We got to talking about Gluten and the effects of eating it. She ended up looking up the things that could happen if one still eats gluten when they have celiac disease. I had the biggest wake up call in my life. I have never felt so much in my life how important it is for me not to eat Gluten. I was afraid, and I was nervous that I had lost my opportunity to treat my body right with healthy, gluten-free foods. I was worried I was a little too late. Well, low and behold, I am okay! The biopsy came back good. I have no shadow of a doubt that I went through this little scare, to know how important it is for me to follow the gluten-free diet. I know ya'll have heard this a million times, and everyone knows how terrible I am at eating gluten-free, but I literally had the biggest wake up call in my life. And in the blessing that Elder Tew and Elder Byers gave me said "You will be grateful for a Healthy Body." O man, I am grateful that I am healthy. I really and truely feel that Heavenly Father has given me another chance to eat gluten free so I can live to an old-healthy age. Now everytime I have the temptation to eat something with gluten, I think of stomach cancer, or not being able to have kids, and my temptation goes away. It is just NOT worth it.  It is another wonderful miracle I have been able to witness.

We had a tausch this week with Wiener Neustadt. I got to work with Sister Garrett who I was with in the MTC! She is a transfer older than me and just the coolest. She played basketball in college and always schooled me in the MTC when we would play. haha  But it just so happens that our Tausch fell on the day of the basketball game of Brett and Nolan. When we told her she literally fell to the ground and cried because she was so happy/excited to go. The game was soo much fun. There were less people at a professional basketball game in Europe than a JV basketball game in High school, but we had such a blast. The wonderful thing about it was that we were able to have 3 nonmembers there with the JAEs (YSA) and they all enjoyed themselves as well. It was a super close game and Graz ended up winning by 4 points? Everyone really enjoyed ourselves and had a great time. Afterwards we stayed and talked with Nolan and got his number. We will be meeting with him this week, and hopefully give him a Book of Mormon before he goes home on the 28 for the Off season. It was such a wonderful experience, and I realized how much I love basketball! Man, it is the best. I attached pictures of it.

Easter was so great. We showed up to church and all the members kept giving us chocolate bunnies, candy, meat, nutella-they showered us with gifts. It was so nice, our ward is just the best. Don't worry mom, they really take care of us:) Afterwards we headed to the Genge's for a nice Easter Lunch. It was so delicious, and just so much fun. I really love being here, especially in Graz.

Mom, next week I probably won't be able to email until Wednesday, we are headed up to Vienna on Sunday night because Monday we have a huge mission finding day with the Salzburg and Vienna Zones (We'll have around 80 missionaries), then on Tuesday we have a Mission Tour with Elder Timothy J. Dyches, then we will come home Tuesday night, so don't be alarmed:) Next week is literally going to be crazy. It is the last week in the transfer, and we will be in Graz on Wednesday, then Thursday and Friday we will be in Munich for Mission Leadership Council, and then Saturday there is a JAE conference and they want all of our district of missionaries to be there, so that week is going to be so much fun, and crazy, but I am excited;)

Ich weiss ohne Zweifel dass, diese Kirche wahr ist. O meine gute. Ich bin unendlich dankbar für unser Erretter, und Ich weiss mein Gott wirkt Wunder. Ich bin so dankbar eine Missionarin zu sein!

Love you guys!

Sister Allman

Here are pictures of all of us at the game, and here is a picture of Lisa and I at Elder Tew's birthday fhe!

Atlanta Hawks

We met two professional basketball players this week! We contacted both of them at different times and had some great conversations with them. I was sooo happy to talk to someone about basketball!!!! They are both playing over here in Europe and getting paid for it. One is hoping he will get drafted into the NBA soon and the other is content playing basketball in Europe. Well, it just so happens that their last game is Wednesday night and we got permission to go! I am so excited. We are going with the YSA of our ward and a lot of investigators and less actives. It will be so much fun. We are hoping that after the game we will be able to give the two professionals Books of Mormon. So we will see what happens:)

Osei got the priesthood yesterday and was able to bless the sacrament!! It was so awesome, he was beaming from every pore and did such a good job. Goodness I love watching people take on the gospel and change a little each day. It is the best!

We have an awesome new investigator!! Her name is Lisa and she is the best!! She is 19 years old and was introduced into the church by this mormon family who posts videos everyday of their life. Their names are the Shaytards? Something like that, well she follows their blog and became interested in the church through this blog. She just showed up to church 2 weeks ago and has been coming to YSA activities. On wednesday night at Institute someone wanted to give her a Book of Mormon, but she already had one! She had ordered one online 6 months earlier! How crazy is that?? She is just the cutest-she acts mormon already! I was talking to her and I asked her if she knew what General Conference was and she told me that she had already watched some of it!! She then goes on to tell me that she downloaded the Mormon Channel onto her phone and listens to the Mormon Radio sometimes. Goodness, she is just the best. Not to mention that we have soo much in common! She loves one direction:) hahaha But it is crazy because She has brown eyes, brown hair, and it is like she is my sister. I feel so blessed to have met her and to get to teach her.

Mom and Dad, it is so crazy because there are a few other girls in the ward that I look like. Their names are Siri and Kristin. Members will come up to us and just be baffled because they think we look like we are related or sisters. At least once a Sunday people will come up to us and say that. haha O and The Lex family here in Graz reminds me of the Felts. They would fit right into the Felt Family, so when I am with them it is always fun because I feel like I am with my real family. Basically the whole graz gemeinde is wonderful, and they are treating Sister Smith and I so well!

This next week is already full with lots of appointments, an austausch, and a finding day! It will be really good. I love being a missionary here in Graz:)

I love you guys!! Have a great week!

Sister Allman:)

-here is the picture with us playing frisbee with the JAES-sorry not a lot of people were ready... haha

General Conference

This week was crazy. I did a ton of travel. All together about 18 hours in the train, but by golly it was fun! Sister Smith and I are again reunited! Ahh It is so great. We have just been catching up like crazy. It is really weird to think that we were both in an area without each other. haha But we are having a lot of fun and are ready to work so hard!! It is going to be a great two transfers.

Was conference not amazing??? Goodness, It is like Christmas for us as missionaries. I loved how much it talked about Love. Love is seriously the key to everything. I think my favorite talk was by Richard G. Scott, or President Monson. I've realized how important Love is on a mission. If you don't have love for your companion, your area, your investigators, a mission is just not fun. But when you love everything with your heart, that is when the miracles occur and the fun happens. I love being a missionary!

We have been meeting a ton of YSA age group potentials lately. I love it. On the way to Salzburg to pick up Sister Smith we met a group of about 7 American students here on a study abroad. They knew about the mormons already and they had friends on missions. There were a few of them that had sincere interest in meeting with us, and we are meeting with them tomorrow! I am excited to see what happens. The YSA in our ward our incredible. They are the best member missionaries and are always inviting friends and less actives to church. I love them so much!

As for our investigators, we are having to start from scratch. All of them have fallen off the face of the earth and so we are out to find more. Sister Smith and I have high hopes and we've experienced miracles once together, and we are ready to experience them again!!  We are the dream team:)

I think back on my time in Singen, and what a wonderul blessing it was for me to serve there. It was hard, but I learned how to be a true missionary. I learned how to find people. I learned how to start from nothing. I learned how to love the work even when it was going wrong. It is funny, as I was in Singen, I never thought our numbers were good enough, and that we were successful, but after being in a new zone I have come to realized how good we were doing. It is crazy to see that. So I know, if we were able to teach a lot in a small place like Singen, we can find tons of people here in Graz. Graz is going to explode:)

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

Sister Allman

Here is a picture of us having a picnic between conference sessions with the ysa!

Transfer calls.

You would not believe it!!

Friday as we were sitting at MLC (Mission Leadership Council) President gave us the transfer calls to those who were going to be affected. Before he read down the list he told us "Now, I don't want any crying or screaming when I give out these calls!" We all laughed of course and agreed. I found out that my companion Sister Regnier will be getting transfered to Augsburg, Germany, and that I would be getting a new companion. I was nervous to find out who my new companion would be because this companion is most likely my last!! As Pres. Miles was going through the transfer list of all the Sister Training Leaders and he got to Sister Rebecca Smith. She has been serving in Tubbingen for the last 4 transfers and is STL as well. He looked at her to tell her where she was going, and I was sure hoping she would going to my zone so we could do exchanges together. All of the sudden he said, "Sister Smith, you are headed to Graz, Austria to work with Sister Allman!" OF COURSE I SCREAMED! I COULDN'T HELP IT!! Everyone started laughing so hard. One of the Assistants, even took a video because he knew what was happening and knew what the reaction would be like! Sister Smith and I were the dream team in Munich as a companionship, and ever since we were transfered from each other we have been talking about how we want to serve together again, AND NOW IT IS HAPPENING!! I am so stinking excited. We both couldn't believe it. Literally every pday since we haven't been companions, we email each other saying how we want to be companions again, and now she will be my last companion!!! Ahh I am so excited. Everyone couldn't believe it either. It RARELY happens that you are companions twice with somebody on the mission. It is crazy as well because it was exactly a year ago that we became companions together the first time, and I was her trainer.  Now a year later we are will companions again! Of course I am a teenie bit nervous, because it was soo good in Munich, and I am nervous it won't be the same, but I think it will be great. I feel so hopeful about my last 3 months here and I KNOW we are going to see Miracles again like crazy. We seriously worked so well togehter, and totally balanced each other out, and we are about to do it again! Man. I am excited:)

 

My Birthday was good! We were in a train for 6 hours headed to Munich. The train ride was so stinking beautiful! It went through the Austrian Alps and it was just so dreamy. We got to MLC an hour late because we had ticket problems, but as soon as Sister Regnier and I walked in everyone stood up and started singing to me. It was really nice, and I felt a little bit awkward, but it was great. I LOVE THE MISSIONARIES IN MY MISSION. Man, after MLC I was just so happy. I have met some of the greatest people on my mission, and I hope I will be friends with these people for ever!! I feel so close to these people and so lucky to have been able to meet them. They are just the BEST! 

 

We were able to do a lot of less active work this week. It was wonderful. We have this less active who just finished reading to Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants, she is progressing so much! She knows the BOM is true and that she can get answers for herself from Heavenly Father! The bishop and ward have been trying to find her member records but they cant find them anywhere. She was baptized when she was 9, but became inactive soon after that. We all believe that she was never confirmed, so her baptism wasn't final! So she will have to baptized again we think, and she is very exctied for that.

 

We had a miracle happen at church yesterday!  Two people showed up dressed and ready-and for Sacrament and they aren't even members!! There was a girl and guy and they are about 20 years old. Lisa, (the girl), actually had watched some videos about a mormon family on youtube and was really impressed and looked up the church in graz to see what is was like. She was really interested because she follows a families blog who is LDS. She brought her boyfriend along and they stayed for the whole 3 hours of church and really liked it!! Bernhard our GML-was soo awesome at befriending them. He invited them to the YSA Family Home Evening and they are both excited to come. We are hoping that we will be able to start teaching her soon, so we will see what happens.

 

This church is true! What I love about it is that none of ya'll have to believe me-You can find out for yourself!! You can read in the Book of Mormon, pray about it, and recieve your OWN answer! How amazing is that???? That is what I love about being a missionary, I dont have to force my beliefs on anyone, I can just invite people to find out for themselves. It is incredible!

 

Okay well today our distirct is headed on a hike to a gorge! It should be an adventure!

 

LOVE YOU GUYS and thanks for the birthday wishes:)

 

Sister Allman

 

 

Frühlings ist hier!

O man the weather is just so beautiful here in Graz right now! The sun is shining and I couldn't be happier. The week was great! We were able to have a lot of extra time, because mostly all of our appointments fell out, but it was great time to go by on people. Saturday we were able to help a family in our ward build their house! It was soo much fun. I honestly never thought anyone built their own houses anymore, but this family is, and what is done is mind blowing!! The lived in the green, countryside about 45 minutes away, and we helped with nailing wood, and cleaning all day. They even have sheep so we helped the sheep and chased them.. hahah It was such a blast. Sister Regnier, the Elders, and I were seriously in our element. We were your missionary form of Bob the Builder! haha

 

My tausch in Vienna was great! I thought it would be hard for me, but it actually made me realize that I am not suppose to be there. Definitely a Tender Mercy for me, but it was great to be back! I was able to go to the Institute Zentrum and see some of my favorite places there! It was a good reunion with the city, and Sister Motto and I had a blast together! We were able to find a lot of people together so it was definitely a success!

 

Osei had an incredible baptism this week! On Friday when we met with him, he told us that he had bought a new suit and he was going to get a haircut for his big day-He was so excited and ready!!! The baptism was soo good. The spirit was so strong and everyone was just teary up. He was just beaming from every pore.  It was so cute. He knew that he just made a huge step in his life and he is so excited to continue on the path. He told us that his goal is to go to the temple! Goodness. He is just such a good example to me. After the baptism we headed to Bishops house for an eating appointment with Osei. Bishop and his family totally welcomed Osei in the ward and Osei was just so happy. The members have played sooo much of a role in missionary work with helping new members and investigators. I have totally seen that on my mission as the members have welcomed everyone under their wings. Members are vital in this work!!

 

I love being a missionary. I love this work. I love this Gospel.

 

Have a great week!

 

Sister Allman

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!

 

Österreich ist am Besten!

I love Graz. Without a doubt, I know this is where I am suppose to be! I have never felt so much like I need to be in any of my areas like I feel with this one. It is so weird how familiar Graz already has been to me. Man, I just KNOW that this is where the Lord needs me and I know he prepared me in both München and Singen so I could serve here. I hope that makes sense, but there is definitely a reason I am here. I have already fallen in love with the people, the city, the members, and I have only been here about 10 days!! So if I never come back to America...I am sorry! I just feel so at home here and love it here in Austria way too much:)

Well we saw some incredible miracles this past week. Monday night we were doing weekly planning (yes I know, way late), and I went through a list of old potential investigators from over a year ago and I noticed that a lot of potentials had never been contacted, so I decided to call a few! There was a name really stuck out to me so I gave her a call, and sure enough she stil wanted a Book of Mormon. She gave me her address and we made a plan to go take her one on Wednesday. Well Wednedsay we went to deliver this Book of Mormon. When we got to the address we couldn't find her name anywhere on the Klingle! Well as we were searching for the name this guy named Phillip came up to us and asked us if we needed help. We told him we were looking for a lady who spoke Spanish. He was all confused and didn't know. We ended up talking to him about the Book of Mormon and the church. Ends up that his friend is an investigator of the Elders (who has a baptismal date), and another one of his friends is a member! He just talked about how both these friends have totally changed their life with alcohol and drugs because of the church. We bore testimony to him about the gospel and the Book of Mormon and were able to give him one. We got his information and he said he would love to meet sometime! We were both so excited. We then said our goodbyes and he went into his house. We continued searching but still weren't have any luck. About 5 minutes later, Phillip walks out of his house and says "Wait, are you looking for my wife??? She isn't spanish, but she is from the Dominican Republic!" HIS WIFE WAS WHO WE WERE LOOKING FOR! It was such a tender mercy because Heavenly Father led us to a family that had interest in learning about the Gospel!! We were so happy, because sometimes it is so hard to find families here, but the Lord blessed us! We were so excited! We were able to meet with them yesterday and it was the best first lesson I have ever had with anyone! O man. The family is just the cutest ever.  Phillip is  34 an Austrian, his wife is Dominican, and they have 3 kids together: Jasmin (12), David (10), and Amber (9 months). When we got to the appointment Phillip had prepared dinner for us-he was just so excited! The wife, Yajiera (sp?) had actually met with missionaries before in Domincan Republic. She had lost her Book of Mormon and wanted another. Sadly when we had the lesson after dinner, she went with the 9 month old to lay down, but we still had a great lesson with Phillip and David. I just cannot even begin to describe how wonderful this lesson was. Phillip and his son soaked everything up like a sponge. They both have such a strong desire to know if the Book of Mormon is true. Philip had actually read a little bit in the Book of Mormon and had looked up some things online before our visit. We read some of the introduction with them and also Moroni 10:3-5. Everything they read they really liked. Phillip just kept saying that he knew in order to get an answer that the Book of Mormon is true he had to give his whole heart and do his part. He just kept saying he knew that he really had to search and want an answer. It was incredible! David was also so excited to read with us and after the lesson ended he asked, "Dad, Can they come back tomorrow??" haha It was so cute. We have a Fasching Party at the church on Tuesday and they are going to come and we also made out another appointment for Saturday. It was just so amazing and the Spirit was so strong throughout the entire lesson. They are both soo prepared. Before we left the just keep thanking us and were so excited to meet again. It was seriously such a miracle and we are both so happy. We are so thankful that the Lord led us to Philip and his family!!

Sister Regnier and I both feel that Graz is about to explode. The past year hasn't been the most successful  with work here in Graz, but we know it is about to get crazy. We are working soo hard and using our time as wisely as possible. Because of it I know the Lord is blessing us so much!

Something else I love about Graz is that we get to work really closely to the JAE's. The Ehepaar here and our GML wants us trying to go to the JAE Fhe, institute, and waffle night as much as we can. Of course I love that! I already love the JAEs here so much!  I had actually met a few of them before in Wien! Crazy huh? Tuesday we did splits with two of the girls Rahel, and Kristin. It was so fun for us! I was able to go with Kristin to teach our investigator Paul, and Sister Regnier went with Rahel to teach a less active. It was such a great opportunity for us. Kristin is seriously the coolest and is a returned missionary! She served in the St. George, Utah mission and inspired me so much while I was with her! We also had a really cool experience with one of the JAEs on Monday. We went to play basketball with the Elders and we invited some of the JAEs. Only Raphy Knap came but we all had such a blast. Raphy is seriously so cool! He is 27 and the Gemeinde Secretary. Well yesterday during fast and testimony meeting he got up and bore the cutest testimony. He said how he was just so grateful for us and the Elders and that we invited him to play basketbal with us. He said we invited him just when he need it. He said over the pulpit "Yes the investigators need the missionaries, but so do we, the members, because they can strengthen each of us, like they strengthened me on Monday!" It was so sweet. All of us were just teery eyed. It is crazy how the spirit tells us to do something when we don't even know the spirit is speaking to us. I know it wasn't just a coincidence that we played basketball last Monday and invited him, it was definitely the Spirit that helped it all work out.

My first real Sunday in the ward was awesome! I already love everyone so much, but I still hardly know anyone! I just feel so at home in the ward and everyone and everything is so familiar. I am not going to lie, at first it was super overwhelming because the ward is HUGE but then as church went on it got so much better! o man. I think it as big as the Mars Hill Ward which is crazy for here in Austria, but I am so excited. I LOVED Sunday. The Bishop is also just so awesome, and the members. Man. I am just so happy to be here. I can't even describe my happiness. This is where I am suppose to be!

Yesterday in Sunday School we had a great lesson on prayer. I really have taken prayer for granted since I have been on my mission. We are praying so much that sometimes I forget how powerful prayer really is! I was reading in Mosiah 27 and I read a verse that pierced my soul! This chapter is when Alma the younger was persecuting the church and then an Angel appears to him. Here is the verse that just was so powerful: "And again, the angel said: Behold, the Lord hath ^aheard the prayers of his people, and also the ^bprayers of his servant, Alma, who is thy father; for he has ^cprayed with much faith concerning thee that thou mightest be brought to the ^dknowledge of the truth; therefore, for this purpose have I come to ^econvince thee of the power and authority of God, that the ^fprayersof his servants might be answered according to their faith."

Is that not incredible? The only reason the Angel appeared to Alma the Younger is because of the faithful prayers of his father! It is so easy to forget the power of prayer, but we should remember when we are praying with all the faith of our soul, we can move mountains! It is so amazing!! Man. I am just so happy! I love being a missionary. There is no where in the world that I would rather be, besides here bringing great tidings of joy to people! This is the best!

Thank you for all the prayers. I feel them and I am so grateful. This is the best thing in the world and I am just so happy to be here! I am praying for yall and I love you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love,

Sister Allman:)

Here is one of the only pictures I took this week! We decided to go grab a pizza for lunch one day, so here we are together at the pizza place!

Servus! Baba

Servus Familie!

I am in Austria and I am so happy. It has been a good few days. I KNOW this is where I am suppose to be. I really feel like my time in Munich and Singen prepared me for this area. I just feel like there is somethings I am suppose to do here. I really feel like Graz is about to blow up and I am ready to see miracles. I am really happy to be here and am ready to give everything I have. Graz is really cool. It is way bigger than Singen, but smaller than Wien(Vienna). Ít is a perfect size and there are old buildings and architechture everywhere. We travel on strassenbahns and there are people everywhere. It is beautiful. The austrian accent is crazy, and I have to learn a new german, but I like it! My companion is Sister Regnier. She is super cool and from California. She has been out about 11 months. We are already having a lot of fun. I came hereon Thursday and we got in about 8:45 at night. I came with 5 missionaries from Munich to Vienna where I then met my companion. Then we headed on a 2 1/2 train ride to Graz. The Elders picked us up with the ehepaar the Tews. The Tews actually live in Fruit Heights-in the near from Tami! Everyone here is really great. I just feel really good here. I can't really describe it, but I just know I am suppose to be here and the Lord has work for me to do. All I can say is that I am so happy to be here.

 

It was a great week. The beginning of the week consisted of many goodbyes. O man it was tough. I love the gemeinde in Singen so much. Monday thru Wednesday consisted of us running to all ends of our areas and it was way busy. It was so cute, before I left the we had a joint teach with the Elders and they surprised me a with a goodbye gift. It was so nice! I love the missionaries and of course the Gurney's so much. I am going to miss them a lot. Thursday I was on the train all day. It was so much fun being in Munich and seeing Sister Tranum and Michael. I just love them. They are the best! I then headed on the train for the rest of the day. Friday we got me registered and we had a few appointments. I met a lot of the JAE's (YSA). I am so happy there is a JAE Zentrum here. I love working with the JAE's so it will be fun.

 

Saturday we headed to Vienna for the district leader meeting. That is one of my new responsibilities of sister training leader. I realized that it is going to be pretty crazy being sister training leader because we have to be in Wien a lot, and that is a 2 and a half hour train ride. But I am not complaining..I can go to Wien as often as they want me too. haha But that night we had stake conference. It was soo good. First off, I saw so many of the JAE's who I was friends with in Wien. It was such a wonderful surprise and everyone was so shocked to see me. I could've cried I was so happy to see these people. I have never loved people as much as I loved the JAE's in Wien. They have such a huge place in my heart. It was such a happy reunion seeing them. It was like I hadn't even left, besides the fact that some of them are married now. I just felt so at home being at the stake conference. I felt like it was where I was suppose to be. I can't even describe to you the connection I feel with Wien. I know I probably won't have the chance to serve there as a missionary (besides exchanges), but I really feel like one day I will be back in that stake. Something is waiting for me in Wien. I don't know.. I just know I will be back one day. But I was so happy. President and Sister Miles spoke at stake conference. It was the last Stake conference that they have as mission presidents. It was just so crazy that I could be at their last because I was one at one of their first stake conference when I was in Wien 2 and a half years ago. The whole session was about missionary work and they committed the members to pray for the missionaries and investigators by name. The best part was that they had made a video of the missionaries in the Wien stake that were out on the missions. It was so cute. David Meissner, Joel Dospil, Clara Nemec were both on it. It made me so happy. It was just a great night.

 

On Sunday we were back in Graz for stake conference. It was actually a broadcast from Salt Lake City. Elder Bednar and Elder Hales spoke. The best part about it was that Elder Bednar did his talk in German. He served in this mission when he was younger, but it was really powerful that he did it in German. It was soo good too! The ward is big! It is the biggest in the mission. I met a lot of members and I am excited to get to know them more. The GML is soo awesome. He is 23 and loves missionary work-everyone tells me he is the best gml in the mission, so we will see! I don't really know what else to say for now. I am so excited for these next few transfers here and I already said this but I really know this is where I am suppose to be. It will be great.

 

Well I love you guys. I am praying like crazy for our family. YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST FAMILY A GIRL COULD EVER ASK FOR:)

 

Sister Allman

 

This is a picture in my favorite city in my area in Singen. Also I uploaded some pictures on dropbox mom!!

ConGRAZ on the new Area!

What a week what a week.

First off, I am headed to Graz, Austria! I am soo excited to go to Austria! It also means that I am in the Vienna Zone so I will be headed back to Vienna a few times a month for meetings and Austauches. I am beyond excited. Also the new zone leader in Wien is Elder Curtis who was in my mtc district so I am excited to be working with him as well! It'll be a great adventure serving in a new country and as the Sister Training Leader. ahhh Graz has the biggest ward in the mission and it is the 2 biggest city in austria! ahhh I am excited. I am leaving on Thursday and I will probably be in the trains for about 8-9 hours. It is sooo far. The Sister in the office told me it takes the longest to get to graz from any other place in the mission, especially because it is surrounded by alps and you have to go around a big mountain to get there. Goodness I am excited.

But with every ounce of my heart I will  miss Singen!  Man. It was soo hard saying goodbye to the members yesterday. I love this gemeinde so much. It is a whole lot of crazy but so full of love. I love it. Yesterday I just had to hold back my tears the whole day. It was so hard. Especially bearing my goodbye testimony. Man. I have been in Singen over 7 months! It is crazy. But I know I have eternal friends here in Singen. All day yesterday the members were saying that they were going to call Church head quarters and tell them that I couldn't leave. They all said I have to finish my mission here. It was cute. I am so incredibly grateful for my time here in Singen. I have learned more than I could ever thought and met people that have changed my life. It has been a great 5 transfers here.

This week was so great though. On Saturday our ward had a Talent Abend. It was soo wonderful. It was a great success and there were 5 nonmembers and some less actives! Our investigator Erwin was just the cutest and performed with the guitar and then Benji sang. He brought 3 of his friends and his daughter. They loved it and had so much fun. It was such a great opportunity to invite people to see the church and become acquainted with it. Erwin is making a ton of progress as well. This week we met with him this week and talked with him about baptism. He didn't freak out. It was really a miracle and the lesson went well. I have no doubt, one day he will get baptized. It will just take him some time. Yesterday when we were saying bye, he said that I have to come back and visit and go to the disco with his daughter. haha Goodness I love this work and the people you meet with it.

Last night we finally met with the very first potential I ever found in Singen. Her name is Marianna and she is from the country Georgia. We have been trying to meet her for the past 5 transfers, but it just never worked out. Well her lesson was incredible. She is so ready. She said that she has been searching for the truth and she knows there is a life after this. All of her questions were about the lessons we teach. I don't know if that makes sense, but she was so excited. She had a lot of back pain to and so Elder Gurney gave her a blessing and at the end of the lesson she said he pain was fading away! It was incredible. It was so cool to see that the first potential I found here in Singen is a new potential. She is going to get baptized. We are all sure of that. Sister Smith and her new companion will meet with her on Friday.

Oh and one other cool thing! We set a baptismal date this week! His name is Christoph and he is searching for the truth. He is african and such a huge believer. We taught him a great first lesson and he was soo excited to read and come to church! He is solid. We are meeting with him again wednesday.

Well that was the week. It was such a great week to end my time here in Singen. I love Singen so much and for all the incredible people I have met here. It has been such a blessing to serve here!! ahhh the mission is the best. I am so grateful to be here. There are miracles everywhere!!

LOVE YOU ALL!!!

Sister Allman

Singen immer noch in Singen

I am still in Singen! We actually don't have transfer calls until this weekend. So I have no idea if I am staying another transfer in Singen or leaving. So Don't stress yet! Why did yall think that it was this past weekend?? So I have been in Singen now about 7 months now, so everyone thinks I will be transfered, but I definitely think I could stay another one. I have no idea.. We will see what happens. It is weird to think that I could be transfered into my last area.. ahhh As soon as I find out I will get Sister Gurney to email yall:) But I am predicting I will stay here for a 6th transfer...

 I read in my journal from my first two transfers and it just amazes me how much I have learned and grown on my mission. I have made so much progress! It is seriously incredible and I am so thankful for that. I just think of how much the mission has blessed my life and I am overcome with immense gratitude. I always thought before my mission that I would be able to help so many people, but then I realized the mission has probably effected my life more than I have effected anyone elses. It is crazy like that. A mission is a win win, you can help others come unto Christ and let them to partake in his redemption, and you can also go through a refiners fire that helps you change which will help the rest of your life. It is incredible. Hopefully that makes since, but I am thankful for my Savior!

My Austausch in Offenburg was so fun! It is great to be able to experience a new area with a different companion. You learn so much! Offenburg is also so different than Singen. The scenery is just so different (Since they are in the middle of the black forest) and people talk with crazy accents there! hahah It was cool because I did the tausch with Sister Brinck and she is gluten free too! She gave me some great ideas with eating. I am becoming a gluten free pro. The Lord is helping me so much.

Sister Smith and I had the opportunity to teach seminary this week. It was so much fun. I love the youth, but I also realized how hard it can be to teach them, especially when they don't really care to be there. But it made me excited to work with youth again in the future. It is cool because our mission is doing a mission wide fast together for the youth of the church and so that we can teach more youth. I think it is great. 

Erwin is doing great! He has been to church 8 times and just loves every second. Yesterday after church he asked us if we could meet by the baptismal font for his lesson. He is making so much progress and he loves the gemeinde. We are meeting with him again on wednesday and he is also performing at the Talent Abend this Saturday. He is basically a member, he just has to get over his fear of baptism. One thing I have learned on my mission is that patience in a virtue, so we just have to have patience with him:)

This week we have Zone Conference in Freiburg which is about 2 1/2 hours away. It should be good, I am excited to learn from President and Sister Miles!

well i love you guys so much! Have a great week!!

Sister Allman:)

Here is a talk I have been really studying the past few weeks. It is the best!

http://www.lds.org/ensign/1974/11/good-habits-develop-good-character