Saturday, October 29, 2011

Most Beautiful City in the World? Quite Possibly!

Received October 24, 2011

The subject line is pretty much what I thought upon traveling from the train station to the great city of Salzburg. It could possibly be the most amazing thing I've seen in all my time here. Despite having been through the city on trains several times, I had never actually been in the city itself. Salzburg is like a musician's dream city. Everywhere you turn there is something about Mozart and there are just oodles of old buildings along little tiny streets. There are a few too many tourists, but what can you do? We actually went there for the purpose of having interviews with President Miles and we actually had a really great time coming together with everyone else in the zone. This zone is actually REALLY small people-wise because there are only us four in Linz, two in Wels, two in Klagenfurt, two in Innsbruck, the Sisters in Neumarkt am Wallersee, and the Zone Leaders in Salzburg. That's the whole zone. So, for anybody that knows Austrian geography, that means that the states of Salzburg, Oberösterreich, Tirol, Kärnten, and some of Niederösterreich only have 14 missionaries to cover them. How we get anything done here is a mystery. This week was a little on the slow side since Elder Chandler and I both were feeling pretty sick, and we still only have one investigator. We really need to start picking up the work here and finding some new people. However, the other Elders have an investigator who is the father of a family of members who is going to be baptized this week. His name is Horst Wagner and he is way cool. As a little joke/rememberance of our time here in Linz, we all bought an apartment tie together. We went to C&A where we found four ties that were all the same. The best part was that they only cost 2,50€ which is a steal. Next week is Halloween and who knows what we are going to do for it. It should be pretty cool with the four of us. The week after that we are going to Il Trovatore (probably depending on the cost of the tickets) at the Landes Theater Linz. It should be pretty cool and hopefully it won't be a repeat of Wien. I don't think I'll be needing anything in particular for sickness since you can pretty much get everything here. However, if you could find a way on smuggling Nyquil in to Austria, that would be cool because it doesn't exist here. Make sure that it's legal though.
Well, that's all folks, for this week anyway. I hope everyone has a great week and goes on lots of joint teaches with the missionaries, cause they want them. Tschüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüß

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