Received January 9, 2012
Hallo liebe Familie, liebe Freunde, und liebe Besucher! Wilkommen in dem Email von Elder Andrew Neumayer.
Yeah, so the subject line, last night we were waiting for the Wels Elders to call and ask for our Key Indicators for the week. When the phone rang I answered it and in the phoniest voice I could muster, I spoke out the subject line. Commonly known as the message box for the missionaries phones, and given that missionaries hardly ever leave messages for other missionaries, the Wels Elders just hung up. I couldn't believe that it actually worked. I called them back and Elder Parker said that he totally thought that he got our answering machine. Just a fun little anecdote.
By the way, you can translate the subject line and the first sentence, they are actually good Hochdeutsch.
This past week went by really fast. I was surprised how fast it went actually. Not a lot happened, but it just flew by. I finally got everything in order for my visa stuff and got the process started at least. We're expecting the "Führungszeugnis" to come in any day now and the lady at the office just said to get it in as soon as I get it. Luckily for me, I actually have a birth certificate, something that Elder Chandler did not have. The mission office had to call his mom and request one for him. She went and miraculously got everything done in one day and then got it off to DHL. It got here this morning. We found out that we will be going to Salzburg this week for Interviews with the Mission President. I hear that there's actually snow up there. We're having a California Winter here in the lovely area of Linz Stadt. The people on the hills (like Pöstlingberg) have snow, I bet Steyr has snow, the Alps have snow (picture attached). Just poor little Linz has no snow.
We got a new investigator this week! Rene Pachinger (another Rene). He's a friend of Sonja Pirklbauer (try saying that one ten times fast) who is one of the more missionary-minded members of the ward. She invited him to church last Sunday and he came. She gave him a Book of Mormon and showed him some spots to read in it. He came to have English class with us on Thursday and we ended up meeting with him an hour beforehand to talk about the Book of Mormon. He is interested and came to church again this week. We have another appointment with him this week. Our biggest obsatcle for meeting with him is that he has a pretty bad stuttering issue. Now with German that can be a bad thing. Heaven help us though if he starts speaking his "mother tongue" Mühlviertlerisch. Sometimes people forget that we are just poor missionaries learning German and slip into their dialects and then our understanding just goes *whoosh* right out the window.
We also found out this week that for the mission tour at the end of this transfer we will be going to.......WIEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited and so is Elder Chandler. We will have an awesome time there and will be there practically the entire day.
Yeah, so that was pretty much the week. I hope everyone has a lovely week and that everything is just peachy! Tschüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüß!
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