Transferred!!

Servus!!!

Hey guys, I don't have too much time so Ill keep it short! I got transferred to Aarau, Switzerland! I leave tomorrow, I'm super excited!! But I'm sad to leave my areas! Haag am Hausruck and Linz are both amazing!!!

Had a cool experience this week on the street. We were finding on Landstraße and a guy came up to us talking about Jesus and the earth and bodies. Usually when people come up like that they are upset with us or the church or just not all there. So we stopped to talk with the guy to see what he wanted to say. Turns out he was actually genuinely interested in what we had to say. We had a great conversion with the guy and we are meeting with him again next week. It was a really interesting experience, but cool as well. It is amazing to see how the Lord works in ways that you would never expect! I love to be able to see so many miracles on my mission!

I love you all and I hope you are well!

Elder Wiser   

Mach es einfach!

Hey everyone!

Hope all is well and going good! It's good to be here in Austria, the sun is shining and warm and winter is almost a distant memory. Crazy thinking that last week we though we would die of frostbite. Now everything is nice and cool, the perfect temperature in my opinion.

Had a good time at Stake Conference this last Saturday and Sunday! It isn't easy for all the members here to get there, but it is well worth the effort. The spirit there is always amazing.

New developments going down in the areas. I have been spending the last 4 or so months in charge of two wards and two areas, but now I am going to be just staying in one, Linz. The Wels Sisters who are right next to us will be taking over the Haag area instead. It will be sad to say goodbye to the Haag branch, but I think the sisters will work well with them. They are a great branch with a lot of awesome Members and friends of the church as well!

Spiritual thought of the week:
     “Please do not take the Book of Mormon for granted. Pray for a vision of how the Book of Mormon can be used more effectively in your mission. I promise that as you do so, your mind will be enlightened with the direction that you should take.” - Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin PMG

I have learned a lot from the Book of Mormon while I have been on my mission. It is an amazing thing to see the changes that occur within ourselves when we really take the time to allow that process to happen. When we sit down and study it and apply it to our lives. It was written for our time and for our days. Although I have read it multiple times, I don't think I could ever stop learning from it. It is our most powerful tool in missionary work, along side the ever helping hand of the Holy Ghost! I challenge you all to take another look insides its pages this week and to date to learn something new, that could change you for the better!

I love you all! Have an amazing week! You are amazing!

Elder Wiser

Photos - The district, a memorial site trip, and my friend, the next door neighbor's cat.

Welcome to Siberia

Hey Everyone!!!

How are y'all?? Were doing good up here in Austria! Its been a hard week, but a good one!

Some awesome things happened this week! I had the opportunity to go on exchange with the zone leaders and spent a day with Elder England.... from England. lol. Awesome guy, and a great missionary, I learned a lot from him. He is really cool. We had a really awesome experience at institute together. We were asked by our ward mission leader to make sure that we are at institute and at a youth activity every week. While me and Elder England were at institute, we met a guy who is not a member of the church. He had just come with a friend and was really cool. He had a lot of questions about different things, but he stayed for the whole lesson and for dinner after! We hope to be able to meet him again sometime!!

Street contacting this week was not quite as fun though. We had a cold front from Siberia blow in, or that's what I was told, and it was really cold. I am not jealous of those people that actually live in Siberia because the wind was not fun at all haha. But yesterday and today it has started to warm up again which is great!

Spiritual thought of the week:
Joseph Smith History 1:11 - 13

11 While I was laboring under the extreme difficulties caused by the contests of these parties of religionists, I was one day reading the Epistle of James, first chapter and fifth verse, which reads: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

12 Never did any passage of scripture come with more power to the heart of man than this did at this time to mine. It seemed to enter with great force into every feeling of my heart. I reflected on it again and again, knowing that if any person needed wisdom from God, I did; for how to act I did not know, and unless I could get more wisdom than I then had, I would never know; for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible.

13 At length I came to the conclusion that I must either remain in darkness and confusion, or else I must do as James directs, that is, ask of God. I at length came to the determination to “ask of God,” concluding that if he gave wisdom to them that lacked wisdom, and would give liberally, and not upbraid, I might venture
 
These scriptures are read a lot in our church and in our lessons and this week the power of what he says really came across to me. His actions and the consequences that come from that are a powerful testimony of prayer. When we have a question and we really ponder and pray, with the intent to act on the answer we receive, Heavenly Father will help us. It may not be the answer we expect or the way, but He will not abandon us. Joseph Smith learned that for himself and I have learned it for myself. And you can experience it too.

I love you all! Thank you for your support! Have a great week!

Elder Wiser

Once there was a snow man.....

Hey guys!

Sorry I don't have a lot of time this week so I'll keep it real short!

Great new of the week, we had a church tour and it went awesome! She is going to come to church soon!

Lot as great, the temperature this week dropped. It is freezing out there. Wear a hat boys and girls!

Spiritual Though: 3 Nephi 11 : 39
 39 Verily, verily, I say unto you, that this is my doctrine, and whoso buildeth upon this buildeth upon my rock, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against them.

Whoso buildeth  upon the rock of Christ shall not fail though the gates of Hell bare down on them. I really love this scripture. In so glad for what the Savior has done for me and that I can rely on Him in my life. He give me straight and support in all that happens. And He can do the same for you when you let him in! I love you all!

Elder Wiser