So..... We stole some bikes. Kind of?

Hey everyone! Hope you are all doing well out there in the world!

It has been a great two weeks for us, and we have been working like crazy! Highlight of last week was an awesome service project. Us and two Elders from Wien put on our farming pants and headed into the country side of Austria. A few minutes later, we discover that three of the four of us have hay fever. Oops. Ah well. We rolled giant barrels of hay in a farmer's barn for a few hours and after they gave us home made pizza and baked goods. It was delicious. Sadly afterwards, we could barely stand, but it was still awesome!

Other exciting things going on, we have a two new investigators! It is amazing to see the hand of the Lord in this work. We even found Christian through knocking on doors, which I'm really excited about. Most of our time is spent talking to people in the street or on trains and busses, so finding someone in an apartment was a really cool experience! 

As for the subject, we may or may not have accidentally stolen some bikes. Oops again. But good news is we gave them back. We are supposed to have bikes in this area, but did not know where they are (they had a car last transfer but we gave it to a senior couple). So we were searching for our bikes and found two that looked like missionary bikes. It had two locks on it and our key worked for one, but not the other. Assuming missionaries had lost the other key we cut the other lock. Then a very upset old lady and a man saw us and came out yelling. Sadly the bikes were there's. Good news is we were able to talk our way out of it and our branch President was able to round up two temporary bikes to use while we wait for new ones. Lol. 

Anyways, that's what's been going on around here lately! Just working hard and giving our absolute best😊 Hope your all having a good week and a good 4th of July!

Scripture of the Week:

Moroni 9:6

"And now, my beloved son, notwithstanding their hardness, let us labor diligently; for if we should cease to labor, we should be brought under condemnation; for we have a labor to perform whilst in this tabernacle of clay, that we may conquer the enemy of all righteousness, and rest our souls in the kingdom of God."

The moment my mission became meaningful was when I decided to do everything I possibly could.  100% And when we give all we can, and we do our best with the Lord on our side, mountains will be moved and seas will part. 

Love you all! Elder Wiser 

Pics: Rolling hay and playing with the farm dog. 

Elder with the dog, Elder Hawes #Comp.

In gray Elder Tunicliff 

In red Elder Weisler

Crazy Week!!

Hey everyone! Hope you are doing well!

This has been a crazy week, but a lot of good has come as well. Last Saturday we got transfer calls, and me and my comp both got transfered out of the area! Elder Coloma packed his bag and was off to Ulm, Germany. Meanwhile I was sent back over to Austria in St. Pölten.

On transfer day, we had the oppurtunity as a mission to get interviewed by either Elder DeFeuo or Elder Sabin. Elder DeFeuo was in Zürich and Elder Sabin in Munich! It was crazy getting everyone there and back for sure.

Then my new companion is Elder Hawes. He is a transfer older then me on the mission. It should be a great transfer! He was in Munich till Thursday so me and a couple other Elders ended up sleeping over in other missionaries apartments. But eventually I made it to St. Pölten.

So it's been a good week but busy. We have a bike street display which we have been putting to good use! We're glad to be hear and talking to people!

Scripture of the week :  2 Nephi 7 : 8-9

       8 And the Lord is near, and he justifieth me. Who will contend with me? Let us stand together. Who is mine adversary? Let him come near me, and I will smite him with the strength of my mouth.
       9 For the Lord God will help me. And all they who shall condemn me, behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, and the moth shall eat them up.

I found this scripture the other day and just really like it. It's true, the Lord is on our side, we need not fear. With Him, we can not fail!

I love you all! Have a good week!
Elder Wiser

Book of Mormon Miricales

Hey guys!

This week was pretty good! We had Interviews with President on Wednesday and Zone Conference on Thursday. It was pretty great! During Zone Conference, we discussed finding with the Book of Mormon. It's a Book that literally changes lives! We made a goal as a zone to make every Friday our Book of Mormon finding day!

So the next day, we hit the streets with the Book of Mormon! We were taking to people on the street for about an hour and decided to sit on a bench for 5 minutes and catch our breath. We sat down and one or two minutes later a guy came up and said hello to us. A little taken aback we said Hi back and we asked if he knew us. He said no and just started talking to us. It was totally random. But we ended up talking about the Book of Mormon and we have him a copy in English! The cool thing is normally we only have German but had decided to take an English today for our finding day. We exchanged numbers and then walked off to continue our day. A few minutes later we got a text with a picture of us on the bench from a member. She and her friends had been behind us getting a drink together after school. Her friends noticed us and said hey aren't they from your Church. Then this member was able to have a really cool conversation about the gospel with her friends!

"All this because of a Book of Mormon?" - Elder Colloma

I know the Lord will help us when we need it! He is always there, it's just out job to give our best and try!

Love you all!

Elder Wiser

Temple trip with Elder Colloma 

Service, Service, Service!

Hey guys! Hope you all had a fantastic Mothers day! I got a chance to Skype home and see the family and it was great! I have the best Mom in the World! Love you Mama!

The past little while been great! We've been able to do a lot of Service! In the winter, there aren't as many opportunities to get our hands dirty, but lately we've been really busy with it, and miricales have come from that! However, the service we do as missionaries is not all just about digging in the dirt, it's also about loving the people and sometimes just giving our time, and lending a voice or an ear. I was recently on an exchange with Elder Smith in Wettingen and we had the oppurtunity to visit an old persons home. We went to a members room to a lady who couldn't speak, except for yes and no. We read the scriptures with her and it was an amazing experience. We could tell she was really thankful, especially for Elder Smith and his kindness, even though she could say it with words.

Of course we've also had some really cool experiences with getting our hands dirty. Last transfer we did a service project helping a member to clean her deck. Me and Elder Keir were in charge of de-potting and dumping plants in a compost container. One of the lady's neighbors came up pretty upset and told us that this container was just for the people living their and we couldn't just use it. We explained we were doing a service project for her neighbor and she was okay after that. This week we were back helping to finish off the deck and the Me her told us that her neighbor had talked to her after that day. She is interested in also having the missionaries help her with some service. She said it would be fine when the missionaries also shared a spiritual thought. The cool part is, this member had been looking for years to find a way to introduce the Gospel to this neighbor, and now through Service she had one!

Matthew 22 : 37-40
    "37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

    38 This is the first and great commandment.

    39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

    40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

I love you all! Take some time this week to show someone you love them! It could well be that you will answer someone's prayers. Or maybe your own prayers will be answered in the act of service! Hope you have a great week!

Elder Wiser

1. Me and Elder Coloma
2. Dying in the heat! Elder Coloma, Elder Fewou, and Elder Smith

Photos from the Week!

Cousins in the same zone again!

Hoizäme!

How are you all?? I'm doing pretty good over here in Switzerland! The sun's finally peaked his head out of the clouds a little and summer is sending us rays of hope and warmth.

Things have been pretty good lately. We've been doing a bunch of finding, but it's going well. The first bit was real hard for me because the people here all speak Swiss German. I couldn't understand anything on the street my first week, but it's gotten better. Somewhat lol. But it's been a good learning experience for sure

We've also had some killer P days as well. Last week we were on a mountain called Rigi. Way good, we ended up seeing the Luzern sisters there as well. It was so pretty. Sadly I made the mistake of putting a box of Apple juice in my backpack for the trip. I ended up falling in the snow at some point and it ended up going everywhere. Good news is, I survived, and we found out the Apple juice snow actually tastes pretty good!

Today I also had the opportunity to go to the temple! It was so nice to go back! I haven't had the opportunity to go since I was in the MTC so it was so good. I didn't expect everyone one to speak French though ha ha. There is a French part of Switerland and the languages kind of get all mixed up there and the temple is where a lot of French speakers live. It made for a good time. If you haven't been to the temple lately, take some time to go, the feeling there is amazing.

Scrip of the week : 2 Nephi 32 : 9
  But behold, I say unto you that ye must pray always, and not faint; that ye must not perform any thing unto the Lord save in the first place ye shall pray unto the Father in the name of Christ, that he will consecrate thy performance unto thee, that thy performance may be for the welfare of thy soul.

Week before last, our DL Elder Keir (legend) asked us to be prayerful in everything we do as missionaries. I've thought about that a lot since and I've really focused on being a prayerful missionary. Then yesterday we came across this scripture in Gospel Principles class. I have noticed in my missionary work and my person performance, the more I let the Savior in, the better it goes. That's how it is in everything in life. If we put it in the Lord's hands, there's no way it can go wrong!

I love you all! Hope you have a good week and are enjoying the sun like I am!

Elder Wiser


Elder Allison on a Unicycle.
Die Bürri Familie
Me and Elder Keir and Sister Fischer! #MTClife
Mountain bikes
A local bridge burning
Me and Elder Parker at zone conference!

No Letter for the Group :(

Sorry,

No Letter for the Group but a couple of Photos of fun P-Day activities.