June 8, 2015

Dear family-

We had a pretty decent week this last week too. Last P-day we went to this place called Minimundus. It is this little out door exhibit and it has 180 well known places of the World schrunk down by x25. I got to visit the Eifel Tower, the White House and a Nephite temple all in the same day haha.

On Tuesday we had a lesson with William and It didnt go like I thought it would. We talked about the Plan of Salvation. He is really deep rooted Catholic and pretty stubborn about it too. We committed him to read in the Book of mormon but I dont think he has done that yet because I called him a couple of days ago and he said that he would start that night. We also invited him to church but he didnt come yesterday. We also talked about baptism a little bit and he just told us that it was going to take some time to change relgions. (So he knows exactly what our purpose is so thats good) but it will take A LOOOOONNNGGG time to change religions if he doesnt keep commitments. 

On Wednesday we went to a northern part in our area called Spittal. The city was really pretty. It is nestled in a valley and continues up into the foothills of this huge mountain. We went there to go by on some less actives but one wasnt home and the other has moved.

On Thursday we went to Bruder P.'s house and he told us about a really cool experience that he had. He has been struggling with somethings lately and told us that he wants to fix them. He said that even after we committed to church he still wasnt sure if he was actually going to come. He said that he started praying and in his words '' there was a direct connection'' and he asked God what he had to do to fix what ever is going on. He said that as he did that he almost immediately got answer. He said that he had all the principle that we have been teaching him go through his head, he thought about Christ, The Atonement, the commandments, and everything else, BUT the one thing that stuck out to him and was loud and clear was ''Go to Church''. He then said that he started complaining to God that Church was to early and that Klagenfurt is to far away from Villach. He said that as soon as he started complaining ''the connection was gone''. He then knew that he needed to be in church. After he said that I immediately re-committed him to Church haha. Bruder P. has a long road ahead of him but he has made so much progress from the time Elder Rogers and I first started meeting with him in January so I know that it is Possibly. I probably will have Bischoff come with us to visit him in the next couple of weeks.

on Sunday Bruder Pöcher came to church again! And the Supperberger's invited him for lunch next week and we are also going. Exciting things are happening.

Love you guys lots.

-Elder Carr