TRANSFERRED AND TRAINING!!!!!!

HOLY COW!!!! I got the most insane transfer call of my life on Saturday. I`m leaving Vienna. Actually, I`m leaving Austria and I`m going to Germany to train in Augsburg. It`s in Bayern. I can`t believe I`m leaving Austria already. And to top things off, I am going to be a trainer!!!! My golden has actually been in the field for a transfer already, I am just going to finish up her training with her. The only thing is that I have no idea what I am doing so we will just have to see what happens. I really did not want to pack my bags up again, but President called and said that he needed me in Augsburg so I am going to augsburg. One cool thing is that my Bishop from Ludwigsburg just moved into the Augsburg Ward actually, so I am excited to see him. It is just crazy that I have to leave here already. I love the people here so much, but that is just the way it goes. I am in my fourth transfer and am going to my fourth area. That is about as crazy as it gets. We will have to see how long I am in Augsburg. It's supposed to be super pretty actually. I guess it's one of the oldest towns in Germany, so we are going to find out what adventures await me there. 


Oh and do not send any more mail to the Vienna address. Here is my Augsburg address:

Josef-Prillerstrasse 30

86159 Augsburg

You should all google it because I have no idea what to expect really. I am so sad to be leaving Sister Bushman and Sister Freimann. They are both so great and we have had lots of fun adventures together. They will just have to get along without me somehow...They will be fine. It is just always sad to leave an area. Oh well. Next time you hear from me, it will be from Germany :)

Aside from our crazy transfer call, this week has been great. On Wednesday we were walking down the street in Wiener Neustadt going to visit a less active member and a guy was standing in his yard just hanging out I guess. Well, we said hello, but walked passed him. About two seconds later, we all stopped at the same time and looked at each other. We all knew that we needed to talk to this man. We just stated that we needed to talk to him and then turned around to go back to his house. He was still in his yard and we just started up a friendly conversation. After talking for a while we learned that he used to believe in God, but then he got sick, and the doctors give him shots to make him better. He just doesn`t know if its the doctors making him better or God, so he picked the doctors. We talked to him about Jesus Christ and the Book of Mormon. He wanted to learn more, so we gave him a book and said we would come back to teach him. It was a really cool experience. This man just wants to know the truth. That is all everyone really wants, and the thing is, I know that the Book of Mormon is the truth. That knowledge makes me so excited to share it with people. 

The next day we had a meeting with our ward mission leader in Wiener Neustadt. He is a really cool guy and he got pretty pumped up about missionary work at this meeting. Right there he decided that we would all go out on the streets and just do some contacting. It was super spur of the moment, but we were excited to go contacting with him. We went to the main square in Wiener Neustadt and split up so we could talk to as many people as possible. Well, this was Sister Bushman`s first time doing hard core contacting. It is usually something that we do on our way to appointments. One thing about contacting is that you have to realize you are going to get rejected a lot. It just happens, but Sister Bushman got pretty frustrated, so she came to the point where she was kind of yelling at people: "Ich mag Ihre Schuhe und das ist alles!" That means, "I like your shoes and that`s it." It was kind of hilarious. Normally you approach people and they just say thank you and walk away, but she was pretty tired of this so she just started yelling compliments at them. It was so fun. I have loved working with her so much. 

Anyways, yesterday, we were at our ward mission leader`s house here in Vienna and we kind of pulled a prank on the Elders. We found this demon duck in our apartment. It looks like a littlle plastic rubber duck, but when you push its wings, it gives you an electric shock. So we took the duck to our meeting with us and told the Elders it was broken and we could not fix it. We are sisters and we are too weak to do such a thing...haha. Well anyways, they told us they could fix anything, and took the duck from Sister Freimann`s hands and squeezed the wings quite hard. It was so funny. They got a shock for sure. Our ward mission leader was cracking up. We are going to try to get our zone leaders at zone training tomorrow too. I will let ya know how it goes. 

Well, that`s all for this week. If there is anything I have been learning it is that we just need to do our best and then trust our Father in Heaven like crazy, because He really is the only one that actually knows what He`s doing. 

I love you all and hope life is good. Make good choices.

Sister Smiley

Pictures: us in our Trachten on Sunday on our way to church, us with one of our investigators for my last time, and my district here in Vienna