Sister Lehmann: Alpine German-Speaking Mission: God Qualifies Us

Hey everybody!

This week was great! Haha I say that every week, but it's true!

Visited the two oldest members in this ward, both 93 years old! That

was fabulous. They were seriously the most positive and happy 93-year

olds I´d ever met. Most of the time when we meet older people, in and

out of the church, they tend to be very negative and, with nothing to

do, complaining about how terrible the world is and on.... It's nice

to try to cheer them up but most of the time we leave feeling more

weighed down than uplifted, but not with Schwester Prindl and

Schwester Freidelstorfer! Both of them just glowed with the light of

Christ. They were so beautiful! I loved how Schwester Prindl talked

about how Himmlischer Vater has just done so much for her in her life.

Schwester Freidelstorfer told us how the other day, she went to go

visit another older lady in the ward (haha but still probably a good

10 years younger than her) and asked her if she needed her help with

anything. How great is that! Turns out, she does a lot for her

grandkids and neighbors and refugees. She said she went to the gas

station to see if she could buy a greeting card for someone and she

realized she only had 1.80 in her purse! She laughed as she said, I'm

starting the new year with only 1.80! She has few possessions in her

house, only the things that are most beautiful, but really, it was the

most beautiful old little apartment. It showed someone who was neat

and clean and also knew that her worldly possessions are not what's

most important in her life.

The best was when she told us that she'll sometimes visit people in

elderly homes and then she was like, "I'm going to sound dumb

saying this, but I don't like old people!" Hahaha

But then she was like, "No really! They just sit around and tell you

the same stories over and over and I don't want to be mean and tell

them that they've already told me that story!" Plus, she studied

drawing, art and hat-making, so we were great friends :)

Sister Leonard and I are doing well though. It's cool to look back and

see how much you've grown in an area and with a companion. We didn't

have any amazing miracle finding stories I don't think, but everyday,

we meet people and are able to bear personal testimony to them that

God knows them and loves them. Most people don't care, or maybe they

do but they just don't say so, I don't know. Sometimes I just go

around doing this work and it just feels normal but then I take a step

back and look at what I'm ACTUALLY doing and it's awesome! It takes

guts to do it too haha! But it's worth it. And God qualifies us very

young and inexperienced children to be His disciples and missionaries.

So that's pretty cool :)

Have a great week!

Last Monday, last day of Christmas in Austria with the Vogl family...

The 24th, I finally got the pictures....
(remember, we had Raclette AND Fondue in one night....)

New Year's. The Vogl's love us apparently so we got invited over again. And the dress code was wearing your pajama's. We ate Raclette again :) and a bunch of ice cream for dessert.
Haha we had to be home at 10pm but it was almost a New Years party! Wulli, Emilian and I were drawing dragons all night so it was great fun.