Versetzung!

Liebe Familie,

This week was wonderful! We met with Liang, Familie Cardenas, Frankie, Faith, Osas, some guy from Michigan, Joe, Ekarin and both Modous! We set a baptismal date with Joe for 14. Mai 2011 and he is excited about it. he and Frankie came to church and we found out that they know each other! Surprise! Joe also brought a friend named Wisdom. We just had a lot of really uplifting experiences this week. Sister McGuire and I did an Austausch (exchange) with Sisters Nelson and Covey. I went with Sister Nelson and we tried to track down a few referrals that had not yet been found and did not have success, but made out an appointment and talked with many people along the way. She is doing really well for being in her first transfer. It was kind of nice to have a German appointment when I went with her.

We went up to "America" on Saturday. There's this group of houses in the 19. District of Vienna where a lot of Americans live because there is a nice, big American International School. The houses were all really big (they were actually houses!) and looked like we were in Richpeopleville, CA not in Vienna. We attended a ward activity up there with Americans, Canadians, Australians, Austrians, Serbians, and Nepalians. It was a blast. I am so grateful for the wonderful ward we have here. We also ate Cafe Rio salads--someone got a recipe for all that was needed.

We taught a lot about the Plan of Salvation this week. One of our joint teaches reviewed her experience while we were chatting after a baptism after church and she said she realized for the first time that the Plan of Salvation is called that for a reason--it is for our salvation! I am amazed how simple the gospel is but how profound that simplicity becomes to us as we study it our and ponder it. The scriptures were written for a purpose and that purpose will not be fulfilled unless we all read in them. I am so grateful that we have a living prophet who gives us latter-day scriptures. We all just heard General Conference last week (and for the people 8 hours later, this week also), but it really won't benefit us unless we study the talks, apply them in our lives and prepare for the next conference. So many things were so boldly said in General Conference. I felt the Spirit so strongly. All together we had 12 people view General Conference with us who are not members--yet. The Elders in our ward also had many investigators view conference. All of them loved it and many felt the Spirit. What an opportunity we have to have Conference.

President Condie gave us a call Friday morning as we were leaving Osas to tell us that Sister McGuire will be heading out to Neumarkt am Wallersee (near Salzburg) to work with Sister Klein. Sister Hecht will be joining me in Wien IV. We were really surprised for the change, but know that it is God directed. We really had a good time together and worked really hard to leave this area better than we found it. I am so sad to see her go and excited to welcome Sister Hecht as my new companion to work hard with and see miracles with. This is truly the work of the Lord. Otherwise it would fail.

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Sister Carla June Carroll