We had great intentions of arriving early today. But we missed the day light's saving. So we actually arrived an hour late. This mission is very interesting. We have been laughing about the "Book of Instruction." We even had it posted on a wall for the ward's spring cleaning. It was just delightful. Nothing wrong with it, it is just the German/Austrian way.
Today we had barely returned from church. We came around the corner off of the main street, drove about 2 block south, one block west and then about 1/2 block north. As we were parking the car guns went off. Then we heard a wave of shouting like a chant. It sounded almost like a sporting event, except when the guns and loud fire crackers went off, it would create the chanting. We are on the fifth floor and Norm stepped out on the balcony. Then we recognized "Alla" repeated in the chant. Norm saw women down there with Berkas, and we realized it was about 2000-3000 Muslims filling the street where we had just turned off of the main street and a little over a block away. They started to block the main street, until the police sirens sounded and they ran them off. Kind of scary.
The Austrians and Germans started looking for workers, because their own people stopped producing children. Now their are probably more muslims than Austrians, and it will get worse because they are having their children. We can see the handwriting on the walll.
Missionary work is going fine, but would be better if we could get the Austrian members to start caring about their neighbors. Love to you all.
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