Tomorrow is Feb 29^th, leap year!!!!

Still haven’t got the internet up, but other things are beginning to go.  Have tracked with the Elders and Norm was elated when we tracked out a wonderful and very talented young man.  So he was elated about that one success. 

The snow is melted and the rains have begun.  Last Friday was a warm clear beautiful day.  We had to shed the very heavy polyester decka on the bed.  The lighter ones were gross.  They had never been aired out.  We put them out to air for two or three days.  So we went over to IKEA (our apartment is decorated with IKEA) and for 20 euros apiece (about 22-23 dollars a piece) we purchased two twin size and some coverlets.  We look European, but they are light and airy and wonderfully comfortable.  We have beds (twins, crammed together) created by Brother Malzl) which are very comfortable.  We ended up with two fridges, one is large—for Europe.  So we are getting the apartment the way we like.

We have family home evening at our apartment.  Our JAE president is one of the only young who attend, and or Geegi, a beautiful young woman from Mongolia, and convert to the church.  She wants to go to BYU badly and is working on her English. Elder Storrer is starting to teach her tonight.  I have talked to her about the ESL program at the Y.  Any takers out there to sponsor her and help her if she can get to the US.  She is a quiet reserved and beautiful person inside and out.    It has been suggested that we look more to the older single adults for family homevening.  And then concentrate our Institute and activities around the younger single adults.

We also are meeting and learning about 28-29 year old women who no longer attend Institute.  But they are very active in the church.  They are trying to fulfill their lives with travel.  The problem is no husband material here.  Men in the church are so scarce.  They have their spiritual priorities straight.  One actually teaches the early morning seminary.  Both are beautiful women.  Then we have the younger ones submitting themselves to temptation by going to bars and dancehalls to dance.  One young woman’s sister at 21 met and moved in with a young man.  Now she says she won’t go to church because she feels that she is being judged.  (Sorry but that is transferring her bad decisions to others because of her own feelings of guilt.)  We are working with a young woman from England who did the same thing.  Her father warned her that he would be sending contact information to her ward here in Salzburg, so that we could get in touch with her.  Recently a sibling had a temple marriage.  So she is from an active family.  She will talk to Norm and is very friendly, but only on the phone.  He told her that he would be contacting her every month.  She was not discouraging.  I think she enjoys talking to someone in English.  And anyone who knows Norm, knows that he is easy to talk to and certainly doesn’t come across as judgmental.

Today we had district meeting and Brother Roth (one of the brother Roths) spoke for 3 hours, after feeding us a marvelous breakfast spread.)  He literally is the world’s best planner.  He travels the world.  He was even involved in the early planning stages of the Utah Olympics.