Uwe Kroger!

I saw Uwe Kroger in the flesh!! On Wednesday I went to Rudolf: Mayerling Affair with my friend Kelly. And he was there!! And he was amazing!

Its weird walking down the streets of Vienna and reflecting on how differently I felt three months ago when I walked through the streets for the first time. Everything is so different.

Today in church we had our primary program. It rocked my socks off! It was so adorable. And I understood just about everything. The kids were really cute. Some highlights were:

The bishop's son gave an improv presentation. His story basically went--So, I came back from school one day and--this microphone is really loud--it's too loud! (and then he plugged his ears and kept speaking) And I waited on the side of the street but no one was there. So I prayed and then waited and waited and waited. No one came. So I prayed again. And waited and waited and waited. And then I decided to cross the street and prayed. And then I waited and waited--and then everything worked out.

The primary was singing about Jesus' baptism and two boys in the front had two pictures on sticks of Jesus and John the Baptist and they showed Jesus being baptized by John--and then headbutted by John. And then one of the primary leaders took the pictures away.

At the end of singing 'The Wise Man Built His House Upon a Rock,' the entire primary threw sponges into the audience. It was totally unexpected, but so great.

There is an American family in the ward with two little boys. The kids don't really speak German very well. The youngest got up to the stand with his mom and older brother and was trying to introduce his dad. He said "Mine Fader is . . . heiss . . . Matthew." It was really cute.

On Saturday, we went to the Marionette Theater at Schonbrunn to see the kids version of Zauberflote with our german professor, Frau Weissgerber. The audience consisted of 5-10 yr olds with their parents and 15 college students. The play was fun and the german was easy to understand. It was fun to hear the kids participate. It was amazing how much some of them knew about opera. A little kid behind me was humming along the whole time. Whenever Papageno or Papagena came on stage, some kid would yell, "Papageno!" or "sie is da!" (she's there!).