2015
January 2015: Family Night and Farewell to Elder and Sister Mower (5 Jan.) It's Monday, 5 January and tonight was the last family night before Elder and Sister Mower conclude their mission and return home. Elder and Sister Hasler were with us tonight. We had a large group in attendance, as you can see from the pictures below. Rodrigo couldn't be there, since he's still in the hospital, but Vanessa came. Also, Jakob, who turned 18 years old on 26 December, was in attendance. Samuel is normally away during the week on his job and wasn't able to attend.
Victor started off with a spiritual thought. We played a getting to know you game that was organized by Sister Mower. Slips of paper were put in a bag with "getting to know you" questions written on them. Then, each of us took a paper from the bag and answered the question. We then passed the question to another person in the room until everyone had at least one turn. Following the activity, we had refreshments and visited with all those in attendance.
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| Top from left: Elder Dickson, Thomas, Rahim, Elder Ward, Elder Ringger, Julian, Jakob; middle from left: Elder Gibbs, Lisa, Sister Mower, Elder Mower, Jeniffer, Karin, Diana, Victor, Erika, Vanessa, Mada; front: Klaus and Amanda with Loren |
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| Klaus and Erika favor us with a dance they learned in Brazil |
We welcome Elder and Sister Hasler to the Innsbruck Branch. A picture of them with the YA group is shown below.
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| Elder and Sister Hasler with the YA group - welcome! |
January 2015: German Class (6 Jan.) It's Tuesday, 6 January, and this afternoon is the last German class taught by Elder Mower before Elder and Sister Mower return home. The group is shown below. (Oma normally doesn't come, but attended because Erika was watching her this afternoon.) Elder Hasler will continue with the German classes after Elder and Sister Mower leave.
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| from left: Vanessa, Elder Mower, Karin, Victor, Sister Mower, Amanda with Loren, Klaus, Nina, Erika, Oma |
Elder and Sister Hasler Introduction
Elder John and Sister Marj Hasler come from Colorado
Springs, Colorado and have desired for many years to serve a couples mission.
Sister Hasler grew up in Bakersfield, California and graduated from BYU and the
University of Utah. Elder Hasler grew up in Grand Junction and Golden, Colorado
and graduated from BYU. They have 4 daughters and 2 sons and 26 1/2
grandchildren. They met in a ski class at BYU in 1965 and "lived happily
ever after"!
Elder Hasler taught with the Church Education System for
36 years (15 years - Seminary, 21 years - Institute) and has a great love for
young adults! His last 16 years were at the Institute program at the United
States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Sister Hasler worked part time as
a clinical social worker to help their children through college. Sister Hasler
served as a YSA/Institute missionary for 8 years in Colorado Springs and
relates well with young people.
We are excited to be in Austria! We have spent lots of
time here in the past and have always loved Austria. Elder Hasler served as a
missionary in the South German Mission from 1966-1968 and loved learning
German.
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| Elder and Sister Hasler |
