Taylor's fabulous email in its entirety (almost). I must be feeling lazy or distracted or something....I'm not even going to attempt to correct all of his typos :)
Draha rodino,
Such a gooood week! I don't even know what our numbers were, because
I"m in Prague right now. HA! All new missionaries, from last transfer,
are here to renew our visas. So we had a nice little MTC reunion. Prague
is waaay beautiful, but I miss Ostrava. Its my city. Anyway, stories
about this week. Get pumped.
One of our investigators is sooooo
going to get baptized! The only reason he hasn't yet is because his
girlfriend doesn't want to get married, and they live together. HE's
divorced and she is a widow, so they both are afraid to be alone again,
and she doesn't want to lose her widow money from the government, which
she will if they get married. But, his dad just died a few months
ago. So, we talked about the Plan of Salvation, and how baptism is a
requirement to get into God's kingdom and be with our families forever.
He wants ot soo bad. WE're going to start teaching him and his
girlfriend, togetehr, and they are going t o be baptized! It was such a
good lesson.
We had a couple good lessons with a less actve woman. She
just can't stop smoking. It really is rough. WE're going to start
working with her and another member who has overcome a similar
addiction, to kind of help her see it is possible, and also get some
extra support and such. We just don't know what members we can use yet.
But that's okay! We'll figure it out. She wants to change, she just is a
little week, and afraid to make such a drastic change without a lot of
help.
Okay, miracles of the week. First off, we're teaching a family! WE
found them in the former investigators section of the area book, and
they are totally pumped to meet. We met with them once this past week,
and they have a lot of questions and are very willing to learn. The only
problem is, they're gypsies, or Mowglis as we call them. It isn't a
problem for us, but every single member of our branch is racist, and we
don't know who we could possibly teach them with. But, that isn't going
to stop us from baptizing them all. The mom, her son, her
three year old daughter, who will obviously have to wait to get
baptized, and they're friend.
Miracle of miracles. A couple of weeks ago, we were stopped by a
woman on the street. She asked if we were misionaries, and we said we
were. She asked when we had church, we told her 900 on sundays, and the
building was just around the corner. she asked if we had a card of some
kind, which of course we do and we gave to her. Then she asked if we had
a priest or something. WE explained what a branch president is and
does. She then asked kind of a strange question: Does he have power from
God? We didn't know why she would ask that, but he does have the
priesthood, so we said yes. We didn't think anything of it, because a
lot of times weird people do that kind of thing. SHE WAS AT CHURCH
YESTERDAY. She is friends with a member here, Olga, and just showed up
to church. She was asking about priesthood because her 2yr old son is
sick in the hospital and she wants the branch president to give him a blessing. So,
Wednesday we're meeting with them, and after we'll teach her. During
church something about baptism was mentioned and she had lots of
questions about it. I was sitting right behind her and her friend, and it went
something like this: V: Should everyone be baptized? O: yes,
everyone needs it. V, Can I get baptized? O, Of course! V, Well, who can
baptize me? O, The missionaries can! Elder Clyde and I were very
joyful. Sometimes, some people are so ready to hear the Gospel, they
just walk up to athe missionaries and beg to be taught. It was amamzing.
WE're so excited for our meeting on Wednesday.
That's about all, my dearest family. I want to repeat the words of
my infinitely wiser older sister, Keep the faith. I too know this Church
is true, and that's why I'm out here. Nothing is more important than
doing waht the Lord wants.
hodne lasek,
Starsi Knapp
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