MOnday was a bit of a tough day. I did get a haircut for lunch,
which was nice and necessary, and now I look better. Elder De Angelis,
my companion who is from ITALY, was at the foreign police for a few
hours doing visa work for a couple missionaries. . While he was there I taught a couple
of way cool kids, Beniamin and his brother Ludek, with one of the APs,
Elder Mullen. His companion was getting his visa renewed, so we were on a
little exchange. They are way cool, and way interested. The day was a
little tough because all three of our lessons fell through. We
rescheduled, but it was a bit of a bummer. The worst thing about today
was receiving the news that Elder McClellan is indeed going home. He
told us he would be back by Christmas, and we all hope it's so. He is a
way cool kid. he needs more treatment than is available here, so he is
back in America to get everything taken care of.
Tuesday we had office meeting, and afterwards said
goodbye to Elder McClellan. Sad. We also had district meeting, which was
good. We always practice teaching as a part of it with the senior
missionaries, and it is crazy. They are so funny. We were with Sis
Bohne, and it was nutso. She's hilarious. We had a lesson set up with a
cool kid we met from Georgia, the country, but he was a no-show. We
didn't have his number so we couldn't confirm or anything. but we did
teach a reeeally good lesson with a girl named Monika with Daniel
Askari. We've taught her before, but his lesson she just seemed
different, more open, it was better. Then we taught Verka again, and
she's doing well.
Wednesday I went on my second exchange of the week,
first full one, while Elder De Angelis was at a new district leader
conference in Brno. I was with an Elder Neumann. he's a bunch of fun. We
had a really good time. We contacted for a few hours, got a couple
numbers, one from a suuper cool 16 yr old kid named Vasek. We are
definitely going to meet with him. He only studies in Prague, and is
only here monday through wednesday, so we have to work around that, but
no worries. WE also talked to a lot of really crazy people. Which is
also fun. After the exchange we taught Verka and Jitka, one right after
the other, and it went really well. Jitka's baptism is in just a few
weeks!
Thursday was district finding, one of my favorite
activities. Except today's was really hard. As a companionship we had a
goal of three appts and numbers, or A#'s. We got one number. in two
hours of work. Rough. One missionary, Elder Rhees, contacted the entire
time and got nothing. It was a tough day for us, but overall we did well
as a district. We taught Verka again, the Word of Wisdom and it went
really well. She only has a smoking problem, and she promised to stop.
After that we started the craziest exchange of my mission. Right now
there is a threesome due to Elder McClellan's absence, and I exchanged
into it. It was nuts
Friday, we taught a really smart, cool young guy
named Martin, incredibly intelligent. It was a good lesson. We talked
about hte restoration and the other two missionaries, Elder Tenney and
Rhees, said there was a huge difference in his attitude from the first
lesson to the second. Then, we went back home so they could weekly plan.
It was awful. There is no such thing as focus when there are three
missionaries, technically from three different areas, Vysehrad, Andel,
and the office, trying ot weekly plan for two areas that are going ot be
all shook up with 24 hours. It was wild. After all that, we taught a
lady named Jana who is really nice and has an insane three yr old
daughter. We recruited one of the ysa here to babysit, and she did so
well thta when the lesson was over the little girl absolutely freaked
because she didn't wan't to go. In front of about 30 ysa from all over
the mission. There is a huge activity here this weekend, and it is
killing our member lessons. All of our best teachers are ysa, except for
a few, who all decided to go on vacation this week. So yeah, numbers
are down a little.
All in all, a good week. Some crazy things, some
great lessons, good news and bad. Oh! Some good I forgot ot mention,
Elder clyde is coming back to Prague! He is coming here and Elder Egger,
and Austrian, is taking his place in Jicin. Elder Egger is a Czech
missionary, but he was in a threesome of zone leaders in Slovakia this
transfer. They're bringing him back here to be in Jicin. It'll be good
to have Elder Clyde back. I'm happy about it.
I love you all, keep up the work. Get excited for
general conference, and don't tell me too many details. I get it a week
later, so don't tell me everything in your next emails. I think that is
my favorite time of the year. Living prophets are one of the greatest
testaments of this work.
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