In honor of Taylor's birthday today, I am updating this blog! His last email came on Saturday and here are some excerpts:
Monday. We had office meeting, as per the norm, then a very rapid
meeting with President, me and the assistants. We ahve to put together a
Christmas card, and it is hard. For me. I don't know computers! It
shocked me when I got called to the office because I'm not one of those
people who spent a lot of time arouond computers before the mission, and
I certainly don't have any more knowledge about htem now. So basically,
my role is to try and design the card, and then one of the assistants,
Elder Mullen, will make it. So, Monday I prepared orders for conference
and worked on the Christmas card. That is absolutely everything.
Tuesday was better. First of all, we had
end-of-transfer lunch, with all the district, the Irwins and other
senior couples included. It was a blast. Then, we went and did a singing
display. Which was less successful than previous ones have been. We as a
companionship received one number, and he called us back the same day
to tell us he wasn't interested. But it was nice at least to get out of
the office and talk to some people.
Thursday was by far the bests day of the week. For a
couple reasons. First of all, conference. I love conferences. They are
just a feast. But, right after the
conference, we had to help other missionaries with some visa stuff, help
the APs prepare some things, and do a lot of those kinds of things, all
in less than two hours. But, in the middle of all that, President came
up to us and asked us to go get the missionaries from Vysehrad, and area
here in Prague, and then come back into his office and talk to him for a
second. Now, Elder De Angelis and I found out on Wednesday that I would
learn who my next companion would be very soon. With that, and other
things the APs told us, we had a suspicion that the new office elder
would be someone from our district. And sure enough, we went back into
the office and President did indeed inform us. He had to do so, because
he wanted Elder DeA to spend all of Friday training the new office
elder. My new companion is...ELDER CLYDE! I am so stoked. And shocked.
He is the greatest. I'm pumped that we are going to be together again.
It is going to be just awesome.
Friday I went on an exchange with Elder Rhees while
Elder DeA trained Elder Clyde. It was good. We actually got to do a
little missonary work! I didn't have much to do in the office, and it
didn't matter anyway, because President banned me from the office that
day so that we didn't disturb the intense training going on there. So,
we did some finding, had lunch with the rest of the district, did a
singing display, taught a few lessons, studied the language... A good day all in
all. One lesson was with Kamila, we talked about eternal families and
temples a little more. She's great. Also, we taught one of Vysehrad's
potentials, this girl named Anna. She's probably 20, and she is soooo
cool! She isn't an investigator, but she is awesome. The lesson was
good, but she said she can't meet right now. The reason is this: She
says she is still a very new Christian - she's been a believer less than
a year - and she is too focused on getting comfortable with her new
faith to be involved in too many things right now. Even though nothing
would help her more than meeting with the missionaries. She did at least
take a Book of Mormon and promise to read in it, and also said we can
definitely stay in contact with her. She really is great. Down the road,
she'll see. She'll have a desire to meet and she'll be baptized.
Well, boring, I know. It was an okay week, but
probably not the most exciting read of your lives. Thank you for your
patience. I hope to have some nice pictures for you next week, we're
going ot tour Prague today using the same route we did on our first day
in the country. Fun!
I love you all, the Church is true,
Kamila was baptized Nov. 10! She is happy and excited to be a member of the church.
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