WHat a week! This new area is wonderful. I do miss Prague, but Pardubice is awesome. AS far as size go, it is the second smallest city we have missionaries in in the Czech Republic. I don't know the exact figures. This week has been great though.
Okay! So MOnday. We only taught one lesson that day, but it was to a
kid named Ludek, 25, in school and working, way cool kid. He's the type
that has about 10,000 questions, so the struggle is to not try and
answer every question, but rather just teach him the saving doctrines.
Tuesday, we taught 5 lessons. I don't know, nor do I
wnat to know, how many were normally taught in Paraguay, but let me
tell you 5 is great for us. They were all nice lessons, but the real
miracle was when we were contacting. We didn't have a lot of time to do
so, but we found the coolest young kid. His name is Filip, he's 19, and
he is my dream investigator. My goal before going home is to baptize a
future missionary. Filip is going to be the one. We stopped him, and he
kind of wanted to just keep going, didn't really want to talk to us.
But, we talked a little about our message and so forth, and he said he'd
met missionaries three times already, but was a little curious. We set
up with him, and taught him on Wednesday. He's great. We also taught
English tonight. It was good. We don't have a very big class, but a
family comes to it, the Zlesakovi. They are going to become
investigators tomorrow. They're so cool. Jana, Petr, and their four year
old daughter Eliska.
Wednesday was also a good day, another five lessons.
We taught one of our baptismal dates today, Ondrej. He's a nice guy,
really close to baptism, just needs to kick smoking. He's so close. We
meet with him about four times a week.
Thursday we taught four lessons. One was to the
branch President and his family of 8. They are great. WE also had the
first district meeting of the transfer. I don't know if I told you this,
but our district leader is Elder Coleman, who has been AP for the past 8
months. He's amazing. And slightly intimidating. It's great though. The
first was really inspiring, and I cannot even tell you how pumped I am
to learn everything from him that I can. He's a supermissionary. That is
supposed to be one word.
Friday four again. Elder Sewell and I also went to
the hospital to get his stitches out. He cut his head last week and got
stitches. WE taught Ondrej again and also this less active lady named
Sister Evansova. She speaks perfect English and married an English man.
Saturday we had many lessons fall through. But it's
okay. We did get to teach our other baptismal date, a young kid named
Vlasta. He's been sick, but we visited him at his house and had a nice
lesson with him about the plan of salvation and repentance. He's a good
kid with a sincere desire to follow Christ, so he'll make it.
Sunday. We don't actually have a branch here. We og
to nearby Hradec Kralove to church. It was for me one of the most
spiritual sacrament meetings I've ever been in. Answers and other things
of a spiritual nature like crazy. It was great. We taught Ondrej again
afterwards. He's so close to quitting smoking! Ahhh
That night we were studying, and had some serious revelation. The Book
of Mormon. All of our investigators need to start reading the Book of
Mormon more intensely. It is the key for them all. They won't go
anywhere if they don't.
Love
you tons, keep pressing forward. This Gospel means more than any of us
know, but as we live according to the knowledge we have, Our Father, in
His mercy, reveals just a little more. It is a sweet process of growth
and gratitude.
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