This is from a couple of weeks ago, but it's great and  I wanted to share it.

Draha rodino,

This week has been unbelievable. I didn't get a chance to record anything this week, for which I humbly apologize and repent, but I'll do better next week. This week was really incredible though. I'll get to it in just a second. First off, thanks so much for the update on all the missionaries! I was just thinking about some of them recently, so I didn't have to even ask. Thanks! Really, that's all. No other special requests or anything like that.

Monday was a good start to the week. We had a lesson after all the Pday stuff with a cool less active kid named Petr. He has just let some things, work, take priority in his life, and he's having a hard time getting it back to what it's supposed to be. As we learned in a recent general conference, it's easier to keep the commandments 100% of the time than 98% of the time. Don't forget that. We also taught a really good lesson to our investigator Ludek about hte sacrament, because the one thing he doesn't do is go to church, and it has killed his progress. If he would do it, he would get baptized. But, right now he's being difficult and he really isn't progressing. The lesson was good though, had a member there who did a great job, and...SPOILER ALERT...he still didn't come to church. We feel like we are just beating our heads against a wall with this kid. But, I love him. Two lessons.

Tuesday. No district meeting today because we have a secret mission-wide meeting on Friday. It really is top secret. Nobody knows what's going on. But, no district meeting today which is a bummer because I love district meetings, but whatevs. The highlight of the day was English class. We only had two students there, but it's the couple that we want to teach, very badly, so we got to focus an entire spiritual thought on them. It was great. We actually met with the husband by himself last week, sent a Book of Mormon home for his wife, and she expressed how she has already found comfort in the book. I love the Book of Mormon so much, I cannot express it. More on that later. Three lessons.

Wednesday. We taught another one of our baptismal dates today, Sarka. We taught the Restoration and it went sooo well. All in all, we taught the Restoration a ton this week, and Elder Sewell and I both expressed how our testimonies of Joseph Smith and everything associated with the Restoration have been strengthed because of it this week. It's been great. Anyway, Sarka is on date for the 1st of March, and she is just so humble, and open, and willing to learn, it is a delight to teach her. After the lesson the member we had with us asked if we would teach with her next time we hada meeting set up with Sarka. That is great. That's wphat we want. We want hte members having good experiences while teaching with us because then they are more willing to work with us, as well as share the Gospel with their friends. It was super. WE had very interesting English class today though. The spiritual thought was also the Restoration, and it was going great. the problem is that one of the students in our Wednesday class is a less active member with very interesting ideas. Just as we were testifying of Joseph Smith and so forth, she jumped in. "But it's an American church. Joseph Smith was a prophet. For America. Here in Europe we have the Pope, and he's a prophet too, right?" Uhh, no. Wrong. We did our best to move on, but we worry about hte effect it had on the rest of the class. For example, there is a young Catholic girl there who we really wnat to teach. It probably wasn't good for her to hear someone testify of Joseph Smith and the Pope at the same time. Four lessons.

Thursday was amazing! We had five lessons on plan today. One of them dropped, then we had two people call us, CALL US, and ask to meet. One of whom was the wife in the couple that we want to teach. It was crazy. The Lord blessed us so much. We met with one kid, Jiri, who talked about since the missionaries met him, about 6 months ago, he has just been pondering about the message they shared. In those six months he has gone from athiest to wanting to spread the love of God across the whole world. We had a sweet lesson with him, alos the Restoration. WE also taught a professional hockey player, a girl named Iveta, in the food court of this shopping center called AFI. All of the members in this town except one are out of town this week, and we couldn't get anyone to teach with us, and obviously we can't teach her by ourselves. So, we do it in public. Missionaries have taught in AFI for years. We got kicked out on Thursday. We think that the security thought we were proselyting in there, so they told us to leave. It was a bummer, but we finished the lesson and Iveta loved it. We'll see how to continue from here with that. Six lessons.

Friday. The day. The secret conference day. It was one of the most amazing days of my life. First off, it was great to see everyone, all my buddies from across the mission. But that was nothing. The first real amazing part was an announcement by President irwin. He said that he received word from the Missionary Department that as of the 8th of February he was allowed to tell us...the name of his replacement as Mission President. Friday was feb 8th. As for who it will be, I would recommend you look in the Feb 23rd edition of the Church News. His name will be there. It was cool to hear who it will be and hear about him and stuff, but it was also very sad. But The Spirit was there as President testified that the new President will be, or rather is, called of God. He expressed his love for us, not to much because as he said, he would get too emotional. For some reason it was just powerful. Powerful in that we could see so clearly how the Lord directs His work. It's a marvelous work, and a wonder. Shortly thereafter was a miracle, or rather the culmination of many miracles. I don't know what this will mean to you, but for Mom and Dad, and certainly Kaitlin as a recently returned missionary, it will mean something. President unveiled the newly printed Book of Mormon in Slovak. For years missionaries there have labored without the Book of Mormon, having to use the Czech one. As of this week, they will have full access to the Book of Mormon in Slovak. The Spirit that came into that room as we discussed, contemplated, and marvelled at the miracle and possibilities that this book will bring to the work in this mission will never be forgotten. WE closed the meeting by singing the Mission song altogether, standing. In that moment, I had impressed upon me the magnitude and privilege of this call as a missionary more forcefully than ever before. It was difficult to control my emotions, especially when I glanced at President Irwin and could see him struggling with the same thing. I love him, so much. I love this work. And, as I said, I love the Book of Mormon. Anyone who doesn't know if it's true, must. It is the key. To everything. Peace, happiness, and growth in this life, and exaltation in the life to come. As I said, I struggled throught that song. The third verse starts like this, "The seeds are sown, the field is white in Czech and Slovak tongue." From that line to the end of the song I could not sing. I couldn't. I was overcome. I have never felt like that before, and want that feeling forever.

We also taught one lesson that day.

Saturday we weekly planned, and had another really good lesson with Sarka. She's doing great. WE also taught Vlasta, another of our baptismal dates. he's a good kid. WE have to postpone, but he'll get there. He's a great kid, 21, and is really making progress to baptism. His date is now the 1st of March as well. Three lessons.

Sunday was good, another lesson with Sarka and also the less active kid, Petr. Both went well. I also did calls that night, and our zone is doing great. WE're all working hard and really seeing progress and growth. Two lessons.

I should explain the lesson thing. About a year ago, then Elder Causse, now Bishop Causse, conducted a mission tour. One of the things he trained on was teaching 21 lessons a week. He promised that baptisms would double, DOUBLE, if we strove to teach 21 a week. If you've been keeping track, we taught 21 this week. We were stoked. Teaching is the best thing. It's what we are called to do, and there is no other thing I would rather do than teach people the message of Christ, His Atonement, and the Restoration of His Church.

What a privilege and blessing. I am so grateful that I have had this opportunity. Tanner, Hunter, continue to prepare. Savannah and Emily, if it is what the Lord wants, do it. You will never regret it. I love you all, keep the letters and emails coming, and I will try to do the same.

Starsi Knapp