Draha rodino,
Good week this week, had some good things, and it
was a tough one too. As far as weather, it's still snowing
here. It's not very cold, so nothing is sticking, but snow is falling.
And when I say tough week, it wasn't a huge deal, we just didn't find a
ton of people. We're hurting for new investigators right now. But we
have a few lined up, so this is the week!
Monday! You already
know most of it, but after I emailed last time we did teach L. It
was okay, he's just being very difficult right now. He's a good kid
though. He'll make it. We also learned from A, I believe I mentioned
her, that if you sleep with a stocking hat pulled down over your eyes,
your eyes will eventually fix themselves. I think it sounds absolutely
ridiculous, and have now slept with a hat over my eyes for a week
straight. I mean, what have I got to lose, my eyesight?
Tuesday we had
some interesting lessons. One with Sister E, always interesting,
one with a kid named Z, under an overpass thing because his 25 yr
old knees are to weak to walk to our office. It was tough. We also
taught Martin. It didn't go well. He views his afflictions as great
above all, so he complains a lot. we've decided to teach him only once a
week until he finds a job. But we did have a nice lesson with the
Zlesakovi about families, Heavenly Father, and the Book of Mormon.
Wednesday
we got to teach the cool young kid, K, again. he is super busy, so
once a week is about all he can manage, but whatever. Once he starts
reading in the book of Mormon he'll find more time to meet. We also
found a waaaay cool guy named Z. He's great. We're going to meet
with him this week sometime, and I am excited for it. He's young, super
cheerful, and funny. I have great hopes for him.
Thursday was a
good day, first district meeting of the transfer. Our district leader,
Elder S, went to school with Elder K in Flagstaff. You
could ask the K's if they know a him. H'es a great
guy, so happy and loving. It was a good meeting. We did have a new area
opened in our district, we now have sisters in Hradec Kralove, the other
city in our district. so, two of us in Pardubice, and four in HK. By
the way, in Czech, the "c" makes a "ts" sound. Just so you know how the
pronunciation goes. On the way home from HK we stopped at M's to
teach the family. They really are amazing, and are excited to be
baptized. I am also quite excited.
Friday we taught them again,
at their house. They've been a bit sick, so they haven't been able to
travel much, so we've just visited them. By the way, we had a very
important and anxious comp study trying to figure out how to thoroughly
yet appropriately teach the Law of Chastity to an eleven yr old. Try
that. I think we did well though. W taught Sis E again. We
talked about forgiveness, and she just won't do it. She says it's
impossible. We are at a bit of a loss with her. But, we keep hope!
Saturday
was fun. We spent a lot of time contacting, but we did teach Martina
and the fam again. We've almost taught everything, so they're almost
ready to go! No problems. I love them. We did have two other lessons
fall through, which is no fun. The biggest adventure was that night. We
were tracting a panelak, or a huge communist-era apartment building.
Things were going okay, we'd almost tracted an entire floor, when we
knocked on the second to last door. The man was not interested at all.
He started to shut the door, then changed his mind and decided that we
shouldn't be inside the panelak at all. He told us to leave, and we
stood there. He then said, "Come with me, I'll escort you down." So we
rode the elevator down together, he said some not nice things about
religion in general, and about how no one in that panelak wants anything
to do with us, then sent us out into the night. I got kicked out of my
first panelak! It was quite an experience. And while we appreciate his
desire to speak for about 100 other people, we will probably be going
back to ask them ourselves if they want it.
Sunday was good,
even thought it was daylight savings time. We felt the lost hour for
sure. The new missionaries introduced themselves and we had some really
good lessons.
Well folks, that's about it! Sorry it's a bit short, we'll find some new people and have a bunch of new miracles to share!
Love you all,
Starsi Knapp
