Sunday was of course great. We had a good church,
with a short lesson beforehand, and then at 5 we had the baptism!
Pictures included. Right after he came out of the water he yelled, "That
was awesome!" Not the most reverent reaction, but it was just a pure
expression of joy from a pure man. After it, Isabel and Cristina had a
bunch of Angolan food prepared. Ahhhh. So so so good. It was amazing.
Then we had callins and that was the day.
Monday we had something a little unusual. We did a
singing display in the morning. Like I mentioned in my last email, we
have a concert coming up next Friday, and we are doing more singing than
usual in order to advertise for it. We also met Ary, first time as a
baptized man. WE go to the FHE every week, and the senior couple here,
the Mendenhalls - who incidentally remind me a lot of Grandma and
Grandpa Gage - cook amazing food. IT is so delicious. After the dinner
we had a lesson with Maxim. He's doing well, needs to quit smoking, but
he's doing well. We're meeting with him tonight.
Tuesday we met with Marek. Now, Marek is someone who
cannot be fully described in an email. He is legendary. He's been known
for years. A few weeks ago he showed up to the building, has been to
churhc four weeks in a row, and asked us to teach him so he can get
baptized. He is Czech, but he speaks the fastest English I've ever
heard. We also met with katka, someone who has been taught for over a
year. WE also had Mission Leadership Council in the morning. It was
good. We have a good leader group. I love spending time with the other
missionaries.
Wednesday we visited with Phuc, the vietnamese kid.
He's great. I love him to death. We also had a nice chat with President
about he mission and how things are going. I've decided that Mission
presidents have the hardest job. Bless him. We also had a good chat with
Veronika, the one I baptized who now lives in England. We then visited a
lady from the Philippines and Martin Koca.
Thursday we met with a less active in the morning,
had a really good meeting with him. Later in the day he texted us and
said that it was just what he needed to hear, and that he was ready to
start making some changes in his life. It was great. We also met with a
really cool new kid, Radovan, that we met last week. We had a really
good lesson with Mirek and Lukas, then with patrik who we haven't seen
forever, but it was great. He leaves for Afghanistan next week for 14
days, then goes to mali straight after. We visited a family we teach
that night as well, and only the dad was home which was good. We had
some good one on one, or really one on two time with him and taught him
the Restoration.
Friday was a bunch of fun, we did another singing
display, and we handed out over 800 fliers in an hour and a half. IT was
incredible. We also sang on the metro, which was actually surprisingly
scary, but we did it and we're glad to say that we did. It was a good
experience. We had a group singing on the metro and then we had the rest
handing out fliers as fast as they could. We also taught Isabel in the
morning and Ary, pet'a and Otakar later. It went well. We went and
played games with Ary after his lesson. It was a bunch of fun. Every
Friday we get together with the YSA, missionaries, and investigators and
we play ping pong, foosball, card games, air hockey, that kind of
thing.
Today was a fun pday. We got a call from Sis
McConkie Friday night asking if we would be able to spend some time this
morning doing basketball drills with Wilson who is in the process of
trying out for the team. only 10 from about 40 make it, and he really
wants to. It was a blast. We were with him and also his brother Hyrum,
and at the end President showed up and we five had a quick pick up game.
It was good. and my team won. Do you remember a few months ago when I
mentioned how we had watched a documentary about the assassination of
Hitler's right hand man? We visited the site today where it happened,
well actually where the aftermath happened. It was really neat. It's an
old church, and you can still see the bullet holes and the places where
the Nazis shot trying to get to those involved in the assassination.
They've built a monument there honoring those who died. It was sad, but
inspiring at the same time.
Well family, time is officially up. i love you all so much, and I can't wait to hear from you next week.
Starsi Knapp
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