Draha rodino,

IT's been a good week. We've had some ups and downs, as life tends to have, but everything's been great. I did indeed receive my birthday package! I was pleasantly surprised. Thanks so much for that!

Monday! Sorry I have no news about Sunday, I have anew planner and I don't remember anything except that Ary got the gift of the Holy Ghost. It was great. He's the best. He told us a few days later that it was the highlight of his week. He's great. But anyway, Monday. We did a singing display in the morning again, it went really well, then we had the normal office stuff. That evening we taught Phuc, I still need to get a picture of him, and then Ary.

Tuesday after a good district meeting we met with a kid we started teaching last week, Radovan, and it went really well. He's a great kid, we're really excited for him. He's very open and willing to do things, and he's progressing as a result. That's what reading and praying does for you. He also promised to come to church tomorrow, so we're pumped for that. We had a good lesson with a lady named Ivana, she just doesn't get it! She thinks all paths are good, and we are going back to God whether we want to or deserve it or not. She also has a lot of other really weird beliefs. I don't think email can accurately portray them. But we had a recently returned missionary teaching with us, and she's awesome. It was a good lesson, we taught well, she just still wasn't quite there. Perseverance. 

Wednesday was a good day, we met a new kid named Ondrej, he's a funny kid. We had a good lesson, he's not 100% committed, so we don't know exactly when we're going to meet him again, but we will soon. We had a great lesson with Isabel about the plan of salvation. Her grandmother recently died, and she was a bit down about that, and we had a good chat, and she felt a lot better after. We had an interesting lesson with Martin Koca. His words, in English, "I want to disengage from all Church activities." We were like "...Martin. You do nothing. You are totally disengaged." We did have a really good lesson with Viktor, and also earlier with a less active, Drahomir. I don't know if I told you his story from last week. We had a lesson with him, and later in the day he sent us a text thanking us for the lesson and talking about how he heard some things that really influenced him to start making changes and being better. Since then we have seen a total change in him. It's awesome. We had a great lesson with him again, and he's doing so well. 

Thursday we did the final singing display before the concert, yikes! and then taught. We found some way cool people at the display though. We have a great week set up for next week. We then taught a great lesson with Mirek and Lukas, who really are doing well. We have woven our way into the message, and they are really enjoying it. They accepted a Book of Mormon on thursday, and I really think they'll read. We visited the Pavlicovi, and had a good lesson there. The older daughter was actually really involved, and it was good. We had another really good lesson with Phuc, and then a decent one with a less active Russian kid who we're trying to get to go on a mission.

Friday. Concert day. We were all pretty nervous. But before the concert we had a great lesson with Pet'a, and Elder Sewell and a member taught a good one with Radovan. I was not present because I was recruited to go and pick up some new cars for the mission. Elder Sewell can't drive, so we went on splits and I picked up one of the cars. It was kind of fun to drive a brand new car straight of the lot. The lesson with Pet'a was sooo good! She's a great girl, and she just needs a spiritual experience to motivate her to baptism. We've been wondering how to bring up baptism with her, and it has been a focus of my prayers lately, and she totally brought it up herself and we had a great discussion. we're all set to talk about it next meeting. She is possibly the smartest person I've ever met, and it's going ot be great once she's baptized. So, the concert. We had a pretty good turnout. Actually, it was great. We had over 100 people show up, and all the missionaries got some people from it. I was really pleased with how it went. I've had very little solo experience, so I was way nervous for my piece. But, it went really well, honest. I sang O Divine Redeemer, and one of the sisters in my district accompanied me. I'm relieved it's over though. We were all way pumped up about it, President especially. he had a violin piece he played, and duet with one of the senior missionaries, she on the piano he on the violin, and after it he came into the hall where we were all waiting and totally chest-bumped Elder Sewell.

And today, we're going to that little village that Hitler blew up, and we're going to check out the grounds and see the monument. It should be good. Love you all tons, I'm excited to hear from you next week!

Elder Knapp