This week has been absolutely crazy! We have been
working our tails off running around, teaching, finding, doing
everything we can. We have taught more lessons this week than ever
before. I'm stoked. We've been busy, and we are pretty excited to see
how the week ends out.
Sunday! We had a nice meeting with Vera about the
nature of God before church. She had met some Jehovah's Witness lady the
day before and had questions about who God is and that sort of thing.
So we cleared some things up, and she really enjoyed it. I love talking
with people about the nature of God, because it's such a great doctrine
that makes so much sense and gives us such personal meaning. We also had
a good meeting on the same topic with a recent convert named Eva after
church. We were actually on splits, I taught Eva with a different
missionary while Elder Boysen taught Viktor with the other missionary's
companion. We also visited Jitka and her daughter Maruska that evening
and had a nice lesson about the last couple points in the Plan of
Salvation. Then, we went to the office and had last ever call-ins! Most
missions in the church have stopped having Sunday night calls,
preferring to have the missionaries report their own numbers on pdays.
So, we have officially made the switch, which means no more late nights
on Sunday. We are glad. But call-ins went well. I get frustrated from
time to time when people, be it missionaries or others, just don't get
it. It's sad to see missionaries who aren't having the experience they
could be having on a mission.
Monday we had a very nice lesson with Vera and the
wife of the first counselor in the branch presidency. We have started
going through the baptismal questions with her, simultaneously
reteaching the lessons. It's been good. She's so great! You'll get to
meet her when we come in the spring. We also had good meetings with Ary,
Maxim, and Viktor
Tuesday we met with Elder Boysen's driving teacher
in the morning to get the last steps of registration done before he
starts driving lessons. After that we finished our studies, then went to
district meeting. It was a good meeting. The new format is just great.
President is a genius. By that I mean spiritual. After District meeting
we had a good lesson with Artur about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It
went really well. He still has growing faith, but he's come along really
well, and I really think he will get baptized. He's a great kid. We
then had an interesting experience with President. He had a meeting with
an ex-member who wants to be rebaptized, and the meeting was to
determine whether or not he could. Because of his history, president
wanted us there. There were certain criteria that the branch president
requested be explained to this man, and he didn't take them well. He
ended up saying some things he shouldn't have and storming out of the
office. But, so it goes. He needs to humble himself a bit more before he
can really come back. But we had a nice visit with Jitka and her
daughter again, visited the Pavlicovi, and met with...a recent convert
later taht night, but I cannot for the life of me remember who it was.
It was one we set up later in the day, so I don't have it written. Hmm.
Wednesday we met our Buddhist friend Michal in the
morning, had a relatively nice meeting with him. It was much more under
control than usual, and we think it's because he came to churhc this
week. We then met with Vera, had a singing display and met some really
cool people, taught a guy from Cameroon named John, and had a very
interesting experience...Earlier in the day, we got a call from the
Mendenhalls saying that a man had showed up at the church building
wanting to talk to missionaries. He was a former from like four or five
years ago. He wanted us to get him in contact with a religious TV
network so he could preach the Gospel to the world. We made a deal with
him. If he let us teach him the restoration, we would help him get in
contact with the network. His name is Steve, or at least that's what he
calls himself. He's czech, but he goes by Steve when speaking English. I
would guess his real name is Stepan, the Czech equivalent to Steven. He
has...interesting ideas. Probably an after-mission discussion.
Thursday we taught Steve again. For the lasst time
incidentally. But then we went to sing again, at a place called namesti
republiky. It was not as successful as the one yesterday, but we did
find a cool lady from Ukraine. We then taught Vera, and had a cool thing
happen. There was a random lady waiting with Vera and the member we
taught her with. We didn't think much of it because we needed to start
the lesson, but she joined us! After the lesson, I talked with her more,
and it turns out she is the nonmember wife of an inactive member here!
We set up to visit her the next day. We also taught Jitka again, then a
really cool half-Czech half-Italian girl named Karolina with Sister
Munro. We then visited our Filipino investigator at her home, taught her
the Restoration. We then had a good lesson with a less active girl
about some of her friends who are inactive so that we can start finding
them.
Friday we had Polar Bear (joint language study) with
the district, a great lesson with Pet'a, visited the Cambelovi (the
part-member family from Thursday), taught Ary, Artur, and then Viktor.
Nothing quite so exciting as the rest of the week, just the norm. Some
good lessons.
Tomorrow is Australia Day, so for P-day we went to
the Munros today and celebrated. I can't wait for you to meet them. They
are the greatest ever. I love them so much. We had a blast with them.
They made the food they have ever year at the barbecue, did some trivia
with us (did you know that our ancestor, John Murdock, was one of the
two missionaries who opened Australia for missionary work?), taught us
some songs, just an all around good time. We taught Vera, her daughter
in law, and the Cambelovi again this morning. Now, for the goal. We have
a record in this mission. The most lessons ever taught in one week was
by Elders Clyde and De Angelis a few months ago. 35. Two weeks ago, we
taught 32. This week, we've taught 35 so far, and we're shooting for 40!
We have a few on plan tomorrow, we should get even more than that.
Well folks. I love you. I look forward to hearing from you next week.
Elder Knapp
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