That's so cool about Dallin! Is he
already 18? I have no idea anymore. I realized awhile ago, and this is
no joke, that I have legitimately forgotten the names of some people
that I used to hang out with before the mission. That's going to be
awkward..."Hi! Yeah, it's good to see you...what's your name again?
Disregard the fact we've known each other for years, tell me your name!" Real quick, before I get started
on the week, yes Mom, we did teach a record number of lessons. It was
intense. We were pretty excited about it. President was proud of us.
The week! Sunday we had a meeting before church,
then met Ary and Viktor after church, then made a couple of visits after
singing with the missionaries at the train station. We taught our 41st
lesson at seven o clock Sunday evening. The previous record was 35.
Also, we had the first ever Sunday without our late night calls to all
the zone leaders! It was nice to go to bed on time.
Monday was pretty normal. We had a meeting with
President, then office meeting. After office meeting we went to Elder
Boysen's first driving lesson!!! I may have mentioned this already, but
the new AP doesn't have a driver's license, so Elder Boysen is getting
one. It's an adventure haha. We had a nice lesson with Vera once we got
back, ate some lunch, then went to the Cambelovi. Whew. We went to FHE later, and
taught Maxim. We started
teaching Vera's son, Sergei, today. he's a good guy, a really really good
guy. He is making fantastic progress.
Tuesday we had a lesson in the morning, it went
okay. It was with a really nice guy, who claims yoga as his religion. He
has a lot of interesting ideas, which mostly just means that he is
confused about the world. I think we're making progress with him though.
His name is Michal. We taught Vera again, then visited the Cambelovi.
We had a really good lesson with Sergei after that, the Restoration.
He's going to get baptized, I can feel it. We had a good lesson with
Artur as well, who is also going to get baptized, he's making great
progress. After that we had a nice lesson with Maxim again, and then we
had a part inthe mission prep class here, so we went to that.
Wednesday we taught a first lesson with a
waaaaaaaaaaay cool guy I found last week at singing display. He's a
self-employed accountant, well-off, searching for the truth, two kids,
cool cool guy. His name's Lad'a. We had another driving lesson, taught
Vera, skyped with Veronika in England, got dropped by the Cambelovi,
taught a family history class, then visited Jitka Zahradnikova. The
Cambelovi dropped us by leaving their Book of Mormon in a plastic bag on
the church door. I've never had that happen to me before. I've heard
Elder Holland talk about it, but this was the first time for me. But
we're not licked! We are so not done there. They were doing so well,
then they got attacked by this catholic guy that comes and waits outside
the chapel every Sunday. It shook Sis Cambelova pretty bad. We were
annoyed. And are. But not finished!
Thursday we had a good day. We had a big lunch
together with both Prague districts, then we had a short singing
display. It was good, got some good potentials. Then we headed back to
the building to meet with one of our Italian investigators, Eleanora.
She is currently working on her PhD thesis, which sounds like a total
nightmare. She will be defending it in three different languages, Czech,
French, and English. Then we met with Sergei, had a good lesson with
him, watching the Joseph Smith film. We then went and visited our
Filipino investigators, Millette and Maricel. We had a good lesson with
them about the First Vision and what it means. They are extremely
attached to their Catholic traditions. Tradition seems to be as binding
as doctrine at times.
Friday we had good lessons with Vera, Pet'a, Sergei,
Ary, Viktor, and Maxim. We started the Plan of
Salvation with Sergei, and he is great. We asked if he'd read in the
Book of Mormon, and he said, "Yeah just a little...the first seven
chapters." We were pleased with that, but he was way low-key about it,
and was just like "It's no big deal, I just had 30 minutes free at work,
so I read some." We asked how he'd understood it all, and he proceeded
to summarize in great detail the first seven chapters of the Book. It
was great.
Today we have fun things on plan. A hike at a nature preserve, a baptism, and then dinner at the McConkie's.
Love you all,
Elder Knapp
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