Starsi Chris Heywood

Wow this week went by fast! Still loving it but the language is very frustrating I try not to get frustrated and have a positive attitude but sometimes its hard when you just want to say something but can't or just try to have a good conversation. I can get the conversation started but can't really finish it out or they ask me a question and i have no Idea what they just said! But other than that I love it!!

SO this week was super eventful!! First off, sorry I didn't take a whole lot of pics this week just because all the running around we do! Ostrava is really spread out so we have to take trams and buses everywhere and sometimes it takes a while! But Ostrava is really pretty in some areas and really ugly in others! Last Tuesday we went contacting in this huge park that is beautiful and is maybe the same size or a little bigger than central park in NYC and it has a cool river that runs through it!! I forgot to take pics just because we were talking to everybody that we could! Then that second picture that Parker sent in that email last week we did a singing display there and I went and solo contacted for the first time while the rest sang! It was pretty scary!! haha!

That night I went on my first exchange with Elder Robinson he's in our district and him and Elder Neilson (bretts cousin) are serving in Frydek Mystek which is only like a 15 min train ride!! So i went over there and Elder Neilson took my spot! It was fun Elder Robinson is a funny dude and says the word Fetch like every other word! SO we spent the whole day in Frydek and met this one way cool dude and set up a lesson with him for Sunday which was yesterday. 'Ill find out later today how it went!

Wednesday was just a normal day and we pretty much contacted the whole day! Thursday was the same as Wednesday except for district meeting and district finding thats when we did the singing display then we had a member lesson and taught the light of christ.

But Friday we had progressive training for all the greenies and trainers in Brno so we woke up at 4 am and got ready and had to be at our bus stop at 5:30 so we got there and were running a little late so there's nothing like a little jog at 5 am in suits! But we made it on time and everything and started our 3 hour journey to Brno by bus! We got there and it was awesome to see all my buddies from the MTC! So fun to see Schmutz and Jarvis and here everyone's stories of the 1st week! Progressive training was awesome and I learned a lot about adjusting to missionary life and they just kinda gave us the run down on the mission and our mission goals. then they fed us some great Czech Pizza and Some KOFOLA!! Its a delicious drink! Then we had interviews with President and they were way awesome it was just a little get to know you and show him pics of the fam!! Then we journeyed back home! It was a long day!!

Saturday was good but not super eventful! Fast Sunday was long but awesome! We don't watch conference till next Sunday and we get to watch in English so that's nice! So our investigator Anis came to church and we had a good lesson on prayer and he bore his testimony about prayer and the Book of Mormon and it was awesome. We had to push back his Baptismal date back a bit just because he kinda fell of the face of the earth for a bit but he said hes back for good and wants to be baptized!!!!! Way awesome then went contacting and tracting the rest of the day and no one was interested which sucked!! It was a long day!!!

So that was about it for the week!!! We are about to go eat lunch but I'll be back in the afternoon to finish emailing and try to figure out my camera situation!!

Also we have game night on Friday and sports night on Saturdays and we teach English on Tuesday nights so those fun!! Ill send pics later!!

Starší Heywood

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Living is actually way nice we have a pretty nice apartment and we live just outside of Ostrava in a place called Dubina!

I can converse kinda with people but it is way rough and i need help from elder mueller

I got a coat today

Church is good all in Czech we the sisters and the elders in Frydek all cover the same ward we have about 20 people every Sunday

some people will speak english but not very many

I usually eat eggs in the morning then for lunch we go and buy some bread cheese and meat and have like a personal made lunchable its way good and super cheap then I'll get some type of chocolate.

Pday have just been kinda hanging out but we are planning to go to a castle next week so I'll make sure to take a lot of pics!!!

People are pretty friendly here but not interested in the church

some parts of Ostrava then some parts are pretty ugly just depends on where you are!