Ajoj !!

This past week was the last in transfer!! SO the news i stayed here in Ostrava!! And my new companion is Elder Petersen and is from Michigan just got here about 4 hours ago! Elder Mueller went to PLzen ZL. Elder Robinson stays here and will be training and sister Wilson will be training also here!! SO I'm no longer the greenie here!!! SO yeah it was good week! Last Monday we went to a sweet castle that looked like the one at Disneyland so that was awesome!!

Yeah then just a normal week not a whole lot happened just a lot of contacting and stuff like that. So we had a miracle on Wednesday! WE had a lesson with a less active named Petr and his girlfriend was over and he has been talking to her about the church and she has read in the Book of Mormon and it was sweet she wanted to meet with us and we were about to set a bapt date with her but she had to leave and just kinda felt wrong to ask her as shes putting her jacket on and everything! But we will probably meet this week sometime! Also petr told us that he wants to baptize her so I think that will give him some motivation with the  word of wisdom because that is what he is struggling with right now! SO I'm hoping we will teach them together so that will be awesome if we can put her on date!!

Then we did more contacting! We did a chalk display about freedom and I drew a sweet Czech flag! Then a lady named Eva set up with us so that was cool!!! But then she didn't show so that was also cool!!(sarcasm)

Saturday we contacted and just kinda waited for the transfer call to come around to know where we were going and new companions and what not so kinda a stressful day! Sorry this email is short and stuff but today was a hectic day getting everyone off to thier new areas and waiting for my comp at the train station and getting him all situated here and so this week will probably be crazy because h'll be relying on me to get around and stuff so that is going to take some getting used to haha! Haven't got lost yet in big ole ostrava so that is good!! Well that is about it for me Talk to you all later! Everyone have a sick Thanksgiving weekend!! 

Love Starši Heywood

Castle in Ostrava

Starsi Heywood

Dobry Rano!

Hope Everybody had a fantastic week! Kennedy I hope you had an amazing Birthday yesterday! A lot happened this week so I will try to get it all in but no promises!

I will start off with Wednesday we started the day off with some group finding with the sisters just in the Naměstí Elder Mueller talked to this amazing guy. He was believer so that was cool. He asked us the normal question what makes your church different then others so of coarse we went into the Restoration and we taught the whole restoration with him. He was very interested but got a little nervous when we pulled out the Book of Mormon because he told us the believed that the Bible is perfect with out error and that there cant be more scripture so we answered those questions. So this was like a hour long Contact and at the end he asked us if we could pray together and in his prayer he asked god to show him the way. It was a very spiritual experience! WE got his number he wouldn't set up with us just because hes super busy with school and said he had no time(the usual) but he told us to call in a week! So you know what we will be doing on Wednesday!

Thursday we did a group contacting activity with the district and we wanted to go a little out of the box so we did sušenky s mormoní (cookies with mormons) so we made a ton of cookies and handed them out to people and asked them about joy and we had some amazing conversations!! we got a couple numbers so you could say it was a success! Don't worry I will send pics later! It was fun giving the cookies out to little kids! Czech children are so cute!! I envy them though because they speak better than me! 

Cookies in the Park

Friday we had Zone Conference! It was amazing the theme was about laska(love) just about loving the people your area and the mission. I honestly don't think I have felt the spirit so strong it was amazing. Yeah I love my mission and feel so blessed to have been called to this amazing country! Also it was fun to see Schmutz and Jarvis and all the Slovaks were there so it was fun to meet them and see some other people from the mtc! The way home kinda was rough though the train was overbooked so we had to strand for like 2 hours and wait for people to get off so we could sit the rest of the way! It was fun though district bonding!

Together again!!

Saturday YSA around the country came to Ostrava for an activity. They asked if we would come to so we did! We went on a vilet to a WWII museum it was really cool but all in Czech so the stuff I understood was cool! The coolest part was they had a bunch of tanks so we took some sweet pics with them! After that we went and did service with them at a retirement home just raked leaves and stuff like that it was fun but man I was cold!! Then we had lunch with them all then went and did some good ole missionary work after. It was a fun but tiring day we went to bed at about 9 that night!

World War II museum with the YSA's

Sunday was good all the YSA were there so our ward was popping and testimony meeting was lit! This dude got up twice it was hilarious!!! Then we went tracting that night and it rained the whole time and we forgot umbrellas so that was super fun!! Nothing like tracting in the rain for 3-4 hours. It was good though we got let in and we are going back Wednesday!!

All around good week! Now we are going to go to a castle! 

Love this pic because I received it from 4 different people.  Elder Nielson in front is related to some great families here in Gilbert so they saw it and noticed Chris in the background.

Also this is the last week of the transfer so idk how emailing is going to work and all that next week. Ive never been though a transfer so we will see what happens. My guess is I stay here in Ostrava and Another elder comes and follow up trains me! WE will see!! 

I Love You All

Starší Heywood

Whats up everybody! Pretty good week here in Ostrava! Its turning into winter real fast!! I've only seen the sun once this week so that is pretty cool! I've got most of my winter shopping done but having a hard time finding thermals that aren't super expensive! Wearing a jacket and scarf everyday to block the wind! I've never worn a scarf before so elder Mueller had to show me how to tie one! But yeah its been like 6 degrees celsius everyday idk know how cold that is but it feels cold! 

So I'll just sum up the week! Tuesday was a pretty rough day we went contacting for a solid 4-5 hours and the longest conversation we had was probably about 5 mins so that was an extremely long day! But we also had a lesson with a man named Karel who was interested but is only in Ostrava once a month for like a week because of his job! Thursday we had district meeting but before that we went and did some service  for a less active named Petr! He has a hard life and talks super fast so as usual i didn't really understand but that's alright its getting better everyday! After Setkani Okrsku (District meeting) we went group contacting about family history and some people were actually interested and wrote down there numbers so that we could contact them and give them the website for familysearch! Friday we stayed in all day because Elder Mueller got sick so that day was pretty boring. Although I forgot to say in the beginning of the transfer President has challenged us all to read the old testament and finish on the just a little bit after next transfer and as we read we have to look for examples of the light of Christ and attributes of DC 4 we have to read about 13 pages a day to stay caught up! So Friday i got all got up so that was successful! At least Elder Mueller felt well enough to go to game night were we had the spiritual thought so i did it this time and it went actually not bad we talked about Prophets and who's everyones favorite was and why we need them! It went way better than I planned! Saturday was pretty good Elder Mueller felt better so we got to go outside which was awesome and we found this guy named Alex who is from Romania and set up with us! He was a very interesting man we have a lesson with him tomorrow so that should be good and its in English!!!!!! Sunday we had stake conference which was really cool it was in Brno but it was broadcasted to all the wards!! President gave a super awesome talk on his vision for the Czech Republic on how the vision he has is having two stakes and that is going to only happen if the members help the missionaries! It was awesome! I didn't understand it but the my district filled me in on the stuff I didn't understand!! So that was really cool!!

Today we actually had another presentation but this time it was at a high school!! It went really well they had a lot of good questions about like why there is so much evil in the world and what not. I had to explain baptisms for the dead in czech so that was pretty cool I would just like to testify that the gift of tongues is real!! I only had to ask for help on one word so that was really cool!!

Yep so that was my week! Sounds like everyone had a stellar Halloween!! All the boys looked super cute!! I didnt even recognize Russell at first he is huge!! Seth Congrats on the 2 goals thats awesome!!! Parker you looked disgusting in that costume!!! It was hilarious!!! Brooke congrats on the new job sounds like you guys are just "Chugging along". Also everyone Its Kennedys Birthday next week so everyone wish her a Happy Birthday!! 

I didn't take a single picture this week sorry but I'll send some that I haven't sent yet!

I love you all!! Peace

Starší Heywood