Last week of the Transfer

Wow it was a good week! Hard to believe that today is the start of the last week of this transfer this one really flew by! It will be interesting to what will happen with transfer calls on Saturday!

Anyway! Tuesday was great we did service for Otakar, the old dude that we met the other week! He's way nice and the service wasn't too hard just moving stuff around his big yard and making sure that his chickens get fed! He made it very clear to us that he has 15 chickens! I think he told us that about 15 times it was way funny! We finished with him and he asked us to come back this week so we will try to fit him in there somewhere we have a lot to do this week! After that we got changed had personal study then we met with Lukas the very atheist person! He will get there sometime he just doesn't want to try! Oh also right before lunch we ran into this woman from Australia she was super nice a part of some weird religion but she actually talked with us so that was nice and it was English!

Wednesday we had Zone Conference in Prague it was good to see all my buds and catch up! Also the Senior Missionaries that are in Liberec finally came so we got to meet them! And you'll never guess where they are from...... GILBERT ARIZONA!!!!!!! Not too far from us either!! They lived on Cooper and Elliot! So that was cool to talk with them! They are the sister and elder Jones! ZC was one of the most spiritual ones ever! we talked a lot about our mission culture and what we need to change! Then President gave an amazing Training on Being  truly converted! And making sure our investigators will be truly converted! We talked about the last days and how even the elect will be deceived! And gave examples of some of hi closest friends in the gospel as they fell away from the Church! It was way powerful and counseled us that we must continue to the small and simple thing so that we will never be deceived by false Christs and so forth! Amazing training! When training ended we had to run for our bus so we could get back for English! You always just feel so missionary running through a train and bus station wearing a full suit with your arms packed with things haha!!

We made it to English though I taught beginners it was fun! They hate our tenses haha and its hard to teach especially in Czech but it was fun we have some characters! The lady that we found on the street came again so that was cool! Also they started filming spider man so we watched that for a bit with a member!! Then ran into a potential that set up with us for the next day!

Thursday, the senior couple came up to Liberec and  we showed them around! their apartment isnt ready yet so they are staying in a lil town about 30 mins away! They are awesome and really excited to get to work! We took them to our favorite restaurant they really liked it! They already love Czech food!! After that we did some studies contacted a bit then had dinner then had our lesson with a new lukas! Hes a believer has a lot of questions we taught full restoration he definitely felt the Holy Ghost so we will see what happens with him this week! That was about our day!

Friday we went over to Mlada Boleslav and went on splits with the other elders! I was with Elder Lund and we went to go visit this referral that they got! So we finally found his house in this tiny little town and his friends answered and told us to hang on a sec! So we waited and we heard this guy in the background say I don't want to talk with them! Then his girlfriend came to the door and told us he wasn't home! So we were about confused why we he ordered a book of mormon haha! So we just contacted around a bit and got our bus back then met back up and headed back up to Liberec! And right when we got there it started to pour raining like pour pour!!!  It was a good 10 min jog from the bust station to the apartment! We literals took a shower it was fun though!

Saturday, we headed over too Dana's house for her to teach us how to make more Czech food! we made this thing were you stuff meat into a pepper and then boil it in this sauce!! It was so good! Then we made knedliky to go with it and then made some kolac after it was a great morning! Then we taught about Jesus and ready 3 Nephi 11 with her! Shes awesome and will be baptized but the Branch just insnt ready for some of these elect people we are teaching! Then as we were walking to the Tram we passed this fall festival on the namesti in jablonec  it was way weird haha there were like naked men it was way weird we didn't stay to long! Then we did studies and weekly planned that was about it!

Sunday we were small in numbers we had the Mongolian members then 2 czechs and the Jones so elder wutzke lead and gave a talk and i blessed and translated! It was just a grand time but we are pretty use to doing everything! Then we had a meeting with the Jones after church and we already knew but he had been called to be the next Branch Counselor! (Thank the Heavens) so we went through every member with them and all that then they came to a lesson with us! It was about a hour drive to this guys house! It was a way pleasant visit! he also invited a friend to meet us so we sang a couple song and then taught the restoration it was way cool! this was that Milan guy that we have met with in the passes he just lives very far so we dont get to see him a lot but hes an amazing man!! We invited him and his family to Branch Conference next week  so hopefully they will come!

It was a good week!! 

LOve you all

S laskou 

Starsi Heywood

Hey

Another week has come and gone, the mission is starting to go fast!! We had a good exhausting week!  I feel like we were everywhere this week!

Tuesday we headed up to Prague because I had my last visa appointment and man was it stressful! Prague traffic was awful!! You cannot be late to these things or else you get in big trouble by Sister Poho! so we got permission to break the rules a bit! Elder Wutzke got me close and I got out of the car and had to sprint to the building and stuff and sign in real fast! Barely made it by 2 mins! Its all good though, I got my lil card and I'm good to stay in the Republic another year!!! Then we headed home but had to stop by the mission office and drop of Turros record then we headed to Jicin for district meeting and stuff!  We didn't get home to Liberec till like 7 so there went our day pretty much!

Wednesday we had service in the morning with Jindra! Hes a bro and I love him! Then we got lunch with him! Then the Zone Leaders came over because we had an exchange! We set up about 4 lessons so we were busy! I was with Elder Backman, he's a nice guy! We taught Lukas! Hes a stubborn atheist that's for sure but he'll come around! He likes the meetings but just not willing to try it! Then we met with Helena! One of our members we reactivated! We then had about 45 mins till English so we decided to go contact about our English classes for a bit! We contacted this lady and she had a lot of interest! 45 mins later she walked in for English! It was awesome! A small miracle and also another guy came that I texted the week before, so we had 2 new students it was awesome! Then we did a study and had dinner!

Thursday morning we drove over to Plzen to end our exchange there because there was a book of Mormon campaign finding there! It was cool to see Plzen but honestly me and elder Wutzke just wanted to head back to Liberec the whole time but we had a good time there! Then we had to make the 4 hour journey back home which sucked, a 3 hour train to Prague then a hour bus back to Liberec! that was our day!

Friday our whole morning was taken up we had to move everything out of our old apartment! The Masons came with a big van to take everything to Prague so we had to take apart beds and all the kitchen stuff had to be packed away! It took a while! They treated us to lunch after they showed us where the senior couple in Liberec will live! They come next week and we are really excited for them to be here! Then we got changed! I didn't feel super good after I got ready so during personal study I took a nap! Felt a lil better after but no time to be sick because we had a lesson with Gabriel! He said his life has been better since hes been praying everyday so that was good! Then after that we weekly planned which was good!

Saturday was a grind! We went over to Dana and Standa's and she taught us how to make Gulas and Kolac so that was awesome! I'll make you all some when I get home! Then we taught them about the godhead which they had been a bit confused about! Got that all cleared up! It was a great morning! Then we got back and had personal study! We had found 0 people this week so we were a lil stressed! We gave up the rest of our studies and dinner hour because we had 6 potentials to visit! So we headed out! 1st door nothing 2nd door nothing and so on! But the last door this nice old man answered and we had an awesome conversation and set up for Tuesday to do service for him! It was awesome! and he answered the door wearing speedo like undies,a winter coat and rain boots!! hahaha Only in the Czech Republic! Then after him a old investigator wanted to meet up and we went on a run with him and along the way we talked about miracles from our missions! It was awesome! Its amazing what the Lord can do when you give him a lil sacrifice!

Sunday was good! In the middle of the opening hymn, 8 Americans walked in haha it messed up my leading! (yes I lead the music and no I don't really know how)  But it was cool! They were just here on vacation! I also gave a talk yesterday! They took pics and I gave them moms number so mom you will probably get a text sometime this week! I hope I put in the right number haha!! Then later that night we went over to Jindras to teach his kids English! But we didn't have time to share a spiritual thought because they had a family emergency so we had to cut it short! good day though!

Pretty good week a lot of traveling though! We have ZC this week so I'm excited for that!!!

Love you all! The Gospel is true and we can be happier in our lives when we use it!!

S laskou Starsi Heywood

Only got a couple pics! So they are filming the new Spiderman here on the Namesti so that's pretty cool.  I think filming starts this week sometime so they have a carnival scene somewhere in the movie so I'll try to get some screen time.  We'll see haha! 

První Křest

Well This weekend I was on cloud nine! Turru entered the waters of baptism and it was amazing! Turru went from not having a clue who God is to having a strong testimony in the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ! It was amazing to watch his faith grow after these past 4 months into something amazing and so strong! It was a stressful day but it turned into be the best day ever! He was so happy afterwards and he invited some friends to come and watch! He already is an amazing  missionary! Then Sunday I had the privilege of confirming him a member of the church and give him the Holy Ghost! It was a great weekend! You could say I was on a spiritual high! So every week our mission does a lil news letter and I want to share with you what we wrote about him..

Turru has been elect from day one. His wife is a return missionary and so are his 2 best friends.He

is from Mongolia and does not speak the best English, but we used a mongolian Preach My Gospel

and a translator. We only had one option...Teach Simply. And it worked. When Liberec got blinded

out the missionaries decided to visit every member on the church records in just one week. Turru's

wife was on the list. So went for our visit with a Lesson prepared about Living Prophets, and The

Family Proclamation to the World. Little did we know that Turru would be there, and the previous

missionaries and our Father in Heaven had been preparing Turru to investigate the church. Over

the past 5 months we have been able to teach him everything. He missed his first baptisimal date

because he didn't feel like he had a strong testimony. We gave him a challenge to read, pray, and

study General Conference with his wife every night. 3 weeks later he told us in his broken english "Iam ready, I have a testimony, I am converted." Turru is in example on charity, love and happiness.

He has already blessed the Branch in Liberec in so many ways. At his baptism he invited a lot of

friends and they all came to support him. He even gave us the contact information for all of his

friends and set up a lesson for us to teach one of the families that was there later this week. Not

only is Turru an amazing missionary, he is also an amazing friend and is eager to get the

Priesthood and take his wife to the temple. After the baptism he told us, "Today is my new

Birthday, I will celebrate every year. Thank you so much." We love our best friend Turru and now

Liberec is mentally obsessed to baptize more elect children of God..

It was a great day and the 1st Baptism Liberec has had in a couple years! Ill send pics

Also a highlight of the week was on Wednesday we had a Book of Mormon Campaign Finding here in Liberec with another district! It was very successful! We were blessed beyond measure! We gave out 20 copies of the Book of Mormon and received 22 numbers from people! It was really awesome to do! One of my favorite contacts of the day was my last one; I actually didn't get his contact but in the end I managed to get this guy Petr who had no belief in God and did not want to talk with me at all to take a Book of Mormon read the 1st passage from the campaign which has the question does God exist and to pray about it! It was way cool! I'm sure I will see him again someday!!!

That was really about it for my week! It was a good one! Today we went on a vylet with a member from Jicin so that was cool! Hit up some castle ruins!!

Love you all!!