Jihlava

Man week one in Jihlava was so great I love my new area the people we are teaching and my companion!!! 

SO Tuesday we had two lessons and English so packed day! Our investigators are marcella Pavel and Jiri so awesome! Marcella is about 45 and her husband is Pavel. I haven't met Pavel yet because he has been away for work but Marcella is awesome I love her!! She is close to baptism but just needs to stop smoking and wants to finish the Book of Mormon first! She is great and comes to church every week!! 

Not much luck on the finding though have only 1 new investigator but it has been great.  They talk slower here so that is awesome!! I love this city already and ca'nt wait to get more into it!! Way pretty too!!

I get along so well with Elder Gubler hes awesome and has helped me a lot already!!!

Every Saturday we work on this guys farm so much fun we shoveled crap, moved a cow and got to wrangle some sheep so we could shave them!(I have a video).  It was so fun then they feed us a nice Czech meal after which was way awesome some good stuff!! 

Sunday was good got to meet the branch about 15-20 people.  All awesome we have one big family in the branch The Navrotilovi are the cutest kids ever!!!

So that was about it sorry not the greatest letter, I

will have more detail next time I promise! Just take away that I love my new area and my new comp!!!!

S Laskou

Starsi Heywood

Novy Oblast

Well my Ostrava era has come to end and I have been transferred to Jihlava!!  My new companion is Elder Gubler he is from Vegas and has been out just over a year!!! I'm super excited I have heard some many amazing things about Jihlava and am super excited to be here!!! Its about smack dab in the middle of the Czech Republic!

My last week in Ostrava was great and we had a stoller (?) mom that actually set up with us but the meeting is this week so i wont be there but Schmutz got transferred to Ostrava so that is awesome, I'm excited for him! Yeah Marian couldn't meet with us this past week but we had a lesson set up for Tuesday so that is good!!

So Jihlava yeah im super excited and super excited for my companion!! We have two lessons tomorrow and we have 3 progressing investigators so that is awesome I can't wait to start to work with them!! Also I hear amazing things about the branch here! I can't tell you guys how excited I am for these next 9 weeks its going to be so good!!

 Sorry I haven't taken any pictures here yet we've been busy doing stuff!! I'll send some pics from my last week in Ostrava though!

We got to watch that special message from Prez Nelson it was so cool to see and just a testimony builder that the Lord directs His Church!! Well that is about it from me today! Will send some pics in a bit for you all!!

S laskou

Starsi Heywood

Peace out, Ostrava

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Selfie in the Church after English Class

It was a pretty good week here in Ostrava and will most likely be my last week in Ostrava with transfers next Monday! We will be receiving our transfer calls on Saturday and then I will be either be staying or hoping on a train on Monday and email from my new area which I think will most likely happen.

Any way good week! Tuesday we had a lesson with Marian and it went well we taught the plan of salvation and he seemed to like it but had a questions about exorcisms and evil spirits so i was kinda lost because I do not have that vocab yet haha!! It was good! On this Wednesday we have another lesson with him and we are going to just teach the Godhead because he has been praying to Jesus.(at least its not pany marie). So that will be good!!

Then on Thursday we had our first Zone Conference of the New Year and it was really good!! Prez talked about what the goals are for this year and what he expects of us. The bar is really high but we are all ready! Its going to be a fantastic year and 

Schmutz and I after Zone Conference

I'm way excited for it!! It was also fun to see Schmutz and Jarvis and what not because that might be the last time I see them for a while if we all switch zones and stuff because of transfers! I really hope I get to serve around those guys at some point out here! Oh and there was a surprise practice at ZC and no one knew and guess who got picked to teach?? Yep we did haha we had to teach the Znovuzřízeni(restoration) in front of the whole zone it wasn't too bad for no practice or materials or anything!! So that was fun...

Had to sprint to the Tram to escape the rain.

Then nothing really exciting happened till Sunday while we were tracting This dude called the cops on us and stuff so they came and talked to us but we weren't doing anything illegal so there were just annoyed with the dude that called and just told us to go home we were like ok and we caught our bus that we had originally planned to take home so that was cool! But yeah that was a fun experience!

Also it has been kinda cold out the last few months; but this week its been freaking cold that humidity European cold that goes through all your layers straight to the soul cold!! SOOO COLD!!!! Other than that that's about it for me!!! Have a grand week everybody!! About to go Play some Settlers of Catan in Czech with the Squad!!!

S Laskou

Starší Heywood

Found some chain mail in the church.

  Look up on Google  Czech Wolfhound! Sickest Dogs Ever!!! 

Miracle!

Well it was the most amazing week! So I'm going to get right into it!

So that referral we received from Opava was from a man named Marian He is older and has 6 kids! So we showed up and his apartment was super sketch! I had two thoughts in my head it was either going to be like Saratov Approach and we were going to die or that this man was going to be golden! The second thought was right! This man has amazing faith! Elder Peterson and I didn't know what to expect so we just had on plan to give him the Kniha Mormonova and try for another lesson! Turns out that this man was prepared! He had found the Book of Mormon online and started to read it there and ordered one because he can only look at a computer screen for so long. He took it and told us that he already knew that the book was true and wanted a hard copy so he could write in it and mark it up! So that was a miracle then we kinda did some HTBT and told him while we were there and he excepted a Baptismal Date for the 10th of February!! It was a miracle!! So we went back on Friday and actually taught the Restoration he accepted it well. He is kinda crazy though he has super solid thoughts but then he told us that he has seen 3 angels! Kinda weird but awesome we are going back tomorrow and probably again this week also! It was just Testimony builder for me that God truly has people prepared for this Gospel!!

It was just overall a great week! Its so nice to have a solid investigator!! Yeah the rest of the week was just contacting and other Missionary work! Its been nice now that the holidays are over and work is getting back to normal!! God is great, Kofola is good and people are crazy!

Super sad to hear about the Death of President Monson. President sent us all a text Wednesday Morning telling us that it happened and told us to get together as districts and tell our favorite talk form him and to send a prayer to his family and sing We Thank Thee O God For a Prophet so that is what we did Wednesday!

So we only have 2 weeks left in the transfer and they are going to fly! Im pretty sure that I will be leaving Ostrava and Heading to a new area which in all honesty I love Ostrava but I'm,ready for a little change of scenery!! 

Thats all from me folks!! Have a great week

s laskou Starší Heywood

štasný Novy Rok

Wow Seems like it was a short week but it was a great week! Happy New Year everybody!!! Little insight about a Czech new year; they have fireworks and all that but everyone just buys huge firecrackers like m80 type. So it has been a war zone the last couple days. Its been insane; every once in a while we would just hear a bomb go off!  We woke up a minute before new years so we could celebrate and 1 minute later we thought it was WWIII outside our window.  It was crazy with our windows literally shaking for a hour straight, it was a miracle that I fell back asleep!

My week was pretty great! We found 4 Potential Investigators who we have meetings with this week and then we received a referral from church headquarters (its a miracle I have never received a referral before) that a man in Opava wants a Book of of Mormon so we are actually catching a train to there later this afternoon for that lesson so that will be awesome! 

The days are finally starting to get back to normal thankfully there are finally people outside and are willing to talk now that the Holidays are over.

Another highlight of the week was on Thursday we had interviews with President. I love President he is awesome, he blew my mind with some doctrine that I had questions on it was an awesome Interview I wish we could have more then just one every transfer.  Another miracle was most of my interview was in Czech and I actually understood most of it so that was sick! 

Other than that not a whole lot has been going down just had a nice good week with some cold weather! Also because 2017 is over I had Ramen for the first time in a year yesterday; that was pretty good  though I remembered it being better but still a great meal but I think I'm going to stick with Cheese and Bread for now!!

Well that is about it for me this week! Sorry not super entertaining this week.

Chris, who has loved and lived on Ramen for most of his life (doused in Tabasco sauce...of course); made a 2017 New Years Resolution to not eat it for the whole year.  HE MADE IT!  It helps that the last 3/4 of the year he has lived in the Czech Republic, that doesn't even sell it though they do sell Tabasco Sauce as you can tell by the almost empty bottle.    He got some packages of Ramen in his Christmas package.

S Laskou

Starší Heywood

Ahoj Merry Christmas

Well it was awesome to see you all over skype!! Thanks Kennedy and Mom for making me cry!! Shout out!!! Sounds like everyone had a super Christmas and all that!!!! Czech Christmas was good but I wish I could have been in a little bit of a prettier town but that's alright it was still a blast. Zone conference was pretty fun just a big party the whole time with spiritual thoughts and Czech fairytales because those are like tradition I guess!! We watched Popelka(Cinderella) It was pretty funny!! It was weird caroling and contacting to people in a different country; good thing Slovak and Czech are super similar and I could communicate with people!! It was fun!!! Slovakia is pretty cool!

Because of the holidays there arent a whole lot of people outside so the last couple days have been kinda slow and what not but they will start to pick back up again!! Only 3 more weeks left in this transfer that is insane time has flown by!!! Be interesting what city I will serve in next. Well that was about my week I have a lot of pictures so they are coming soon we went to a sweet castle today with a view but it was closed so we couldn't go inside but still it was amazing and then got some good Czech food after!!!

S Laksou

Starší Heywood

Snow

Well hey everyone, had an alright week here in the Czech.  We didn't have a whole lot of success but its alright more people will come in time! None of our Investigators could meet last week every time we called they have work or something!! Dang Holiday season I guess! 

 

Contacting in the snow

Lot of contacting this week in the cold! And its only going to get colder! I had some amazing conversations with some people this week but no set ups or anything sadly! Also kinda weird but I thought people would be happier to talk about Christmas but I feel like people have been a little meaner so we started just going around and asking people if they liked Christmas that went a little better but was still surprised when some people would say no!  It was kinda cool when Elder Robinson was in Brno for progressive training with his greenie they gave every district a portable tv and so this weekend we went around and shared the light the world video with people.  We did get a number and a set up but the guy didn't show! That was about our week just a lot of talking to people in a language I don't know all that well! But I'm still loving it! 

So my week started really rough actually you all remember that guy I met in the park David that I was so excited about? Yeah well he sent a text Monday night saying that he didn't want to meet anymore because he didn't feel comfortable talking about God. What kind of lame excuse was that! I sent a text back just saying can we meet once and if you don't like it you can leave. No response.. I was completely heart broken I had the best feeling about him! I though he was the one. Maybe he will come back around later in the mission I really hope he does!

SO yeah rough start but I'm all good now! Highlight of the week was having district meeting in Frydek Mystek then going group contacting for a while!! That was Thursday and it literally snowed all day like from the moment I woke up to the moment I went to bed! And it wasn't just a light snow like it was coming down!! So that was actually really fun cold but fun! Man its hard to speak Czech but then when your mouth is frozen it gets 30xs harder to pronounce some of these words haha!!

Ghetto Christmas tree by our church building.

Yeah that was about our week! Christmas is coming to town!! Cant wait to see yall over skype! They just sent us an email for us we are suppose to find out what time works out best for our family then we will figure it all out! so let me know what time works best for all of you!!

Have a great week everybody!!!

Starší Heywood

Ostrava Celebration for turning 750 Years old!