Dobry Den!

Elder Nielson and Elder Salas


Hey Family,
How is everyone? So I am here in the Czech Republic now! It's really awesome. So we flew a lot. I didn't really feel too great by the time we got to the London airport, and didn't sleep too much. We flew into Prague and met President Irwin and his wife and 4 of the A.P.'s. They were all really nice. We drove to the mission home in Prague, which is also the ward building. It was really cool to see the city driving. Immediately when we got there, 3 of the A.P.'s took us on the Prague walk. They said they had to keep us up until we went to sleep at night to help combat our jet lag. We went to Prague castle first which was really cool. Mom would love it a lot. Then we walked across the Charles Bridge which had a lot of statues which was awesome. After, we walked to this town square where we contacted people for about 20 minutes. Elder Jones and I talked to this guy from Sweden, I think he said, who spoke English. He wasn't interested but was really nice. Then we talked to this guy in Czech and he started talking a lot and we didn't understand. He just kept saying stuff, until we were rescued by Elder Tall. Then we went to this Czech restaurant and ate a lot of Czech food. I got this chicken stuff with potatoes. It was super good. We also got these dumpling things which were great as well. Then we headed back to the mission home on a subway.

Prague is definitely a city mom would love. It is a really cool city! I liked it. At the mission home, we grabbed some stuff we would need for the night, then we went to this hotel for the night. It wasn't like a normal hotel, it was more like a condo. The guy who owns it is really nice and knows the missionaries, but I don't think he is a member. We got to sleep a long time. I slept from like 8 at night to 7:30 the next morning. It still wasn't enough sleep though. Then we went back to the mission home where the President and his wife made us breakfast. It was pancakes and these chocolate Czech rolls. It was super good.

Then we got our Czech credit cards and got some other papers and then went downstairs to meet our trainers! A lot of missionaries got put into groups of 3 because some of the older missionaries were leaving midway through the transfer. My trainer is Elder Nielson from Springville Utah. He is super awesome! Our city is Hradec Kralove, about a 90 minute train ride East from Prague. We got to our apartment and I unpacked all my stuff. Transfer days are also P-days here because President Irwin said he wants us to get more settled in and to shop that day. Our normal P-day is Monday. So I unpacked and Elder Nielson and I went to go shopping. The normal store was closed because yesterday was a holiday, Jan Huss day, so we walked 20 minutes to the next grocery store to get food to last us until Monday. We brought it all back to our apartment and then planned our lesson for the night with Pavel. Pavel is a super nice guy with a wife and two kids I think and another on the way. He speaks really good English and likes to speak it with the missionaries but he can't say everything so its like a half English half Czech lesson. He was really nice to me and is just a great guy.

So after that we contacted more around this loop thing which was cool. Then we went back and Elder Nielson made us curry for dinner which was great. He had me try this Czech soda that taste like black licorice, not super great. Ha, but then we planned for the next day and got ready for bed. I slept pretty good last night. Today we get to email because yesterday on P-day all the email places were closed. We get an hour to email in the mission field. This morning I was still super tired, probably still from jet lag, but it will go away eventually. Today we have our zone meeting. Elder Nielson and I are also teaching Lukaš later today. It will be cool to see how the lesson goes.

Things are going really good though, it's a great place to be, and I will tell you more as more happens here!