Happy Halloween

October 31, 2011
Autumn in Hradec Kralove
Hey Everyone!
Been a really cool week this week! So it was a long and a hard week, but it was good as well. Elder Bracken and I had several days where we did nothing but contact people all day. Those were long days, but they weren't so bad. Just really tiring. We were not able to meet with our Croatian investigator, which was sad, but we are definitely going to try to this week! We were able to meet with the guy we contacted about prophets last week, and he is a really cool guy! He is having a really hard time right now, and we don't know if we'll be able to help him for some things, but we always pray for the best. We have this other long time investigator who just needs to get a job before he can be baptised, and he has 2 job interviews this week! We are so excited for this, because he is so ready to be baptised. He simply just needs a job so he can get a place to live and he will be ready. He has been waiting a while for this too, so we're extremely excited! Keep him in your prayers.

So we had 3 investigators at church this week, quite a feat at times. Sometimes it's frustrating when investigators can make it to every meeting throughout the week, but can't make it to church for some reason, but we had several this week so it was good.

Today, we've been getting ready for the Halloween party tomorrow for the branch. The 6 missionaries here are basically doing everything for the party, but the branch is paying for it, so its good. It's a lot of work, but it will be really cool. I'm super excited for it. We're going to show the branch a real American Halloween party. It's not a holiday normally celebrated in The Czech Republic, but I think it's becoming more popular here.

Anyways, the days are getting way shorter here, and especially since daylight savings time, it is dark at like 5 PM. Daylight savings was a very nice surprise this week though. Days are getting colder, even though today was pretty warm. Leaves are turning colors, it's really beautiful. It's a really cool time to be here. I'm really excited to be a missionary right now. Transfers are next Wednesday I'm pretty sure, so we'll see where I'm headed off to. Thanks for everything everyone.
Love you all lots. Have a great week!
sLaskou
-Starsi Salas