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November 28, 2011
Hey everyone!

So I heard the news and saw the pictures, Elise has her baby!!! Still haven't heard anything about his name yet but I'm sure I will soon enough. That's really exciting! He seems like a really cool little guy already!

So can anybody guess when the Christmas season starts in the Czech Republic? The day after Thanksgiving. It's really interesting, because they definitely don't celebrate Thanksgiving here. So on the main square though all the stands are open selling food and other Christmas items. It's really exciting! We have already eaten at several and they're all really good! It's so cool though, there are just so many Christmas things and it's nothing like I've ever experienced! It's exciting.

The missionary work has started slowing down a bit though and I keep hearing it only gets worse as Christmas (Christmases in Czech, yes it's plural) gets closer. People are just too busy with their family and other things to have time for missionaries I guess. We aren't letting that get us down though!

Last night we had a cool experience! We were talking with people on the streets around the main center when we saw some of the other missionaries. We snuck up behind them, then started talking to them for a minute seeing how the work was going for them. We were standing in a circle talking and then this guy just came and started standing in our circle. It was really weird and he didn't say anything for a minute. Then he just introduces himself. Elder Odell and I were surprised. It was this guy who is a former investigator and who we had talked to on the phone a few times, but had never been able to set up a time to meet with him. However, now that we finally met him face to face, he was willing to set up a time to meet and it was really cool! He is a really nice guy.

Cool story of today is that we were getting money from the ATM and this guy saw us and stopped. It was a guy we had talked to last week who said he was going to come to church, but didn't. We were able to talk to him again though and we set up a meeting this time (last time he didn't want to). So that was really cool that we met him there!

Not too much has happened since Thursday though. It has snowed twice, but it was nothing like real snow. Just enough to turn the grass white and then it was gone the next day. It snowed last night but it's already all gone today. Nothing like Utah. It is just as cold as Utah though I wish we had the snow to go with it! Today was really warm though and we even saw some blue in the sky.

So we're really looking forward to a great week though and to seeing some miracles again!

Hope everyone had a great week and hope baby Wallace does well!!!

sLaskou

-Starsi Salas