Monday, June 4, 2012

1 Year!

 May 7, 2012
 
Hey Everyone!

So yes Friday was the 1 year mark, but it just makes me realize how much I still have to do in such a little amount of time. Time to really step up the missionary work! 

So a question I had was how we get around Brno. Well, we have trams here, also called a Šalina. They are really cool, I had never been in a city with trams before so it's really cool. We take them everywhere, and there are some busses here as well that we take. Trams are better though. The scary thing about them are that they have the right of way before anything else. So they have the right of way over cars, and people, yes people. So watch out. We love talking to people on trams though. They can't get away from you!

Things have been really well this week though! We met with this guy who used to live in New York and Florida for 40 years or something but is Czech. He is super nice and calls himself our "Czech Dad" so it's pretty funny. He just keeps wanting to tell us he'll take us places and to dinner and stuff so it's hard to get to the gospel, but he did accept a Book of Mormon! He is a really nice guy.
 
We are still meeting with this girl, Pavlina, who is still doing so great! She is still extremely cautious, but is progressing so much and comes to church about 75% of the time. She is really great! We went through the plan of salvation with her over the course of 3 or so lessons and she is really just learning so much. She is so excited to learn and to grow it's amazing!
 
We also had set up a meeting with this one guy several times, but he kept canceling at the last minute. But on Saturday, he called and asked if we were going to meet that day. We said sure. We had never met him so we went to the lesson, and he turned out to be this really cool Vietnamese guy who grew up in the Czech Republic! It was a really great lesson, and he's reading and praying about the Book of Mormon!
 
We had this really amazing lesson in Elders quorum this week. Brother Saunders is the Elders quorum president. He is from England and doesn't speak the best Czech. He really gives the best lessons I have ever heard though! He is so inspiring and motivating, and gets his point across however he can! This week he talked about how we need to learn our duty, and then perform it. He told a story about how his dad was a new convert in the military and was called to the branch presidency in Hong Kong in the first branch. There were 8 members, 6 were Americans in the military, 2 were natives. Someone from the brethren came, gave him the Melchizedek Priesthood, and some manuals on it, told him to learn everything he could, and to get to work. The church grew a lot in the the next 3 years, to about 300 members! It was a really cool story.
 
It was kind of hard to get lessons set up this week, but we did our best and really saw some tender mercies of the Lord. I really have felt the Savior's hand in my life in the last few days, and felt how we really can receive strength from Him and His Atonement, which can help make us better, as well as receiving strength from the prayers of others.
 
So thank you everyone for everything you do for me, and thanks for all the prayers and emails. I really love you all a lot. Thanks again. I really appreciate it. Have a great week and I'll talk to some of you next week on Mother's day!

sLaskou

-Starsi Salas

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