Slovaci

October 15, 2012

Jeste jednou z Pardubic rikam "ahoj rodino!"
Once again from Pardubice I say "Hello family!"
 
Sounds like it's been a really good week for all! I'm really glad to hear it's been well. Sounds like fun with the cousins all there!
It's been a good one here. Nothing too exciting, but a good week overall. We had a lot of lessons cancel, but we still did see some great miracles!

We were waiting for a lesson one day, and the investigator wasn't there yet, but this other kid we found before walked by. We started talking to him, and he wasn't doing anything so we taught him instead of the other investigator who didn't come. It was really cool, he's so interested in the Book of Mormon and finding out what everything means, we're really grateful we found him! He's from Slovakia but works here, so it's pretty cool. He's a really good kid and I'm so glad we found him again!

We had a cool experience today finding someone. There was this lady with some kids and we talked to her. Her kids were darker, and we found out she has a husband from Africa! She was so nice, and said her husband had met with missionaries before! It really was a miracle we were led to her and we're hopefully going to meet this weekend.

We had conference this weekend, and it was so good! We had 2 investigators come which was really cool! I really enjoyed all the talks. Everyone of course mentioned Elder Holland's talk. I really enjoyed that talk a lot, I had already heard a lot of it before. There's this MTC talk he gave where he talked about a lot of the same things. It was a really good talk though and he makes so many good points. At baptism, we make a lifelong commitment, how can we ever go back on that. Just such a powerful talk though and I really enjoyed it. I really learned a lot though, and took a lot of notes, and made a lot of goals. I think it's really so important to listen to others and to make sure that those around us feel they are loved. One thing I really liked, was that we experience the greatest level of joy and happiness which we can have in this life, only when we apply and live the principles of the gospel. This I know to be so true. One thought I've been having is that we go to church, we go to general conference, not just to feel the spirit and leave, but to seek inspiration. We need to go to church every week seeking inspiration and revelation. We learn what we need to do. Then we set goals to apply it into our lives, and we live it. That is how we can really deepen our conversion. That is one of the great purposes of these meetings!

Elder Sewell and I are just doing so great though. I seriously feel so blessed to serve with him. He's so dedicated, and so desirous to do better. I love his work ethic and I'm definitely learning a lot from him. We are working hard, and seeing miracles. I just love this work

Love you all, and wish you all a great week and hope everyone does well! Hope you enjoy the cousins, and that everyone has a good time. Thanks for the prayers, and I 'm praying for all of you!

sLaskou

-Starsi Salas