I really hope you all have a great one! We've had a really good week here in Pardubice! It's been snowing, and raining, and right now all the snow is gone again, but it's still great here! Not too cold today.
So today is Czech Christmas! They actually have 3 days of holidays which start today, but today is the main one. We're going to a members house today for lunch, then to another for dinner, so we're excited!
This week was a really great one. We focused most of our teaching on Jesus Christ, and His birth. It really brought a special spirit to everything. I really enjoyed it.
We are still meeting with one investigator, and he is doing great! He is visiting family in Ostrava for Christmas though right now. He is just such a cool kid, and I really enjoy teaching him. He's progressing really well.
We are still also meeting with another. He brought his friend to a lesson and it was such a good lesson! He was excited to teach his friend with us, and it just turned out so well. It's so much more effective to do missionary work when the members/investigators feel the spirit of the gospel and invite their friends to hear from the missionaries. I have such a great testimony of that.
We had this really cool lesson where we taught this businessman, who was determined to bring up every opposition to religion to us. We just were so bold though, and we didn't back down at all with our testimonies. It reminded me of a talk Elder Christofferson gave once. It was really great though, and he agreed to keep reading the Book of Mormon and to try praying about it. Such a good lesson though!
On Friday we were in Prague for a Christmas conference with the mission. It was so great. We had a talent show as well as a Christmas fireside. It was really great and such a good spiritual experience. I learned a lot and have some good goals for improvement.
On Saturday we delivered Vanocky (Christmas cakes) to some less active members. It was really great! They were all really appreciative of that. It was a really cool experience though and we shared the story of Christ's birth with all of them.
On Sunday our investigator came to church. It was really great to see him there. He stayed for the branch Christmas play after which was really great too. It was just a great week of Christmas. We worked really hard too though, and taught the most lessons this week in the mission in our companionship.
I know miracles are happening here, I know Christ is our Lord and Savior. I know His Atonement is a real thing, that through the Atonement we truly can overcome our challenges, we really can become from the pains of sin. We really can invite a greater hope and peace and happiness into our lives, and we really can return to God. I am so grateful for the greatest gift ever given, the gift of Jesus Christ. I'm so grateful He came to the earth, that He did all that He did do. I know Him to be our greatest friend. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
sLaskou
-Starsi Salas
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