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 January 7, 2013

Hey Everyone!

Thanks for all the emails! I really enjoyed them all a lot! It is so great to hear from all of you. You all sound so great. Thanks.
 
So this week was a great one! We've been really bold as we've worked with all of our investigators and are seeing really great success from that. We had some great miracles this last week!

Unfortunately, none of our investigators made it to church this last week. The problem in all areas was related to work. It was really unfortunate, and it made me a bit sad, but it's alright, because the church is still true! They will make it next time, and the work will go on. The work will always go on. Nothing can hinder it. I have such a testimony of that!

We've been working with an man, and he's good, still so elect, but is having a really hard time in his life, and it makes it hard right now with him. We're teaching his friend though, and he's doing so great! He's really elect and such a great guy! I really enjoy meeting with him. He works 16 hour shifts sometimes, which makes life harder for him. He has been seeing just how much prayer helps him in work though! He said he feels the difference when he prays for the strength to make it through work. I have the same testimony of the power of prayer! He's doing great though.

Our other investigator is doing really well too! He also has work on Sundays sometimes which make it hard, but he's seeing a really great strength from prayer as well, as well as from reading in the Book of Mormon! He's so great! We've been seeing really great miracles with him as we get him involved with members. The members really help him to understand better, as we sometimes can't explain things too well, and they are doing really well at being his friends. It's great!

We had a lot of setbacks this week, but we kept pushing through strong, we kept a high hope, and we really have seen the blessings that have come from it! I see that we have a lot of success in missionary work, then all of a sudden everything goes wrong, but if we really understand that this work is in our Father in Heaven's hands, then we push forward with faith and a hope that it will all work out, the miracles come. I feel in the past 6 months, my faith and hope have been tested a lot, and I feel I truly have grown so much in those areas, to the point where I know that when trials come, that just means the miracle is around the corner! It's exciting to push through hard times so I can see what miracles await us! It's so great to work here in Pardubice and to see these great miracles. I love it here!

I've really been working a lot at mastering goal setting and planning, and I've been seeing the blessings of that in my life. It really is quite a quality to master goal setting and planning and working to achieve goals.
We had a great meeting with our branch president this Sunday too, and I really realized how much I respect and trust him. he is so great and really helps this work out so very much. We're so blessed to have him!
It's great to be with Elder Sewell too. He is still such a great companion. I feel he has helped me out so much in this time together to become such a better missionary. We have transfers in 2 weeks I think, and I'll be sad to leave him. It's been great with him!

Well, things are great here, I hope you all have a great week, and I look forward to hearing from you all next week! Love you all! Have a great week!

sLaskou

-Starsi Salas