This past week was pretty normal overall. We had a few raining days, a few really, really hot days. And a few days in between.
On
Tuesday, Ses. McPheeters and I went tracting in a new area just outside
of Kosice where there are some really nice houses. First of all
disclaimer: tracting isn't the most effect form of missionary work in
the mission. But I give it a chance every now and again because with God
and faith, anything is possible. Anyway, we were tracting and we ran
the zvonek (like a doorbell, but from outside the fence) to a really
nice looking house. A woman answered the window on the second floor, and
said she didn't really want to talk, but that her husband is a pastor
at the apostolic church and if we want she'll send him down to talk to
us. So we said sure and he came down, and we had the most pleasant
conversation I have ever had with a leader of another church. He didn't
bash with us, he didn't tell us we didn't know what we're doing because
we're just young girls. None of the normal stuff. He was very nice AND!
AND he let us give him a Book of Mormon and our card! Never in my
mission would I have ever thought that a pastor of the apostolic church
would #1: talk to us without arguing, #2: Take our card, or #3: Take a
Book of Mormon. I was a little bit in shock. Miracles really do happen.
We just need him to get baptised and then convert his whole congregation
and we'll start the Kosice Stake! :)
Then on Thursday
we saw another miracle. We had been finishing our studies in our
apartment, when we had to hurry to the church building for a lesson, and
we get to the building and realize that we left our phone in our
apartment. So our lesson doesn't come on time, and since we can't call
them we decided to wait extra long, in case they are running late or
something. While we're waiting (almost 25 minutes after our lesson was
supposed to come, just to be sure) a woman (not our lesson) walks into
the building and tells us, "I met with missionaries about a year ago,
and I thought today would be a good day to come back." MIRACLE! If we
hadn't have forgotten our phone and waited extra long, no one would have
been in the building and we wouldn't have met this woman. AND while we
were talking to her, our original lesson walked in, and since they were
both women, I was able to teach this lady while Ses. McPheeters taught
our planned lesson in the other room. God definitely has a divine plan!
Then on Saturday
we were able to help a really cool guy and his girlfriend clean up the
yard around their house. They had a lot of wood palets that they were
cutting down, and they also have sheep. So Ses. McPheeters and I helped
the girlfriend clean out the sheep pen, and the elders help move around
wood palets. They also had a green house that we helped with after we
finished with the sheep, and in the greenhouse we found the BIGGEST WASP
I HAVE EVER SEEN!! I think it's even too big to be called a wasp! I'll
send a picture. Other than that it was really fun to work on a little
farm and they were so happy we could help them. They also gave us a life
time supply of tomatoes (the tomato plants grew taller than me!!).
Then, as part of our Sunday,
we went on a wild goose chase. A man had called us during church, but
we didn't have his number in our phone already. So we called him
afterwards and he told us he wanted to meet and talk to us. So we set up
to meet with him on the namesti (town square). We get to the namestie
and can't find him anywhere. We're calling him, and searching for him,
and in the end we figured out that we are in Kosice and he's in a city
called Banska Bystrica. We have no idea how he got our number. We were
about to offer to send him the number for the missionaries in Baska, but
then we found out he was homeless and only wanted money, and he had
already asked the missionaries in Banska for money. Anyway, we literally
ran all over the namestie for like 30 minutes and it was so hot!!
So
pretty much that's what's happened this last week. This week we'll only
be in our area for a few days because we have an exchange and a
training in Bratislava, so we'll be gone Thursday, Friday, and get back late Saturday night. So we have to work really hard these few days to make up for being gone.
The gospel is true, and I know that the Lord is watching over his little branch in Kosice (on Sunday
in church it was 6 missionaries, 2 visitors, and 1 member). There is a
lot of potential for growth here, we just have to be creative and find
out how to do it.
Have a wonderful week everyone! Be safe if you are traveling, and don't get sunburned!
s laskou,
Sestra Schaerrer
Us tracting (Ses. McPheeters' first time!), the wasp! that's my ring next to it!, and us at service :)
More service pictures :) The sheep pen is all clean (the white stuff is like a sanitizer)
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