It's been another HOT week here in
Brno, it actually rained a little bit, and that cooled things down, but
then it was even more humid! But I guess there has to be opposition in
all things...
On Monday
we went and played Squash with a man named Alan Wood. He's really cool,
I think I might have written about him before, he isn't really
interested in the church, but he loves missionaries, so we keep contact
with him. So he invited us to play squash, and it was the first time I
had ever played and I really liked it. It's hard, but I think I kind of
got the hang of it. And at the end, since it was my first time ever, Al
let me keep the squash ball as a souvenir!
Tuesday
we had lunch with the Baty's (the senior couple who work in the
archives) and with a less active named Diego. Diego is from Italy and
doesn't speak any Czech, which is kind of why he is less active, it's
hard for him to really participate in the branch when he doesn't speak
Czech. After lunch we went down into the archives with Elder Baty and it
was SO COOL! I knew that they worked with family history stuff, but I
didn't really know what they do. They take pictures of census records so
that they can be indexed, Elder Baty showed us how they do it, and then
bore his testimony about how important the work is, and how they
receive a lot of help from the other side of the veil. It was really
awesome!
On Wednesday
morning, we got up, and then met one of our investigators, Miroslav, on
a tram because he's a TRAM DRIVER! So we got on the tram he was
driving, and he showed us how to do it. Then later that same day we went
over to his house because he wanted to bake something for us. He made
us lots of things. He made us sorbet, a cinnamon roll thing, and some
juices. Unfortunately, sorbet has raw egg white in it, and he made the
juices in the same machine he made sorbet in, and with that unfortunate
combination Sestra Holland and I got pretty sick the next day. But on
the bright side, the cinnamon roll thing was super good, and he picked
his own baptism date!!
Thursday,
Sestra Holland and I were sick all morning, but we were feeling better
by lunch time so we still did everything we had on plan. It was hard,
but we did it. Thursday
was also my 1/4 mark, isn't that so crazy? I'm 1/4 of the way done with
my mission! It seems like so much, and so little all at the same time.
Friday
was Elder Brittner's birthday! I got him a pistachio chocolate bar, he
loves pistachios, but it melted since it was so hot. I basically gave
him a bag of pistachio flavored hot chocolate, I don't really know how
it turned out.
Saturday
was kind of crazy. We had lessons fall through and reschedule and stuff
all over the place! We had a lesson planned with a member, but the
investigator didn't show up. So we went and got ice cream with the
member, and while we were walking we ran into an investigator who we had
a lesson with later in the day. So we asked him if we could do the
lesson then if he wasn't busy and he said yes. So we sat on a bench and
started the lesson. In the middle of the lesson, the member with us was
bearing his testimony and sharing his experience with baptism, when the
investigator just bursts out "I gotta go!" and straight up runs away
from our lesson! We still don't know what happened but we're not
planning on seeing him again...
On Sunday
we had church. It was mine and Elder Galbraith's turn to translate in
sacrament meeting, so we were sitting together at the back. Then Elder
Galbraith gets asked to pass the sacrament. So I translated the whole
first half of the meeting. Then Elder Galbraith was going to translate
Ses. Holá's talk, but I knew the story she was talking about and he
didn't recognize it, so I translated the story she was sharing and then
gave the mic to Elder Galbraith for the rest of the talk. Then Elder
Galbraith was supposed to translate the next talk, but the guy was
talking really really fast and he just sat there for a second, not
saying anything, and then just says "I can't do it" and gives the mic to
me! ME! Elder Galbraith has been here for like a year and a half and
I've been in the Czech Republic for TWO MONTHS! He thinks I can
translate this guy? Anyway I did my best, and after the talk was over
Elder Galbraith told me, "I don't know how you just did that." I was
pretty proud of myself, but THE GIFT OF TONGUES IS REAL!!!!!
Then Sunday
night, we were coming back from meeting with a less active, and we
really really wanted to find just one new investigator. We were on the
tram home when I told Sestra Holland, "We should get off here, take a
different tram, and then walk through the park to get home." I just
thought it was a good idea. So we do, and on the way I told her,
"there's a new investigator waiting for us in the park." We got to the
park and talked to a few different people, and they all blew us off, and
then we were walking when we hear "Ahoj!" We look over and there's a
guy on a bench, and we had talked to him before on the street, but he
also had kind of blew us off. We walked over to him and he asked if we
wanted to sit down. So we sat down and talked for a while about a lot of
different things, not necessarily gospel related, when we see two
members of the branch walking through the park! So we yelled hi to them
and they came over, and they started talking to Honza (the guy on the
bench) and they started talking about the gospel! Basically we had a
really impromptu member lesson! Then, for him to count as a new
investigator, we had to teach a lesson (done) and then set up for a
specific time to meet again. So we asked him if we could meet again and
he said "I don't know, I don't want to promise anything..." and we asked
if we could exchange numbers, he said okay, and then he said, "How
about Thursday at 5?" MIRACLES HAPPEN PEOPLE! It was soooo crazy!
Sorry
for the long email everyone, so much is happening in Brno, this isn't
even half of it! I know this gospel is true and our work here in the
Czech Republic definitely isn't in vain! We've been seeing so many
miracles, we just have to keep working hard!
I hope you all have an awesome week and I'll talk to you later!
S laskou,
Sestra Schaerrer
PS I'll send some pictures :)
My first squash ball, learning how to drive a tram, eating a cinnamon
roll thing and raw eggs, and some yogurts I found at the store. :)
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