Trains Planes and Automobiles

Things are busy, but not really in Jihlava. Also I lied, there will not be any planes involved in this. Elder Papworth and I had a lot of things scheduled last week. We spent all of Monday in Znojmo or in the surrounding area, and had to hurry to get some groceries and other essentials for the week. Nothing really happened Tuesday, but Wednesday we taught some people and then began packing for our early morning trip on Thursday. We got up at 5:30, then caught a ride to Prague with the senior missionaries that live in Jihlava. We spent all day in Prague with the rest of the missionaries on this half of the mission talking about goals and new ideas and things to study. It was an inspiring meeting. Immediately after that, we rode with the leaders of our zone of missionaries up to a city called Hradec Kralové. We spent that night and then the whole next day with them there, working with different companions. It was interesting to spend time with other missionaries, and see different approaches to the same situations. That night we caught a series of trains back to Jihlava. We accidentally got off at the wrong stop, which made it a little longer, but we met some really cool people, and got to see a beautiful sunset on the Czech countryside. We got up the next morning and did service on a farm again, this time moving wood and shoveling potatoes for turkey feed. We also got fed some very authentic Czech gulaš, which was very good. Then it started raining, and then rained some more. Now it’s a little chilly and it feels a little more like fall might actually be on it’s way here. This week we get to do even more traveling than last week. I’m actually writing this from a train right now, and we took a bus this morning. I’ll save the details for next week, but theres a lot going on.