Well, we’ve reached the last full week of this transfer. I don’t know what will be happening quite yet, but chances are I’ll be staying here in Jihlava, Elder Papworth will be heading home, and I’ll be getting a new companion. No real fun stories from this week, sorry folks. We went to Prague for zone training again on Wednesday, and our bus got stuck in traffic for 50 min. Theres an old story that Czechs sometimes tell that during the Second World War, the only thing that could stop the US Army was Czech traffic. Hitler couldn’t keep the US from reaching Prague, but an endless line of cars could. We still made it on time, but just barely. We spent the rest of this week around Jihlava. We talked to a lot of people, but it suddenly got very cold and rainy here a couple days ago, and people aren’t normally out and about in that.
This week, we finally delivered buchta! Buchta is a Czech dessert that kind of tastes like a flat muffin, but with some flour-sugar covering. It’s really good, and not very hard to make, but we found that it doesn’t travel well. We kept making it in hopes of bringing it to some members of the branch here in Jihlava, but we always messed it up somehow. We’ve tried 3 times now, and it wasn’t until this last time that we finally felt it was good enough to bring to someone. It still could use some work, but like I said, baking is hard.
General conference was this weekend, and we had the opportunity to listen to it with a couple other members of the branch in the church building. It was great to hear the words of the prophets and apostles, and to hear their counsel they have for us in the modern days. Something that stuck out to me and my companion were all the comments on the lasting joy that the gospel brings into our lives. If you haven’t gotten the opportunity to read or listen to any of the talks given, I would recommend it.
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