Things have gotten busy this week, and I’ll be spending most of next week with one of my companions from the MTC, Elder Williams, on a sort of extended exchange while Elder Beckstrom does some office work in Prague. We also all have to go to Prague for a couple of days this week for a special training and devotional with Elder Kapiška(?), an area seventy.
I spent a day in Třebíč this week on an exchange with Elder Thomas, which was my first time being the older missionary, but it went pretty well. We moved wood for service on Saturday, for about 5-6 hours. Afterward, they fed us some more traditional Czech food. I was given a healthy portion of sauerkraut. Then, as soon as I was finished, the babička (czech grandmother), immediately asked me if I wanted more. Of course, I only sort of misunderstood the question, and ended up getting another heaping plate of sauerkraut. I don’t have pictures for reference, but it was a LOT of sauerkraut.
Today was a big holiday here in the Czech Republic. They set up by far the largest markets I’ve seen, and were selling all sorts of food and warm drinks and little trinkets and light up things. They also had a full concert going on somewhere on the town square. It was packed with people. At the end of this all, a man representing Svatý (saint) Martin rode through the town on a big white horse accompanied by people holding huge flaming torches. His arrival signifies the start of winter here, and accordingly, it was freezing here. I tried asking more about who Svatý Martin was, but apparently most people don’t know at all.
We had some good lessons this week, especially with this older member whose son is leaving town and she’s having a real rough time with it, and we are trying to help her get through it. We’re still trying very hard to teach the people we have been, but they have also gotten very busy lately, and are struggling to find time to meet.
Čau,
Starší O’Barr
Picture 1-2: Random pictures of Třebíč
Picture 3: The town square about a half hour before Svatý Martin came through.
