Another busy week this week! Elder Williams and I had to spend a lot of time in the office this week, as all the other missionaries in Prague had to be elsewhere. There was a good bit of unexciting work, but we got caught up on the little tasks we needed to take care of. Also, halfway through the week, we found out we needed to move a lot of missionaries around due to some mostly unexpected problems with visas. Elder Webb, who had been serving with us here in Prague, had to go back to Slovakia on very little notice. It was a chaotic couple of days, but it was all ironed out by Sunday. We did have time to have some amazing lessons with some of our friends, and one of our friends came to church with us on Sunday. It was weird to be the only missionaries here when normally it is so busy, but it was a good week! I also found a quote I really like from Thomas S Monson, a former prophet and president of the church. He said “A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder, never likely to reach home port.” In this life we need to know who we are and what we want to accomplish if we are ever going to accomplish anything, and especially if we want to return to live with our Heavenly Father.
Now for some stories or stuff:
Bone Church! (Kutná Hora Ossuary): So some people might have heard of this, but here in the Czech Republic, there was once a graveyard where a man scattered a jar of dirt from the Holy Land. Everyone thought that was so amazing that they wanted to be buried there. And so they were. Thousands upon thousands of plague victims and Hussite soldiers chose to make that their final resting place. However, when the city started to grow, they started to run out of room. And so they decided to dig up all the old bodies and turn them into some art pieces. And now the bodies of more than 60,000 people decorate this church in various shapes including huge pyramids, a full chandelier, and a coat of arms. All made of bones. We weren’t allowed to take photos, but you can look it up if you want, it was very interesting. We did take some photos in another area of town next to the most breathtaking cathedral I’ve ever seen. Pics 1-4 are us in the town
Česka Pošta HQ- Elder Williams and I accidentally stumbled into the coolest post office in the Czech Republic. Most of them are in the bottom floor of worn out communist buildings, but this one is huge with skylights and gorgeous art nouveau murals decorating the inside. I got pretty bad pictures, but it was cool. Pic 5
