Month: February 2020

Hey y’all, it was slightly less hectic week then last week, but still pretty busy. Monday night, we said goodbye to all the missionaries going home the next day, and they gave us some solid advice. All the new missionaries going to Slovakia got here on Tuesday, and so we were wrapped up in getting things together for them and doing some legal registering and what not, and then spent some time with the new missionaries trainers, including Elder Webb, who is also from Ohio. Wednesday morning we got to eat breakfast with all the trainers and new missionaries, and got to give the fun financial information presentation. Not sure they all paid too much attention to it, but I don’t blame them. We also had to check out some apartments for the new senior couple that will be coming to Prague soon. We had some really good meetings with people later in the week, and we even had time to step out of the office and talk to people in the metro a little bit. We spent most of Saturday cleaning our apartment and planning for the week, and the weather was really nice so we had the windows open, which felt very good. It’s been very windy here in Prague lately, and it’s brought a lot of fresh warm spring air. We spent today working the office, but we had a little bit of time to run to Vyšehrad, which is the large defensive structure in the middle of Prague. It has some great views of the city, and some amazing history. I would recommend looking it up.

Čau for now,
Starší O’Barr

Pic 1: Us on Vyšehrad

Pic 2: A nice photo of the part of the city in the valley. The metro runs through that bridge in the middle

Ahoj všem!

It’s another wonderful windy and wet day here in Prague! So windy our windows blew open during the night, which was a pleasant surprise! This week we had a lot going on, so I’ll give ya a quick run down. On Tuesday we honestly didn’t have too much, but that meant that we got trained on a lot of different financial things around the office. On Wednesday, we spent all morning paying rent for all the apartments in the mission, then spent the entire afternoon taking a group of missionaries to the Foriegn Police to do some visa work. It was slightly stressful, but good to spend some time with the other missionaries. On Thursday, I had an exchange with Elder Clayton. We got to do some car work in the morning, which was a welcome relief from the office work, and then we played basketball in the afternoon with some people he and Elder Mangum are working with. Friday, he and I went on a really cool run through a beautiful park by their apartment. They live in a much older part of town, so it’s a really pretty area, but the trade off is their apartment is pretty old too, and not necessarily in the best condition. Elder Williams and I had to catch up on things in the office on Friday. On Saturday, Elder Williams and Elder Clayton went to Jičin to accompany some Sisters at a ward music night, so Elder Mangum and I got to do some work in Prague. We taught some amazing lessons to some amazing people this week, but we also had some really amazing people fall through, which wasn’t the best feeling.

This next week is the last week of the transfer and also really busy, so my email next week might be short or non-existent, but keep an eye out for it anyways cause it will probably be exciting.

Love you all,
Elder O’Barr

Picture 1- A really good donut I had today. Waaaaay good.

Picture 2- Every day Elder Williams and I take a selfie in the elevator as we’re leaving just so I have something to send home in case I don’t have anything else. Here’s my favorite from this week.

Bit of a crazy week, lots of things changing and happening, but almost all of it good! First off, we had zone conference on Wednesday! Since most of my district was involved in preparing trainings, there was a good amount of stress and running around to try and get everything prepared. Sister Jarvis got tonsillitis, and so Elder Williams and I had to step in and help get things ready for her and Sister Ray, as well as teach two English classes. Luckily, it all went well,and we were actually prepared for zone conference. The next morning, we had a really good zone conference, where we had some really good trainings on goals and planning. Elder Beckstrom stayed afterward, and got to help us teach a lesson with someone he taught when he served here. Elder Williams and I also had some other really good lessons with people this week, including several new people! We also started our new schedule, where we split our preparation days between Saturday and Monday, because we have to be in the office on Monday mornings.

This week, I had a lot of thoughts about the importance of loving everyone around us, even those we don’t particularly think need it, or even care what we think. As missionaries, we certainly attract the attention of people who might not be the friendliest towards our church or religion in general. In all things, we strive to follow Christ, and His example of perfect love. There is so much good we can do when we look for opportunities to reach out to those in need of love and support. It’s not very hard either. There’s plenty of small moments where our patience and support, or even just our smiles can change someone’s whole day.

Elder O’Barr

Pic 1: We took a walk in the park by Prague Castle

Pic 2: The Lennon Wall