Ahoj všem!
This truly was an amazing week! Long with plenty of ups and downs, and I am still tired, but it was incredible!
The start of the week was a little slow, but we had a lot of people who had responded to our ad that we needed to respond to, including a bunch of spam messages and a lady who asked if she could join our ‘club’ but we’ll come back to that. Wednesday evening was when things started to get exciting. We finished up a lesson, and then ran into this guy that my companion had been messaging on Facebook, and he recognized us and struck up a conversation. He had his friend with him, and we started to have a really good discussion. In the middle of it, 2 other elders we were about to go on exchange with rolled up. We had a really good exchange on Thursday, and got handed a bunch of free, high-quality potatoes by politicians (Czech elections were this week).
On Friday, we went down to Jičín for district council, where we met one of the new elders who just got here after 8 months or so in another mission. A really funny waitress let us know that Donald Trump has Coronavirus. Afterwards we ran to visit a member of our church who is sick and facing some other problems.
On Saturday, we were able to watch the general conference of our church, which is a wonderful opportunity for us to hear counsel and testimony from the leaders of our church. It’s always an inspiring event. I’d highly recommend looking into it if you haven’t gotten a chance before.
Ok, so if you flash back to the lady who asked to join our club earlier this week, we actually set up with her for Sunday morning, and managed to get a member there for the lesson. Even with a race cutting through the middle of town (literally running right outside the door or our building, no barricade) she managed to find us. We had an incredible lesson with her, and she shared with us that she had been looking for a new church, but she had been to afraid to look into ours. She had been praying one day, then almost right after saw our ad, and thought that she would at least give it a shot. It was amazing, she was so willing to hear the voice of the Lord calling to her.
Sorry this one is so long, I promise to keep them to their normal length going forward, I was just too excited this week to make it short.
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