Month: June 2021

Zdravím vás, dámy a pánové,

Well, congratulations on making it to the final installment of my mission updates. It’s been an incredible 2 years, with countless ups and downs, most of which I left out of these emails. Hopefully you were able to get something out of my random thoughts at the end of each week, even if it was no more than a cool photo.

This week we had one of the best church meetings I’ve attended in a long time, and we hit a record attendance of 20 people this week! I have absolutely fallen in love with the branch of the church here in České Budějovice. They are some of the kindest people I’ve ever met. We got to teach the youth, which included the children of a family we’re teaching, and it was a blast. Today we played basketball with some Czech high schoolers, then took one final trip to Český Krumlov to soak in the sights.

I’ll let you all know here and now, that my mission was absolutely amazing. I don’t have enough words to describe it, and words would not do it justice. It was not easy, in fact it was never easy, but it was a lot of fun. I think if it had been easy it would’ve destroyed the purpose. All I can really say is that it was worth it. If you have any questions, feel free to respond to this email, send them to my home email (tanner@obarr.us), or contact me on social media next week! I’ll catch y’all in a week and a bit!

Pics include: Me on top of the big tower in Český Krumlov, pics of and from the big tower, my companion and me trying to look “hard,” and  some random shots from zone conference.

Nashledanou,
Starší O’Barr

Welcome to probably the second to last email you’ll be receiving from me!

You’re all in luck, it’s a short one this week! Our week consisted of a lot of time trying to talk with people on Facebook, and very few lessons, with one quick trip to the hospital. I will not be coming home in a cast! The temperature also really jumped up this week into the low to mid 30°C, which is above the comfortable point for most people, so we do everything in front of a fan. The real highlight of the week was our first in-person church meeting! That really turned this slow week into a good one. I got to give a talk and also finally see all the little band of members together. It was just good to see and interact again. I appreciated it.

Well that’s all I’ve got for ya this week! I hope you enjoy a random one of the many blurry elevator selfies we took this week, as those were the only photos I have.

Čus a čau,
Starší O’Barr

Vítám vás!

I haven’t really ever numbered my emails, not even in the beginning. However, now you can officially count the number of emails you’ll be getting from me on one hand. I think. I’m not the best at math.

Our week was another relatively quiet week without much of note. We had an exchange with the APs in Prague, which provided a nice midweek respite. They opened restaurants here again! It’s been probably 6 months since we last ate inside a restaurant, so we enjoyed that this week. While we were in Prague we got to teach some really cool lessons and visit some interesting locales, but not too many photos.

This weeks photos include: Sand statues from the town literally named sand in Czech (Písek), and probably the 900th photo I have of Prague from the same spot.

Čus,
Starší O’Barr