Dobre Den!
Toto tyden byl moc skvely. (This week was very awesome).
Thursday evening we had class and looked up some pictures of some pretty cool castles. If you have the chance, look up the Hluboka Castle, Hradec nad Moravici, Lednice, and Karlstejn castles. They are so pretty! I also found out that my compaion's family makes intense gingerbread houses every year! Her family wants to make one of the Czech Castles this year... so that's how we got to looking at pictures of them.
Friday we taught two lessons. First we taught Zdenek about faith and repentance. He asked some pretty intense questions like... "What do I need to repent of? Why don't angels appear to us? If Christ already suffered for our sins, why do we need to repent? Why do we need to confess our sins to God if he already knows everything we have done?" As we did our companion study later that day, we were able to find answers to all of those questions. My testimony about being able to find answers to questions in the Book of Mormon has grown so much! Then we taught Ales the about Joseph Smith and the Restoration. He already had a really good understanding of it, so that was great.
Saturday was a pretty normal day. We spent a lot of time memorizing, translating sentences and roll playing. We also watched another crazy soccer game. Haha... there are just so many Elder's chasing a soccer ball around and then Sister's on the sidelines with flags, bubbles, you name it... It is a lot of fun.
Sunday was fantastic. I LEARNED THE KEY TO HAPPINESS!!! FORGET YOURSELF AND GO TO WORK SERVING OTHERS!!! No joke, it really works, try it! That evening we watched a talk by Elder Holland called "Open your mouth" I'm pretty sure that talk was written for me because the spirit hit me like a brick wall. He told a story about some missionaries in the Czech Republic and then told us that we have to open our mouths and speak because words are the instrument to our success... even if it is really broken Czech. My love for the people around me has grown so much. There are days when I can just look at someone, like my companion, and get a taste of the love that God has for them. It is one of the most incredible things I have ever experienced.
Monday we attempted to do a language fast and not speak any English the entire day... ONLY CZECH. I learned real quick what I do and don't know how to say. We started off the day doing pretty well. It was funny though because people would talk to us and we could only respond in Czech so they got a little frustrated and we felt kind of bad, but we were set on not speaking English. We had to break our fast so that we could prepare a lesson, but then we went back to Czech... and then back to English when we got to class so that we could learn some grammar principles. It was really fun though.
Tuesday we had another lesson with Zdenek and answered all the questions he had. I was a little frustrated during the lesson though because I felt like I couldn't understand a thing he was saying. I came out of the lesson discouraged but knew that I had to go teach Ales right after so I said a quick prayer for the gift of tongues and interpretation of tongues. Ales's lesson went much better and I understood a whole lot more. That evening we had a devotional from Kyle S. McKay who is a member of the 70. He talked about gifts of the spirit. He talked about the spirit of revelation and how through it we can know the truth of all things and the meaning of all truth. Revelation comes by thoughts in our minds and feelings in our heart. He bore a powerful testimony at the end that our Redeemer lives and that he will soon come in his power and glory. God will magnify us as we prepare the earth to receive their king. That hit me so hard and gave me the desire to work harder.
Wednesday was a busy day. We were hosts to help welcome and show new missionaries around. It was so hot packing heavy luggage all around campus and up flights of stairs. The first girl I hosted though is in our zone and on the same floor as us. She is going to Denmark. She is so cute! Her name is Sister Brown. We had a lesson with Zdenek and we taught him about baptism. He accepted the invitation to be baptized, so that is exciting. We will continue to work with him to get him ready. We also had TRC. Petr (native Czech) is honestly the best. He signed our TALL books, because he is the voice on the TALL system so that was cool. I'm pretty sure yesterday was our last TRC with him because we get to skype people in the Czech Republic next week.
Other sad news.... 1/2 of our zone leaves on Monday for Norway! I'm going to miss them so much... even though they like to give me a hard time.... STORY TIME... During our break in class one day, I walked over to the window to look out. I looked down and hit my head on the window. The Elder in my class is never going to live that down. He told everyone about it saying that I just walk up to windows and hit my head on them. Haha... One of the Elders going to Norway will randomly walk up to windows, hit his head and say, "Look, I'm Sister Guymon" Yeah, It is a great time. Gotta love it.
Anyways, I love you and miss you all so much! You are always in my prayers!
Love,
Sestra Guymon
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