MTC Week 7

Dobre Den!

Time has gone by so fast. I'm pretty sure we get our flight plans tomorrow. The countdown is at 11 days unil I fly to the Czech Republic. It is pretty scary! 

Friday we had Skype TRC.... OH MY.... Well... Let's just say I don't know Czech.We talked to a member from the Czech Republic. haha. I honestly didn't understand a word he said, ok maybe a few words, but not much. We prepared a lesson for him, but he talked the entire time. He would ask a question and if we didn't answer within a few seconds he would move on and start talking about something else. Also in Czech, "guymon" is pronounced "gooeymon" so that's fun. He kept saying my name, and then saying something super fast... I had no idea what he was asking me. Finally, I figured out he was asking where I was from. Also, I came to find out after TRC, my teacher said he asked us questions that we knew how to answer... he just said them in very strange ways. For example, he asked "Why did you decide to give yourself to the career of being a missionary?" haha, I guess it was his first TRC too. Our teacher apologized after the fact and felt really bad. It was a good time though. Our teacher said he was a typical Czech... they are very blunt apparently. Another funny story, the girls in our zone were all blow drying their hair in their room at the same time and all their lights and power went out. We had to go find the breaker box and flip the breaker so that they could have lights and power again.

Saturday was the big soccer game. We FINALLY WON! That is the first time we have won since we have been here. We taught Zdenek the 10 commandments and we taught Ales about  3 kingdoms of glory. Ales's lesson was a little rough... we accidentally told him that we had killed someone before.... ooops... don't worry, we got it cleared up. 

Sunday was lots of meetings. They are always the longest days of the week. My favorite part was the Sunday film by Elder Bednar called one by one. He wrote a song called "one by one." Go look it up. The lyrics come from 3 Nephi 11 when Christ appears to the people in the Americas. Christ served the people one by one. He let 2,500 people touch the nail prints in his hands and feet and thrust their hands into his side. If each person took 30 seconds with the Savior, that is 20 hours that the Savior stood there and let people handle him. Wow. What an incredible example of serving one by one. Another thought... the first thing God spoke to Joseph Smith when he appeared to him was "Joseph" ... his name. God knows your name, he knows your hopes, concerns, and desires. He really does know you and loves you so much! 

Monday we taught Zdenek and Ales again. Also we got a call from President Edwards on our dinosaur phone telling us that we were getting 12 new Polish missionaries, so that was exciting.

Tuesday the fire alarm went off just as we walked into the cafeteria to get breakfast, so that was scary. We had to all evacuate the building. There was a fire in the kitchen. They put it out and then we all went back inside and got breakfast. Crazy way to start off the day. Elder Neil L Andersen from the 12 came and spoke to us about temples for the devotional. He is so personable. The spirit in the building was so strong. He brought his grand kids and had them come up to the stand. He asked them why they liked the missionaries and the response of a tiny probably 8 year old boy was so profound and touched my heart... he said,
"I like missionaries because they are willing to leave their families so that others can live with their family forever." I almost cried. It was so cute. 

Wednesday I was practicing the piano and a random Elder came in and thanked me because I was playing songs that his sister would play at home. That was cool. Then later that day we got called out of class to take a new Polish Sister who is from Sweden to the travel office to get her passport copied. Then later that evening we met all the new missionaries and gave them a presentation and rundown of the MTC. Elder Karl Nielson and Elder Nathan Posacki who I went to school with, and Elder Posacki... who I worked with at the state park... are in our zone. We have the coolest zone. We are so blessed. 

Today we ran into a sister who is from the Czech Republic... She is dating the mission President's Nephew. We took a picture with her which she was going to send to the mission president and we spoke with her in Czech. That was really fun. She also knew the man we had Skype TRC with... she said he was... interesting. She told us that they have had to close a lot of areas down in our mission because they haven't had enough missionaries. They are sending less missionaries there. I often wonder why I was called to serve there, but I know that God has a plan, and that there are people that need the beautiful message of this gospel. 

I love you and miss you all so much! 

Sestra Guymon