Dobre Den!
I hope everyone had a good week! This week I have been working on following the promptings of the spirit. So, whenever I receive a simple thought, I have done my best to act on it, and it has been incredible.
Monday we had a big p-day with everyone. We played basketball, volleyball, warewolf, and carved pumpkins. President called me and told me my visa had come and it was so exciting. Then we had dinner with a family who we did service for last week with our district. It was really good. Then we had round two of dinner with Don. He had a really rough day, so we spent the evening cheering him up.
Tuesday we had another lesson with Don and he bore a powerful testimony to us. He told us how he had come to know that God existed and how he knows God hears and answers his prayers. He had cancer and prayed to God looking for a sign that he wasn't going to hell, not long after that the doctors called and said his cancer was gone. Then within that week, the missionaries found him. He shared that he has smoked for 60 years and has tried to quit in the past, but couldn't do it. However, this time when he tried, he was able to. He said every time he felt tempted, he said a prayer. He is amazing and is so ready to be baptized. We also went to visit Christy. She apologized for not coming to church but, she really wasn't able to make it because her car broke down. She told me she had a friend from the Czech Republic that speaks Czech, and I asked her to give her my number and ask if she would be willing to help me practice.
Wednesday was a super cold day. We contacted a bunch of people and ran into some interesting situations. We tried to help an old lady move, but she wasn't home. Then we went to dinner with the Spanish sisters to a really awesome family. They spoke Spanish the whole time, but it was super fun. I could only understand a little bit of the conversation due to my 2 years in Spanish in high school. We had to be in by 6:00 for Halloween. So I did a lot of language study that night.
Thursday was a super busy day. We did weekly planning. Then I got to call the Czech lady because Christy got us her number! Her name is Dougmar. Christy told me that she is an alcoholic. It was fun to talk to her though. She told me a lot about the Czech cultures and traditions. She told me to call her back at 3:00, so I did. I she was totally wasted. She couldn't remember a lot of Czech words that I asked her how to say. It was kinda funny though. We had a lesson with the Sander boys which went really well. They ask a lot of great questions. They are on baptismal date for November 17th, which is sad because I will miss them by a week! That evening we had a new convert lesson with Andrew. There are three little boys in that home and they are so full of energy. It is impossible to get them to sit still.
Friday was busy too. We contacted a lot of people. I called Dougmar and talked to her. She is helping with my Czech a little, but we mostly end up speaking in English because we can't understand each other in Czech. I have a accent that she struggles to understand through the phone. She wanted me to come to Bosie to talk to her, but that is out of our area and mission, so we can't. We went clear out in the farm lands where the houses are spread out to go see if we could find a few people. They ended not being home. I felt super strongly that I should go knock on a door of a blue house. I asked sister Brooks, "Do you think we should knock that door?" She said, "Well, it sounds like you got a spiritual prompting, so let's go." We knocked it and no one was home. So we wrote a little message on a pass-a-long card to leave in the door. Just then a school bus pulled up and dropped off a girl. She walked up and talked to us. She is a sophomore in High School. Her family is catholic but they haven't been to church in a really long time. It was really cool to talk to her. She was so put together and I was impressed by her.We talked a little about our church and what we believed. But, if I had not acted on that prompting and knocked on the door at that specific time, I would have missed the opportunity to talk to her. It was a cool experience. Right place, right time, with the right people. That evening we had a lesson with Don and broke the news that we were probably both leaving. Me for sure, but probably Sister Brooks too. He took it pretty well, surprisingly. We talked about his baptism. His daughter has told him he is making a mistake, but he feels good about being baptized. Don is so awesome.
Saturday we again got in contact with as many people as we could. I talked to Dougmar again.I asked her if I could practice teaching her lessons in Czech from my religion and she said it was ok. But she doesn't know a lot of the church lingo, like she isn't familiar with religion at all, so it is really hard. She doesn't have the same Vocab that I do. She knows good conversational Czech words, I only know gospel related words, so it is really hard. That evening we had a new convert lesson with Justina, we had Colten there too. He is 9 and we are getting him ready to be baptized. They are awesome kids. Then we went and talked to Christy the Russian with the super strong accent. We invited her to church again. Then we stopped by to visit Don and just say hello and check up on him.
Sunday we had 6 people we are teaching come to church! The three Sander boys, Don, Christy, and Colten. We were so excited that Christy came. She is awesome. It hit Don today that we were leaving, so he was really sad. They announced it in church and I was asked to give the opening prayer. Then that evening, our power was out for some reason, and the power guys were working on it... So we were in the dark for a while.
That was my week! I hope you all are doing well!
Love,
Sestra Guymon
P.S. I fly out November 13th. I go to the Bosie airport, then I fly to Seattle, then to Amsterdam, then to Prague and I will be there November 14th.
When we were biking in the farm land there was a pond full of hundreds of Ducks and it made me think of my brothers.
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