Czech Republic

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this keyboard is in czech so this is a struggle. I made it! The jet lag is a struggle. It is all I can do to keep my eyes open sometimes. 

the last two weeks have been crazy. Don was baptized last week and we hopefully had three more baptisms this past saturday with the sander boys.... i have not heard yet.

 the flight was super long. the first day in the Czech republic we took a tour around pragu. The mission president took us out to a fancy restaurant and we had svečkova which is a classic Czech dish that was pretty good. I also tried my first kofola which is like a czech version of coke... it was interesting... had lots of spices in it.  then went to our areas. I am serving in Třebíč with Sister Roberts. She is actually from Heber city too. We knew of each other, but we had never really talked before... so that is super cool. I love her so much! This mission is amazing. I am really impressed with how obedient the missionaries are. 

Thursday we went to the store and the stores here are weird. Europe is so different. The loaves of bread are way different than in America. The food is pretty good. We had a district council in jihlava and stayed there most of the day. 

Friday we contacted a bunch of people. I honestly have no idea what is going on most of the time. I can't understand a whole lot. I say my 2 sentences to approach people and my comp covers the rest. Hopefully the language will come with some time. It is nothing like English. You really have to know words to be able to understand what is going on. 

Saturday we drew a chalk message on the street. It was a struggle with the cobblestones. they are literally everywhere and super hard to walk on... my feet have been pretty sore. We went contacting in like an outdoor mall type think similar to the outlets in park city. We actually had some success. I gave out my first book of mormon. Czechs are so interesting to contact. People say they don't have time and keep walking, or just ignore you. It is unusual for people to just say hi to you on the street while you are walking by, but it is kinda fun because it surprises people. Later that evening we went tracting in ponolocks which is like apartment buildings that people live in during the weekdays then they go to their house in the country during the weekend, so no one is on the streets in the weekend, in fact, they turn off all the crosswalks. In ponolocks you sit and ring doorbells until someone answers and lets you in the door so you can go up and talk to him. Yeah... so we definitely got swore at by some guy. He wasn't to happy with us ringing everyone's doorbells. For dinner, we made another classic Czech dish called halušký. it was pretty good. 

Sunday I met the members. We have one branch here and about 30 people come to church. I had to give a talk and that was super scary. I was super self-conscious of my horrible Czech. The members are sweet though and I felt very welcomed. That night we went to visit a sweet old lady with the President of the branch. She lives off the bare necessities. She doesn't have running water. She uses a pot for a toilet. She doesn't have a fridge and cooks everything on a tiny wood burning stove. We basically had church with her in her house and had sacrament and everything. It was interesting for sure. It started snowing when we got out of her house. Then that evening we all got together with the members and sang czech christmas hymns. We had a little band going and it was pretty fun! 

Also my aunt is awesome and made a blog for me with all my emails if you want to check that out. kylieguymon.blogspot.com 

For letters: 

Církev Ježiše Krista

Sestra Kylie Guymon

Badeního 1

160 00 Prague 6

czech Republic - Europe

For Packages

Církev Ježíše Krista
Jan Pohořelický - 1191

Badeniho 1

160 00 Prague 6

Czech Republic - Europe

Love you all,

Sestra guymon