Ahoj and Happy New Year!
Monday was Christmas for Czechs. We went over to my mission president's brother's house for dinner. We ate carp and potatoe salad and cukrovi. It was pretty good. Then Ježíšek came. They rang the bell for us and we came into the room where their tree was. They lit sparkles (fireworks) and put it on their tree. The branch came together and got us some cute little presents. They gave us a picture of them and each wrote us a little note. It was cute.
Tuesday we went to the Dransfields to celebrate Christmas. We made pancakes and watched a pohadky which is a Czech fairytale. It was fun. We also went and visited some families and less active memebers. We brought a family a Christmas tree and a string of lights because they didn't have any decorations! It was fun! Then we had dinner with the Dransfields and played some games!
Wednesday was technically still christmas. We walked to the Dransfields so that we could go visit Sister Prohaskova. As we were walking, I noticed a guy sitting down by a garage and just got a really bad feeling about him. We walked passed and as we did, he got up and started following us, then he was yelling at us... "where are you going?" We were hiking up a pretty big hill at this point and we sped up becuase we were scared. He followed us clear up the hill and it took us a few blocks to lose him. It was pretty scary. He yelled at us the whole way. We visited sister Prohaskova, who lives off basic necessities. She fed us lunch and showed us picture of the missionaies that were there right when they opened the mission back up after communism. She showed us a picture with President Nelson, our branch president and mission president too. It was pretty cool. This woman is amazing! She has been through so much in her life and has been so strong in the gospel. I love her. Then we visited Eva.. one of our investigators and shared a message with her then we taught English to our neighbor boys.
Thursday we had zone conference in Prague. We had a talent show and watched Cinderella the Czech Pohadky. it was eally cute! We slept over at the STL's in Prague with 6 other sisters. Sleeping was a little rough. We pushed some twin beds together and crammed on. haha.
Friday we had the spiritual part of zone conference. We recieved some good training. Then we drove home and went contacting. We did some calls to set up appointments and did weekly planning.
Saturday I woke up in the morning a little discouraged with the work because we talk to so many people every day, but just get flat out rejected. I just haven't seen any fruits to our labors, so that morning I prayed to see miracles. GOD ANSWERS PRAERS. Literally everyone we contacted that morning stopped and talked to us and we were able to teach them gospel principles. We met a guy from Prague that spoke English and taught him in English. While we were teaching him, one of the Elder's investigators came up and introduced himself. That was way cool. We talked to another guy from Ukraine and set up a meeting. Heavenly Father put so many prepared people in our path. Later that night we went to a little vesnica and tracted. We talked to a cute old man for a while, finally he invited us in for tea. We had tea and cukrovi and we taught him the restoration! It was awesome! That was the first time I have been let into a house tracting! We tried SOOO hard to get a return appointment set up, but he wasn't going for it. It was a good day however.
Sunday we found out we were really close to hitting standards which is 6 new investigators, a new baptismal date, and 1 new person at church for our district. The elders had 3 new people at church and we just needed 1 more new investigator. A new investigator is someone you have a lesson with and get a return appointment scheduled. We had 3 lessons with new people fall through!!!! We said a prayer and asked for help to find a new person to teach. We frantically went through our area book to try to get something set up. Didn't work...so we went out to work. I got the prompting that we needed to visit a cute mom we had contacted on the street and set up with, but the lesson fell through. We hurried to her house. We litterally caught her on the way out the door. She had her coat on and was ready to leave, but she invited us in for tea and cookies and we taught her and got a return appointment set up! heavenly father answers prayers everyone and we met standards this week! We also tracted an entire neighborhood after our lesson for like 5 hours and had a few houses tell us we could come back. On the way home out of the corner of my eye, I saw a lady, and then I felt like I needed to go talk to her. She was kinda far away, but we chased her down and talked to her. She didn't believe in God, but she believed in something. The gift of tongues kicked in and I started saying some things that I didn't even know I knew how to say. It was a pretty cool experience. Her jaw litterally dropped, like her mouth was open when she found out that I have only been here a month and a half. It was funny. My language is pretty poor, but the gift of tongues is real.
Also this week more than ever, I've learned what a difference it makes to be enthusiastic in contacting people. It takes them by surprise here and they wonder why you are so happy. It also makes people's days!
Today we went on a hike through a field. I was so surprised to see how many people were out! When Czech's go hiking... they go hiking! They have hiking poles, boots, backpacks... and all they have here are little hills. It is pretty funny. Czech's are so cute. We also went and sat in a hunting blind that was on the edge of a field.... it brought back memories and made me think of my dad and brothers. I love you guys. We got pretty muddy however, and my shoes each weighed 20 lbs from being caked in mud. It was fun though!
I love you all and happy new year!
s laskou,
Sestra Guymon
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