St. Mikulos

ahoj!

This week was a great week. It was a Czech holiday on wednsday which was way fun. I also learned that there are only 24 sister missionaries in my misison. 16 of which are in the Czech Republic. I feel a great weight and responsiblitiy on my shoulders to bring the Czech's the gospel, but at the same time, I also feel so honored that Heavenly Father trusts me enough to do the work here. I have been thinking a lot about that this week. 

Monday we placed tracting letters and tried to contact people, but literally no one was on the street. It was transfers so we went to dinner with the Elders. Our district pretty much stayed the same. We got one new Elder who came over from Slovakia so he mostly speaks Slovak but it is close enough to Czech that he gets by. 

Tuesday we had District Council. We did a lot of contacting. There was this one lady clear on the other side of a busy road. I grabbed my compaion and I was like ''Let's cross the street, we need to talk to this lady.'' We talked to her and had a good conversation which was nice because most people just say they are in a hurry and run away. She has meet missionaries before and has a Kniha Mormonova but has never read it. We encouraged her to do so and tried to set up a meeting, but she wasn't interested in that. We gave her our contact info, so hopefully she will have a change of heart and call us. Then we taught English and it was really fun. We played the game Headbands and shared a spritual thought. We can find a lot of cool people to teach the gospel to through teacing English classes here. 

Wednesday was a holiday in the Czech Republic. Svatý Mikuloš  is a saint and he tells children that they are both good and bad. There is an Angel that tells kids they are good and a Devil for the bad kids... all the kids are scared of the devil. A lot of kids dressed up with devil horns and stuff it was cute. The kids went up onto a stage and sang a song or performed a poem for St. Mikols and then they got a treat. It is kinda like Halloween... a little bit. We had a lesson with Renata. She is a very strong catholic. She still isn't sure if the Kniha Mormonova is true. She doesn't believe that preisthood authority was ever lost which makes it difficult for her to accept the restoration. She is such a sweet lady though... I seriouly love her and love meeting with her. It is always such a blessing when we are able to have a lesson with someone. 

Thursday we did a lot of contacting and didn't have a whole lot of luck. Everyone is in a hurry here to catch a bus or train. We did our weekly planning and sent our members and uplifting text about light the world. Our lesson we set up last week with three teenage girls fell through which was sad. We also taught our little neighbor boys English. They are fun kids. 

Friday we returned to the street we left tracting letters at and Satan was hard at work. They hard ripped out the sidewalk on part of the street we left all the letters at so we couldn't get to all the houses. It was so sad. Later that day we contacted into a little miracle. There was a cute mom with her little girl on the side of the road that we talked to and got her number, address, and set up a return appointment with. It was funny because we were in a hurry to get to the relief society activity, but we contacted her anyways... Miracles always come in the craziest times. The relief society activity was way fun. We were greeted by one of the sweet members with a kiss on the cheek... I'm pretty sure Czech's only do that with people they are close to. She is the most christlike lady I have ever met though. I love her so much. We did some crafts and made some little cookies. Babíčka (my mission president's mom) gave me a kiss on the cheek when I left which was way cool because that means she is finally my friend... She is always so formal with the missionaries... so it was an honor to be treated that way. On the way home someone whistled at us and we just ignored it at first, but then a car pulled up next to us and it was ROSTILAV! One of the people we are teaching. It was way funny! We just said ahoj and they drove away. He was in a taxi with some people which is cool because now he has an opportunity to tell everyone in the car who we are and what we do! 

Saturday Sister Longhurst and her family came with us to lessons we set up. Sister Longhurst finished her mission and is visiting all her areas with her parents before she goes home. We had a lesson with Martin who is a newer memeber and we went to lunch with Petr who is a guy that decided he wasn't interested in the gospel just before I came in. It is good that he is still friends with us though. Then we jumped on a train and went to a lesson with a lady named Dona. She has such a long history with the missionaries. She talked our ear off and we went on a walk with her and her dog. She isn't super interested in the gospel sadly. 

Sunday we had an awesome time at church. I made it a goal to greet every single person that was there and I accomplished it. I also got to know the YW better. The branch President's daughter speaks pretty good English so I enjoyed talking to her and she helped me with my Czech. Afterwards we went tracting for about 5 hours. We met and talked to some cool people, we had some doors slammed on our face... but it was good. Another interesting thing about the Czech Republic is that people answer you through their windows here. They don't always come to the door. If they are upstairs they will just open the window and yell down at you. It is funny. 

I love being a missionary. I love the Czech Republic and feel so blessed to be here. The members here are so sturdy and have such firm testimonies of the gospel, which has in turn strengthend mine. I know this church is true... if you are questioning it... read the Book of Mormon... Specifically Moroni 10:4-5 and pray about it. I know if you do so, you will recieve your own personal witness that this church is true. 

I love you all,

Sestra Guymon 

The pic with the blue lights is the Jewish quarters. It is one of the biggest and well-preserved places where Jews have lived.. it survived the bombings. 

We take trains or buses everywhere... or we walk.

The relief society activity.

We made homemade tortillas one night for dinner which were way good. 

The street we tried to tract.. that we couldn't because they were working on the sidewalk.

AND THE ST. Mikulos video is the best. :)

A Week Of Miracles

Ahoj všichni,

Specific planning did bring miracles this week. 

Monday we went and dropped off tracting letters to some house and then tracted a street. We wanted to find a babíčka (grandma)... literally the entire street we tracted had babíčký, at the door. It was amazing! One of the last houses we knocked was very promising and she said we could come back and talk with her more! We had two other people tell us we could come back, that was super cool! I watched Heavenly Father's work go down right before my eyes.

Tuesday we wanted to find a middle aged woman by contacting about trials and challenges. I found a scripture in my personal study, Alma 38:5 about that topic. We rewrote the scripture on a card,  and left a spot to for people's names to make it more personal. It was a hit! Heavenly Father put so many middle aged women in our path. One of them we even exchanged numbers with!!!! Another woman we talked to... we asked her how her day was and she said terrible. We asked why, and she said her husband just passed away and she was coming back from the cemetary. We shared that scripture with her and tried to brighten her spirits. We also had a lesson with a guy named Rostislav. He is in his 30's and loves music. I played If you could hie to kolob for him on the piano to get a gospel conversation started, and he asked a lot of great questions. He is a really deep thinker and is studying quantum mechanics. He has buddest beleifs, cool guy though. Then we taught English to the begginners and it was really good for me, because I was learning a lot of Czech at the same time. Then the Sister Training Leaders came and we went to dinner. 

Wednesday we went on exchanges with the STL's. Sister Carrillo and I went to a lesson with a woman named Ronata and taught the restoration. Although my Czech is very broken, the spirit was able to come into the lesson so strong when I bore my simple testimony about the Kniha Mormonova and recited the first vision that I memorized. It was such a good lesson. :) Then we went tracting... a lady answered the door and wasn't wearing any pants. It took me by surprise. Afterwards Sister Carrillo was just laughing at me becuase she says it happens all the time during the summer especially... except they have less clothes on. Then we tracted this house that had automatic lights and in the middle of talking to a man, the light turned out and Sister Carrillo just starts jumping and waving her hands tyring to turn on the light... I lost it... it was so funny.... the guy thought it was pretty funny too. 

Thursday my mission Presidents mom, who is in my branch fed us lunch. We call her our babíčka (grandma) and she is so cute. She fed us so much food and it was so good! I talked her into letting me do the dishes... she wasn't having it at first, but I couldn't really understand what she was saying, so I just started doing them anyway. She was grateful though. It was my way of saying thanks becuase I can't really communicate very well. We went contacting and wanted to find a girl our age. We ran into so many of them. We talked about service and approached a group of three girls. They said they were interested in learning more about what we teach, so we got their number and set up a return appointment!!! That was awesome! MIRACLES! 

Friday we had a lesson with Martin. He has been a member for a year, but is struggling. He got in a fight at a bar and his face was swolen, cut up, and bloody. Poor guy... we don't know what to do to help him. Our lesson with David fell through for the 3rd time so we went contacting for 2.5 hours. Literally no one was on the street. Everyone leaves the city and goes to their little cottages on the weekend. It makes the work hard, it was also freezing cold. We went to Jihlava in the evning for a relief society activity and made fun Christmas decorations. I really enjoyed it. 

Saturday was a day of service. We went to a members house the Kutilovi's. They have 6 kids.They fed us lunch... Don't every eat fried Califlour... it is gross. We made christmas cards, christmas wreats, and decorated gingerbread. We had a little christmas concert becuase one of their sons and Starší Graff play the violin. They sounded great! 

Sunday I was super sick... not a fun day... We called the mission nurse and she told me that I needed to stay home. It was awful. I basically just slept all day. I'm feeling a lot better now though. I don't know if it was from the food the day before, or like a 24 hour flu bug. We also walked to the town square and watched them turn the christmas tree lights on... I wasn't feeling that up to it, but I could tell my companion really wanted to go, so we went. :)

That was my week! I love you all! 

Sestra Guymon

Letters:

Církev Ježíše Krista

Sestra Kylie Guymon

Badeního 1

160 00 Prague 6

Czech Republic - Europe

Packages

1191

Církev Ježíše Krista

Jan Pohořelický - 1191

Badeniho 1

160 00 Prague 6

Czech Republic- Europe

First Full Week in Trebic

Dobre Den!!!! 

Wow, so this week has been crazy! My brain hurts from trying to translate stuff all day.My companion told me that I talk in my sleep in Czech, so I'm literally practicing 24 hours a day. She said I had a pretty solid contact attempt in my sleep. I think it is hilarious! 

Monday we went to jihlava to try to get flu shots for the missionaries in our district. We took forever to find the place and when we did it was closed ... oops. We also visited a cool Cathedral and I bought a winter coat. 

Tuesday we contacted people in the snow for most of the day. We had a lesson with a man named Martin, he has been a member for about a year, but is really struggling right now. Afterwards, we taught an English class. That was super fun because I could actually understand what was going on. :) The milk here is strange. It is in a box and they don't refridgerate it. I found out that they heat it up to like 200 degrees C. to kill all the alive things in it. It is super strange. It tastes different too. The milk lasts a long time though. 

Wednesday we took a bus to jihlava and did some group finding. Basically we sang hymns in the street while other missionaries contacted. It was super awkward and we had a lot of people tell us to stop, but we just kept singing! When it was my turn to contact people by myself, I got into a really good conversation with this lady about the book of mormon. I testified about it and had her read Moroni 10:4-5. She then shared a scripture with me out of the bible. I had no idea what it said. Then I gave her our number, and she pulled out a Jehova's Witness card. So that was awkward! haha I contacted a JW. OOPS! oh well. Then we came home and taught English to our 2 little neighbor boys. 

Thursday was thanksgiving and we had Zone Conference. We traveled there on a train. I said the opening prayer in czech which was super scary to do in front of everyone. It was ok though, becuase they have all been in my place.  I was able to listen to it in English because they gave me a translator, so that was nice. We also had a nice thanksgiving meal with our zone. There are probably about 30 misisonaries in our zone. There are about 70 missionaries overall in this mission. Then we went back to Trebič and we had another little district meeting. We had a devotional and watched a movie about Joseph Smith. That was my thanksgiving. 

Friday we contacted a lot of people. We are trying to be more specific, so we wanted to find a 17 year old girl. Heavenly Father put a lot of them in our path and it was fun to talk to them. I don't know if anything will come out of it, but planting seeds anyways. 

Saturday we pulled adresses from the area book and tracted them. We got soaking wet, it wasn't raining, but we were literally walking through a cloud. The humidity was crazy. There was one man that told us that we could come back becuase he had visitors over at the moment. One is better than none!  Then we did weekly planning and made it super specific like they asked us to do at Zone Conference. We split our area up into 7 sections and assigned a specific person we wanted to find that day, like a middle aged man for example. Then we figured out how we were going to contact them specifically. We are hoping to see miracles this we because of that. Then we came home and made Czech cookies. The recipie was in grams so we did our best guessing to convert it back into cups. They didn't turn out to bad! haha!

Sunday we went to Jihlava for church. I had to play the piano in Sacrament, give a prayer in Sunday school, and teach a lesson to the primary kids. haha. It was a full day. The branches here are just so small. Like you are lucky if you get 20 people at church. It is way different than in America. Then we went back to Třebič and tracted. We gave one book of mormon away to a lady only becuase she said her friend might be interested. But hey, we got a book of mormon in their house! Then we went to a members house and practiced Christmas songs. We are going to sing them on the naměstí (town square) this christmas, and I think in church too! It is a lot of fun! 

Today we went on a vylet to Telč! It is super pretty. Then the rest of the day we ran errands and finished some shopping things. Tonght we are going to put letters about us in people's mail boxes so we can come back later this week to talk to the people that are prepared to hear the gospel! 

I love you all so much! 

Sestra Guymon

Czech Republic

ajoh!

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

Coming to the Last Week in Caldwell Idaho

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. 

So Many Miracles & Exchanges

Dobre Den! 

This week I have witnessed so many miracles. I love being a missionary!!! I know that God has a hand in his work and he puts us in the right place, at the right time, with the right people. 

Monday we played basketball at the church which was super fun! People asked if I played basketball in high school. I owe all my skills to my brothers. After p-day ended, we went to visit a lady named Connie who is a new convert to the church. We invited her to come to Lynn's lessons with us, who is her next door neighbor. Lynn is the one who decided out of the blue that she wanted to be baptized. It will be good for both of them to go to church together. 

Tuesday we did a service project in the morning. We helped a lady clean up her yard... we picked rocks out of their garden and moved dirt around.Later, we had Czech language study. We usually just practice teaching lessons and I was asked a question that I literary found an answer to in my personal study that morning, so that was super cool! Then we had a lesson with the Sander boys. We taught them the ten commandments through a matching game, matching words and pictures together. We had a lot of fun with it. Then a guy texted us named David. His family is super against the church and we have been teaching him through text because he has been nervous to meet with us because of his family situation. He is so prepared for this gospel. Some of the responses he has given us are just incredible! Right now he is working on setting up Skype on his computer so we can talk. I'm super excited to see where it goes. He is a miracle. The next miracle I witnessed today was when we went to get some information of a lady we ran into my very first day in the mission tracting. She gave us her last name and told us that it was Czech, that's why it was spelled so weird! What?! Sister Brooks and my jaws dropped and we explained my situation. It was pretty cool. Sadly none of them spoke any Czech. It was just cool to think that we ran into her on my first day. 

Wednesday we did weekly planning. Then we went around and invited a bunch of people to the trunk or treat. We visited a sweet old woman named Ophelia. We've visited her a few times and taught her a few principles but I'm still not sure how interested she is in the church. She is going to the Domican Republic for three months for the winter. We made sure she had a book  of Mormon to bring with her. We were lucky to catch her home. 

Thursday we went on exchanges with the sister training leaders. I went out to New Plymouth which is an old town with a lot of farm land. We visited some families and helped a lady move who isn't a member. She just decided to pack up and move to Montana with 2 days notice. It was crazy and she was a little overwhelmed. After we went to visit this awesome part member old couple named Hank and Rosie. There is so much I could tell you about them. They are so cool. Hank said my smile and eyes reminded him of someone he knew, but he couldn't put his finger on who it was. And... yeah.... There was just no way of avoiding a hug from Hank, he wouldn't let you. Rosie went on a rant about some things too. We had a hard time getting out of their house. I slept over at the sister trainer leaders house. 

Friday morning we drove back to Caldwell and went to district council. I witnessed 3 incredible miracles later that day. #1 A man named Robert who has been taught by missionaries before and went off the grid for a while was home when we knocked on his door. He came outside and said he had gotten married to his girlfriend... which is ideal because now he can get baptized. He gave us his and his wife's number and told us to call them but to plan on coming back on Tuesday evening. It was such a miracle because we knocked on his door, he knew exactly who we were, and set up a time for us to come back and visit him. It was just such the ideal situation. That doesn't happen very often. #2 Christy is back from her trip. She speaks Russian and has a thick accent which makes it a little difficult to understand her at times. She hurt her ankle and sister Brooks put her name on the temple prayer roll. She believes the reason she didn't have to get surgery on her ankle is because of those prayers. But the cool part is that a sister just came home from her mission in Russia, so we are going to bring her to lessons with us. #3 we had a lesson with Don and we read 3 Nephi 18-19 with him about the sacrament and baptism. We got him on baptismal date for November 10th. That was huge! Literally last week we were thinking that we might have to stop teaching him. I wish you all could meet Don. He is so funny. He has come a long ways and it has been fun to watch him change. He has given up smoking and drinking.

Saturday was a really rough day, it had to counter the good day we had yesterday. We were biking and a bug flew in my eye and I couldn't see anything. I was biking blind, praying not to crash..... Then I ran over a squirrel... With both tires and I am on a racing bike with super skinny tires. I didn't even think that was possible... but it happened. It was pretty nasty. Then not long after that, sister Brooks got a flat tire. We were a pretty long ways from home, but there was a couple just down the road we have visited a few times who aren't members. We asked if they had a pump to fill up her tire. They tried but she has a weird nozzle on her tube that wouldn't fit the pump... so they loaded us up in the back of his fancy, old, orange, slow poke delivery van. It was awesome. They took us to the ward mission leaders house. He tried to fix it but ran into the same problem. So he thought he had a tube to fix it. He took the back tire off and everything and then the tube was to big. Haha so they gave us a ride back home and took the bikes to brother fly for him to fix. It was such a hassle. We could have fixed it with our pump, but the elders borrowed our pump. It was a rough day. We had so many people we were going to visit that night too, but all of our plans got canceled due to a flat tire. 

Sunday morning we got a ride to ward council. We attended two primary programs. Phoenix was the only one of the Sander boys that came to church. Another miracle.... Don came to church and stayed the entire time!!!! I love that guy!!! The first think out of his mouth when he walked in to talk to us was a swear word. I think it took a few people there by surprise. Don loves to joke around and have a good laugh. He is really struggling with his health though. He has had pneumonia like 12 times. He is always in and out of the hospital. He really enjoyed the primary program. Also, we went to priesthood with him. That was a bit of a different experience for me, but it made Don feel a lot more comfortable. We went to ward choir practice, then we had a fancy dinner with an awesome family. Then we were dropped off at Brother Fly's to pick up our bikes. He wasn't home, so we were stranded in the freezing cold on his front porch until he gave us the code to his garage. Then we went and visited a few more people. Sunday's are always so busy. 

I love this work. Also, I want to encourage you to pick up President Nelsons challenge if you haven't yet and finish the Book of Mormon by the end of the year. Mark up all the times it mentions the Savior. It truly is amazing and has built my testimony so much! 

I love you all,

Sestra Guymon

Also we harvested our pumpkin patch today that was growing in our front yard. :)

PS

President just called me!!! My visa came!!!! I fly out November 13th!!!!! 

I love stars!

Dobre Den! 

This week has been crazy. Lots has happened!

Monday we just played games with our zone and that was super fun. That evening we had a lesson with Don. He made us dinner and set his smoke alarm off... that was pretty interesting. Dinner turned out pretty good though. We read 2 Nephi 31 with him and discussed baptism. We really need to get him on date, he has been meeting with missionaries for a long time. He is living the word of wisdom now and giving up smoking, so that was a huge step. 

Tuesday we had two week follow up with President Sorensen. We basically just got more instructions and took some pictures. Afterwards, the Czech's got together and did language study. Then we went home and fixed our bike tires because they were flat... goat heads are literally the worst. 

Wednesday we biked to the edge of our area to a guy named Sam who lives in a run down, pretty sketchy house. His girlfriend is being taught in Nampa and he said he wanted to attend church before we started teaching him. Then we caught a part member family who tried to spray us with their hose when we were biking back. We talked to them and they are just a super awesome couple. They have super old cars and take them around to car shows. The have an old car named "smalls" which reminded me of Derek :)... LOVE YOU KIDDO! Then we biked to the other side of our area for dinner then to the opposite side again to see if we could catch another family, but didn't have any luck. We ended up biking about 18 miles. It takes some serious skill to bike in a skirt... let me tell ya. It is also super fun when you ride by some little kids and they are like "look, it's the Sister missionaries!" It makes my day.

Thursday we went to this coffee shop and got some hot chocolate and planned for the week. Then we had interviews with President Sorensen. While we were waiting, everyone was quizzing me on my flashcards. We had a lesson with the Sanders afterwards which went well. Zaedyn was at work which was a bummer, because he is the one we really need at the lessons. Then we finished the night by contacting some people. One was inactive, the other was being taught by Elder's before they moved.. so we are going to try and pick them back up. Also I got a phone call from a cute senior couple that lives in Merridan and are going to the Czech Republic. President P. got a hold of them and told them we were here, so they called us. It was so much fun to talk to them! I'm really sad I'm not in the Czech Republic right now because Elder Cook will be in the Czech Republic this Wednesday! As soon as the Visa comes though, they will fly me out. 

Friday we had zone conference! It was super fun to meet everyone. I also got a flu shot. We all shared something we liked from General Conference too. That evening we went to a Ward's Harvest Festival. That was really fun and I got to talk to some really amazing people! I got some great missionary advice from a man who served in Germany... especially when it comes to learning a language. 

Saturday we did language study by walking around outside because it was beautiful weather and I did not want to be in the house. We met some really cool people on the street. First, we talked to a family outside on their lawn. Next we ran into a woman who was shoveling weeds. She said she had her own religion... athiest.. and as we got talking and bore testimony she believed a lot of the same things we do. She is a chemist and so I instantly just adored her. She believes in the big bang theory and is trying to figure out how science and religion can go together. I really want to stop by and visit her again, but I also don't want to be super pushy with her because she said she was happy with her religion and not looking for anything else... hopefully we can figure out how to help her. 

Sunday was an interesting day. We biked to church in the dark and I almost crashed a few times because I was looking up at the stars. I love stars! We went to our councils and then the second sacrament we went to Justina and her brother Colten showed up so I stayed with them during sacrament while Sister Brooks went to the next ward council. They are such cute kids and such good examples. I love them so much!!!! We played connect the dots to keep the quiet. They are just so awesome. Then there was another kid that showed up to the last ward. He is about my age. The ward was really good about grabbing him and introducing themselves. The bishop talked to him and we got introduced to him. He is going through some really tough things in life. He hasn't been making the best of choices and to be honest I think he was a little high when we were talking to him. We had a really good conversation about the gospel. He explained that he felt like he was sinking and that inside he was a good person, but he just has made bad choices. It was super interesting. Sunday night we had dinner with the 1st ward Bishop and that was cool. They have a Korean foreign exchange student so he made Korean food that was super good. Then the rest of the night we visited people. 

That was my week. Crazy, but awesome. 

I love you all so much!